Two weeks ago a friend asked me to upgrade his Vostro 1510 from Windows Vista to Windows 7. I believe Vista sucks and Windows 7 is acceptable. So I had no problem with his decision and didn’t object. Everything went smooth. No problems at all and everything worked out of the box.
Somehow they managed to provide a great upgrade experience. If you had trouble upgrading from NT4 to 2000, from 2000 to XP and from XP to Vista give it another try. I’ve seen many obscure things happening after upgrading, not this time. Well at least not until yesterday.
He called me and explained that his keyboard stopped working. It works if he enters BIOS but not after Windows is running. Rebooting didn’t solve the problem. Waiting one day and booting the system did. I guessed it could be a hardware problem. Maybe a cold solder joint.
I visited him on my way to a appointment and he told me he found a “solution”.
I just unplug my Ethernet cable and plug it in and everything works.
I cannot describe how much WTF my face was after he showed me that it really works.
I think I’ll do some research this weekend. Just to obscure to ignore the problem.