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Post by Penny on Aug 29, 2008 14:34:25 GMT -5
In my not enough coffee stupor this morning I managed to knock my cup of coffee against the monitor which proceeded to dump it over the keyboard.
While turning keyboard over, tapping against desktop, trying to wipe carefully somehow my screen is upside down.
hmmm you're wondering how is she typing? Standing on her head.
Luckily I have a flat screen monitor so I could turn it over but I'm typing standing.
So if anyone has any suggestions how do return it to normal view please Help!!
I am turning off and rebooting. If that works I'll post.
Hopefully this keyboard will dry out with no problem as I do love this one. Which is a replacement for the last one I fried the same way. Guess I'm going to have to drink my coffee with a long straw from now on.
and #$# it was a cup of French roast!
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Post by suzanne on Aug 29, 2008 14:44:38 GMT -5
I don't know if this will help. My sister dropped her cell-phone into the jacuzzi. It would not work at all. We ended up using the hairdryer on it and got it to work again.
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Post by Shoesy on Aug 29, 2008 15:07:04 GMT -5
Poor Penny ! I hope things work out. Please don't feel bad about being a klutz because we all have our klutzy moments from time to time. As for morning coffee, without it I'd be totally lost.
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keylimejet
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"When good Americans die, they go to Paris." Oscar Wilde
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Post by keylimejet on Aug 29, 2008 16:09:02 GMT -5
Don't know about keyboards, but here's a cell phone tip. I dropped mine in a fountain in Provence, and went directly across the street to a cell phone store. It was fried and dead, bien sur, but the guy gave me a tip. He said everyone's instinct, when they get their phone wet, is to immediately try to turn it on to see if it still works (exactly what I had done  ). What you SHOULD do, according to cell-phone-store-guy, is leave it alone, take the battery and SIM card out of the back, and leave it somewhere warm and dry for at least 2 - 3 days. THEN try to turn it back on. Next time I'll know!  Penny, I don't mean to laugh at your pain, but your post had me chuckling aloud. ;D |
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Post by Penny on Aug 29, 2008 17:59:08 GMT -5
OK I think I'm going to go pull the covers over my head.
Lost the first reply.
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OK stand up and cheer.
emailed friend re problem. she called me.
holding down Ctrl and Alt Key together strike Up Arrow. Voila!
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Post by Jody on Aug 30, 2008 4:30:43 GMT -5
Glad you are seeing the world right side up now!
Good idea to keep the solution in mind as I'm always eating and drinking around the keyboard
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Post by mossie on Aug 30, 2008 5:28:57 GMT -5
I guess if you hold down Control Alt and the down key it will do what you inadvertently did.
Suppose that is meant so that our Australian friends can see the right way up.
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Post by Becky (Berkeleytravelers) on Aug 30, 2008 10:52:04 GMT -5
Mossie - I'm probably still a six-year-old at heart because I immediately thought of that, and tried it. Sorry to say, nothing happened except that the page scrolled down a bit . . . .  |
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Post by joan1 on Sept 2, 2008 15:11:27 GMT -5
I cannot help you,, but I drink my tea while on computer and totally can see me having same disaster,, you are not a klutz..you just got unlucky!
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Post by joan1 on Sept 2, 2008 15:13:09 GMT -5
Keylime jet, that is a great tip about the cell phones, my teenager has lost a phone to water ( hot tub at a party, I do not want to know!!)It's too late for his, but I am sure this tip will come in handy again. Even though its not a Paris tip I exalted you for such a good tip.
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Post by Anne on Sept 3, 2008 2:10:24 GMT -5
hot tub at a party, I do not want to know!!) LOOL, and I was aghast at how wild my daughter's parties are ;D ! But of course, we don't know even half of the truth, do we  ? |
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Post by Shoesy on Sept 3, 2008 2:15:58 GMT -5
And a LOL from me too. ;D Boy, I'm so glad that both my kiddies are grown up and married.  |
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Post by sunshine817 on Sept 3, 2008 7:53:40 GMT -5
You know, Joan, it's actually a GOOD thing...if his phone went into the hot tub, it's probably safe to assume that this means that he was CLOTHED, as the phone was likely in a pocket, where it was forgotten.
Had the party been truly wild, I PROMISE that he would not have forgotten about the phone, because he'd have had no place to put it!
LOLOLOL
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Post by Shoesy on Sept 3, 2008 7:59:31 GMT -5
Fine deduction, Detective Sunshine!  |
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Post by joan1 on Sept 3, 2008 10:38:59 GMT -5
Oh yes ,, he was fully clothed,, but as to being fully sober that is the point,, he " fell in" ,, but somehow I manage to walk by hot tubs all the time and not " fall in" ... LOL
It was his loss though, he don't supply toys like that to our kids, it was his own,, I wonder if now he is more " careful" when at parties,, ??
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). What you SHOULD do, according to cell-phone-store-guy, is leave it alone, take the battery and SIM card out of the back, and leave it somewhere warm and dry for at least 2 - 3 days. THEN try to turn it back on. Next time I'll know! 
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hahahha