RE: [Cooker] Flashing keyboard light

2000-06-30 Thread Alex Boag-Munroe

Could be a virus, a dodgy keyboard cable, or dodgy keyboard controller.

-Original Message-
From: Jim Bradley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 29 June 2000 6:48
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Cooker] Flashing keyboard light


The keyboard lights (Num Lock, Caps Lock, Scroll Lock)  on my computer are
intermittantly flashing every few seconds. During typing, if you hit a key
at
the moment it is flashing, character is dropped. I've not found what is
running
in the background to cause this. Any known causes? Thanks.



Jim Bradley -- Maryville, MO USA ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

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Re: [Cooker] Flashing keyboard light

2000-06-30 Thread Civileme

Alex Boag-Munroe wrote:

 Could be a virus, a dodgy keyboard cable, or dodgy keyboard controller.

 -Original Message-
 From: Jim Bradley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
 Sent: 29 June 2000 6:48
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: [Cooker] Flashing keyboard light

 The keyboard lights (Num Lock, Caps Lock, Scroll Lock)  on my computer are
 intermittantly flashing every few seconds. During typing, if you hit a key
 at
 the moment it is flashing, character is dropped. I've not found what is
 running
 in the background to cause this. Any known causes? Thanks.

 Jim Bradley -- Maryville, MO USA ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

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There are also a couple of proggies that use the keyboard lights to indicate
network traffic--check freshmeat.  Could someone have installed and activated
one of those mini-daemons?

Civileme