Comments on: Drinks

By: Graphic Design Brisbane

Graphic Design Brisbane — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 06:15:53 +0000

Well written article…..luckily I have yet to spill something on my MAC -phew. But I have dropped my iPhone in the toilet – dont ask!

By: Rafey

Rafey — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 20:46:22 +0000

Laptop is becoming our best buddy in our daily life. We always like to take them along with us anywhere we go, so it is easy for the laptop keyboard become dirty. Whats’worse, because of our carelessness, we would suddently spilled some juice or coffee in our laptop keyboard. What should be do at this urgent moment? Don’t worry, I would share you some tips to clean the juice or coffee on your Dell Inspiron 6000 Laptop keyboard. The first thing you should do is take a deep breath and make yourself calm down, then power your laptop off and take your battery away,also you should remove a mouse, any DVDs, USB drives and any perpheral else that is connected to your laptop. Anyhow, you dont want any electricity running through that thing when you’ve got liquid on it somewhere. In fact,What a lot of people don’t know is that liquid isn’t necessarily bad for your computer because all the parts in there actually get washed before they’re get put into your computer. I know that’s scary but that actually happens. What’s more, most of laptop keyboards are anti-water now, so just take it easy! The next thing you have to do is turn it upside down so that all the liquid spills out. Grab some cloth or whatever you can to wipe off all the excess liquid. Now grab your hairdryer and run it off the keyboard until everything looks dry. Just to be safe, leave it unplugged for about a day or two so you can be sure that it dries out and just before you’re starting it up again go over it with a hairdryer again. What’s more, you could take this chance to clean your laptop keyboard throughly.

First, different laptop have a different way of disassemble laptop keyboard, so make a owner’s manual so you know where each key goes. Carefully pry each key loose with a small screwdriver and place in a container. They pop off. DO NOT use excessive force. There may be a small rubber piece for each key. Remove all of these and place in a separate container. CAREFUL, these are small and like to jump away. Sencondly, Use a screwdriver to gently pop key off. Then store them in a safe place so that they don’t get lost. Then you will find some grease is on keys,some dust is on them,clean these first with cotton swabs and Rubbing alcohol. clean all grease. let all keys stand until keys is dry completely. Thirdly, use toothbrush and PTFE to clean the base board of keyboard. don’t use water,because there is transparent conducting film in the base board. if water into laptop keyboard, ,maybe happen a serious consequences. Fourthly, after the keys and base board of keyboard is dry completely,we install all Bracket of keys in base board of keyboard. careful don’t fracture these brittle bracket. now,we take the key above the bracket and press the key. the key will be install in keyboard.

Finally, the laptop keyboard looks like a compeletly new one now. You can also see the following video guide for cleaning your keyboard.
http://www.laptopkey.com/blog/?cat=19

By: Jenny

Jenny — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 00:25:58 +0000

My daughter just spilled sprit onto the keyboard of my Dell laptop. She quickly unplugged, took out the battery and turned face (keyboard) down onto the bed. Now I’m praying! Keeping the faith. I will wait 48 hours before I turn it back on, should I take it to a computer shop first thing, before even turning it back on?

By: leila

leila — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 06:07:37 +0000

hi…
my laptop got some whiskey and lime spilled on it..the keys were all sticky but got them cleaned.enter and backspace don work! anyway they said i gotta get a new keyboard.if i dont replace it right away will that cause a problem in the long run or affect any other parts of the system???

By: Omer

Omer — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:35:16 +0000

A lot of newer laptops are built to resist the occasional spillage nowdays. The keys themselves are so close together, that it doesn’t let water leak in to do the damage. This only applies if you spill a LITTLE bit of liquid though.

By: Morgan

Morgan — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:29:07 +0000

I have a mac i got got it 5 months ago tonight i had a party and a drink of whisky and coke was dropped on the keyboard. We flipped it upside down and turned it off but me being the inpation person i am tryed turning the screen on and its black but the buttons are lit up. Is my compter done or is there a chance of it working again???

By: Anne

Anne — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:22:37 +0000

I spilled roughly half a cup of coffee over my laptop.
I turned it off and tried to mop it up etc and turn it over.
About an hour later turned it on to see if it was ok
It got progressively worse while i was on it – and i couldnt understand why!
By the time I turned it off again (about 20 minutes later) hardly any keys were working.
Is my computer going to live?!!!!
Its less than 6 months old I am gutted.
Please tell me what I can do.

By: marcell

marcell — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:06:49 +0000

Personally i allway’s make sure no one brings any drinks to my pc me included don’t need no heartaches thank you very much

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:56:53 +0000

Yesterday I dropped a cup of soup and it went all over my laptop. It hit the screen, the power button, and the keyboard (just one section of it). It was a thick soup, not watery, and I quickly turned the laptop off and wiped it down. Everything seems to be working fine. Do you think I have anything to worry about? If it works right after the spill happens, does it usually continue to keep working? Thanks!

By: Derek

Derek — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 08:32:48 +0000

I brought my ASUS laptop to a party at my friends house just yesterday, some time during our hangout a girl spilled two cups of Sprite onto it (and its less than 6months old!) Luckily we kept our cool, disconnected the power cords, turned off the machine while flipping it so to stand at an angle – the stream of Sprite just kept leaking onto my hand!
After about 30 minutes I finally got everything dried, seems my keyboard has a rather special construction that includes a full metal plate under the keys, so there was literally no way soda could’ve entered the core of the laptop unless through air ducts – I’m glad your website helped reconfirm my method was correct! Thank you!