I'll surely never buy Acer again.

I have an Aspire 1350.

Some of the keys, when pressed, return the wrong scan code and
therefore return the wrong keys.

For example when I press enter I get a <tab>;p3...

I used a couple of remapping programs that are basically GUI registry
editors for the scan code and it even seems that 1-3 different scan
codes are returned for the same key. This happens on other keys too
like the =/+ key. It returns a scan code of 63 most of the time - a
large number like 53382 infrequently, and 66 rarely - by rarely I mean
1/15 times.

I tried a new keyboard and I am using the supposedly newest BIOS. I
called Acer and they told me it was a keyboard problem even though I
told them over and over it wasn't.

Seems to be the keyboard controller (kbc) but I would really like to
find a way to fix it rather than mapping a different key to enter.

Anyone know of a greater revision BIOS than A29? Any way to flash the
kbc - I see it has a version number in BIOS too. Any other ideas on
how to overcome this problem and make the enter key work - hardware or
software based?

nomorespameventhoughthejapanesespamgivesmeachuckle wrote:
> I'll surely never buy Acer again.
>
> I have an Aspire 1350.
>
> Some of the keys, when pressed, return the wrong scan code and
> therefore return the wrong keys.
>
> For example when I press enter I get a <tab>;p3...
>
> I used a couple of remapping programs that are basically GUI registry
> editors for the scan code and it even seems that 1-3 different scan
> codes are returned for the same key. This happens on other keys too
> like the =/+ key. It returns a scan code of 63 most of the time - a
> large number like 53382 infrequently, and 66 rarely - by rarely I mean
> 1/15 times.
>
> I tried a new keyboard and I am using the supposedly newest BIOS. I
> called Acer and they told me it was a keyboard problem even though I
> told them over and over it wasn't.
>
> Seems to be the keyboard controller (kbc) but I would really like to
> find a way to fix it rather than mapping a different key to enter.
>
> Anyone know of a greater revision BIOS than A29? Any way to flash the
> kbc - I see it has a version number in BIOS too. Any other ideas on
> how to overcome this problem and make the enter key work - hardware or
> software based?
>

Try just removing the kb from device manager, and rebooting. Sometimes
this works miracles.

Q

Quaoar wrote:
> nomorespameventhoughthejapanesespamgivesmeachuckle wrote:
> > I'll surely never buy Acer again.
> >
> > I have an Aspire 1350.
> >
> > Some of the keys, when pressed, return the wrong scan code and
> > therefore return the wrong keys.
> >
> > For example when I press enter I get a <tab>;p3...
> >
> > I used a couple of remapping programs that are basically GUI registry
> > editors for the scan code and it even seems that 1-3 different scan
> > codes are returned for the same key. This happens on other keys too
> > like the =/+ key. It returns a scan code of 63 most of the time - a
> > large number like 53382 infrequently, and 66 rarely - by rarely I mean
> > 1/15 times.
> >
> > I tried a new keyboard and I am using the supposedly newest BIOS. I
> > called Acer and they told me it was a keyboard problem even though I
> > told them over and over it wasn't.
> >
> > Seems to be the keyboard controller (kbc) but I would really like to
> > find a way to fix it rather than mapping a different key to enter.
> >
> > Anyone know of a greater revision BIOS than A29? Any way to flash the
> > kbc - I see it has a version number in BIOS too. Any other ideas on
> > how to overcome this problem and make the enter key work - hardware or
> > software based?
> >
>
> Try just removing the kb from device manager, and rebooting. Sometimes
> this works miracles.
>
> Q

It's not a Windows problem. This happens in BIOS setup and in Linux.