keyboard not working on laptop
 

Need help badly. Accidentally spilled coffee on keyboard, none of the keys worked. Tonight couldnt even switch on lappy keeps beeping, is it fixable? :o:

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Possibly fixable. You could now have a short on the keyboard. Disconnect the keyboard and if it boots to BIOS then just replace keyboard. It should stop at BIOS with no keyboard message (and possibly press F1 to continue).

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Keyboard is part of the laptop I do not use the touchpad. None of the keys work.

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there's most probably a youtube video on how to strip your laptop to get the keyboard off, you normally have some slots above the Function keys to prize it off, then pull off the ribbon cable.

the difficult part is usually working out how hard to pull :(

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What's the make and model of laptop?

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Its a Packard bell easynote ts

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These are usually a ZIF (Zero Insertion Force) connector. You have to open the gate to release the strip. This either slides in the direction of the strip or sometimes pivots upward.

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Thanks for the link pip as you know I can't use the keyboard to search. I have also managed to boot it up again and tried a system restore but it didn't like it. Me thinks probably an early Christmas pressie for me is on the cards. Would I be able to transfer my old files and data to a new lappy?

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PS I am replying on my kindle.

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Yes you should be able to transfer files and data OK.

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Thank you pip

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Beg, borrow or sreal a USB keayboard and plug it in, the lappy should find it.

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I took the lappy to be fixed but was told it was completely fubared, so now just finished setting up my new purchase. :)

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i guess it depends how much liquid got inside, there should be a membrane to stop it getting further than the keyboard.

hopefully you'll be happy with the new one. with a bit of luck you can just use an external caddy to put the hard drive in from the old one to get files off.

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When she was about 8 my niece knocked a glass of water over my Acer laptop, I wasn't there butmy mum was babysitting her.

She turned it off and positioned it in away to help dry it.

It survived for several years.

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water you can be lucky, it dries and often is fine, unless it gets under the membrane, regular keyboards are usually fine with water when it dries, coffee (especially if it has sugar in it), squash, coke etc you're usually not so lucky.

it's often worth a try, you have nothing to lose, i'd certainly take the hard drive out and see if in a caddy it can be read.

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A few years back I spilt half a glass of milk over an old laptop. Several keys stopped working immediately, a few more over the next hour or so - I was able to boot into Windows to disable all the password prompts and copy all necessary files off. A couple of hours later I was counting which keys worked rather than those that didn't.

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I sad and remember the good old days and stupid error messages.

"no keyboard found press f1 to continue" :D