laptop keyboard soaked by a soft drink!

[bruce]

Hi max...

I'd be inclined to feel the same way as you, except that I was using the
keyboard/system for a few hours after the spill, with all the keys working
(although the space key was sticky). It wasn't until I did the water rinse
that I got the issue with keys not working... I sussepct that if I had kept
on using the box, it would have kept working...

Although, i'm also inclined to think the box might eventually be toast...



Thanks


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Subject: Re: laptop keyboard soaked by a soft drink!


bruce wrote:
> Hey guys...
>
> Screwed up and spilled a soft drink on my laptop keyboard (toshiba
> satellite). The keyboard was working, but sticky, so I decided to remove
the
> keyboard and rinse it in distilled water and let it thoroughly dry in the
> hot sun.
>
> Long story short, some of the keys are no longer working... Looks like I'm
> going to have to order a new/replacement keyboard. Any thoughts on what
> direction I might take on this.
>
> Oh, by the way, when I boot up the system, the system gives an alert,
> doesn't go through the CD/HDrive process. When I select the HD from the
boot
> process the system boots up... I can deal with this though, as I don't
boot
> the laptop that often..
>
> Any thoughts on the keyboard issue would be useful.
>
> Thanks
>

Cleaning the keyboard is unlikely to be much help at this point.
Keyboards are cheap anyway. I would be more concerned by how much soda
hit the motherboard and you can be sure that some did, I would refrain
from turning it on until I took it apart and very carefully located and
cleaned all the soft drink out, just look for the sticky parts, it may
well be that nothing is actually wrong with your keyboard but that what
your are seeing is board failure, the laptops days likely are numbered.
It sounds like you don't want to hear it but that is the reality of the
situation. OTOH i was using a laptop that had beer spilled on it for
awhile, the keyboard failed intermittently , the touchpad didn't work at
all, i attached an eternal keyboard and mouse to get around that but it
would overheat and lockup after a few hours of use. It did however work
fairly well until it overheated, by which I mean it randomly did weird
stuff but it wasn't bad enough to make it completely useless.

-Max

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