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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: Ducas on Sat, 16 March 2013, 14:48:37
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Hi earth people,
I bought a Das Keyboard a few years ago and eventually plugged it into a computer with a faulty PSU, which caused it to start behaving oddly. It's finally stopped working entirely, when I plug it in all 3 toggle lights light up but it doesn't function otherwise. I'm assuming some part of the PCB is fried, and I'm not so advanced with soldering that I think I could pull the chips off and replace them, even if they didn't require flashing, which they probably would.
tl;dr: I was hoping someone here could point me to a place where I could find a PCB that will serve as a replacement for a CST-104-DAS_Daughter PCB v1.3 - I've spent a fair amount of time looking around the internet and I'm always eventually linked to here.
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Maybe look for another used one on here and ebay etc, for a good price and sell your current one for parts to help offset the cost of replacement.
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I wonder if Rosewill controllers are the same. Could you get a picture of the controller for us?
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https://www.dropbox.com/s/59in496txz34q4i/IMG_20130316_134458.jpg (https://www.dropbox.com/s/59in496txz34q4i/IMG_20130316_134458.jpg)
Here's a picture of the PCB.
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OR.... you could just buy another keyboard? what better reason? :D
Just don't buy another DAS, because the new ones are not "for certain "costar" AND.... they might've really downgraded in quality to keep prices competitive... with the release of Rosewills...
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I have since bought a new keyboard, but money's an issue and it seems a shame to waste a perfectly good keyboard because the PCB is broken.
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Many people will be happy to take it off your hands to use various components in other keyboards. Even while broken/dead I figure you should be able to get at least $40 out of it, probably more if you took it apart and sold everything seperate, switches, plate, pcb?, casebody?, keycaps...