From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_icanect.net)
Date: Sun Jan 17 1999 - 02:10:47 EST
Laura..
that symptom is usually a system crash.. i have experienced this on many
computers..
if it were moisture on the keyboard, i would be extremely surprised because the
membrane would corrode quickly..
also, if the 560 keyboard is any indicator, which even a grand latte spill did not
damage, the 600 keyboard is probably pretty well sealed..
Laura Mason wrote:
> Not warm at all - about 17 degrees for a high and no I haven't spilled
> anything on this one yet..
>
> I thought I may have hit a bad key combination - Just happy to be working again
> Laura
>
> At 10:02 PM 1/15/99 -0600, you wrote:
> >My first suspect is moisture. Assuming you didn't spill anything in it, was
> >it excessively warm and/or humid the day it happened? If so, and a reboot
> >cured it, shrug and move on.
> >
> >I used to have an XT clone that could almost tell me the barometric pressure
> >by the number of garbled characters per line of text.
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Laura Mason [mailto:ljmason9_at_flash.net]
> >> Subject: sticky keys?
> >>
> >>
> >> On my Thinkpad 600 just had the weird experience of the keyboard
> >> characters getting scrambled.
> >> hitting backspace would give \, etc.
> >> also my mail program lost its preview function.
> >> I thought it was modem related but when I tried my word processor
> >> and I got
> >> the same result.
> >>
> >> A Cold boot solved the problems - but does anyone want to guess
> >> what caused
> >> them.
> >>
> >> I only have 32 mg of memory - had this laptop since Sept. without any
> >> problem before.
> >>
> >>
> >> Laura
> >>
> >>
> >
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