k so im pretty sure my laptop keyboard is messed up, i think someone spilled a bit of water on it

it just randomly types out things like: wwwwwwwwwww for no reason

its a sony vaio vgn-ns330D

is there anything i can do other than buying a new keyboard, what do u recommend?

help plz

im typing using my on screen keyboard

Originally Posted by tylerearl

k so im pretty sure my laptop keyboard is messed up, i think someone spilled a bit of water on it

it just randomly types out things like: wwwwwwwwwww for no reason

its a sony vaio vgn-ns330D

is there anything i can do other than buying a new keyboard, what do u recommend?

help plz

im typing using my on screen keyboard

If you think that someone spilled water on it then you should just let it dry. You can submerge it in rice to speed up the process or if it's humid where you are.

I also have to ask, the key isn't stuck right?

Edit: You'll probably want to take out the keyboard from the laptop or you'll have rice stuck in your laptop. But it's happened to my friend's macbook, except it was beer. Worked out it in the end.

no i dont think the key is stuck, the entire keyboard doesnt work sometimes

its been like thisfor 3 days

Originally Posted by tylerearl

no i dont think the key is stuck, the entire keyboard doesnt work sometimes

its been like thisfor 3 days

Oh 3 days, I don't think it's still wet then...

Have you tried re-installing the driver?

Originally Posted by jhan523

Oh 3 days, I don't think it's still wet then...

Have you tried re-installing the driver?

how do i do that, thanks

hard to say what's wrong but in the mean time you can buy a 20$ usb keyboard to use as a supplement until you fix your problems. (I happen to have one for sale...logitech standard keyboard...)

jhan disappeared ;[

Originally Posted by tylerearl

how do i do that, thanks

You can try and update the driver via the device manager application.

If that doesn't work then try and roll-back the driver (if possible).

If that doesn't work then try and uninstall the driver and re-install it by going to Sony's website and finding the driver there (At least I know Dell has their driver's on their website, no idea if Sony has the same).

Edit: http://esupport.sony.com/perl/select-system.pl

By the way, I'm by no means a computer expert (I consider myself average). These are just things I would try if it happened to me. I can't say that it'll actually work.

im computer illiterate, what driver am i downloading... i dont see keyboard

heres the link; http://esupport.sony.com/CA/perl/swu...?mdl=VGNNS330D

what do i DL

Originally Posted by tylerearl

im computer illiterate, what driver am i downloading... i dont see keyboard

Originally Posted by tylerearl

heres the link; http://esupport.sony.com/CA/perl/swu...?mdl=VGNNS330D

what do i DL

I don't see it either, maybe it would automatically re-install? Generally whenever you plug in something to your computer it automatically searches for and downloads whatever needs to be downloaded. So you would need to restart your computer for it to notice. But I'm not entirely sure about it. I'm not even sure it's a problem with your driver.

I'm pretty sure you can take your laptop to UTS and they would be able to help you. They helped me with my wireless connection 2 years ago. For now just do as Krusenik advised and just get a usb keyboard.

ok thanks, where is uts located

Originally Posted by tylerearl

ok thanks, where is uts located

http://mcmaster.ca/uts/

Off-topic: I find it really odd that every department (that I know of) at McMaster has the domain _____.mcmaster.ca (like math.mcmaster.ca, science.mcmaster.ca, housing.mcmaster.ca) but UTS isn't set up that way :\