Laptop liquid spill

Greetings all. I have a Lenovo v570 laptop I purchased a couple months ago and I have spilled beer on the keyboard. A number of keys do not function now. I took out the keyboard and inspected the inside of the computer for liquid and no liquid appeared to be on any of the components. Computer functions fine with an external keyboard, touch pad works fine, only problem is a number of keys on the keyboard dont work. No liquid appeared to come into contact at the keyboard connector inside the unit and as such I ordered a replacement keyboard. My question is: Is a replacement keyboard likely to solve the keyboard issue?

 

Only way to know for sure it isn't the motherboard is to replace with a known good keyboard. Careful with the keyboard ZIF lever, if you break it off you need a new motherboard.

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Thanks for response. Not much force needed to operate ZIF lever eh? I will handle with care. Interestingly, liquid seemed to drain out of the bottom of the machine. I discovered a small pool of liquid under the machine sometime after the spill, did a little bit of internet searching on the topic and apparently its a design feature of this laptop. Quoted from another site "Starting with the immediate successor to the T43, the T60, Lenovo added actual drain holes to the chassis of their laptops, and redesigned the keyboard assembly so that it had a slight rim all the way around it. So in theory, if you spill something into it, the rim will keep the liquid from spilling past the keyboard and into the guts, and the drain holes will channel the liquid through and out the bottom." Lets hope this design feature worked properly haha.

 

Well now, I'd say that's a pretty nifty feature.

You could also try putting the keyboard in an airtight container with some silica gel. You might get it working again or something. I did it with my phone once, keyboards aren't that much more complicated anyways.

 

Sounds good in all but you need to get another keyboard and try it out and see if it turns on or works or responds to your key press. I should know a friend of mine spilled liquid orange juice into their Dell E1505 and well let's just say it took out the motherboard and hard drive. They tried to turn it on and I think that is when the hard drive got short circuit and is now paper weight. The CPU works but everything else on the board and fan doesn't work the LCD is fine not so sure on the keyboard as I just went and got them another E1505 because trying to fix the problem of most likely a dead motherboard now won't be worth the cost to them. So anything regardless of what the manufacture says liquid spilling into a laptop results in only bad outcome. Either you had it off and thus protected sensitive parts from be fried or it's on and you basically toast anything to everything inside of it. That's is why you never eat or drink near your laptop the damages caused to it and fixing will be more then your wallet can handle. Food/Drinks and laptop do not mix well together....

 

Instead of silica gel, try some rice and leave the whole notebook inside for a couple of days.

(The rice will absorb any/all moisture the notebook has).

Good luck.

 

You could take the keyboard out and wash it in some warm weak detergent and then rinse it off with copious amounts of fresh clean water. The should get rid of the beer.
Leave the keyboard out in the sun for a day or dry thoroughly with a hot hair dryer.

Just make sure it is completely dry before re-assembling it. As the keyboard is damaged already, water wont do it any more harm so long as it is completely dry before re-assembly.

Give it a go, you can't make things any worse.

I have washed keyboards before with no problems.

 

the dishwasher's faster.

 

Don't laugh but I know of an instance where someone put a honeywell keyboard in the dishwasher. It worked ok after it dried out.

Keyboard in the dishwasher link.
It’s Official: Dishwashers Are Great For Cleaning Keyboards | Cult of Mac

6 Tips on How to Clean a Keyboard in a Dishwasher - wikiHow

How to Clean Your Filthy Keyboard in the Dishwasher (Without Ruining it) - How-To Geek

 

Any post beer spill caveats you'd like to share OP?