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Posted by Roberta on October 5, 2009, 12:27 pm
This DID happen to me a few months ago, and I eventually noticed the
red buttons. Wish I'd thought to post about it and maybe saved you
some grief, as you have saved others!
Roberta in D
On Sun, 4 Oct 2009 22:57:15 -0500, "Polly Esther"
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>Well. That's a new one.
> SomeWhat off topic.
> This morning I was happily typing out an answer to a buddy quilter
>here and realized that no words were forming on the screen.
> ?
> ??
> ???
> Decided, after a long while of sitting here looking dumb and helpless
>that I could solve the problem myself.
> Yeah. Right.
> Wondered if the batteries in my keyboard were dead, dead, Dead.
> I put the keyboard bottom-up on the ironing board, gingerly removed the
>flappy thing that covers the batteries; drew myself a very careful
>schematic of which way the batteries should aim and found new batteries.
>Replaced them.
> No luck. Keyboard dead.
> Wiggled and rattled the cute little thingie that receives (?) from
>the keyboard. Nothing.
> DH - proficient in: patience, electronics and Logic suggested I take
>the non-communicating parts over to my nice lighted magnifying light.
> AHA ! both the keyboard and that tiny thing that receives (?) from the
>keyboard have wee red buttons on their base. We mashed them and viola /
>voila ! All is well.
> Did you know that you have red buttons? This could happen to you.
>Remember. Polly
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> SomeWhat off topic.
> This morning I was happily typing out an answer to a buddy quilter
>here and realized that no words were forming on the screen.
> ?
> ??
> ???
> Decided, after a long while of sitting here looking dumb and helpless
>that I could solve the problem myself.
> Yeah. Right.
> Wondered if the batteries in my keyboard were dead, dead, Dead.
> I put the keyboard bottom-up on the ironing board, gingerly removed the
>flappy thing that covers the batteries; drew myself a very careful
>schematic of which way the batteries should aim and found new batteries.
>Replaced them.
> No luck. Keyboard dead.
> Wiggled and rattled the cute little thingie that receives (?) from
>the keyboard. Nothing.
> DH - proficient in: patience, electronics and Logic suggested I take
>the non-communicating parts over to my nice lighted magnifying light.
> AHA ! both the keyboard and that tiny thing that receives (?) from the
>keyboard have wee red buttons on their base. We mashed them and viola /
>voila ! All is well.
> Did you know that you have red buttons? This could happen to you.
>Remember. Polly