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I am having a bit of bother with my lap top. The problem is this. When I start typing it decides to space itself at will, as if I'm hitting the space bar, the only way to stop it is to hit a this it occasionally decides that it will scroll me down to the bottom of a page and refuses to let me scroll back up. It also lets me type half a line across the page and then decides to drop me down to the line below, where if I continue to type' it throws the word, once I've completed it and hit the space bar, back up where I was to the uncompleted line above as if I am typing it up there, if that makes any sense.
I've tried the obvious things like bashing the keys a bit harder,to try and release anything thats stuck turning it upside down to shake the crumbs and stuff out of it, I've even ventured as far as poking it with a knife. My guess is (bearing in mind that I havn't a clue) that me space bar is getting stuck down now and again, if thats right how do I go about cleaning it cos I'm loathe to prise it off just in case I break something, or could it be something else. I hasten to add that this is intermittent.
thankyou
Obvious thing number 76... rebooted?
Obvious thing number 77... vacuum it. With the brushy-muff attachment.
recognise this prob - reminds me of the whole "nooo cappucino over keyboard" incident that i (M) had.
if the button is stuck down or damaged even slightly, even if its not noticable, it can cause havoc.
Less obvious thing - you're letting your thumbs down and hitting the square touch pad. I do that ALL the time on my laptop and, until I found out what it was, it drove me crazy. Now I have to remember to keep my thumbs raised all the time!
Try it.
lol
Quote by Vix
Obvious thing number 76... rebooted?
Obvious thing number 77... vacuum it. With the brushy-muff attachment.


Sorry Dave mate....I'm clueless on that one....but now have to clean a mouthful of wine out of my laptop after I misread Vix's post as brush it with a muff :twisted: :twisted:
Quote by Jags
Less obvious thing - you're letting your thumbs down and hitting the square touch pad. I do that ALL the time on my laptop and, until I found out what it was, it drove me crazy. Now I have to remember to keep my thumbs raised all the time!
Try it.
lol

That happens with my tits. I mean, my tits hit the touch pad, not my thumbs are always hitting my tits.
Mind you, now you come to mention it....
Quote by Vix
Less obvious thing - you're letting your thumbs down and hitting the square touch pad. I do that ALL the time on my laptop and, until I found out what it was, it drove me crazy. Now I have to remember to keep my thumbs raised all the time!
Try it.
lol

That happens with my tits. I mean, my tits hit the touch pad, not my thumbs are always hitting my tits.
Mind you, now you come to mention it....
Oooh shit (sorry Dave) but can I be yer touch pad please!!
I thought it was relatively easy to get the key pads off and put 'em back on a again. Tried that? 'cos you might be able to see if anything is stuck underneath. Hope it's not software related.
How many people splutter drinks on the keyboard on this site! This is about the 10th thread where it's been mentioned!!!
Learn from past mistakes - don't drink whilst reading potentially funny threads!!!
Quote by westerross
I thought it was relatively easy to get the key pads off and put 'em back on a again. Tried that? 'cos you might be able to see if anything is stuck underneath. Hope it's not software related.

No! Never try to remove laptops' keyboards!! NEVVAAAAR, ya hear?
Quote by 3someinpreston
How many people splutter drinks on the keyboard on this site! This is about the 10th thread where it's been mentioned!!!
Learn from past mistakes - don't drink whilst reading potentially funny threads!!!

Here's a tip... don't drink and surf?
I mean, how ever are you gonna know if it'll make you do this? Just have to not drilnk or not visit SH.
Neither is gonna happen, is it mate?
good point - what ya could do is get a drinking hat - maybe it'll minimalise the risk!!!
Quote by Vix
I thought it was relatively easy to get the key pads off and put 'em back on a again. Tried that? 'cos you might be able to see if anything is stuck underneath. Hope it's not software related.

No! Never try to remove laptops' keyboards!! NEVVAAAAR, ya hear?
I once had to remove every key from a lop top when my lad spilt orange juice on it, then clean the little pads with iprobupa.. ipropial.. feck knows but its numbered IPA 170 is alkhikolic and stinks, lol, and then put every one of the little feckers back on... it was about then that I realised I didnt know the exact order they went back in... It probably took me about 8 hours to get everyone one of the lil buggers to click on and not fall off again, lol.
Quote by piercedJon
I thought it was relatively easy to get the key pads off and put 'em back on a again. Tried that? 'cos you might be able to see if anything is stuck underneath. Hope it's not software related.

No! Never try to remove laptops' keyboards!! NEVVAAAAR, ya hear?
I once had to remove every key from a lop top when my lad spilt orange juice on it, then clean the little pads with iprobupa.. ipropial.. feck knows but its numbered IPA 170 is alkhikolic and stinks, lol, and then put every one of the little feckers back on... it was about then that I realised I didnt know the exact order they went back in... It probably took me about 8 hours to get everyone one of the lil buggers to click on and not fall off again, lol.
Jon? Get nekkid, get on your back and shut up!
I'll not tell you again. Today.
Quote by Vix
I thought it was relatively easy to get the key pads off and put 'em back on a again. Tried that? 'cos you might be able to see if anything is stuck underneath. Hope it's not software related.

No! Never try to remove laptops' keyboards!! NEVVAAAAR, ya hear?
I once had to remove every key from a lop top when my lad spilt orange juice on it, then clean the little pads with iprobupa.. ipropial.. feck knows but its numbered IPA 170 is alkhikolic and stinks, lol, and then put every one of the little feckers back on... it was about then that I realised I didnt know the exact order they went back in... It probably took me about 8 hours to get everyone one of the lil buggers to click on and not fall off again, lol.
Jon? Get nekkid, get on your back and shut up!
I'll not tell you again. Today.
I can't... I'm to busy playing with your titties... I mean photos of your titties :P I'm only looking in here as I need a break else I'll end up perminantly looking like this:

It seems that every time I look at your photos my dick is not the only thing that gets raised ;-)
When in doubt, WD40!
Lots of good tips. I'm used to taking my desktop full-size keys off every year or two or just using one of those compressed-air cans to clear out the hair, crumbs and crap that accumulates. You'd be surprised how much does.
Also done it on many laptop keyboards, well IBMs anyway, sure most others work the same, just prise the keys away carefully (I think working from the bottom corners works best but it's been a while so unsure) and although each key may bend a little it should pop off fine (and make sure you know what order they go in so you can put them back right - it's too much hassle swapping them round once you've put them back wrongly).
Putting them back - easy just push and they'll pop on once lined up, be careful with the larger keys like space/enter/tab as they might well have thin metal bars to help keep them flat as they move, just make sure this is hooked into the appropriate bits on the key and round the right way when it goes back on. You don't need to take all the keys off obviously but just enough to check if they're sticking.
If you're still scared to do it, go down somewhere like PC World or a local specialist shop and get them to show you/ confirm it can be done, just don't get served by a spotty student on part-time who hasn't a clue. Or find someone nearby who's experienced at these sorts of things. I'd offer to come and help if I was near enough.
Not guaranteeing this'll be the problem. Make sure you've not got anything weird running and have done a reboot, if that doesn't work do a cold reboot first (power fully off not just "restart" option) to reinitialise the hardware properly and make sure Windows doesn't keep anything in memory. It's as likely a software problem as anything else.
Quote by 3someinpreston
How many people splutter drinks on the keyboard on this site! This is about the 10th thread where it's been mentioned!!!
Learn from past mistakes - don't drink whilst reading potentially funny threads!!!

There are lots of people that Piss Themselves Laughing or Roll on the Floor Laughing. :shock: :shock: :shock: confused :? :? :? :?
It really is a danger zone in here !!!! :crazy: :crazy: :crazy:
Dave what works for me is, I spill my cuppa in my laptop and it gets sent back to be mended. New keyboards are my speciality. Its quick (OK it takes about 4 weeks) but when it comes back all the letters are back all clean and white rather than scratched off by finger nails biggrin
Thankyou for all your comments, it really is most frustrating it simply goes walk about on it's own. I've laid it flat out on the floor and hoovered it as vix suggested, taped my thumbs to my wrists to stop them interferring as jags suggested and am very tempted to boot it as some others have suggested except I am wearing flip flops and don't wanna hurt myself, but it is still doing it's own thing. It won't even let me turn it off as it defaults to standby when I try and click on shutdown. Clearly it's a bigger problem than can normally be cleared by shaking it, calling it filthy names and kicking the cat, so I will take it to someone with a tad more knowledge and patience.
thankyou again.
Quote by westerross
Hope it's not software related.

The best way to find out if it is software related is to use a bootable live CD (like knoppix from ). You burn the CD image and restart the computer with the CD in it (your computer must be set up to boot from the CD before booting from the hard drive) and it will not use the software that is on the hard drive at all so if the keyboard displays the same behaviour it is a hardware problem, if it doesn't it could be a software problem.
Quote by Vix
Obvious thing number 76... rebooted?
Obvious thing number 77... vacuum it. With the brushy-muff attachment.

Ermmm. i think mines a bit dodgy, can you bring your brushy muff up here please?