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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 19, 2015 10:44:28 GMT
Went to logon to the laptop and discovered the KB was producing different characters to what I was typing (s -> ] or ENTER -> ]) being quite common ones.
Knackered KB or something nasty on the machine? Can't see any suspicous recent installs, virus checker didn't flag anything but there were an awful lot of registry errors suddenly on the machine.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 19, 2015 13:41:21 GMT
So....
ran malware and spyware scans and didn't find anything too suspicous. They required a reboot afterwards and when the computer cam back up it went BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP a lot at the trying to find the HDD (well in my case an SSD) stage.
Not to worry thinks I, I've still got the HDD I swapped out. Exactly the same thing happened.
It was then I asked Jonathan the right question "Have you spilled anything on the computer?" Turned out he'd knocked a glass of water over it earlier today
It's gone in the airing cupboard in the hope it might dry out but I'm a little worried that having used it post incident it may have had some permanent damage :-(
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 19, 2015 23:38:53 GMT
What is a KB? I thought that was a defunct US retail chain that sold the mighty Machine Wars line!
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Dec 20, 2015 0:07:03 GMT
KB = Keyboard.
Karl
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Post by Marc Graham on Dec 21, 2015 13:28:08 GMT
Water damage - the bane of many a poor keyboard!
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 21, 2015 18:38:03 GMT
Water always wins!
*gurns*
-Ralph
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Jan 4, 2016 11:58:44 GMT
Wood floats on water, fool!
Any updates Phil?
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 4, 2016 15:16:46 GMT
You fool! That was a Doctor Who quote!
-Ralph
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Post by browny87 on Jan 4, 2016 20:49:24 GMT
I don't think you can do more damage, the water will have already caused the damage(if it was going to)
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