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    Problems with new keyboard - Clevo 5793

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by Mortimer, Oct 8, 2009.

  1. Mortimer

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    Since my original Clevo 5793 (Xotic PC) keyboard was out of order, I bought a new one on Ebay (I am in Portugal now and delivery of a new one from Xotic PC with shipping was estimated by their staff to be ~ $230). The only difference that it is a UK keyboard (the initial one was US model), similar to the Novatech (same pictures on the functional keys). To my surprise, after successful installation several keys are responding in a wrong way. Here is a list of problems
    1. Keys E and R are reversed (i.e. pressing E generates R and vise versa)
    2. Keys D and Y are reversed
    3. Keys C and B are reversed
    4. Keys H, K and M are reversed
    5. Key LEFT ARROW is not working.

    I already found a similar problem with D901C notebook on this forum - http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=384787, that was solved by using different kbc firmware. I was a bit surprised by the existence of different firmware for XP and Vista. However, for 579x models only one type of kbc firmware seems to exist.
    Of course, I remapped keys using the program in the mentioned thread, so the only problem now is left arrow key, that is not working. However, I would appreciate very much suggestions to completely resolve this issue.
     
    Mortimer, Oct 8, 2009
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