A customer's Toshiba Satellite 2590 CDT has a faulty keyboard - there are at least two keys, the 'f' and the 'n', which only respond after heavy and continued pressing.

I fiddled with the keyboard settings in Control Panel\Keyboard but there was no change - it appears to be a hardware problem.

My question is this: Is this situation likely to be something that a laptop repair company could improve?  I ask because there's no repair service within 200k of my place and it's even difficult to get information of this kind over the phone.  

Due to the comparatively small numbers of laptop pc's in New Zealand, and particularly in this lesser populated area where I live, laptop technicians tend to be a fairly elitist bunch and pretty well charge what they like.  

And that's if they can even be bothered to look at the job :--))

Hence my question to the group, just in case anyone has had a similar problem successfully resolved.

Ian Porter
Computer Guys Inc.
Arrowtown
New Zealand
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ian 
  To: [log in to unmask] 
  Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 12:56 PM
  Subject: [PCBUILD] Removing hard Drive


  Have you jumpered the proper drive to be Master? Have you been into the BIOS and let it autodetect the main drive?  If the BIOS has no autodetect, at least make sure that only the drive you want to be operative is listed, then save the BIOS setting.
   
  Ian Porter
  Computer Guys Inc.
  Arrowtown
  New Zealand
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    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: John Vercelli 
    Subject: [PCBUILD] Removing hard Drive


    I am trying to remove an extra hard drive. The computer will not reboot when
    I disconnect that drive.

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