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Asus eeepc CPU heating effects on the keyboard

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A customer was specifically after an eeePC laptop.

After I got it from my supplier, I noticed a few strage things: the cursor would sometimes move automatically… and sometimes dialog boxes would automatically get “clicked”.

The annoying part is that it was intermittent.

I decided to do a bios update, and a complete set of windows XP updates… but the problem was still there.

It seems like pressing any key near the “Enter” key, would make the keyboard act like the Enter key was being depressed… and with auto-repeat that happens when the enter key is pressed, the effects were really unusual.

Since it was a new laptop, I took it back to the supplier, who did some tests, and found that there actually was a fault with the keyboard and replaced it promptly.

I was told (I’m not sure if its true), that the CPU is under the Enter key, so once the CPU warms up, the keyboard is more likely to “act up”.

setup an asus eee laptop with wpa wireless security

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A customer needed to get his wife’s eee laptop on the internet.

So I install a wireless router (and setup wireless security).

All pretty standard stuff so far.

But I knew that the Eee would be interesting.

Research seems to show that the Eee could have some problems with wpa, but I thought I’d give it a try anyway.

Some guides on the net seem to guide you through using the network icon to setup a wireless connection (and you get advised to stay away from the “Wireless Networks” icon.

First, I made sure the wireless is on (blue light on the bottom right hand side… activated by pressing Fn + F2.

Well, after stuffing around for about 20 minutes (and getting nowhere), I eventually decided to try the wireless networks icon.

Well, it worked really easily.

First, I got a view of available wireless networks (Don’t disable SSID broadcast of your wireless access point!):

eee wireless Select the wireless network, and hit the connect button.

You then get another window, where you select the wireless encryption type, enter the password/key.

And thats all it takes!

At some point, I made sure the new wireless connection was set to run at startup, so that it would always run when the pc was switched on.