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I have a Saitek Eclipse keyboard that is approximately 1 year old. Yesterday certain keys stopped working, the space bar, 'n' key, 'd' key, about 5 in total but not sure exactly which ones they were now. Today I took the keys off, blew the dirt off from under the keys, soaked the keys in warm soapy water, rinsed them and allowed them to air dry on a clean towel. I pushed the keys back into place and it worked flawlessly for just over 3 hours. I did a fair amount of typing in this time and then suddenly the same keys stopped working again. An important note is in both instances that those keys stopped working I had just opened Mozilla Thunderbird and was in the process of responding to an email. Actually, both times the email was from the same person as well. I have disconnected both my mouse and keyboard, uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers for each using generic drivers. As far as I know there is no driver issued by Saitek for this keyboard. After 2 years the following keys have become intermitant
Space, V,B,N,M,/
I have taken keybaord apart and all seems ok, clean and wires ok.
This could very well be your OS as much as your keyboard. Try another board for a few days and see if it still happens. IF not...you found your culprit. Replace the keyboard or look for updated drivers if they exist.
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The 1, A and down arrow represent the usual Num Lock active, Caps Lock active and Scroll lock on option available on all keyboards out there.
The 'dey' key on the bottom between the Windows Key and the Ctrl acts as a right mouse button, as in opening the menu you would open with the right mouse click.
Your Keyboard keys is just dirty inside ; try opening it up and cleaning it up -- the circuits and touch detection underneath they key could just be misdetecting the "`" on the left of the "1" key and "2" key
You can remove the screws on the back and clean the keyboard. It's very easy task to do. Just remember components locations inside so you can reassemble.
HAHAHA. This is old but i found out what the problem is. Hope this helps some people. All you have to do is press the illumination button at the top right of your keyboard until the keyboard backlighting is turned off and now the keyboard no longer randomly types.
what kind of keyboard are you using?? is it from a laptop or pc? if it is an external keyboard, try to detatch the y and t keys from the keyboard using anything that is thin (eg. knife, pen, etc.). clean it... and put it back by just pushing it back..
No solution here, but I'd like to second that I have a Saitek 1st gen keyboard. One day it began exhibiting the same problems that you are having. When moved to another computer it seemed to work for a month or so but then started acting up again. For my keyboard, it repeats the letters "a" "s" "m" and others. Not sure what is causing it. No spills on the keyboard and it is fairly clean.
Changing the default colour involves a little dis-mantling.
remove the screws from the back of the board. Carefully remove the rubber feet inserts too as there are 4 more screws under there.
Now remove the top section of the keyboard (the bit with the keys)
Lay the board down flat and you will notice where the usb cable comes in a circuit board. this has a connector with 4 wires attached to it on the left hand side. the wires are coloured red, grey, blue and black. Remove the connector and swap over the Blue and Red wires.
Re assemble the keyboard after reattaching the connector to the circuit board being VERY careful not to overtighten the screws.
Now at boot up the keyboard will by default be red.
You can download a manual here:
http://www.saitek.com/manuals/eclipse_manual.pdf
For the 1, A, and Down Arrow:
My guess is that these are actually the indicator lights for Num Lock, Caps Lock, and Scroll Lock.
For the four silver round buttons:
The top right corner of your Eclipse keyboard features a set of controls for changing your
computer?s audio volume and the brightness of the Eclipse Keyboard?s backlighting.
To reduce audio volume, press button A until the desired volume level is reached. To increase
volume, press button B. To mute the audio output, press button C and press it again to cancel
mute.
Press button D to control the brightness of the backlighting. Press the button to scroll through lights
off, lights full brightness and lights half brightness.
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