I've been having some trouble with my Endurapro lately. To be precise, the pointing stick stopped working, which was somewhat unnerving; I live in Germany and shipping the keyboard here cost a small fortune to begin with, so I wasn't particularily inclined to send it back, get it repaired (although it's still under warranty) and pay shipping to Germany again (which would be so stupidly expensive I could as well just buy a new one without paying considerably more). The buttons would work just fine, but the stick wouldn't react to being pushed around, so I emailed Unicomp.
They suggested to plug in (I have the PS/2 version) an external mouse and see if it works; if it would, the stick module should be the problem. Of course it worked, so it really was the stick (and not the electronics).
I removed some keys to see if the module could be removed to either ship it back or buy a new one, which would have been my suggestion to Unicomp, but doing so, I noticed the different cable colours. The cable running anlong the F keys is green, the cable emerging from the stick module is white. I removed some more keys and saw the connection point.
Now it gets interesting: It seems both cables are just glued together; I reckon they moved during transportation and got misaligned, so I pressed my finger on the joint and slid to realign the cables. And guess what? Now it works again.
If anyone else experiences strange problems with non-functional sticks, something as easy as this could be the solution. Here's a closeup of the offending connection:
I e-mailed Unicomp to ask what they'd recommend fixing the problem permanently. I'm not that inclined to realign the cables after transporting the keyboard (which I do a lot).
-huha
