<QUOTE author="55cancri" post_id="1261" time="1530220192" user_id="247">
55cancri post_id=1261 time=1530220192 user_id=247 Wrote:Ok, but the problem is not that the Computer is forgetting its time and ethernet-adress. Everytime the computer thinks the NVRAM is okay, my keyboard refuses to work and when it is complaining or I just pull the RTC out of the socket it works. What is this? I am so frustrated ...
... I just don't see the connection, but soldering a new battery in is the last thing I can do ... but how can that fix the keyboard problem?
I wonder if there's an issue with the RS423 port. I'm not overly familiar with DEC computers, but the fact that those two types of keyboards require a fixed baud rate of 4800 leads me to believe that perhaps the garbage data the keyboard produces sometimes is an incorrect baud rate setting sneaking in somehow. Perhaps when you pull the RTC the baud rate issue is corrected temporarily.
Again, I have no experience directly with DECs, but if I had to guess where to look at this point, that would be next place. Hope that helps somewhat.
