compaqportableplus
Veteran Member

Thanks for any help in advance folks!!
VCF West | Aug 01 - 02 2025, | CHM, Mountain View, CA |
VCF Midwest | Sep 13 - 14 2025, | Schaumburg, IL |
VCF Montreal | Jan 24 - 25, 2026, | RMC Saint Jean, Montreal, Canada |
VCF SoCal | Feb 14 - 15, 2026, | Hotel Fera, Orange CA |
VCF Southwest | May 29 - 31, 2026, | Westin Dallas Fort Worth Airport |
VCF Southeast | June, 2026 | Atlanta, GA |
I think the light on the board is staying on. Is that good or bad?
This thing looks brand new inside so I'd be very surprised if all those components are toast!
About 10 or so of my keys werent working or not working very well when I got mine so I just cut out some layers of paper to fit the size of the contacts and stuck it in there under each faulty key. Works fine now, but man was it time consuming. The replacement kit I'm sure works fine.@>TanruNomad, I'm in Little Rock, AR.
I put another CRT (from another old Compaq Portable) in my Portable Plus and I am booting up fine now. Now of course about half my keyboard keys arent working! So it looks like I have the very common rotten foam/mylar pads problem I gotta deal with but I'll get to it in the next day or so. Anyone ever tried making these themselves instead of ordering the $30 key replacement kit thats offered on ebay?