Crying over spilled milk (literally), Fit the Second

[rj_anderson]

So I popped off all the keys and cleaned my keyboard thoroughly with rubbing alcohol, and then I gave it a few hours to dry. Tonight I decided to test it out by typing "the quick brown fox".

The result looked like this:

wx

No, I'm not kidding. It's really that bad. *weeps*

Right now I am typing on a cruddy old keyboard borrowed from my parents, but it also happens to be the only keyboard they have for their computer so I may have to return it at any moment. Meanwhile my beautiful Microsoft Natural Keyboard lies face-down over the register, in a last vain hope that all it needs is just a little... more... drying. I don't hold out much hope, though.

Anyway, all of that is to say, if I'm not around quite as much as usual the next couple of days, you'll know why.

Comments

I so know what you mean!

[sannalim.livejournal.com]

You might want to give it a month to dry out before you give up on it completely.

I spilled the contents of a mug that had contained oatmeal and was now soaking all over the keyboard of my laptop when I'd only had my laptop for three weeks. After it had dried out for another three weeks, it was functional, but with some quirks (I couldn't use the backspace key, only the delete key, and the tilde key stuck at utterly random moments). Over the course of the next year, as it continued to dry out, the quirks gradually went away.

[cette-vie.livejournal.com]

See? There is hope. After I get my laptop, I'm not even bringing food and drink near my room. I'm sorry this happened to you!

[mafdet.livejournal.com]

You have my sympathy, my late lamented Aleister Monster once kicked a cup of coffee into my keyboard and ruined it.

[(Anonymous)]

Wx: A boy who cannot conveniently explain the intricacies of a keyboard, nor why it would choose to self-destruct when exposed to liquid.

-JD

[zoepaleologa.livejournal.com]

When I spilled coffee over a keyboard, it ended up working again, after it had been allowed to fully dry out. Give it 48 hours and try again.

[sabrinanymph.livejournal.com]

*hugs* You have my sincerest sympathies. I got water on my keyboard a few years ago and it drove me insane.

[reveilles.livejournal.com]

Keyboard covers...annoying, but at least they prevent such disasters from occurring again.

[sollersuk.livejournal.com]

I don't know about keyboards, but the video zapper went into the washing machine with the dog's bed once (don't ask what it was doing in the dog's bed, I never did find out). Two weeks drying and new batteries and it was as good as new. Still working, six years later.

On the other hand, when beer got spilled on my daughter's laptop, it was time to be thankful for the insurance. When I took it in, I didn't say what had happened (I wasn't there at the time), just "It's not working!"

Also fine now. So don't give up hope.