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Freezebyte
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My original eclipse croaked earlier right in the middle of a WoW raid earlier today, and I was pissed. It actually was making my computer turn the monitor on and off and causing it to lock up. Just outa the blue, it started doing this. Initially I couldn't cast my spells, then my monitor started to black in and out then my whole machine locked up. I rebooted and I couldn't even get the arrow keys to work in the BIOS. WTF? I unplugged everything cept mouse and keyboard and tried again and same result, Vista wouldn't boot half the time or it would start to act very strange and the screen would again fade out. Swapped out the keyboard for an old PS2 HP I had lying around and, *poof* no more problems! Couldn't believe it was the keyboard doing all that once I troubleshooted it.
Fustrated that my $50 keyboard wasn't working, I took it apart and cleaned out alot of boogers, food particles, hair, dust, skin ect...ect.. it was gross. Tried it again and it worked fine in the BIOS and booted up correctly. Ok, maybe I fixed it, and I've never spilt anything on the keyboard, so I know thats not it, maybe it was just some gunk causing a key to lock up or something. I loaded up WoW and maybe walked around for 15 seconds before it started making weird hyroglyphic fonts on WoW in my text windows. God damn it.....
I think I bought it around two years ago and BB and im pissed it had to happen right before christmas, it was freaking around $50 and its toast. Fustrated, I went out to BB late tonight and picked up the version II for freaking $72. Ouch, right before christmas, thanks alot Saitek! Hopefully this one will last longer, though it feels even nicer with the full wrist rest pad and the color changes are nice. I'll be putting a coat of clear fingernail polish on the keys so it doesn't wear away after a month like i've heard with these keyboards.
Never seen a keyboard do such a thing to a computer, I was afraid my mobo or PSU was failing judging from how the computer was reacting but it was the old Eclipse that just "failed" outa the blue. Very weird and piss poor timing
Fustrated that my $50 keyboard wasn't working, I took it apart and cleaned out alot of boogers, food particles, hair, dust, skin ect...ect.. it was gross. Tried it again and it worked fine in the BIOS and booted up correctly. Ok, maybe I fixed it, and I've never spilt anything on the keyboard, so I know thats not it, maybe it was just some gunk causing a key to lock up or something. I loaded up WoW and maybe walked around for 15 seconds before it started making weird hyroglyphic fonts on WoW in my text windows. God damn it.....
I think I bought it around two years ago and BB and im pissed it had to happen right before christmas, it was freaking around $50 and its toast. Fustrated, I went out to BB late tonight and picked up the version II for freaking $72. Ouch, right before christmas, thanks alot Saitek! Hopefully this one will last longer, though it feels even nicer with the full wrist rest pad and the color changes are nice. I'll be putting a coat of clear fingernail polish on the keys so it doesn't wear away after a month like i've heard with these keyboards.
Never seen a keyboard do such a thing to a computer, I was afraid my mobo or PSU was failing judging from how the computer was reacting but it was the old Eclipse that just "failed" outa the blue. Very weird and piss poor timing