Ice tea spilled on keyboard

[skyboltone]

If I were to type "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" without correction this is what I get;

"The qwuick broqwn fozx jumpas over the laszxy dog".

SAo, assa you csan asee thias ias very asnnoying. Kindsa like communicsating qwith as asevere sapeech impediment. ASo I qwonder hoqw masny more asurpriasesa my beloved qwife hasas in astore to get in the qwasy of my newq guitsar? I guesaas it'as juast as newq keyboasrd but dsang I've hasd enough of thesae unexzpected expenasesa!@
12123456789 qwwqerty assadfg zxxzcvb

Only on the left aside of the keyboasrd. Dasng!@ ASnd it'as as lasptop too!@ (translation, more than just the cost of a new keyboard)

Frustrated in granolaville
Dasn

[Structo]

Yeah, I spilled a bottle of water on mine last week.
Seemed fine until the next day and I was getting some weird sound loops.
One of the keys must have shorted out....
Now I have a new fancy schmancy M$ Natural Ergonomic Keyboard.

[skyboltone]

Hey, I'm sittin' here typing away and doing my corrections and all of a sudden it quits with the crazy stuff. 12321. Yea baby, self repairing electronics. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Whoohoo!

Thanks for the help Structo. You got a magic touch.

Dan

[drhulsey]

... Yea baby, self repairing electronics...

Must be a Mac

[Zippy]

So where is your beverage glass today?

[Noel Grassy]

Congrats on the speedy recovery! It's nice when you don't have to chuck one of these danged digital doohickys.

FWIW-I've had good results spraying silicone like holy water on sticky keys. I think it eventually displaces all the unscheduled fluids and the computer doesn't seem to reject the silicone environment.

YMMV of course.

[Phil_S]

Unplug it, hose it off in the kitchen sink, dry it off with a hair dryer. Leave it for 24 hours to make sure it's dry. After that it should be fine. If not, get a new one for $10. Heck, I got a wireless one with mouse for about $25, but you've got to look for a sale to get it that cheap.

[Structo]

Yeah but where's the fun in that?
We always want new gear!

I got an excuse for the wifey to buy a fancy keyboard!
Honey this thing is shorted out, I need a new one!

This thing has a lot of bells and whistles.
Plus I've grown used to the split keyboard on the ergonomic one.
My wife has the tiny $10 board and I can't hardly type on that thing.

But, it is black, I wanted white.
In dim light I have trouble because I am a hunt and peck typer.

Sort of like when all the hi fi gear went to the all black scheme.
Then I bought a new Oppo DVD player and it is silver.......

[Zippy]

Unplug it, hose it off in the kitchen sink, dry it off with a hair dryer. Leave it for 24 hours to make sure it's dry. After that it should be fine. If not, get a new one for $10. Heck, I got a wireless one with mouse for about $25, but you've got to look for a sale to get it that cheap.

Not recommended for a laptop.

Dasng!@ ASnd it'as as lasptop too!@ (translation, more than just the cost of a new keyboard)

Funny, the kind of advice given for computers vs. the insight shared when something has tubes in it.

Silicone spray on switches is not a good way to go either. There exist water-displacing contact cleaners that would do the job much better.

Regardless, I am relieved to see a happy ending to the saga.

[skyboltone]

But, it is black, I wanted white.
In dim light I have trouble because I am a hunt and peck typer........

I guess that's better than being a hunt and type pecker.......

[Phil_S]

Unplug it, hose it off in the kitchen sink, dry it off with a hair dryer. Leave it for 24 hours to make sure it's dry. After that it should be fine. If not, get a new one for $10. Heck, I got a wireless one with mouse for about $25, but you've got to look for a sale to get it that cheap.

Not recommended for a laptop.

I stand my ground here. This is appropriate treatment for a plug-in keyboard for a regular computer with a $10 keyboard. No, it isn't something to do to a laptop. I never said that.

[Ron Worley]

After my squadron returned from Iraq, all of our mission planning computers were totally trashed from the fine sand and dust. I was told that they just chucked the keyboards in the dishwasher and after a very good drying period they were good as new.

That might have been BS, but our tactics guys claimed that it worked.....

Ron

[Wayne]

I've heard about putting keyboards in the dishwasher - you've gotta put em on the rack upside down.

I don't have a dishwasher, but I have "washed" a keyboard by holding it upside down and attacking it with a nylon brush with lots of soapy water.

Dunno if I'd try it with a laptop, though - unless it wasn't mine

W

[Ron Worley]

Definitely NOT with a laptop!!

Ron

[Structo]

Yeah I thought it was weird that my keyboard shorted out just from spilling water on it.
It worked fine right after I did it.
I just flipped it over and dumped the water out.
It was the next day before it went haywire.
I didn't try to dry it out more I just went and bought a new one.

I can't use those tiny little $10 boards anymore because I got used to the Micro$oft natural style board.
Maybe because I have short stubby fingers, I always end up hitting two keys at a time on the small ones.