[Tfug] A drop-dead funny Windows story...

[johngalt1]

The story is mistitled. It should read:

A drop-dead funny Logitech story

If the keyboard would not re-sync without a booted windows 
OS, how could you get past the keyboard error?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim March" <jim.march at gmail.com>
To: "Tucson Free Unix Group" <tfug at tfug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 12:09 PM
Subject: [Tfug] A drop-dead funny Windows story...


> OK.  So I had gotten that panicky phone call from a client 
> saying on
> boot, the machine was reporting "board failure". We talked 
> about that.
>
> I get there this AM, take one look and...wait.  Yeah, it 
> says that, but...
>
> This was an LCD set up for the 1024x768 resolution she 
> runs in
> windows.  But on boot, it's 640x480.  So the text display 
> was a bit
> "skewed" to the left.
>
> On a hunch, I reboot and rapidly hit the "monitor 
> frequency reset" on
> the monitor.  Yup.  It was skewed to the left by three 
> characters.
>
> Anybody wanna guess what the three letters before "board" 
> were?
>
> Yup.
>
> Some of you are giggling already.
>
> "Key".
>
> The batteries in her wireless keyboard had died.
>
> ARG!
>
> So forget all that XP/motherboard crap we were talkin' 
> about :).  BUT
> the story goes on.
>
> With fresh batteries, I couldn't get the keyboard to sync 
> up to it's
> RF base station - this was an aftermarket Logitech setup. 
> She had had
> this problem years earlier and had a printout of a 
> Logitech tech
> bulletin explaining the fix: the mouse will auto-sync OK 
> but you have
> to go into Windows and use their control-panel gizmo to 
> sync the
> keyboard.
>
> Except she had an XP password.  Which meant typing to 
> start
> Windows...except no keyboard...ARG.
>
> So I drive home, grab my USB keyboard...
>
> :)
>
> Jim
>
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