[muglo] G3 problems Follow-up

Well, I thought I had the prtoblem licked.  It came back again 
today - the flashing icons and 4/6. Decided to do a clean install 
but it renamed by hard drive 46 after I had clicked on it to open 
another folder to get at some files and apps -%$^$#@! At this 
point I thought I would give the Dr. a call.

Fortunately Terry Steeper was in when I called. We had sopken 
previously and I had follwed his advice then regarding trashing 
the desktop file and rebuilding it.  Folowing my explanation of 
what was happening we (really he) diagnosed a keyboard problem. 
A quick switch with another machine (luckily I still have an 
older model using the adb connection) reboot and problem solved!

What Terry had me do was use "Key Caps" and describe what it was 
doing. There were those 4's and 6's I wrote about the other day 
plus a few other keys "up" and "right" arrow, the "control" and 
"option" key and some function keys all flashing like mad. Next 
step was to disconnect the keyboard, wait for the key stroke 
buffer to catch up and voila the icons stopped flashing. Put on 
the other keyboard, rebooted and it's working normally again.

The old keyboard is toast according to Terry. It is the original 
one I got with the machine and apparently it has a membrane pad 
that once it goes it's shot. I will of course take it apart and 
have a look (if it's broke it certainly won't hurt it!!).

After the Dr. was done I ran TechTool Pro again and no problems 
found! I'm actually typing this on a new keyboard that I pick up 
from Terry (talk about luck, he was coming into London about an 
hour after I called him so needless tosay (so why am I saying 
it?) arrangements were made).

I'm a happy camper  - Thank you Terry Steeper!!




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