Help with keyboard failure

[riscbroker]

I've got a Samsung NC10, a few years old, it's served me well.

For no apparent reason, a few of the keys ( 6,7,8,9,0,i,o,k,l,m,.) have stopped responding. I last used the netbook a couple of weeks ago and as far as I can recall everything was OK. It hasn't been dropped, and there is no liquid damage.

I've tried:

Deleting drivers and letting Windows reinstall.
I popped a couple of the keys off, it's clean enough and no sign of brandy/water/blunt trauma.
Reinserted the keyboard ribbon cable. A few times.
Swopping out RAM - getting desperate.
Tried a Linux live distro, same keys are dead.
USB keyboard works fine.

Is this just keyboard failure, or is there a controller or some other bit of hardware that's knackered?

 

[cypher912]

The keyboard is faulty , it would be cheaper to use a usb or wireless keyboard than to have it repaired.

 

[riscbroker]

The keyboard is faulty , it would be cheaper to use a usb or wireless keyboard than to have it repaired.

So it can only be faulty keyboard, no other component that I need to check/test?

Replacement keyboard is about R400, and I need the netbook's portability, carting an extra USB KB along is a bit of a pain.

 

[riscbroker]

Bump - can a forumite with knowledge of this type of problem tell me whether I can resolve the trouble by replacing the keyboard only, or is there likely another component that is faulty? If it's just a case of replacing the keyboard then it's probably worth doing?

 

[Venomous]

take it to a place that can test it(keyboard), and replace it.