Laptop keyboard weirdness
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rfisher

Original Poster:

5,064 posts

313 months

Sunday 27th June 2021
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Alcohol gelled my laptop keyboard while it was running Win10 and screen locked.

Presumably pressed some weird key combination as it now beeps around once every 2/3rd of a second.

Not a bios beep but a deeper bub noise.

Keyboard doesn't work but will sometimes work if I press the windows key and another key.

Mouse is fine.

Very annoying.

Any ideas?

ApexCult

4,922 posts

183 months

Sunday 27th June 2021
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Sticky keys? Shift key getting held down?

anonymous-user

84 months

Sunday 27th June 2021
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You might find it will be better after it has dried out and left with the power disconnected for 5 mins.

You should not apply any sort of liquid, gel, etc when it is powered up.

rfisher

Original Poster:

5,064 posts

313 months

Sunday 27th June 2021
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Yep - I've definitely fried something.

Using the on screen keyboard in Windows.

Can't boot to bios to reload saved configuration in case it's a bios issue.

I'll buy a new keyboard and use a bt one if that doesn't fix it.

Time for a new laptop perhaps.