FN-FORUM: OT: laptop keyboard errors

date posted 27th January 2006 10:54

Hi all,

Recently I managed to spill some water over my laptop (dell precision m70),
I shut it down, wiped most of it up and got the hair dryer on it.

Unfortunately it's now exhibiting some odd behaviour:

1; I can no longer drag any files anywhere (ie in windows explorer, outlook
whatever).

2; photoshop refuses to open any documents (!) (as far as I know everything
else works fine).

3; ctrl + x refuses to work, yet ctrl + other keys seems to work fine.

Now this all seems a bit weird to me. If I hadn't know that a spillage
caused this behaviour I'd of said this was a software fault and reinstalled
windows (xp) and / or the offending apps. I'm wondering if it's possible
that a key is sticking, or something is misfiring on the keyboard? Does
anyone know of any software that will monitor keypresses (all keys, ie. Tab,
ctrl, function keys etc) and display them?
Anyone have any other ideas before I attempt to explain this to my insurance
people....

Thanks all,

Jules