Spilt tea on laptop keyboard... Any advice?

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So to quickly sum up, I spilt a cup of tea on my laptop keyboard, quickly turned it off and dried it etc, it wasn't a large amount but obviously more than i thought.

Left laptop turned off for about 8/9 hours turned on to back up my essential stuff and its working fine, except for the keyboard keeps doing crazy things and i cant ctrl+a etc, turned off and dried with a hairdryer again, i will leave it upside down tonight with the back off, any other ideas?

Is it fucked or will a bit more drying time help? Any advice appreciated!
 
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Well with beer spills what I do is wash the keyboard in a bucket of water and then dry it in the sun for 2 hours.

Tea is more toxic tho, donno if keyboards can survive tea.
 
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bartosimpsonio said:
Well with beer spills what I do is wash the keyboard in a bucket of water and then dry it in the sun for 2 hours.

Tea is more toxic tho, donno if keyboards can survive tea.
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Yeah I'm really scared of the water trick, I'll put it in for repair if it doesn't change in the next couple of days, but 95% of keyboard works fine just that one corner causing issues not sure if that's a good thing or bad.
Thanks for the reply anyways!
 
microman said:
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Yeah I'm really scared of the water trick, I'll put it in for repair if it doesn't change in the next couple of days, but 95% of keyboard works fine just that one corner causing issues not sure if that's a good thing or bad.
Thanks for the reply anyways!
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I have an expensive keyboard which survived tons of spills. The leds are dead randomly around the keyboard, but the keys are fine.

I think yours may come back when it dries up.

Once in a while I open it up and clean it inside. Lots of shit in there. Might be a good time to open and let it dry on a towel or something.
 
Tea have milk, milk contains proteins won't dry soon o_O
Open lap and clean the board
 
rajiced said:
Tea have milk
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As strange as it may sound, tea doesn't have milk by default. :)

Fun fact: milk was not put into the tea for flavor originally, but to prevent the cracking of the delicate china cup, when hot tea is poured into it. The tradition sticked and now even-though most cups are heat-resistent, people put milk into their tea for the flavor.
 
HoNeYBiRD said:
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As strange as it may sound, tea doesn't have milk by default. :)

Fun fact: milk was not put into the tea for flavor originally, but to prevent the cracking of the delicate china cup, when hot tea is poured into it. The tradition sticked and now even-though most cups are heat-resistent, people put milk into their tea for the flavor.
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Dont worry. Just clean it with some water

microman said:
So to quickly sum up, I spilt a cup of tea on my laptop keyboard, quickly turned it off and dried it etc, it wasn't a large amount but obviously more than i thought.

Left laptop turned off for about 8/9 hours turned on to back up my essential stuff and its working fine, except for the keyboard keeps doing crazy things and i cant ctrl+a etc, turned off and dried with a hairdryer again, i will leave it upside down tonight with the back off, any other ideas?

Is it fucked or will a bit more drying time help? Any advice appreciated!
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As long as you had THOROUGHLY DRIED the keyboard surface, its inner circuitry should be fine enough.

Worst case scenario is you have to leave the laptop at a repair shop

This is where the rubber meets the road: if your computer handles any "embarrassing" or "compromising" info, you might be vulnerable... since stuff you 'delete' isn't really deleted
 
I had spilled coffee on my macbook's laptop. I had shut it down immediately and used hair dryer to dry it off. After couple of hours, restarted it and had no issues since last ~7 months or so.
 
My son spilt hot chocolate over his. The sugar is the problem it dries and messes with your keys. We ended up buying a Bluetooth keyboard and sticking on top of the broken one. Not a good solution but it worked until he dropped it in the floor
 
Actually you make wrong move,it’s like you ain’t liking the pc any more bc it’s well known not to play with water around where pc is situated.
 
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