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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: MrCurley on Sat, 22 May 2021, 13:50:10
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So I bought my first costum keyboard a few weeks ago and when I assembled it, I accidentely broke one underglow led and today I wanted to replace it. After I did so, the rgb worked perfect but none of the keys put out what they should, for example 1 types out ctrl, os and alt, most of them do nothing at all tho. I already tried everything that came in my mind from flashing a lot of diffrent firmware to checking every component on the board, I can't find any mistakes. I would appreciate every help a lot, but I'm just at the end and don't want to buy a new pcb tbh. I can send a list of all the keys that get pressed when I press every key on the board (It's mostly luck which keys get pressed, every time I reconnect it to my pc, diffrent keys get pressed. Most of the keys do "shortcuts" of os ctrl shift alt, what I mean by that is that 90% of the keys I press output one or multiple of those keycodes.)
EDIT: In my knowledge it's software that does smth wrong, because when I flash with the standard VIA software, then it doesnt output anything at all, but when flashing it puts out some keys but the wrong ones... I don't think that columns or rows are defined wrong cuz it's the same as I used before and It worked just fine, maybe there is something deeper then firmware that I can program? I'm new to this so it might sound weird :/
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Assuming you're in Windows download Aqua Key Test (https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=34670.0) and see if it shows pressed keys when you're not pressing anything - if it does you have a short.
If it's not a short it must be the firmware because there is nothing else, there are different versions of the DZ60 and using the wrong one could make random happen.
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ye, I already tried diffrent keyboard testers, nothing seems to be short circuting and it can't be the thing that I'm using the wrong firmware cuz I used the same files before and it worked normal.
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I also reosldered some joints but it didnt change anything.
EDIT: The weird thing for me is that it's not like just some keys that dont work or put out keycodes in a diffrent row but they mostly just put out the bottom row doesnt matter what I type. There is also current on every pin and it seems like all columns and rows are connected just fine so I think it's a bug on my software but I can't find anythin
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SOLVED: Turns out that the keyboard was in a weird option and when looking at the manual, pressing space and escape when connecting the board clears the EEPROM which solved the problem for me.