Being the modern multitasker I am, I spilled tea on my keyboard. I dried it off, and while it didn't die, it didn't respond to input and seemed to send arbitrary signals to the computer. When I shut it down and re-started it, it stalled before it booted Vista, and I had to resort to un-plugging the battery and then start it over at least two or three times before it finally started Windows.
To remedy this, I bought a USB plug-and-play keyboard (microsoft wired 600). The thing is: the keyboard is German. My computer is not. And now it won't start Windows at all; the computer responds to the keyboard when I press F2 to enter setup, but it makes beeping noices and seems to take input both from the USB keyboard AND from the malfunctioned laptop keyboard. When I manage to get into the Windows setup (which I did completel on accident because I am not at all computer-savvy), it does not seem to recognize the new keyboard, and so starts on the system repair procedure. When it had carried this out, it claimed that all problems were fixed, and that it seemed to be because of a "recently installed driver".
Windows still wot boot, so my question is as follows: can this be because of the foreing keyboard?