how can a keyboard "go bad"???

[kilabeez0]

Out of nowhere my pc started making this horrible beeping noise coming from the mother board. long story short, my keyboard stopped working and the beeping will only stop if i unplug the keyboard. i mean it beeps from the second it boots up until I unplug it. i tried dling drivers, uninstalling it in device manager, etc to no avail. i plugged in a different keyboard and everything works fine, under device manager it still lists my old hp keyboard but i'm on a compaq keyboard right now. i tried unplugging the compaq and plugging in the buggy hp keyboard and the beeping started up and it wouldn't type. how on earth can a keyboard go bad???

 

[OvenMaster]

I had one go bad when a bad mobo shot a blast of juice through it. Killed the controller chip so that it stunk like it was burning up! There ARE IC's on keyboards that can fail... it's not just a box with a load of switches in it.
Besides that, any key can fail, because it's a mechanical device, with moving parts.

 

[kilabeez0]

yup it was just the keyboard. now that i think of it, i spilled a little water on it the other night. i bought a new keyboard and everything works fine.

 

[OvenMaster]

There ya go. The water short-circuited something and it blew. You were lucky; I've heard of people who've destroyed laptops that way!

Moral: keep liquids away from keyboards at all times!

Tom

 

[DCIScouts]

There ya go. The water short-circuited something and it blew. You were lucky; I've heard of people who've destroyed laptops that way!

Moral: keep liquids away from keyboards at all times!

Tom

I'll expand that further, keeps liquids away from electronics in general!