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Pouring rubbing alcohol in keyboard to clean it

Kyzer
By Kyzer
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Someone spilled beer in their laptop keyboard and now its no outputting correctly, if at all.

 

Will pouring rubbing alcohol in it evaporate it and make the keyboard work again? Obviously, I'm going to let it dry.

 

Its been non-functional for a week, since accident.

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Do not just poor anything into a laptop. It will need to be disassembled and cleaned to have a chance at working again.

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Just buy a replacement keyboard off of eBay once you've opened it up and are sure that nothing else is damaged in there.

I enjoy buying junk and sinking more money than it's worth into it to make it less junk.

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If the laptop has liquid damage it’s very unlikely putting anything in there will fix it.

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42 minutes ago, Kyzer said:

Someone snip...

Um.. you mean you? And no, don't pour it in. However, you can take the keyboard out and try since it's already jacked up (don't see how completely dead keyboard is worse than it is now); however, any shorting damage would already be done.

 

Get a new keyboard, disassemble this laptop and clean out the rest of the beer?

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