[ale] [SEMI-OT] coffee+sales person+laptop......not good.......

[Keith Morris]

Hey guys, I had a sales person spill a full cup of coffee (cream and 
sugar please) into a laptop...

I can pretty much get the machine to boot....a little unstable at times 
(Win2000) Well, I installed Redhat 9 to do some troubleshooting...

It appears as though it has a key stuck, although it doesn't show up in 
a text editor... when I boot up or go to a vitrual console, the 
character string ^[[[C repeats over and over...

^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C
^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C
^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C

etc....does anyone know from this which key it might be?  I am suspect 
that it is the left CTRL key...but who knows....

thought i'd give it a shot and ask you guys... Thanks in advance.

Keith Morris
Creative Director
Design / Effects
IQ Television Group
http://www.iqtv.com