Rantville

So we all(?) have spilled something on our keyboard at some point, be it water, beer, coffee or god forbid some kinda non-diet soda. Anyway, I had the great “pleasure” of dismantling my laptop for the second(!!) time within 48hours this afternoon. The first time was no accident, rather a summer cleaning to get a bit more respons from a heavily hammered keyboard, in aftermath I see that was a huuuge mistake.

FFWD 48hours…..;

Was just about to do some maintance work as I took a big sip of the coffee mug, just as the mug left my lips I felt a caugh coming, and the ms between the initiation and the java fountain I managed to turn my head a few clicks east.
Sadly, not enough to avoid my laptop, tv, nor the wall thats ~2 meters away from the chair.
Shut down the laptop & flipped it over letting it drip off while I cleaned up the chair, floor, tv and wall surrounding the mishap.

The only good thing about my clean-up 48h ago was that I could quickly dismantle my laptop and get the clean-up started. The end result is 3 keys not responding, hopefully they will start to respond again in the morning, I’d hate to take the laptop apart a third time. The keys in question are B-N-M, the mass amount of WD-40, Fluxlene, compressed air & Q-tips did get 12 of 15 keys to respond again, so there is still hope for the remaining 3.

Anyway… the pictures of the entire curse & clean follows;

EDIT:
Ok so 3 keys just didnt wanna function in the end, contacted the supplier of the laptop and asked if they had a spare keyboard, which they had! So for the neat price of 100NOK + mva I can retire the external usb keyboard.

PS Data has yet again showed themselves as a quick & service minded company. 10/10 (again!)

Posted on Thursday, August 2nd, 2007 at 22:00

Tags: @hoiseth.no, blogmail, soapbox, tech