molkman
Owner of George Washington's Prototype Mittens
2005 May 2 • 2066
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Soooooo, I have a not too old laptop of my sister here. She once spilled coffee over it and it hasn't work for some time now, but I just checked and it seems to work just fine, only thing that is screwed up, is the keyboard (it appears), because there are no error-messages nor anything, but when I press a key, that key gets repeated all over again until I leave the textfield. (Sucks for entering password)
Now, we all no replacing stuff in laptops is not really an easy thing, but maybe the keyboard is not that hard, since it is not that "hardware-ish" or something. Can I replace the keyboard? Is that possible? Just wandering.
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2009 Jan 18 at 12:32 UTC
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molkman
Owner of George Washington's Prototype Mittens
2005 May 2 • 2066
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Lol, I just had an idea. Why not add connect a USB-keyboard? Silly me. It might not work on the password screen of XP though.
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2009 Jan 18 at 12:33 UTC
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eDan Co.
Mighty Typist
2007 Sep 24 • 2921
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Try to clean out the keyboard. There might be coffee stuff getting the keys stuck that you can remove with some alcohol. Can laptop keys be popped out like on a regular keyboard?
May contain traces of invisible text.
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2009 Jan 18 at 14:41 UTC
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molkman
Owner of George Washington's Prototype Mittens
2005 May 2 • 2066
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I don't know if they can be popped out, I'ma try that soon. But I don't even know how to pop out keys on regular keyboards. 
How's that done?
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2009 Jan 18 at 14:59 UTC
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I would say with a hammer but i guess u need the laptop... I thing that u need to be more delicate with ur moves on the laptop cause man they are fragile.
And.. no i dont know how to pop out keys either. 
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2009 Jan 18 at 15:02 UTC
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molkman
Owner of George Washington's Prototype Mittens
2005 May 2 • 2066
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KnightOfH3ll said: I thing that u need to be more delicate with ur moves on the laptop cause man they are fragile.
That's why I'm asking before trying out wacky techniques that might kill the laptop once and for all.
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2009 Jan 18 at 15:03 UTC
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eDan Co.
Mighty Typist
2007 Sep 24 • 2921
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On regular keyboards the keys are snapped in place, not attached, so you can get a knife or something under 'em and just pop them out. On a laptop, they might be glued to the keyboard, in which case it would be best that you don't try any popping action.
May contain traces of invisible text.
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2009 Jan 18 at 15:13 UTC
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Down Rodeo
Cap'n Moth of the Firehouse
2007 Oct 19 • 5486
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Having done the same to my own laptop keyboard I can tell you that the keys do come off but that the keyboard is probably very fucked. Mine is. You can send it away to get fixed but I wouldn't recommend taking off the keys yourself as it will likely bugger them nicely (certainly it has on mine). I have a USB keyboard at the moment which is nicer to type on, also the BIOS recognises it so it should work on the login screen.
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2009 Jan 18 at 15:27 UTC
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molkman
Owner of George Washington's Prototype Mittens
2005 May 2 • 2066
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Okay. I'll try the USB-keyboard solution first then, but I don't have one here right now and the stupid laptop has NO NORMAL KEYBOARD SLOT. (What? How does that make sense?  )
But some friends are about to come around so we can do a little jam session (lol) and they bring a USB-keyboard. Hopefully.
By the way, I just need the laptop to amplify my MIDI-keyboard for a guy to play music that is not drowned by the super loud drumset. Also to attach the microphone. So we can jam along nicely. 
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2009 Jan 18 at 15:37 UTC
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Down Rodeo
Cap'n Moth of the Firehouse
2007 Oct 19 • 5486
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Clever. Most MoBos no longer come with dedicated laptop or mice ports. Why bother when you have a better, faster and above all widely supported standard interface? "Universal" and all that.
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2009 Jan 18 at 15:56 UTC
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jrkookid
Half Irish, half NOT FUNNY
2007 May 27 • 1415
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molkman said: Idea: I could turn the laptop upside-down and then make alcohol oxidate so it goes inside the keyboard and kind of cleans it. Lol. Try it out.
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2009 Jan 18 at 19:03 UTC
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SRAW
Rocket Man
2007 Nov 6 • 2525
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isnt there an on screen keyboard?(u know, the one in accesories) and besides, hu puts a pasword on the laptop?
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2009 Jan 19 at 08:02 UTC
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aaronjer
*****'n Admin
2005 Mar 21 • 5105
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There are many effective liquids that can be used to clean keyboards without removing the keys and without damaging them. (It generally should be unplugged while cleaning, mind you.) Basically anything non-corrosive that evaporates completely at room temperature would work at a high enough pressure to dislodge whatever debris miscreants are roaming about your typery. Office Duster spray bottle perhaps? Just aim low and turn the nozzle to "massive damage" and you should be all good.
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2009 Jan 19 at 09:27 UTC
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