I hope the vast experience of the members can help me out. Thursday afternoon, my partner tipped over a water bottle on the keyboard of his W500 (Win 7 Ultimate x64). He said it was concentrated at the bottom edge, just below the space bar and onto the track point left-right-scroll buttons, and that the machine almost immediately shut down. I told him to leave it off, remove it from the mini-dock, open it flat, and leave it for the rest of the day, or better, overnight, upside down. I think what he actually did was turn it upside down, but when no water ran out, he ignored my advice and flipped it right-side up fairly quickly. However, today it seemed to be working OK until mid-afternoon, when the keyboard went wacko. Touch a key and you got 30-50 of that character, then the keyboard froze until you closed whatever program you were using. After a few minutes, that behavior stopped, and the keyboard is now dead. The track point, including left-right-scroll buttons, and all programs seem to work fine, so there is still communication to the hard drive, and an external USB keyboard I plugged in also works fine. I can replace the keyboard, but before buying one and trying that, I'm wondering if anyone knows the odds of it working, or if the connection on the system board is cooked, and if so, is that a replaceable part? Also, the machine is still under warranty, so is EZServ a possibility with accidental water damage? Thanks for any input. _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
