Coffee Killed Keyboard? and New Keyboard

[Trophy]

I always thought when you spill something into your keyboard that it wouldn't hurt it. But I was dead wrong. I spilled a cup of coffee (Columbian) into my compaq keyboard and it died twenty minutes later. Maybe if it was sanka it would have lived?

Anyway I bought a Logitech keyboard for $29 and I love it. It's exactly what I wanted. Media keys/volume and everything. It's real flat and has a scroll wheel on the left side. And the keys are so quit it's fantastic.

Lesson learned; keep your coffee away from your keyboard.

T1

[Bink]

I spilt tea (Dilmah) into my keyboard, dried it out and it works fine now. My girlfriend spilt coffee on her keyboard (Moccona Mystique) and it never worked the same since. Same brand/model keyboard and everything I had to buy her a new one.

The coffee conspiracy

[SexyMF]

Most keyboards only have a single controller chip in them. You can take them apart and wash them in the bath or something. My keyboard suffered an entire Hot Choc. spill!. Clean water will not hurt the electronics

[Willz]

and how do you get rid of it???

I try to go to a site, it is dead, then my computer goes to some damn www.LOP.... link with pop-up casino crap.

Where did this stuff come from?

[Willz]

Damn Roboform.

I spilled 7 Up into the keyboard of my laptop. I took the thing apart and gave the keyboard a bath, put it back together and the keys were still sticky. Now I'm drinking sugar free. Should do the trick in the event of a future tragedy. Oh, the laptop is toast now.

[ris]

clean water, a pint of, knackered my old mitsumi keyboard. but that's the reason i use them, 10quid and easy to replace from a shop round the corner

[Trophy]

Originally posted by Willz
Damn Roboform.

I spilled 7 Up into the keyboard of my laptop. I took the thing apart and gave the keyboard a bath, put it back together and the keys were still sticky. Now I'm drinking sugar free. Should do the trick in the event of a future tragedy. Oh, the laptop is toast now.

Now I heard, read, and even seen a demonstration on TV that Laptops are 99% less likely to be ruined my dropping water, soft drinks, coffee, and booze inside the keys. They showed a soft drink spill and then they sprayed water into the keys to flush out the sticky soda and the Laptop worked like a charm.

When I spilled coffee in the keyboard I was mad and yelled out but If I had a Laptop and did that I might have a
nervous breakdown. To ruin a $30 keyboard is one thing but to ruin a $1500 Laptop would put me in the hospital.

[Jerboi]

One of my $9.99 keyboard suffered from attack of Pepsi. It worked, but was a total loss. You wouldn't believe how sticky it got after three days. It felt like the whole thing was dipped in molasses and keys actually crawled out as they were in molasses.

Other time, I spilt a little bit of Coke into my father's laptop on MD-80 aircraft. He didn't find out about it for a few days, because it didn't develop stickiness right away. . Although, when he did find out, he asked me where it came from, I said I dunno and he laughed diabolically :|