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Well, it was only a splash of tea, and I flipped the laptop over and held down the power button until it turned off.
But after two days its still suffering a few issues with the keyboard 🙁
My i key types an i followed by a o, my o key sometimes does a double o, and my square brackets and apostrophe dont work at all!
Some of the other keys didnt work or were stuck on but I managed to fix them by prising off the keys and massaging the rubber sensor/button underneath, but the remaining few are stubborn.
Any ideas?
Take the keys off & clean it
keys off and clean the sensor with a cotton bud dipped in alcohol?
remove the keyboard and stick it in a dishwasher, once its finished leave it to dry out and it should be fine.
i clean the computer keyboards in work that way and not had any problems with them ( i do give them about 5 days to dry out completely )
if the tea had sugar in it may prove more difficult to get it working again as it cristalises and it is conductive.
Get Coke in a keyboard and you are stuffed.
Not sure I'd go with the dishwasher option - they get bloody hot and use some unpleasant salts that arent good for electronic parts!
you can buy replacement keyboards.
Well, no dishwasher so that option is out.
Dont take sugar so thats good also 🙂
I cant get to the sensors easily as there is a fragile looking hinge mechanism and rubber bulb in the way of each one, is it easy enough to whip the cover off?
My --- key is starting to randomly type itself again, thought Id fixed that yesterday 🙁
sugar in it may prove more difficult to get it working again as it cristalises and it is conductive
I think this highly unlikely!
White wine and salt should get it off
Seriously though, make and model?
thanks...
HP Inspiron 1525