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spilled coffee!!!!!

  • 13-09-2012 11:26am
    #1
    anonyl
    Registered Users Posts: 15 ✭


    watsup peeps!!having a prob with my laptop!!about 2 weeks ago my nephen let a cup of coffee spill on the keyboard!!the laptop still boots up and runs perfect just some of the keys on the keyboard aint working!!do yous reckon its a new keyboard i need?


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  • #2
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,251 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    Thats what I'd do. They are fairly easy to change, you would prob get one on ebay for 20 euro or so. Check youtube for disassembly video for your model. In the meantime you could get a usb keyboard for 6 euro from tesco, or use the on-screen keyboard app.


  • #3
    BostonB
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,056 ✭✭✭✭BostonB


    You need to clean out the coffee. If it gets the fans and vents blocked it will eventually overheat. If your lucky it won't have gone past the keyboard. If you're not...


  • #4
    zenno
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭zenno


    The poor-mans method would be to disassemble the laptop keyboard and fill the bath about 7 inches high with luke-warm water and leave it there for 6 hours and now and again slosh it left and right a few times to break the sticky stuff from it.

    then dry it with a warm setting on a hair-dryer until fully dry and re-connect, it might work but it might not, i got a few working perfectly before but it all depends whether any components were damaged on the circuit-board. I know it's a peter marks job but it might just bring it back together, but make absolutely sure the keyboard is bone dry before reassembling said keyboard.


  • #5
    BostonB
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,056 ✭✭✭✭BostonB


    It spilt 7 up on mine. But I turned if off, removed the keyboard, replaced it, and cleaned out the fans, heatsinks, and any trace of the 7up. Only then did I restart it, and its worked fine since.


  • #6
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85,053 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    BostonB wrote: »
    You need to clean out the coffee. If it gets the fans and vents blocked it will eventually overheat. If your lucky it won't have gone past the keyboard. If you're not...
    most keyboards are designed not to leak-through. Mine definitely has a plastic membrane that keeps dirt and debris from falling into the machine.


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  • #7
    BostonB
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,056 ✭✭✭✭BostonB


    they certainly help but my case some liquid still got though


  • #8
    andrew241983
    Closed Accounts Posts: 560 ✭✭✭andrew241983


    dont let your 6 year old nephew drink coffee


  • #9
    Media999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,695 ✭✭✭Media999


    What make is it?

    HP laptop keyboards are basically just flat and waterproof at the back. Have one here in front of me. Dell is the same. Potentially liquid could go down the side is all.


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