ID:32915
 Jul 23 2007, 10:33 am (Edited on Jul 23 2007, 10:41 am)
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I spilled the Creamy Chicken flavored Ramen Noodles on my keyboard somehow, and now it's completely disfunctional. I had to remote in from my step-father's PC in the livingroom.
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because you can't use a virtual keyboard
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Some Dr. Pepper threatened to take out my Logitech G11 keyboard. Fortunately a few cleanings with rubbing alcohol and q-tips allowed it to function smoothly again. It's still a bit rough, but keys don't stick when pressed rapidly.
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Some coke once took out a keyboard of mine... And not just made it sticky... It actually short circuited the key panel, causing a few burnt out connections...
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Danial.Beta wrote:
Some Dr. Pepper threatened to take out my Logitech G11 keyboard. Fortunately a few cleanings with rubbing alcohol and q-tips allowed it to function smoothly again. It's still a bit rough, but keys don't stick when pressed rapidly. Heh. We tried rubbing alcohol and cotton balls, and still no go. The good news is that I have a new keyboard already, and this one is even wireless. =p | |
Audeuro, it's because the soup got into the keyboard. The water prevents the keys from connecting with the circuit board. This happened to me before. All I did was take apart the keyboard, then you see these several thin pieces of like plastic that the keys interact with. I had water inbetween them, I got a paper towel and cleaned it off, good as new!
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keep your ramen away from the keyboard!
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I clean my keyboard semiannually. Just take out the keys, do a thorough cleaning and you'll be fine.
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SpikeNeedle wrote:
Audeuro, it's because the soup got into the keyboard. The water prevents the keys from connecting with the circuit board. This happened to me before. All I did was take apart the keyboard, then you see these several thin pieces of like plastic that the keys interact with. I had water inbetween them, I got a paper towel and cleaned it off, good as new! This is what we did. Throughly. As stated before, the keyboard was still dead. | |
Like I mentioned with my accident, water in a powered keyboard can actually cause a strong enough short circuit to fry the traces (to use a circuit board manufacturing term for the little lines on the surface)... Even when dried off, it will still not work because the connection is literally melted in two...
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A bottle of water did even worse than kill the keyboard, it confused it! Rather, the keyboard thought I was holding down the CTRL, ALT and Windows key at the same time, making it seem very awkward whenever I tried to click anything.
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Be a real man and clean your keyboard properly. Unplug it, throw it in the bathtub for a while, then hang it out back to dry.
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Could you not use an on-screen keyboard? :/
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I put mine is the dish washer.
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Hiead wrote:
Could you not use an on-screen keyboard? :/ Nope- my user is password protected, and I always switch-user it. My keyboard was working fine just before I went to the bathroom. >.> | |
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