napes

Thanks for the tips and breakdowns - much appreciated - and I'll run with those. Will also post how I get on - though next chance I'll have to play with it won't be for a week or so. Cheers!

I'm fresh to these forums, so hello Recently picked up an very sad 1040STFM, which amazingly booted up. But it's got problems... hoping to get some help troubleshooting the following: - Keyboard doesn't appear to work at all. - Right Shift key stays stuck down - suspect a busted spring? - printer hdrive & modem ports are pretty badly corroded. - Not sure of the state of the disk drive yet (no disks to test just yet) - but the drive was sloshing about inside the case as half of the screws are missing! The good: - It boots! - Controller port appears to work (tested with a C64 joystick) - moves the cursor around. - RF has been replaced with a composite video RCA. I have opened it up, and checked out connections etc, and visually all appears OK. Would especially like some pointers on troubleshooting the keyboard. Thanks in advance (n)