any hope for a beer-soaked keyboard?

i spilled a decent amount of miller lite on my PC keyboard the other night; i've been living on my laptop since (which frankly, i am sick of)

when i first tried to use the keyboard after the spill, it would spit out about 20 random characters whenever i made any keystroke. now, after a few days of having left it alone, the majority of the keys work, but some are completely unresponsive. are these keys fucked for good? is there something that i can do to fix them? or do i have to shell out $20 for a new keyboard?

$20? Who cares. Get a new keyboard.

I'd probably go with a new keyboard, I lost one a few years ago to the same thing. I got back about 90% of the keys, but the ESC key and a few other vital ones decided they wanted to go to keyboard heaven.

God damn you miller lite!!

it could have been worse too, you could have pissed the bed.

That's what you get for drinking shitty american beers.

just use your keyboard as it...it'll make your posts more interesting for us to read and try to figure out what the fuck you're trying to say...

you're screwed. buy a new one.

Er.... eBay has keyboards for less than a dollar most of the time. As long as you don't need wireless, bluetooth etc., they're good enough.

Not beerproof though.

Just get a new keyboard, for 20-30 they have ones that are waterproof.
That way it will never happen again

You ain't kidding.

I've spilled lots of coffee on keyboards over the years.
Just run warm water into the keyboard for a while, then drain it - works for laptops too.

Unscrew the keyboard, wash the sticky parts with a cloth dampened with hot water. If $20 is too much, go to a used computer store. I've bought printers from them for $10 last year, a keyboard should be next to free.


Our lager,
Which art in barrels,
Hallowed be thy drink.
Thy will be drunk,
(I will be drunk),
At home as in the tavern.
Give us this day our foamy head,
And forgive us our spillages,
As we forgive those who spill against us.
And lead us not to incarceration,
But deliver us from hangovers.
For thine is the beer, The bitter and The lager.
Forever and ever,

Barmen

c'est la vie

i popped off all of the keys (my keyboard was SO NASTY inside; there must have been a bowl's worth of loose pot in there, and an unbelieveable amount of hair (?)), soaked them in hot, soapy water, gave the board a good going-over, put everything back together, and the keys which didn't work before still don't work

there you go baby.

<333

you know, if i could rearrange the keyboard to make the letters U and I be next to each other, i..

oh wait

little known fact: most keyboards are dishwasher safe so long as you don't let it run through the dry cycle.

little known fact: i don't own a dishwasher

Come on dude, everybody knows that.

Try rinsing it out in your sink, and then letting it dry completely before plugging it back in again. You might have fucked it already if it was still a little wet inside when you tried to use it.

God, you're spoiled.

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If you have your manservant clean all your plates I am pretty sure you still have a "dishwasher".

sorry I couldn't hear you, my pilot was firing up the helicopter.