On Mon, 29 Jan 2024, Dan Ritter wrote:
fjd wrote:
You cannot type 'w', 'r', 'y', 'u', 'o' and return key. I haven't checked if
capitals are affected or if non-alphabeticals like '$' or '=' are affected.
It's got an American keyboard.
The problem is present when you boot direct to BIOS/UEFI.
All I want to know are likely causes. I don't propose to fix it if it
involves hardware replacement.
So why would such a thing occur? I've never encountered this failure mode
before.
That would be a dead keyboard.
Despite your mention of not fixing it, I think you should know
that keyboards are generally cheap and easy to replace. In this
case,
https://www.amazon.com/Replacement-Keyboard-UX330UA-AH54-UX330UA-AH55-UX330UAK/dp/B08LG1SN1V
is $35, and replacement would take ...
https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Asus+Zenbook+UX303L+Keyboard+Replacement/53551
35 screws. No, I wouldn't bother fixing this. Attach an external
USB keyboard, copy all the data off, wipe the disk and send to
electronics recycling.
-dsr-
Wow, thanks for doing the research I should have done though I pretty
much decided it should be retired, but good to know what a fix would
involve.
One of my new laptops replicates the data on the kaputt machine with a
recent kernel and more cpu and memory.
So this is one way keyboards fail.
fjd
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