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Offline dreamss

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Cherry MX8000 G80-8200 PS2 ghosting. :(
« on: Tue, 31 May 2011, 12:29:22 »
I bought my baby used off ebay, black shell with brown switches and today i noticed that alt+shift+z causes ghosting on ESC. can dead diodes case this? is the matrix board dirty? is this fixable?



also my white shell with transparent switches has a faulty  x key, is this also fixable?
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Offline dreamss

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Cherry MX8000 G80-8200 PS2 ghosting. :(
« Reply #1 on: Tue, 31 May 2011, 12:46:02 »
I deduced it was the matrix by using the one from the black shell on the white shell mainboard. same issue

can the matrix board go bad? i
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Cherry MX8000 G80-8200 PS2 ghosting. :(
« Reply #2 on: Tue, 31 May 2011, 13:38:46 »
WELL it was a dead diode, the diode on the  z key is passing 100% current while the rest of the kb passes 0. bleh time to bust out the iron
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Cherry MX8000 G80-8200 PS2 ghosting. :(
« Reply #3 on: Tue, 31 May 2011, 20:41:17 »
not a dead diode, just straight wire instead of diode. fixed now :D

now to look into the other kb with dead x
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