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[Sarah Palin]

So i spilled water on my laptop, annoying - which got some keys to stick. I key especially

I got a wireless USB keyboard but the laptop keyboard is still "on" and it is still "ghost typing" interjecting i into everything i write

it stopped for a minute so i am entering this plea

it's a laptop, toshiba satellite, no way to unscerw the keyboard as far as I know. Is there a software fiX? a driver I'm supposed to deactivate?

HELP ME FIGURE IOUTI A WAY TO IDEACTIVATE MY LAPTOP keyBOARD

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[elxir]

ugh i thought i muted you

[Greekjr14]

Originally Posted by Sarah Palin

HELP ME FIGURE IOUTI A WAY TO IDEACTIVATE MY LAPTOP keyBOARD

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10char of fake

[Sarah Palin]

^^^ FU guys seriously



I tried going into my Device Managar and uninstalling the PS/2 keyboard driver. However it required a restart and every time my computer restarted it reinstalled the driver!

Is there a way I can PERMANENTLY get rid of this crap PS/2 keyboard driver short of unscrewingthe laptop and yanking out the keyboard itself?

[Greekjr14]

ok for reals, all I can think of is taking out the keyboard, buying a compatible one to fit into your laptop, and then it should recognize the new one. I cannot think of a way to fix the problem without doing that.

[Sarah Palin]

Just had a brain wave, maybe if I install a "fake" driver on top of the PS/2 driver then my internal keybaord will hang fire (just what I want) and Windows won't look to reinstall it on startup....

[Sarah Palin]

Hmm that won't work :|

[tgleaf]

1. Hang laptop upside down in direct sunlight.
2-4. Unethical.

Better?

[Sarah Palin]

D: that's unamerican. Or unjapanese, whatever.

[Sarah Palin]

The computer also makes a 20-second long, 120 decibel beep on startup. I assume this is because of teh stuck key

It turns out there is no way to disable a keyboard in BIOS on this particular brand of laptop... bleh..

[Demuyt]

Water spilled on electrical devices results in oxydation
to fix it, bury your keyboard into rice for a day or two
The rice absorbs humidity
Problem solved

[wolf'j'max]

demuyt i was reading the whole thread with the idea to post put it in rice at the end, then saw your omment, lol.

[banana]

Wouldn't the rice just stop any more permanent damage?

[andy]

youre lucky, you can now buy a mac.

[CCN]

Originally Posted by Sarah Palin

So i spilled water on my laptop, annoying - which got some keys to stick. I key especially

I got a wireless USB keyboard but the laptop keyboard is still "on" and it is still "ghost typing" interjecting i into everything i write

it stopped for a minute so i am entering this plea

it's a laptop, toshiba satellite, no way to unscerw the keyboard as far as I know. Is there a software fiX? a driver I'm supposed to deactivate?

HELP ME FIGURE IOUTI A WAY TO IDEACTIVATE MY LAPTOP keyBOARD

oiigod iits stiairting aiiiigiiiaiin

iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiIIHIIEIILPI IMIEIiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

Sarah I thought long and hard before typing, and i've decided to help you.
However I can only get you half of the way there, the rest, is up to you.

I have a Toshiba Satellite which I spilled water on and ghost types.
There should be a way to unscrew it, as far as I know but that is for you to look on the internets later (maybe not for your model).

The problem though in what I did is this method may prevent your inbuilt touchpad from working (depending if you still have independent detection of it, may just be a quirk of mine).

Your keyboard has a driver,
Right Click My Computer, Click Properties, Find the device manager. Go to Keyboards, right click the inbuilt one, update driver software. (Download some other random keybaord driver, and have it ready). Update the driver for your inbuilt keyboard with the incompatible version which you downloaded (reallly doesn't matter).
Restart, your inbuilt keyboard will not ghost type.

[nostrich]

This exact thing actually happened to my laptop a few years ago. I did all the things you did -- and if your problem is the same as mine, rice won't work either -- so I'm tempted to suggest your keyboard is dead. Disabling it or replacing its drivers in Windows is no good, because the BIOS still recognizes it on launch (which is likely to be the source of your mysterious beep, and not something you can usually disable) and the keyboards built in to laptops don't actually depend on Windows drivers a lot of the time. (I might be mistaken, but the keyboard drivers Windows supplies you with just translate keypresses to letters on screen, they aren't what's actually making it work.) My eventual solution was to completely disconnect it from the motherbroad and use a USB keyboard -- which poses its own problems, since most BIOS's won't recognize a USB keyboard, it relies on Windows' USB drivers to work.

Good luck. And seconding Andy: get a Mac! And be careful with it!

[Sarah Palin]

Originally Posted by CCN

]
Your keyboard has a driver,
Right Click My Computer, Click Properties, Find the device manager. Go to Keyboards, right click the inbuilt one, update driver software. (Download some other random keybaord driver, and have it ready). Update the driver for your inbuilt keyboard with the incompatible version which you downloaded (reallly doesn't matter).
Restart, your inbuilt keyboard will not ghost type.

This is prettymuch what i was thinkin of doing... do you know where I can find a random driver that won't f*ck up my computer?

[Sarah Palin]

BTW I am getting a Macbook Pro, but it's for work only, no Altitudes

[CCN]

Originally Posted by Sarah Palin

This is prettymuch what i was thinkin of doing... do you know where I can find a random driver that won't f*ck up my computer?

yeap, you know the external keyboard you have. Find the model, look it up online and download it and use that.
If it does **** up you can just roll back (right next to update driver)

[nostrich]

Just gonna reiterate: I think it's unlikely that will work. Keyboard drivers aren't what makes the keyboard "work" -- as in, what makes keypresses translate to letters on the screen -- it's the OS's HID protocol, which is not dependent on a driver. (I'm guessing your keyboard shows up in the device manager as something along the lines of "HID compliant device," right? If it doesn't it will once you remove its specific drivers.) Your laptop's motherboard has a built-in controller that sends standardized messages to Windows that it interprets through the HID protocol. Thus almost any keyboard you plug into your computer will just "work." Simply uninstalling the drivers will do nothing but disable things like media keys, and any special function keys it has that control your laptop (brightness and contrast controls, etc). In short, drivers are for specific functions of your keyboard.

Try futzing with drivers anyway, there's always the offchance it will work, and no guarantee my understanding of this is perfect, but don't do what CCN said and just replace the drivers from the currently recognized keyboard. You need to completely remove it as a device so that Windows isn't even trying to use it. And this won't help you completely: the BIOS will still always recognise that keyboard because of something called "boot protocol" that allows the BIOS to interpret keypresses on the keyboard.

[CCN]

Originally Posted by nostrich

Just gonna reiterate: I think it's unlikely that will work. Keyboard drivers aren't what makes the keyboard "work" -- as in, what makes keypresses translate to letters on the screen -- it's the OS's HID protocol, which is not dependent on a driver. (I'm guessing your keyboard shows up in the device manager as something along the lines of "HID compliant device," right? If it doesn't it will once you remove its specific drivers.) Your laptop's motherboard has a built-in controller that sends standardized messages to Windows that it interprets through the HID protocol. Thus almost any keyboard you plug into your computer will just "work." Simply uninstalling the drivers will do nothing but disable things like media keys, and any special function keys it has that control your laptop (brightness and contrast controls, etc). In short, drivers are for specific functions of your keyboard.

Try futzing with drivers anyway, there's always the offchance it will work, and no guarantee my understanding of this is perfect, but don't do what CCN said and just replace the drivers from the currently recognized keyboard. You need to completely remove it as a device so that Windows isn't even trying to use it. And this won't help you completely: the BIOS will still always recognise that keyboard because of something called "boot protocol" that allows the BIOS to interpret keypresses on the keyboard.

Hey guys I have a good idea, you can listen to this guy
or someone who has a TOSHIBA Notebook, spilled water on it, had the beeping sound on start up, has random key presses, researched the topic, then fixed his laptop. Y'know, this exact specific situation.

Your call though.

[nostrich]

Ok, I'm an asshole because I know how computers work. My bad.

Do whatever you want, I'm just trying to be helpful. I'll refrain in the future.

[CCN]

Originally Posted by nostrich

Ok, I'm an asshole because I know how computers work. My bad.

Do whatever you want, I'm just trying to be helpful. I'll refrain in the future.

you're an asshole because you specifically said don't do the advice of the one person in this thread who has actually been through the exact same situation.

This isn't a who's dick is bigger contest, so don't turn it into one when someone has better advice.

[nostrich]

Originally Posted by CCN

you're an asshole because you specifically said don't do the advice of the one person in this thread who has actually been through the exact same situation.

This isn't a who's dick is bigger contest, so don't turn it into one when someone has better advice.

Actually, if you read it (you did do that, right?), you'll see that not only have I also been through the exact same situation, but I thought it was unlikely to work based on FACTS, but go ahead and try it anyway. And regardless, what I said comes from actually knowing things, not just "lol I did this once and it worked." Keyboards almost universally don't need drivers to work, especially ones built in to laptops. Thus uninstalling a keyboard driver will not stop a keyboard working in most cases. That's a fact, not anybody being an asshole.

As I said, I couldn't care less. You don't have better advice, you have advice that happened to work for you, and I've allowed for the possibility that it might work. I have actual knowledge, and I put that there too without specifically telling anybody what to do.

You're an idiot if you actually think I'm just being an asshole.

[CCN]

Originally Posted by nostrich

Actually, if you read it (you did do that, right?), you'll see that not only have I also been through the exact same situation, but I thought it was unlikely to work based on FACTS, but go ahead and try it anyway. And regardless, what I said comes from actually knowing things, not just "lol I did this once and it worked." Keyboards almost universally don't need drivers to work, especially ones built in to laptops. Thus uninstalling a keyboard driver will not stop a keyboard working in most cases. That's a fact, not anybody being an asshole.

As I said, I couldn't care less. You don't have better advice, you have advice that happened to work for you, and I've allowed for the possibility that it might work. I have actual knowledge, and I put that there too without specifically telling anybody what to do.

You're an idiot if you actually think I'm just being an asshole.

if i said your dick was bigger, would you shut up?

K thx.

[nostrich]

Since you appear to be about 15 years old, I'd say it's pretty much a certainty that my dick is bigger than yours. But sure, go ahead, it never hurts to have it confirmed.

Whoever's penis turns out to be bigger, I have nothing else of use to add at this point, so I'll grant CCN his wish. Good luck with your laptop, Sarah Palin.

[Evan20000]

Anyone else want popcorn for this catfight?

[CCN]

Originally Posted by Evan20000

Anyone else want popcorn for this catfight?

think its over, I lost the biggest e-dick contest :/

[Evan20000]

I wish I could insult people over the internet like you guys did. Then my e-peen would be huge!

[Sarah Palin]

Just to settle the catfight that's what it looks like in device manager. The HID devices are the wireless USB keyboard and mouse drivers (which I had to insall with a CD). The PS/2 are the internal drivers that came with the laptop and make the touchpad and keyboard work.

Now CCN you're saying I should overwrite the PS/2 driver with another copy of the HID?

[SWN FIllichio KGB]

here yah go,

hope this works,

never used toshiba or dell or hp only Machintosh

http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/t...t/jsp/home.jsp

PS. Sry if this doesn't help, probably won't, unfortunatley

[Boko]

Originally Posted by SWN FIllichio KGB

here yah go,

hope this works,

never used toshiba or dell or hp only Machintosh

http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/t...t/jsp/home.jsp

PS. Sry if this doesn't help, probably won't, unfortunatley

I lol'd Don't think that'll help much.