Keyboard typing the same letter for two different keys

[mikeg411]

Let me start at the begging, About 4 months ago I spilled milk on my laptop's keyboard some of the keys stopped working (q, a, s). I find an old keyboard that my dad is not using and started to use that, it was here where I discovered that they board would type "z" when I press the letter "s". so I say that'z fine thinking the problem was with the keyboard, so I download a program called "Microsoft keyboard layout creator" and make a new layout remapping the letter "s" to type when I press the letter "z" and the letter "z" to type when I press "s". Except then the key "s" would still type s even though I remapped it to type the letter z.

Fast forward a few months (few weeks ago) I decided to look at some computer parts to build me a new rig. So I decided to wait until january when I have enough money to splash on the computer. Today I saw a great deal for a g710+ keyboard for $50 in a local hardware store near me so I decided to buy it. So now i'm sitting with a brand new keyboard having the same problem where pressing the s key would type the letter z. I'm getting really frustrated because whenever I have to type a paper I need to copy and paste the letter s for it to work.

I took a picture of my onscreen keyboard to show that in fact all the keys are mapped correctly but it is not typing them correctly. This is a very unique problem and has never happened to me before. I'd like to send a special shout out to auto correct https://i.gyazo.com/f580dead41976c54eeb264842fcd7c9d.png

[Chris_R.]

Post is a little confusing.

 

If it is a laptop that you spilled stuff on, I believe the keyboard is connected via ribbon cable to the internal motherboard. {I think}

 

If you have a known good keyboard that is doing this, then likely the ribbon is damaged and doing some funky stuff to the inputs.

[mikeg411]

Post is a little confusing.

 

If it is a laptop that you spilled stuff on, I believe the keyboard is connected via ribbon cable to the internal motherboard. {I think}

 

If you have a known good keyboard that is doing this, then likely the ribbon is damaged and doing some funky stuff to the inputs.

yes sorry, it is spilled on the laptop keyboard but I plugged in an external keyboard and it is still happening

[Chris_R.]

Okay, my thoughts were for example when you have a laptop with a broken track pad...the mouse shoots across the screen even with an external mouse, until you disable the track pad.

 

I was thinking possibly something similar....I'm not sure if you can disable the laptops keyboard or not but it might be worth looking into.

[BobyTheDragon]

Okay, my thoughts were for example when you have a laptop with a broken track pad...the mouse shoots across the screen even with an external mouse, until you disable the track pad.

 

I was thinking possibly something similar....I'm not sure if you can disable the laptops keyboard or not but it might be worth looking into.

Actually you can disable components in the Device Explorer on windows. If you can find the keyboard in the list you could disable it from there. 

[mikeg411]

Okay, my thoughts were for example when you have a laptop with a broken track pad...the mouse shoots across the screen even with an external mouse, until you disable the track pad.

 

I was thinking possibly something similar....I'm not sure if you can disable the laptops keyboard or not but it might be worth looking into.

Okay, this seems to have fixed the problem. I opened up my laptop and unplugged the ribbon and it is working now. Thank you very much

[Chris_R.]

Okay, this seems to have fixed the problem. I opened up my laptop and unplugged the ribbon and it is working now. Thank you very much

Hey no problem man! Glad it fixed it!