In article <5958d928-839b-48da-b60e-ca7fdc9870ban@googlegroups.com>,
Martin Taylor <URL:mailto:mtaylor141273@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday, 30 April 2021 at 17:29:44 UTC+1, Chris Evans (CJE/4D) wrote:
> > In article <227eff32-eae0-4ba0...@googlegroups.com>,
> > Martin Taylor <URL:mailto:mtaylo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Friday, 30 April 2021 at 15:50:47 UTC+1, Martin Taylor wrote:
> > > > On Friday, 30 April 2021 at 15:45:23 UTC+1, Kevin Wells wrote:
> > > > > In message <f0dd7ef7-ce80-4c3f...@googlegroups.com>
> > > > > Martin Taylor <mtaylo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > > Yay!!!! i got it working i had a broken track which i thought i had repaired
> > > correctly after battery leak but just redone all the traces and its back up
> > > keyboard is working, thank you to everyone and Kevin i will be leaving your
> > > app on there and set to load on boot just in case i have this issue again
> > > once again thanks people .
> > Glad it's sorted.
> >
> > Not heard of that fault before. I didn't think any keyboard tracks were
> > anywhere near the battery! Can you explain where the track was?
> > Board mk 1, 2 or 3?
>
> hi Chris, its a mk 1 board, I have no idea where the keyboard tracks run if
> i am honest .... i reflowed the solder on the components around (c172 which
> i had to trace and solder to nearest point) seen they suffered the worse
> from the battery leak, i also reflowed the cmos chip and a couple others
> that was showing dry solder joint so maybe it was one of them that made it
> work...i am sorry i cannot be more clear on what it was that fixed it i am
> just happy it is fixed.....i was stuck on what to do and had nothing to
> loose even if it had broke the cmos i could have always replaced it i just
> want to try and get my trusted RiscPC back up and running.... it was a
> really odd one because the port had power just no keyboard would do anything
> but give a flicker of the leds when first turned on, I know by todays
> standards its outdated and i do have a Pi4 running riscos but i do love my
> RiscPC, i like all my acorns from the BBC and a420/1 , A3010, A4000 to the
> RiscPC, my children laugh when the hear the A420/1 spin up the ST506 HDD.
> Sorry for ranting lol

Thanks for the info

Chris Evans

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