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Post by davehibb on Jun 22, 2021 1:42:09 GMT -5
The keyboard on my laptop stopped working last night. I can't see anyhow I could have locked it and when I restarted it it does beep and flash up an error that the keyboard is not detected.
Taking it to get repaired (hopefully) today.
i do have an old laptop, which is like s steam engine. I tried firing up FOF on it last night, it asked me to reinstall from Steam but it gives me an error message when I try and run it, some file or other needs removing or a full uninstall/reinstall.
Anyone have any ideas regarding the laptop keyboard issue, just in case there's a quick fix?
Anyone had this issue with FOF and Steam?
Worst case scenario is that I'll spend all evening dicking about on my old laptop to try and get FOF set up and working again, so hopefully I won't miss a sim, or at least be sorted in some fashion before the end of preseason.
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Post by squirrel on Jun 22, 2021 2:20:15 GMT -5
Find an old crappy USB desktop keyboard from somewhere and plug it in maybe ?
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Post by davehibb on Jun 22, 2021 2:51:52 GMT -5
Definitely an option mate but as i have a crappy backup laptop, I should be able to struggle along until the other is fixed or if it's fooked, until i save up for a new one.
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Post by squirrel on Jun 22, 2021 4:54:02 GMT -5
what make of laptop is the broken one?
I managed to repair a broken keyboard on my Thinkpad T480S once. It was actually relatively straightforward. Bought a replacement for £20 or so off ebay and followed a youtube video that showed me how to plug it in
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Post by davehibb on Jun 22, 2021 5:20:58 GMT -5
It's a Lenovo.
Taking it to repair shop at lunch, so we'll see how much they charge.
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Post by clown on Jun 22, 2021 7:59:26 GMT -5
Clown is celebrating this injury! Your friend Shane is very sorry! My Lenovo has a backup key board on screen, which causes lots of typing issues but it has kept me running thru many a coffee spill
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Post by davehibb on Jun 22, 2021 8:20:39 GMT -5
Haha, yeah, I found the on screen keyboard which allowed me to log back in after restarting and worse case, I can plug a usb keyboard in if the repair shop can't solve it.
Hopefully I can get FOF set up tonight on my old, decrepit lappy.
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Post by ManWithNoName on Jun 22, 2021 12:36:56 GMT -5
What's the error message? I would just try uninstalling and reinstalling steam. That should fix a broken install unless there's something else stopping it from working.
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Post by davehibb on Jun 22, 2021 12:39:06 GMT -5
What's the error message? I would just try uninstalling and reinstalling steam. That should fix a broken install unless there's something else stopping it from working. It had me remove the frfoot.fgr file from the universe folder. Cut and pasted it to my desktop and it loaded fine and I've been able to restore career. No idea what that file does but moving it doesn't seem to have harmed anything.
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