Ian I checked the national parts distribution department from Toshiba's
website and didn't find a keyboard listed as available. You have a couple of
options. First I would pull the keyboard and try to clean it. Then if that
fails look around for a burned out or trashed laptop (same model) from
somewhere like e-bay and swap out the keyboard. I've pulled the keyboard off
these same laptops before and it's not all that hard to do.

William Pike
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From: PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
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Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2003 6:07 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Toshiba Satellite keyboard

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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