5punk

Right, I had a drinking problem a few weeks ago, resulting in some not very good, and rather sweet cider in the keyboard.

It's finally dried enough to be usable, but is, unsurprisingly sticky. (No, not like that), Don't think the keyboard is removable (Asus x59sl), so a bit stuck on how to clean it.

Thinking hair of the dog might work with some isopropyl or something, but not sure.

ideas?

Almost certainly the keyboard can be removed. Some are easier to remove than others for sure, but all have had a way of doing it somehow - I have never seen a laptop where the keyboard cannot be taken out.

And, probably replacement. I had coke on a keyboard once, probably similar stickyness. I removed all the keys, washed it etc, still the odd key was sticky. Its so frustrating, I had to buy a new keyboard. And the hours i spent painstakingly prising up keys and washing the hinges and pads etc under them... would have been so much easier just to admit its fucked and chuck it from the start.

tl;dr:

1) Buy keyboard: ebays
2) Remove old keyboard.
3) Throw old keyboard away
4) Install new keyboard.

ProfHawking wrote:Almost certainly the keyboard can be removed. Some are easier to remove than others for sure, but all have had a way of doing it somehow - I have never seen a laptop where the keyboard cannot be taken out.

And, probably replacement. I had coke on a keyboard once, probably similar stickyness. I removed all the keys, washed it etc, still the odd key was sticky. Its so frustrating, I had to buy a new keyboard. And the hours i spent painstakingly prising up keys and washing the hinges and pads etc under them... would have been so much easier just to admit its fucked and chuck it from the start.

tl;dr:

1) Buy keyboard: ebays
2) Remove old keyboard.
3) Throw old keyboard away
4) Install new keyboard.

what Prof said. Once it's all dried and sticky you're pretty much out of luck, it'll be like that forever.

It's possible to clean it.

If you can remove the keyboard, do so. Then remove all the keys, put them in a bag, chuck em in the washing machine. Said bag should be mesh. You can leave them to soak in a solution of washing up liquid if you don't want to put them in the machine.

The rest of the keyboard can be done with isopropyl or vinegar.

I berked it.

1. Remove every screw from laptop
2. Give up and tear keyboard out
3. Clip F4 back on
4. Bend keyboard straight
5. Liberally apply WD40
6. Pick up F4, clip back on.
7. Drain/Dry keyboard.
8. Clip F4 on.
9. Poke back into laptop
10. Why the fuck isn't my wireless working?
11. Poke laptop
12: GOTO 10
13. Network cable.

Additonal:

14. F4.

Oops... sorry hun, just spilled my tea in the Gonk now... *hides*

Ok 5punkers, it's there in black and white. Tell the police to check the patio!!! Also, Berk, it's now premeditated

I like to think there's a brand of computer maintenance called BIY.

Berk It Yourself.

Wifeyberk wrote:Ok 5punkers, it's there in black and white. Tell the police to check the patio!!! Also, Berk, it's now premeditated

... I have no idea what you're talking about.

If you drink something less nasty, like vodka or gin or turps, then it actually cleans the keyboard for you when you spill it!*





*May not be factually correct

Gin = A mother's ruin.

Vodka... OMFG NO. last time i had vodka, i had 3 litres of the stuff, got carried home by a bunch of testosterone fuelled rugby boys, currently known as hambons, and stripped and placed in bed, somehow minus a brand new pair of trainers and the phone number to a butch, bleached blonde lesbian woman called sharon. Following week i got shown the cctv footage of me doing a rather inebriated cancan on the bar with said rugby boys as sharon (i think it's real name might be something like Barry, or John, or Gaz) looked on lovingly... So, Mr Dog Pants. Vodka is off the menu for me.

Turps on the other hand sounds interesting. Half these cocktails taste like bloody paint stripper anyway.

I drink cider because it makes me happy, and horny, and fun. Tia maria is my fave drink but I am naughty. Not in a bad way, just in a "oh my god i ended up stripping again" way...

Wifeyberk wrote:i had 3 litres of the stuff

I suspect your issue here may be the volume, not the specific spirit.

Joose wrote:I suspect your issue here may be the volume, not the specific spirit.

No, Vodka is evil. Vodka gives me hangovers. It is the only drink ever to do so. Also, after that specific episode, I was over the limit for like 4 days, had to leave my car parked in town because I couldn't drive it. I hate Vodka. The fact that I had had 3 litres of the stuff was not important.