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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: HungOverOnATues on Fri, 25 February 2011, 19:09:21

Title: Defective Filco? Non-functioning keys.
Post by: HungOverOnATues on Fri, 25 February 2011, 19:09:21

I just received my Filco FKB104M/CB from armygroup and it seems that the home, end, left arrow, and up arrow are not functioning. Is this a common issue and is there a simple fix or am I SOL and have to ship this back to Taiwan?

Thanks for any input.

Title: Defective Filco? Non-functioning keys.
Post by: keyboardlover on Fri, 25 February 2011, 20:29:12

Welcome to GeekHack...sorry to hear about that. I've never used ArmyGroup but I think that's the first major issue I've heard about them. Hope you can get it resolved.

Title: Defective Filco? Non-functioning keys.
Post by: manfaux on Fri, 25 February 2011, 20:35:03

before calling PEBKAC, i'd suggest trying it on a different PC first.

Title: Defective Filco? Non-functioning keys.
Post by: HungOverOnATues on Sat, 26 February 2011, 11:13:24

Not sure how PEBKAC comes into play for a USB keyboard. Anywho, yes, I have tried it on another PC with the same result.

Title: Defective Filco? Non-functioning keys.
Post by: keyb_gr on Sat, 26 February 2011, 14:19:23

Looks like a whole matrix column may be nonfunctional here, or a longer run of trace at least. Smells like a bad solder joint or somesuch.