Something was ruined for me
It happened not too long ago. I did something incredibly cliched. This was a true accident. I didn't plan this, but it happened and the results were disheartening. You may have guessed it, I spilled Sprite on my keyboard.
And nothing happened. I'm not an idiot. I know how a computer works and which parts are vital and which aren't. But in every romantic comedy with a clumsy person, they spill their drink on the keyboard. It smokes, they try and hide it, the scene culminating with the "whole system" "going down." So what happens when I do it? My keyboard gets sticky (from the Sprite, get your mind out of the gutter) and the letters e, w, s, d, c, and x become hard to press.
I know things don't happen in real life like they do in the movies, but seeing this little myth get busted in person, I don't know, I guess it just make my world that much smaller. Whatever, I got boxes to make and files to do absolutely nothing with.
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If its a plain keyboard chuck it into the dishwasher and just make sure the heatcycle isn't turned on. then once its complete leave it out for a copuople of days so it can dry out and it should good as gold.
also are you sure its sprite? The letters you put up can spell SEX!
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Silly.
You're supposed to spill champagne on your keyboard to make your computer come alive!
That only works if you have a hot neighbor that plays the cello.
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He probably didn't need those very often?
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I'm here to tell you it's not entirely a myth. At an old job, I spilled Dr. Pepper on a Sun workstation and that locked the whole machine up. Out of embarrassment, I cleaned off the keyboard and swapped with it that of another machine without telling anyone. Whoops, turns out that the other machine was a server, which immediately hard-locked. When the IT guy came by to fix it, I nonchalantly asked what happened. He just shrugged and said, "Keyboard went bad."
No sparks though.
Fedaykin98 wrote:
In my days working in Mac tech support, it always seemed like it was people coming in who had spilled wine on their laptops. Never beer. Never soda or coffee. Always wine.
psshhhh. Typical Mac users.
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You got lucky. Every time I have spilled a drink on a keyboard, the machine exploded. Also, when I sit at a computer in the dark, you can clearly read any words on the screen as they are projected onto my face.
Also, this is UNIX(tm) and I know this!
P.S.: Washing keyboards in the dishwasher is a good bet if it's a basic keyboard.
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I'll bet your keyboard will be fine, as long as the internal circuit board didn't get wet. Just clean the sucker out and let it dry before you use it again.
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Depending on the keyboard it's probably a sandwich of plastic membrane layers. I've been resurrecting the discontinued MS Natural Pro ergonomic keyboards for a while by disassembling them and separating the layers then washing them off.
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Is that the one where the computer commits suicide at the end by sending a massive power spike to itself? Man, that was a terrible movie that I watched all of.
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My Logitech G15 has suffered a minor spill (tilde and 1 key now get occasionally stuck) but somehow I'm not willing to try the dishwasher, mainly due to the folding LCD screen. Any less invasive advice is welcome.
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I don't know about less-invasive, but a more-controlled operation would be to just open the thing up, see how it works, and if it looks like plastic membranes, like LiquidMantis is talking about, just gently (meaning don't force anything apart that offers resistance, but that should be common sense) separate them and use a windex-dampened paper towel, then dry it. Should be okay after that.
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Check out this trailer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek08KvgqFGM
The clip is so old that they hadn't even "computerize" the computer's voice yet.
And why does the leading man sound just like Ross (David Schwimmer)?
If this is caused by a sticky build-up, an eye dropper with a mixture of water & rubbing alcohol (50/50), a few Q-tips/tissues and a can of compressed air may give you enough of a clean to get rid of the occasional issue.
This solution is easier if your eye hand coordination is at least average"…
Put the tissue/Q-tip to the left/top of the keys.
Aim the air toward the tissue.
Allow 1 drop to fall on the buildup.
Immediately release a puff of the air toward the tissue.
Test the keys for sticky residue and repeat until satisfied.
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Thanks for the tips, nsmike and RedJen!
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This particular keyboard is the cheapest DELL keyboard my firm can afford. I was going to replace it with the girl who sits next to me, but she's anti-social enough they might just fire her if they find out. Our breakroom does have a diswasher, I'll see if I can get away with it.
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I buy even though I have 2 of them. I likey the Snakey. - Scrub, I'll leave it to you to guess what this is about
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keen to push her buttons eh?
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It's fun to joke, but seriously, she might be the most selfish person I've ever met. Its funny to hear her tell me with pride about how she only has one or two real friends and how her boyfriend has a bunch she's trying to rid him of so he can spend more time on her. Hell, maybe she deserves a sticky keyboard.
I'm an Uncle!!! -8/20/07
I buy even though I have 2 of them. I likey the Snakey. - Scrub, I'll leave it to you to guess what this is about
ICO: General Fancypants
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WoW: Goquelyrslf
My wife spilled liquid on my G15 and it appeared to have shorted the thing out. You type the letter P and a - would appear. The keys were not inputting the correct characters. I called Logitech, told them what happened (minus the liquid spillage) and they sent me a new keyboard. The G15s have a three year warranty, and Logitech just wants your old serial number and then you throw the busted one away.
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Reminds me of when I was at Disneyworld. Didn't think to take my blackberry off my hip before going on the innertube ride at Animal Kingdom. I wound up being at the low point when the tube went down the hill and got an absolute wave crashing right on top of my head. For the rest of the day, my blackberry would type all sorts of weird characters. Not really sure what it was doing, since I couldn't log in and thus everything was just the password screen, but some keys resulted in no *'s appearing and some keys resulted in multiple *'s appearing.
Good news is, seems to be working fine now.
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I never spilled on my keyboard, but a movie thing that was ruined for me when I was younger was realizing the difference between playing a computer game in real life as opposed to in the movies. I'd see a movie where something like Doom is on the screen, and the person playing it is just typing furiously. It was bittersweet for me at 8 years old to find out that's not how you play games on the computer.
The girlfriend - Apple commercials always remind me of heaven: white, not a whole lot going on, and trying to come across as better than it really is.