Thinkpads Forum

Hi all,

This is a problem that has been bothering me for a whlie now. I have a ThinkPad 600E and my Page Up and Page Down Buttons stopped working, and now i can't get my laptops volume up with them anymore past the already low volume i had it set at before they stopped working. This is a real hassle, plus it makes reading websites and documents harder.

Is there some sort of way to fix this? or a way to turn up the "physical" volume? i downloaded an On Screen Display function for it, and it shows the volume as three bars out of however many there is heh.

any input would be nice. My laptop has done this before, but then out of the blue the buttons started working again after a few days. i doubt that'll be the case this time as per it's been months and months.

Well thanks again all for any help.

Try buying a can of air, that's for ecectonics. Stick the nozzel down in it an give it a cuople seconds of air, thekeys are probly just dirty. if that dosent
work, then try popping the buttons off, you may have some hairs or other debrees jammed down in their, One of my customers had this problem, and all I did was use a can of air to clean it out, the space-bar wasen't working, give that a try, and if it dosen't work, you can send it too me, and I'll see what I can do, there may also be some burnt out componets,
on the key-board, I also fixed a problem where an entire key-board wasen't working, I just took the laptop apart, and pulled out the keyboard cable, re-inserted it back in, and it was fine, some times the plugs kneed too be reset.
if any of this is over your head you can send it to me. email me for details. Joelmc@outdrs.net