Mech keyboard died

[Sashi]

Alright so I was watching the stream yesterday and Slick's ducky died..

Well it so happens my leopold from elitekeyboards died. It has Cherry MX reds in it.

Does anyone know or have any experience in trying to fix a keyboard, or how it even dies?

When I plug in it, all the LEDs light up (Num lock, Caps lock & scroll lock) but they are very dim and no keys respond

Thanks

[Kilmer02]

Alright so I was watching the stream yesterday and Slick's ducky died.. Well it so happens my leopold from elitekeyboards died. It has Cherry MX reds in it. Does anyone know or have any experience in trying to fix a keyboard' date=' or how it even dies? When I plug in it, all the LEDs light up (Num lock, Caps lock & scroll lock) but they are very dim and no keys respond Thanks [/quote']

If the lights are very dim and not responding, I would say maybe theres an issue with power getting to the keyboard? Don't take my word on it but that would be my guess.

[floppy disk]

Switch off your pc and the main power supply to your pc, unplug and plug back the keyboard cable. Turn on your pc and see if the issue has resolved. Hope this help.

[Sashi]

Hmm maybe i'll open it apart or something..or might as well get a Topre switch keyboard ;P

[The Tao]

Is it a detachable cable? If it is maybe the connection to the jack needs to be re-soldered.

[Sashi]

Ah haven't thought about that! Thanks, I'll open it up and see if it is the jack inside.

Good thing I took electronics class in high school! :P

[Sashi]

looks like the solder is intact, any ideas?

[The Tao]

Switch USB ports? One of mine went bad and fooled me into thinking my mouse died.

[NeoZeon]

Try it on another computer, but I don't think that is the problem. The same thing is happening to my wireless dongle for my razer mamba.

[Sashi]

@The Tao, nope

@NeoZeon nope

I think it's dead because when I do plug in it, windows says its unrecognized device