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Some computers have water cooling but I suspect your laptop does not have it. When you or your 2 years old daughter (as in my case ) pours water onto the keyboard it does not just effect the keyboard. If the laptop unit was on at the time the liquid gets into the motherboard and short circuits components and eventually can corrode the links that link the multi layered circuit board.
After my one week old laptop had water poured in it by my daughter (14 years ago ) my laptop behaved exactly the same as yours.. This kind of damage is not covered under warranty.
You might be able to copy the hard drive documents off if you are lucky.
Good luck with your situation !
Keyboards to wear out, but are not expensive to replace. Multiple key strikes and sticking can be caused by spilling "stuff" into the keyboard, even crumbs will do it.
You can try using compressed air can to clean the keyboard, maybe that will fix it. But if it's caused by wear and tear or you have spilled some liquid on the keyboard, you need to buy a replacement. A keyboard for your laptop is around 17$ with free shipping:
so (windows 7 ? here"?
go to control panel, go to device manager.
then see is the keyboard driver is not bad. (marks on it)
sounds like a bad keyboard
you can in fact unplug internal keyboard cable (ribbon type)
use what you just did the virtual keyboard test.
then plug in a every day, usb keyboard and if that works
the internal is bad.
it will not be the first keyboard to fail, ever
the get spilled drinks on them or just wear out.
its now 8 years old.
the nice thing, is that uSB keyboard might last 8 more years.
hp ended the 100 versions of keyboard sales after 10 years.
ever heard of ebay? bingo
also if you google you find stores sell old HP parts all over, earth.
most are used
on ebay you also see china clones, and some are junk, a fact.
the printing is now done by Laser that is why I was told a huge problem of keyboard letters wearing away. I bought some at www.smartkeyboardsolutions and the printing is underneath. They still look like the day I put them on.
There are 2 common problems for this. 1. Something got stuck under the keyboard of your laptop. Food scraps or Dirt and Grime build-up due to sweaty palms or fingers clean the keyboard. 2.The Membrane on your keyboard that act as a switch cold be shorted due to wear and tear or heavy key presses. Have your keyboard replaced.
Other problems could be cracked board if you happen to lean or put heavy stuff over the keyboard and cracked ribbon connector.
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