[ale] [SEMI-OT] coffee+sales person+laptop......not good.......

[James P. Kinney III]

No fun! Many laptops have removable keyboards. Check around the edges
for semi-hidden releases. Don't try to pry off the keys! If you can get
the keyboard out, gentle, warm running water followed by a gallon of
distilled water should get the sugar and milk out. Don't let it dry out
before and pop the entire thing into the fridge to keep the milk from
souring. If it sours, it won't come out.

Let it dry in the oven set on about 150F for overnight. The let it cool
down slowly.

Then make the salesman buy you a new keyboard for your trouble :)

On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 16:30, Keith Morris wrote:
> Hey guys, I had a sales person spill a full cup of coffee (cream and 
> sugar please) into a laptop...
> 
> I can pretty much get the machine to boot....a little unstable at times 
> (Win2000) Well, I installed Redhat 9 to do some troubleshooting...
> 
> It appears as though it has a key stuck, although it doesn't show up in 
> a text editor... when I boot up or go to a vitrual console, the 
> character string ^[[[C repeats over and over...
> 
> ^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C
> ^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C
> ^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C
> 
> etc....does anyone know from this which key it might be?  I am suspect 
> that it is the left CTRL key...but who knows....
> 
> thought i'd give it a shot and ask you guys... Thanks in advance.
> 
> Keith Morris
> Creative Director
> Design / Effects
> IQ Television Group
> http://www.iqtv.com
> 
> 
> 
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