Spilled milkshake on laptop

Help! Spilt milkshake on keyboard and a key doesn't work!

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 812

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  07/11/06 - 18:34 #2

  Anyone? I really need to get this working as I use the key for Excel spreadsheets

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• Dino Posts: 1,996

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  07/11/06 - 18:38 #3

  Falling Stars wrote:

  I spilt chocolate milkshake on my laptop [only a bit] and now my Up arrow key doesn't work. All the other keys in the area work but not this one. I've tried restarting my laptop thinking it may just need a kick but it's still not working.
  
  Any ideas or is it water-damaged for good?

  Oooh. Milkshake. Nasty. I was drinking some coffee a few months ago whilst reading something on my newish and expensive Dell laptop. Needless to say, someone caused me to laugh whilst drinking and I had the choice of
  
  1] Choking to death
  2] Spraying a mouthful of coffee over the laptop
  
  The laptop was a bit on the funny side for a few hours; jitters on the LCD screen mainly. It's fine now, though. I dried as much of the coffee up with tissue paper. In the past I've used a hair dryer on the coolest setting [whilst the device was off] to dry out water damaged electronics.
  
  Good luck!

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• Netizen Posts: 5,041

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  07/11/06 - 18:38 #4

  You'll have to take the laptop apart in order to clean the electrical contacts underneath the keys, but this is far from easy. I'd recommend getting a professional laptop repair shop to do it for you.

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 7,169

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  07/11/06 - 19:05 #5

  My kid brother once spilt 2 litres of coke into an NTL cable box - and didn't tell me until after i'd telephoned for an engineer to fix it.
  
  Well, he soon saw the caked-in thick, gooey coke which filled the box. :eek:

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 812

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  07/11/06 - 19:39 #6

  Still not working. I've taken the key off and cleaned a bit of the hard chocolate stuff underneath but nothing. I've now also broke the key and can't get it back on

  Oh well, I've been after an excuse to get a new computer.

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 7,169

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  07/11/06 - 19:51 #7

  Falling Stars wrote:

  Still not working. I've taken the key off and cleaned a bit of the hard chocolate stuff underneath but nothing. I've now also broke the key and can't get it back on

  Oh well, I've been after an excuse to get a new computer.

  
  Nah, like Netizen said, all you need to do is take it to a place where it can be professionally cleaned. It wont be that expensive, and they will be experts, this kind of thing happens all the time - but i'm sure chocolate milkshake will test their professionalism.

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 1,777

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  07/11/06 - 19:58 #8

  In the interim, buy a £6 keyboard from Tesco and plug it into a USB port.

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