Caps Lock Chaos

Many Amiga owners will know to their detriment that occasionally the Caps Lock light will start blinking and the keyboard will lock up. This is caused by the microprocessor in the keyboard detecting a keyboard fault. I first noticed this fault when our school Amiga room two rev. 5a A500 acquired an autofire joystick  a Quickshot IIb I think. When switched to autofire mode this joystick would periodically jam the keyboard. If you have recently acquired an autofire joystick   you should investigate whether turning it off during boot fixes the problem. Otherwise you can try the old Atari Twist ie. pick up your machine in both hands and twist it. This is basically equivalent to reseating the chips on the motherboard if you have a spare moment   I suggest you actually open the machine up and manually reseat them.