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    Timeline keyboard NOT working in BIOS, working in the OS

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by xavier83, Dec 25, 2009.

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    xavier83 Newbie

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    Hi, this is my first post here, hope you guys can help me :)

    I have a timeline 4810T which has worked lovely since September, but now I have a weird problem with it: The keyboard won't work until the operating system is loaded. I can't access the bios (press the F2 key but nothing happens), neither select my OS on the Grub menu as the arrow keys doesn't work, all I can do is wait for the 10 seconds timer, then Ubuntu launches, then I can login without problems and all the keys work perfectly.

    To give more details, maybe some keys do actually work before the os boot, because when I'm on the grub menu, some keys manage to stop the timer, but unfortunately I can't change the OS or accept the selection, then I have to reboot and wait for the timer to go back to 0 for itself and ubuntu loads.

    I'm running the newest BIOS, updated some days ago but didn't had the problem since today.

    Any ideas? Thanks, help is really apreciated.
     
    xavier83, Dec 25, 2009
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    xavier83 Newbie

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    OK, I think I got some light into the problem. The ALT key is not working on Ubuntu...

    Could my problem be caused by the alt key being defective? When the machine boots up the alt key is already pressed so when I press F2 can't get into the bios, and maybe Ubuntu just "disconnects" the key?
     
    xavier83, Dec 25, 2009
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    xavier83 Newbie

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    OK, I'm totally sure the problem is the ALT key being "stuck". I have disasembled the key and cleaned but for some reason it's "internally getting pressed" for 99% of the time. Any ideas? :(
     
    xavier83, Dec 25, 2009
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    hollinshead Notebook Guru

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    Try a new keyboard?
     
    hollinshead, Dec 26, 2009
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