Amiga 1000 Keyboard unresponsive, Caps Lock solid on

[Matthias1231]

Hey guys,

I recently purchased an Amiga 1000. It boots up fine to the Workbench and I can open programs with the mouse and everything seems to run fine.

However the keyboard does not work. The Caps Lock light is always on from the moment I turn it on, no blinking.

I accidentally destroyed the original keyboard cable during unpacking and am using a telephone receiver cable that appears to have the same cable routing (the cable colors are flipped from one side to the other between the two connectors, same as the original keyboard).

Any suggestions on how to start troubleshooting this? The system is super clean and I want to mess with it as little as possible.

Thank you!

[amiman99]

I have similar problem with the telephone cable. To get it to work, I just unplug the cable and plug it in, seems to work.

[Matthias1231]

Thanks amiman99! Your suggestion made me suspicious of the cable and I temporarily fixed the original cable and the keyboard totally works. But I'm unable to get it to work with the phone cable no matter what I do. I think it may be the spacing or plug size being slightly different.
I'm so glad I didn't start taking this thing apart.