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Miss Perspicacia Tick
I ad a Multimedia Natural board for years, but it bit the dust last week
(the enter key stopped working). As I suffer from RSI (in the form of CTS)
and I wanted something just as good to replace it. The only thing that
looked remotely close was the above. Well I received it this morning and,
initially, I loved it. Now I've used it for a while I notice several things
that make me want to send it back.
a) 75% of the time if I hit a key (and I know damned well that I've hit it)
the character/space does not
appear on the screen. I am not the fastest of typists, but I am accurate and
I know damned well I've hit the
key.
b) Pressing the contact button on the bottom of the board, does nothing
(according to the leaflet, that was
supplied with the unit, it should cause the 3 LEDs on the receiver to
cycle - it doesn't. The only button
that does that is the one on the receiver itself. Therefore, I assume that I
cannot change channel because
the signal is not being received.
c) This is a minor problem but, hitting either the numlock or caps lock keys
causes both the numlock and
capslock LEDs on the receiver to light; in order to turn them both off, I
have to hit the numlock key. The
numlock key light does not illuminate by itself, it will only illuminate if
the capslock key is pressed.
Hitting the capslock key has no effect - only the numlock key will turn them
both off.
I can ask for no help from MS because the set, with which I was supplied, is
OEM. I was misled in this regard as nowhere on the product description did
it state that it was an OEM product, and I have emailed the vendor to let
them know I'm not very happy. The description led me to believe that I would
be receiving a retail product in an MS-branded retail box.
I don't know whether the mouse is faulty, because I only bought the set for
the keyboard as I have a perfectly good MX510 (corded) rodent.
About the only good thing I have to say about it at the moment is that I
love the padded wrist rest - apart from that it was £50 worth of crap.
Does it sound like I have a faulty set, or can anyone suggest another
reason...? I'm tempted to backup and wipe the system partition to see if
there is a conflict with something, but I doubt very much that there is...
Thanks folks
(the enter key stopped working). As I suffer from RSI (in the form of CTS)
and I wanted something just as good to replace it. The only thing that
looked remotely close was the above. Well I received it this morning and,
initially, I loved it. Now I've used it for a while I notice several things
that make me want to send it back.
a) 75% of the time if I hit a key (and I know damned well that I've hit it)
the character/space does not
appear on the screen. I am not the fastest of typists, but I am accurate and
I know damned well I've hit the
key.
b) Pressing the contact button on the bottom of the board, does nothing
(according to the leaflet, that was
supplied with the unit, it should cause the 3 LEDs on the receiver to
cycle - it doesn't. The only button
that does that is the one on the receiver itself. Therefore, I assume that I
cannot change channel because
the signal is not being received.
c) This is a minor problem but, hitting either the numlock or caps lock keys
causes both the numlock and
capslock LEDs on the receiver to light; in order to turn them both off, I
have to hit the numlock key. The
numlock key light does not illuminate by itself, it will only illuminate if
the capslock key is pressed.
Hitting the capslock key has no effect - only the numlock key will turn them
both off.
I can ask for no help from MS because the set, with which I was supplied, is
OEM. I was misled in this regard as nowhere on the product description did
it state that it was an OEM product, and I have emailed the vendor to let
them know I'm not very happy. The description led me to believe that I would
be receiving a retail product in an MS-branded retail box.
I don't know whether the mouse is faulty, because I only bought the set for
the keyboard as I have a perfectly good MX510 (corded) rodent.
About the only good thing I have to say about it at the moment is that I
love the padded wrist rest - apart from that it was £50 worth of crap.
Does it sound like I have a faulty set, or can anyone suggest another
reason...? I'm tempted to backup and wipe the system partition to see if
there is a conflict with something, but I doubt very much that there is...
Thanks folks