Hey everyone,
I hope I've found the right place for my issue and sorry in advance for potentially writing in bad English (not native).
I had an incident with my Lenovo Thinkpad E470 several months ago where I accidentally spilt some liquid over the keyboard. I hadn't been using it for a while and didn't try to turn it on after spilling liquid over it, I just tried to let it dry somehow. Now I wanted to use it again and the keyboard didn't work.
I bought a new keyboard and successfully (I think) replaced the old one. I may wanna say: In general, the notebook perfectly works. However, there are two issues: The Thinkpad randomly spamms the key "<" and only this one whenever I try to type something somewhere, making it impossible for me to use it. Also, some of the keys don't work at all, for example, "p", "o", and others (both issues both with the old and new keyboard). Here's the thing that's weird for me: "<" was also being spammed while there was no keyboard built-in at all, leading me to think that not the keyboard but something else is broken, which makes it probably worse. However, I still have some hope that this is somehow directly or indirectly fixable since, after all, the only problem is that I can't type properly.
I've tried:
- uninstalling keyboard and refreshing drivers
- connecting external keyboard which works but doesn't resolve the "<" issue, making it still impossible to use the laptop.
Thanks in advance!
Nils
I hope I've found the right place for my issue and sorry in advance for potentially writing in bad English (not native).
I had an incident with my Lenovo Thinkpad E470 several months ago where I accidentally spilt some liquid over the keyboard. I hadn't been using it for a while and didn't try to turn it on after spilling liquid over it, I just tried to let it dry somehow. Now I wanted to use it again and the keyboard didn't work.
I bought a new keyboard and successfully (I think) replaced the old one. I may wanna say: In general, the notebook perfectly works. However, there are two issues: The Thinkpad randomly spamms the key "<" and only this one whenever I try to type something somewhere, making it impossible for me to use it. Also, some of the keys don't work at all, for example, "p", "o", and others (both issues both with the old and new keyboard). Here's the thing that's weird for me: "<" was also being spammed while there was no keyboard built-in at all, leading me to think that not the keyboard but something else is broken, which makes it probably worse. However, I still have some hope that this is somehow directly or indirectly fixable since, after all, the only problem is that I can't type properly.
I've tried:
- uninstalling keyboard and refreshing drivers
- connecting external keyboard which works but doesn't resolve the "<" issue, making it still impossible to use the laptop.
Thanks in advance!
Nils