Macbook boot up

Hoping someone can help me with this. I cleaned my macbook keyboard yesterday thinking it was switched off but it was in sleep mode.
Later I realised that some of the key letters were not appearing when I was typing n, b etc.
I switched off the macbook and rebooted.
When I did it came up with a window 'mac os x' asking me for my password. But it didn't recognise it and the window 'shook'. I'm 100% about password.
Now I cannot log into the macbook at all. It won't let me past this screen.
Please help!!

Some moisture must have got into the keys when I cleaned the keyboard or the combination of keys pressed has stopped the functioning of some of the keys. It's like caps lock is on permanently now and I can't type numbers. Plus the function keys seem not to be working properly. Aarrgh. I've looked for solutions to no avail. Can anybody help?

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F.N.H.,
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It sounds like you are unable to successfully boot your computer to your desktop. I would use the troubleshooting from the following article to help troubleshoot what is happening named:
Troubleshooting: My computer won't turn on
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1367
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My macbook boots up and only stays on for 30sec and goes into sleep mode! Any suggestions as to why this might be happening? Thanks....

I assume you have checked your sleep settings in System Preferences>Energy saver
I also assume this has just happened recently and spontaneously, not after installing any particular hardware or software or you would probably have mentioned it...if anything new has been added recently, obviously just remove it!
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Last edited by exapplegeek (2012-07-08 22:00:21)

exapplegeek, your thread title is far too general. Please rephrase it such like: "Macbook boot time problem" as soon as possible.
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I'll try to make it short but with your questios, might be impossible.
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