From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 31 13:22:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5E9537B401 for ; Tue, 31 Dec 2002 13:22:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from zoon.lafn.org (zoon.lafn.org [206.117.18.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72CF043ED1 for ; Tue, 31 Dec 2002 13:22:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Received: from lafn.org (host-66-81-198-253.rev.o1.com [66.81.198.253]) by zoon.lafn.org (8.12.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id gBVLMclm061733; Tue, 31 Dec 2002 13:22:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 13:22:37 -0800 Subject: Re: Water Damage Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v551) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG To: "Rob O'Donnell" From: Doug Hardie In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.6.0.20021231101925.025d3f20@aph2k> Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.551) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, Dec 31, 2002, at 02:32 US/Pacific, Rob O'Donnell wrote: > If it's a PS/2 type keyboard connector (small plug) there is a plastic > pin that often gets broken off and left in the socket if connectors > are pulled out violently, blocking a new keyboard being inserted. > (Seen it often with mice.) If this is so, I've had success getting > them out by using 'blue tack' (a semi-adhesive goo used to hold the > kids drawings on the wall) on the end of a matchstick to grab hold of > it. Right on. Thats exactly what happened. I guess I didn't have enough light to see that yesterday. I didn't get a chance to pop it out as the insurance adjuster arrived and is going over everything now. Thanks for the info. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message