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Hello

I knocked my water bottle over and it spilled on the keyboard, I wiped it up and the keyboard seemed to be working fine, about 20 minutes later I went to type a message and some of the keys were not acting correctly, the “left arrow” key was acting as “enter”, the “L” key was typing as “L;” and some other keys would not type at all.

i turned off the laptop and removed the keypad and wiped it all down, there was some water still around it.

i restarted the computer and could not enter my log in password as the keys were not entering properly, I used the “on screen keyboard” to log in, I opened notepad and tried typing, and some letters worked and then none worked at all, I currently can get some to work after it restarts and then none of the keys work at all, what’s weird is all the keys at the very top seem to work, like the brightness and volume buttons work, but I can’t get the “esc” key to work to go into my bios on restart.

 

im not sure if it’s the water damage causing the error 

or when I was wiping down the keys at first did I hit a combination of buttons to put my keyboard is some weird mode? 

I tired deleting the keyboard driver and restarting and that didn’t help.

i also tried shutting down and removing battery and pressing the power button down for 15 or 60 seconds, and that didn’t do anything

 

any help would be appreciated.

Is the keyboard broken? Do I need to get a new one? Why do the top keys continue to work? 

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