Hi! I have a HP Pavilion dv6 notebook, it's really getting on in the years, but I am not in a financial situation to get a replacement, so I'm in a bind here.
Last night, I noticed occasionally while alt-tabbing out of a game that sometimes my textbox is getting filled with "9s" until I stopped it.
When I went to turn it on this morning, it was beeping - I wish I recalled the BIOS pattern but I was panicking that my laptop had decided to die, but it worked and I discovered my keyboard was not responding at all. After I got a wireless keyboard, it was fine until about ten minutes ago when my laptop decided it needed to fill everything with "6s" - and I was forced to shut it down to make it stop. This may happen again.
Things I've tried:
-Cleaning the thing top to bottom
-Uninstalling the keyboard drivers and restarting
-Since my laptop's not under warranty, I opened it to see if I can pop off the keyboard to check the ribbon, but mine's just a different enough model from most dv6 disassembly walkthrough that I could not figure out how to remove the keyboard without damaging the frame.
Any help would be appreciated - the wireless keyboard is adequate but not comfortable, and a random infinity key press will cause issues.
Last night, I noticed occasionally while alt-tabbing out of a game that sometimes my textbox is getting filled with "9s" until I stopped it.
When I went to turn it on this morning, it was beeping - I wish I recalled the BIOS pattern but I was panicking that my laptop had decided to die, but it worked and I discovered my keyboard was not responding at all. After I got a wireless keyboard, it was fine until about ten minutes ago when my laptop decided it needed to fill everything with "6s" - and I was forced to shut it down to make it stop. This may happen again.
Things I've tried:
-Cleaning the thing top to bottom
-Uninstalling the keyboard drivers and restarting
-Since my laptop's not under warranty, I opened it to see if I can pop off the keyboard to check the ribbon, but mine's just a different enough model from most dv6 disassembly walkthrough that I could not figure out how to remove the keyboard without damaging the frame.
Any help would be appreciated - the wireless keyboard is adequate but not comfortable, and a random infinity key press will cause issues.