how to ruin a key on a keyboard

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Gunbuster

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pop the keyboard apart and slice through the trace on the plastic membrane thingy
 

Abhi

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Originally posted by: nick1985
i want something a little more severe than wedging something in there, i want it permanently ruined....:(

little trick ??
 

AgaBoogaBoo

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Originally posted by: Abhi
Originally posted by: nick1985
i want something a little more severe than wedging something in there, i want it permanently ruined....:(

little trick ??

Not so little, is it?

Maybe some kind of glue on the contact points.
 

DrPizza

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Hmmmm... someone else would probably know better than I, but isn't there a setting in Windows for the keyboard layout you use? Can't you just change the windows setting to Dvorak or whatever it is, and the computer will think the keys have changed?
 

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try n take a pin out of the ps2 connector @ the end, i dunno which pin does what but i'm taking away one will do something??? rite?

 

DrPizza

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Hmmm... can't find what I was looking for. Change the repeat key settings and repeat rate... so if he's even slightly slow at typing, his tttteeeexxxxxtttttt wwwwwwiiiiiillllllllllllllllll llllllllllloooooooooooooookkkkkkkkk llllliiiiikkkkkeeee ttttthhhhhhiiiiissss
 

Pepsi90919

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Originally posted by: rbloedow
Originally posted by: gistech1978
Originally posted by: rbloedow
Originally posted by: amnesiac
Originally posted by: rbloedow
Originally posted by: nick1985 what would happen if i pour a little water into a key? will it make the keyboard unusable, or just that key?
Nothing will happen. YOu need to disassemble the motherboard.
Do WHAT to the WHAT?
whoops, I meant "disassemble" the "keyboard" :p <---Off in La La Land today :p
no disassemble!

Please reread the last reply, oh' genius of English.
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