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I have an HP Pavilion dv6-6135dx laptop with Windows 7 that is at least 8 years old. Last week, I spilled water on the keyboard. I cleaned it up and let it dry out, the computer still works fine now for the most part except a few keys don’t work. If you hit them they throw up another key or command. The keys are “sound down button”, “9”, “O”, “L”, “ . “ They are the only ones not working from what I can tell at least. I ended up purchasing a replacement keyboard and put it in myself with hopes it would solve the issue, but unfortunately it didn’t. The same keys are having issues. I know I could just buy an external USB keyboard but really don’t to do that on such an old laptop and who knows if even that would work. I also went into device manager and “uninstalled” the keyboard and restarted the computer but it didn’t fix it.
Can anyone else give me ideas to try? Thanks.
check the connections on the ribbon cable and plug, might have some shorts or corrosion with associating SMDs.
if the replacement kdb does not change the problem then the problem is on the MB. More than likely at the kbd connector, but may also be on the circuit traces to or at the kbd decoder.
