On Fri, 07 May 2010 10:13:05 -0500, AZ Nomad
wrote:

On Fri, 7 May 2010 07:37:53 -0700, Bob F wrote:
AZ Nomad wrote:

If no keys have been pressed after a while, it should be asleep.

Leave it to microsoft to design a keyboard whose sleep timer is
disfunctional. You can set it next to your windows PC whose monitor
fails to shut off 20% of the time. Creating a timer and reliably
counting down to turn off a monitor is beyond microsoft's technical
skills. I wouldn't expect them to be able to do it on a keyboard
either.

Or maybe they changed windows so it doesn't let the keyboard sleep right
anymore. You know, one of those "auto-updates" windows is so fond of.

Unless that windows box is connected to a robot arm that is pressing
keys, that is totally irrelevent. A keyboard that isn't being used
has no business draining a battery. If it is, the design is crap.

It used to work, so it's not really a "design" issue - sounds like a
"failure" issue. With the transciever interface REMOVED from the
computer see if the battery still goes dead. If so it is LIKELY a
popped capacitor in the keyboard.