Okay so today I pressed the '3' key on my laptop. The keys on my laptop are kinda setup weird (think folding chair) and one of the pieces of plastic that hold the key in place was lose. It's kind of strange but there's a tiny square of open metal below the key (i'm not sure if there was plastic there originally but I don't think that would help anyway). The piece of plastic from the key prop pushed down on this piece of metal and I guess that metal touched a live circuit below it and the computer shorted then turned off. There was even a spark. I fixed the lose key and luckily my computer still works. However later that day it acted kinda weird for a second ('my computer', the windows folder navigator not my actual computer, kept opening up when I clicked 'up' in windows explorer), but only for a second and it seems fine now.
Anyways should I be worried? Has anyone else had a short like this? Is your computer still fine?
I pressed down rather hard on the key because I was surprised by the blocking plastic but it still seems strange to me that two pieces of metal would be so close. I'm thinking that that particular piece of metal was exposed to actually prevent this from happening. It was slightly depressed into the machine and I think if plastic were covering up then there's a chance that pressing down the key too hard could cause a short. I really hope that it only shorted as a fail safe mechanism and it seems like it would make sense to keep important stuff away from the keyboard area.
Anyways should I be worried? Has anyone else had a short like this? Is your computer still fine?
I pressed down rather hard on the key because I was surprised by the blocking plastic but it still seems strange to me that two pieces of metal would be so close. I'm thinking that that particular piece of metal was exposed to actually prevent this from happening. It was slightly depressed into the machine and I think if plastic were covering up then there's a chance that pressing down the key too hard could cause a short. I really hope that it only shorted as a fail safe mechanism and it seems like it would make sense to keep important stuff away from the keyboard area.
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