Oh, Crap

Published at 12:57 on 28 January 2012

My expensive Unicomp keyboard has been acting up as of recently. For a few hours this afternoon I thought I had fixed it simply by reseating a loose connector inside the keyboard itself. Now it’s acting up again.

I’m going to try replacing the one electrolytic capacitor in the thing, even though it looks OK, just on the off chance it is infested with capacitor plague. But at this stage I’m decidedly pessimistic about its prognosis. Everything else on the thing is a surface-mount component, and the most likely culprit is the single proprietary IC on the logic board.

Meaning that it’s probably replacement time.

Update: Yup, definitely replacement time. Just tried replacing the capacitor, and the quirky behavior remains.

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