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Spilled Water on Keyboard
I spilled a small amount of water on the keyboard of my 4150. I didn't know until too late not to use it for days and to dry it with a hair dryer. The laptop is working fine except that the keys keep locking in upper case and I can not use the number keys even if I unlock the caps key. I also have a problem when surfing the internet that every site opens in a new page so that I can 12 or more pages open at a time instead of 1 page. Can this be repaired? I just bought a new hard drive so is it worth it to try to repair it? Thanks.
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December 22nd, 2004 19:00
pjim
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January 2nd, 2005 20:00
I managed to spill an unknown amount of water on the keyboard of my wife's Inspiron 1000. The system was off at the time. When I discovered the accident (half an hour later?), there were small (size of a quarter) puddles in the touchpad depression and over the cursor keys. I wiped it up.
That was yesterday. Today, when she powered the system up, it started the boot process, then a loud alarm sounded and the screen went dark. Pressing the start button shut the alarm off and apparently returned the system to 'off.' We actually repeated this cycle a couple of times: power on, alarm goes off, screen goes dark, depressing 'start' button shuts system down.
We've just moved and I haven't located the instruction book for the laptop yet. I have read (at least some of) the previous instuctions about drying out the system carefully, etc. The alarm is nowhere mentioned. Can anyone tell me what the alarm means? Besides possible $$$ ...
I'll appreciate any help.