I spilled juice over the keyboard

[SveNor]

This is about my Fujizu Siemens laptop.

I spilled a glass of juice over the keyboard. About half of the keys on the left side stopped working.

I am probably not the sharpest guy around so I tried spraying with a kitchen cleener - yes things improved but to recover all keys I decided to try lynol, later white spirit. Big mistake I guess, there is - after a period of drying some powderlike whiteness on the keys and between. Needless to say conditions are worse than ever, only a few keys now do their act.

Is there any "cleaning" way out of this? Or is my only option to turn the thing in? Any help appreciated.

[BluesMan1]

The last time i had to clean a laptop keyboard i removed it from the laptop, used hot water for 5 minutes and dried it with a hair dryer..... works all the time

[outlaw2001it]

Hello,
Just to be sure clean all other parts (under the keyboard) with alcohol, and Q-tips; and or cotton balls. Take Care.

[jetman]

These are all reasonable ideas for cleaning up this kind of mess, but if you're really not a hard-core PC tech, you mite not want to take apart your laptop. Usu lotsa small screws that are easy to lose and often they (ie. laptops) aren't easy to take apart....

[chubachub33]

yea i spilled stuff on mine, i ended up trying to dry it with hair dryer, and i ended up looking away too long and melted like 5 keys, anyways, had to buy a new keyboard which was to much for the small thing it is, and stripped 2 screws trying to do it so i almost had to rip it apart to install it. lol

[Blitzkreig75]

In my tech life I've seen many, MANY laptops 'die'. The two most common reasons are being dropped and/or something being spilled on them.

Replace the keyboard.

Consider that the 'proper' way to clean one envolves removing each key one-by-one and cleaning the contacts. In a laptop, that may entail seperating the metal backing from the input board, wich may break if not disassembled very carefully.

Like Jetman says, laptops are unlike PCs as in you really shouldn't take them apart unless you're certain you know what you're doing. (or a hard core PC tech. lol)

[Ol'Tunzafun]

I'm doing one now that had coke spilled on it. I let the keyboard soak in hot water overnight and rinsed it under the hot water faucet this morning. blew it out with compressed air and then with a high volume hair dryer. The keyboard is fine but also had to pull the top deck and rinse out the touchpad buttons as well. They too are now working fine.
This, however, does not always work and it is then necessary to go to ebay for a keyboard. When it does work it saves a lot of time and money.