Recent content by claustrophobist

I think I have narrowed down the problem. It seems to be some sort of electrical interference. If I remove stuff like the touchpad from the connector, or do no screw everything back together and simply connect the keyboard, it may occasionally start working again - or different rows of keys may...

I have a Toshiba L750D which suddenly developed a problem where the entire F1-F3 down to x-c row/column of keys does not work at all, not on BIOS, or on Windows or on any rescue environment or Linux from usb media. I thought it was the keyboard. So I bought a new one and replaced it. The same...

Is there any chance a spec of lint or dust has entered the connector, causing one specific circuit to fail to work? I have to explain why only specific keys don't work, and that's the best I can come up with - alongside short circuits of some kind, or perhaps the connector is gone. Short of...

External keyboards work fine. Why would the motherboard have a problem though? It worked fine and the problem emerged suddenly.

Have a Satellite L750D which was working absolutely fine until recently. I had put new thermal paste, a routine task for me, and had reinstalled Windows 10 64. There were no issues and I was able to use the laptop normally after this procedure. However, out of nowhere, specific buttons do not...