Why does my FX804's keyboard go mad when I put in a second bat ?

[Rick1974]

I have bought myself a second battery and as soon as i remove the floppy drive and place the second battery in it's place my keyboard goes up the wall...

It's like sticky keys, certian keys will not work untill they have been wacked a few times.

Please help me get over this as i bought the second battery as I wanted to use it and not see it sat on the side.

RICK:smileysad:

[robpaxton]

A long shot here . . . . are you using the 'safely remove hardware' option before removing the floppy drive and are you sure that the drive is hot swappable?

[Rick1974]

No i shut it down and turn it all off first.

What do you mean by " hot swapable " ?

[jammold]

"Hot swapable" means that you can take out the device in question, and plug it in again. If it has a flat rectangular socket and USB on it then it is hot-swapable.

You should be able to unplug the hot-swapable device and reconnect it without restarting or shutting down your VAIO first.

[kee-lo_]

You should always use the safely remove hardware applet before pulling out USB cables imho.

[jammold]

Forgot about that! :smileyblush:

You can disable the Safely Remove Hardware applet, but I wouldn't recommend it (especially if like me, you use a USB Mass Storage Device)!

To remove a Hot-Swapable device with the Safely Remove Hardware icon:

1. Right click the grey,green safely remove hardware icon.
2. Click Safetly Remove Hardware.
3. Click the STOP button.
4. Wait until a ballon appears telling you it is now safe to disconnect the hardware.
5. Close the dialog box.
6. Pull the plug out of the USB socket.
7. The balloon disappears.

[kee-lo_]

Don't remove it!

[jammold]

I never suggested you should! Keep the applet - its quite vital especially to USB and PCMCIA devices - you could lose data if you remove it from the taskbar for good!

[kee-lo_]

True.

[jammold]

I think this is (excuse me another insomnia-related senile moment) due to Write Caching which improves preformance.