Laptop fans going crazy after wiping keyboard

[bearseamen]

Ok this is nuts, I think I may have trashed my Laptop Computer by wiping the keyboard.

I swiped the keyboard with a damp cloth to dust it off. The laptop was currently running. I did not pour water into the keyboard. The moment I finnish the job (just one quick swipe, mind you) the Laptop fans suddenly power up to 100%.

I expected to have triggered a really weird keyboard shortcut, so I turned it off / rebooted. The fans are now running at 100% all the time, right after booting.

This is not a heat issue. I regularly disassemble my computers to dust off the fans / coolers and apply fresh thermal compound. The Notebook is going cold while I type this, both CPU and GPU approaching 30°.

I think I mechanically broke something by gently swiping the keyboard. The thermal sensor are still working fine, SpeedFan reporting accurate values.

It's an i7-2630QM CPU @ 2.00GHz machine running Windows 8.1. Thanks in advance for any ideas.


Edit: By now I repaired it. Here is what I did:

- I opened the Laptop
- I stared into it like that guy in front of the broken car with the opened up hood who clearly has no idea what hes doing
- I removed the RAM, HD and battery pack in search for the screw that holds the keyboard (didnt find it)
- Put it all back together and fired it up again

So basically I did nothing and I still might have a hardware issue on my hands. I'll leave this unanswered for maybe a couple of hours, maybe anyone has any idea of what might be going on there.

 

[makkem]

Hi
You have probably inadvertantly pressed a key combo to alter something like the power settings (Fn + F3 on Lenovo)

 

[bearseamen]

Hi
You have probably inadvertantly pressed a key combo to alter something like the power settings (Fn + F3 on Lenovo)

Hi Makkem. Thats what I thought at first, but then again it can't be it. There is no power setting that powers up the fans like that. The Laptop is running on full power mode all the time and it doesnt do that. Also this kind of setting would only really kick in on OS level. The fans were running at 100% the second after I turned on the machine (I tried rebooting / turning off and on two times).