water on the keyboard

[verve247]

Yeah i know, and now my usb keyboard is all jacked. some keys don't work and it chooses a random key to type continuosly. any ways can i salvage it?

By the way i'm using one of those keyboard software emulators. I feel like such a gimp.

-verve

[spigidygak]

make sure its completely dry first. Probably gonna take a full day or so to dry.

[verve247]

thanks, worth a shot...man i really got to change my quote

[Jeffbx]

Ha ha - reminds me of a funny story -

I gave an old PC of mine to my Aunt. She called me a few weeks later complaining that one of the keys on the keyboard didn't work anymore. I asked her if anything happened to it, and she told me that it looked pretty dirty so she washed it.

What did she wash it with, I wondered?

Yup - she put it in the dishwasher. And only one key stopped working... gotta love those old IBM keyboards. You could kill a wild boar with them, pop them into the dishwasher, and then type an e-mail to your grandmother.

[Speedfreak]

Hah! Does she put all her electronics in the dishwasher when they are dirty?

[sbp]

This happened to me one time. One key didn't work.

[Speedfreak]

Originally posted by sbp
This happened to me one time. One key didn't work.

Wht key ws it?

[Jeffbx]

Originally posted by Speedfreak


Wht key ws it?

"One key"!

[skynet]

When you take the A+ certification test they ask you how to clean a keyboard. The dish washer is the correct answer, you just have to make sure its fully dry before using it again. As for th mouse they say to use a small amount of liquid soap.

[Merlin]

Originally posted by Speedfreak


Wht key ws it?

Now that was "A" funny reply. :heh:

[verve247]

hallelujah, my keyboard is working again. I found that a 60W desk lamp worked alot better than a hairdryer. maybe i didn't dry the right side of my keyboard enough, but my up & down keys and 4,5,6 on the numpad don't work :( If only it was the tilde key that wouldn't work...

[Speedfreak]

Originally posted by verve247
If only it was the tilde key that wouldn't work...

Blasphemy. That would mean no consoule i games.

[verve247]

Originally posted by Speedfreak


Blasphemy. That would mean no consoule i games.


what do you use the tilde for? i'm not familiar with its function.

[Heihachi]

Originally posted by skynet
When you take the A+ certification test they ask you how to clean a keyboard. The dish washer is the correct answer, you just have to make sure its fully dry before using it again. As for th mouse they say to use a small amount of liquid soap.

Is that for real?

[skynet]

Completly, Ask any A+ Cerrtified person, or check out one of the books. They said to put it in the dish washer and then let it dry out.

[Markel]

From experience (when one of my kids dumped a glass of water over on the keyboard) it can take quite a while to get the innards of a keyboard completely dry. The water can get between two plastic sheets and be pretty "protected".

[MJordanash]

I'm in the process of testing for certification with A+ and they do say the dishwasher is the best answer.

[attgig]

yeah....
Someone spilled milk on my keybaord a few years back, and my friend told me about washing the keyboard, and it should work again..
so, I took it in the shower with me..
let it dry a couple days..

still didn't work :(

[verve247]

Originally posted by attgig

so, I took it in the shower with me..

still didn't work :(

:eek: maybe you used too much conditioner...


seriously though you need a strong lamp to evaporate the water which took me several days.