On Wednesday 20 March 2002 12:51 am, you wrote: > This keyboard issue may be related to the problems I am having with > suspend/resume. > > I have been having problems with my pageup/pagedn keys. They rarely work on > my keyboard (but work fine if I plug in an external keyboard). Sounds like > a hardware problem.... however, I took my laptop with me down to the coast > and it has been working flawlessly for me here. > > The only difference is that I am running off of a pcmcia modem instead of > pcmcia network card. Using a pcmcia network card also creates an > instability in the system if I suspend/resume such that the system will > crash/reboot (even if the suspend/resume happened at some time before the > pcmcia network card is inserted.) It is possible that the trip down here > dislodged whatever was causing the problem if it was hardware related, > however I thought I would post it to see if anyone else with an Inspiron > 8000 also noticed this. When I get back home this weekend, I will plug it > back into the network and see if the pageup/pagedn keys still work.
I am back and the pageup/pagedn keys still work, so this appears to have been a hardware problem.
