How to change my keyboard?

[Benard]

I bought a used Network with a very strange keyboard (I did not noticed that when buying it). It seems to be half French, half German. When I tape on some letters or figures on the keyboard, the Network does not write the correspondent letters or figures on the screen. I tried with a French OS or a German OS but with both of them, there are still some keys which do not fit. I suppose that the only solution is to change the keyboard? Is there a software solution? If I need to change the keyboard, is it possible through Psion assistance? Is it expensive? Did anybody meet this problem?

[harveyr]

Dominique

It sounds as though you may have a Swiss keyboard which is very strange as we only produced those for 1 particular customer in Switerland earlier this year.

We did produce 3 versions of the OS to go with this keyboard - Swiss German, Swiss French and Swiss Italian, but unfortunately this is bespoke to our customer and has a number of unique software modifications.

Is the leather panel standard?

Psion do not offer keyboards for sale as a spare part but our service centres around the world can buy this part from us. Our repair centre in the UK charges a flat rate for aall repairs and it would therefore be an expensive route for you to do this, but charges do vary from non-Psion repair centres so you would need to check it out.

Our distributor in Switzerland which is where I see you are based is Excom AG. They carry out repairs on Psion products.

Regards

Harvey

[Benard]

;) Thank you very much for this complete and very useful information.

[garyjenkinson]

Hi,
Don't want to insult your intelligence, but have you made sure you haven't accidently switched on the num lock?
I know when I did this for the first time, it really threw me and I was just about to send it away for repair when I finally realised!
To toggle Num Lock on and off, press Shift+Menu.
Regards,
Gary