It’s always a negative!

Towards the end of summer I sent my laptop in for service. One the Ethernet port had been jacked up cause its really fragile (not something I’m happy about). And two the screen was kinda fubar. It looked as if I was going to pull the screen off when i opened and closed the screen. But when I got it back, only the Ethernet port was fixed. I was just happy to get my laptop back I didn’t bother with it any more. Low and behold that problem manifested itself into an actual problem. The screen would literally stretch past the bottom of the screen when I opened it or touched it just right. So I sent it in again, this time the screen was fixed, but now whenever I suspend the tablet, the keyboard no longer works until I completely shut it down, a reboot does not restore the keyboard. Was on the phone with support for almost an hour. Not much to do after everything I did already before calling. We updated the bios, no help. Their sending me a replacement keyboard, but honestly, I doubt this will fix it. It’s gotta be the main board for some reason, but why is beyond me. All they did is replace the screen, why would that have fucked up the main board, unless they jabbed it with a screwdriver. Which is possible.

Well, while in the middle of writing this post I had physics class. We got our tests back, there was a double bell curve, at one end were D’s at the other end were B’s. You can guess where I was.

Anyways, I had a revelation. As I was packing up after class I hit my caps lock key and the light came on. I was like, woah! So when I got back to work I tried it and sure enough it didn’t work. I was like what the hell. I figured it had to be length of time being on. That’s then the revelation hit. While I was on the phone with the tech guy, I put the top in hibernation mode and then brought it back out. It gave a stuck key error and wouldn’t go any further. It made us (me and the tech guy) that it was a keyboard for some reason or another. Then I noticed the Esc key on my LCD assembly was kinda sunken in. Whadda ya know, the key was stuck, low and behold once I “unstuck” it everything started working again. Who knew that the LCD buttons and the keyboard were linked. I figured it was probably a proprietary connection though serial or USB, but I guess now that I think about it makes sense.  At least the tablet catastrophe is over and I can be at some what peace.