noting: T430 keyboard will not work in T420

[angelofthesouth]

I ruined my T420's keyboard by accidentally tearing or snapping the ribbon cable. I accidentally bought a useless (due to a broken screen) T430 at eBay, and, keeping it around, decided I might as well see if its keyboard worked in my T420. It doesn't. It fits in well enough with a little effort, but once plugged in, its keys enter the wrong characters.

[dr_st]

I haven't encountered the problem of keys entering the wrong characters when I briefly tested a T430 keyboard in a T420. Which keys input which characters?

[angelofthesouth]

I haven't encountered the problem of keys entering the wrong characters when I briefly tested a T430 keyboard in a T420. Which keys input which characters?

Argh. Now I can't answer your question, because the T420 I was working on has suddenly developed a presumably unrelated problem: no video on the screen while the computer appears to be running (I can see the fan spinning). I'm checking to see whether I accidentally disconnected a cable somewhere, but I don't think so. I can't believe the coincidence. I should try to hook up my TV screen--I've never needed or wanted to connect an external monitor, but the Thinkpads have connections for it, don't they?--and see if the computer's still dead beyond the fan spinning, which would suggest the CPU just happened to die while was I working on it.