A1000 Dead Keyboard Key

[cmvsm]

Hi all,

Just took my entire A1000 apart, 'de-yellowed' the plastic, compressed aired the entire unit and cleaned areas with alcohol for what turned out to be a very nice looking unit. Aside from grounding the drive wrong the first time around, it runs like a champ with 1.5MB RAM.

Only thing left is to understand how to fix a dead key, which is my 'Z' key. Definitely could be worse from a key perspective. My mouse is also slow to run upwards. No issues scrolling down, just up.

Thinking maybe the mouse just needs to be cleaned a little better. Anyone know how to fix a dead key on the keyboard?

Thanks.

[cmvsm]

Thanks for the replies guys. As for the keyboard, i can't tell you if the key worked before the cleaning. I didn't fully disassemble the keyboard, just enough to take all of the keys off and clean in and around the posts. I did notice a couple of tiny rust patches on the pad. The entire thing was a bit speckled, but nothing crazy.

I started to go down the path of pulling the tiny screws out and peeling away the pad from the circuit board, but wasn't sure what to expect and didn't feel like buying a whole new keyboard.