Well damn...

Try a usb keyboard and if it works perfectly, remove your current keyboard and order a replacement.

 

OP: Make sure you clean the ports and the connectors well. Otherwise the residuals may cause your USB keyboard to fail as well. Before ordering a new keyboard you can try soaking the old keyboard into an alcohol bath. It may clean up the mess and fix the issue.


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The only hope you have to get the laptop working again is to try and clean it or replace parts.

If you really don’t want to try and take it apart by getting those last two screws out you are going to have to attempt to clean the keyboard and the top surface of the motherboard. I suppose you could try and open the laptop and stand it up vertically, with the HD at the top. REMOVE THE BATTERY. Spray some 90 percent isopropyl alcohol from a spray bottle (like a Windex bottle) into the crevices of the keyboard, let it set a few minutes and blow the keyboard off with some compressed air. Repeat a few times and then let it dry for a couple of hours. Heck, I am just thinking out loud here.

 

The laptop is working now.

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I disconnected the keyboard through opening it up, and everything including the battery works now.

And about those two screws... one seems to be indeed defective. It just spins around, around. The other I was just using the wrong type of screwdriver on.

 

I saw a bunch of people responded to my advice. I just wanted to clarify if someone in the future should wonder. You want to have the laptop open, so you do not submerge the screen, however, everything else (minus the battery) should be fine, and with good alcohol it should not break anything. I have done it before and speakers, HDD, everything work perfectly. HDDs are air tight, so no worries there, I am not sure why people thought the speakers would die, the alcohol completely evaporates.

You hold it by the screen and dip the entire base of the laptop into the liquid, let it fill, pull it up and let it drain, repeat, dry, voila. I tested this on a laptop that got a Sonic slush spilled all over the keyboard. It was impossibly sticky and horrible, the laptop was covered with an accidental plan so it was getting replaced, but I tried this anyway (because what was there too lose?). Turns out it fixed it completely, and they still sent me the gift card for the accidental plan. SCORE!

 

Hard drives are NOT air tight. There is exposure to the air through one, sometimes two tiny holes with a filter. Hard drives are NOT a good idea to submerge.

 

That air hole wont lead to the actual platters, but would be really bad to block.

 

Hmm... while in use today it decided to die. Upon boot it powers up only the light seemingly for a few seconds, then shuts off. No hard drive activity can be heard or seen upon boot, and only the power light activates during that time. If this is connected, I don't know.

No fans either.

 

Spilt milk... hmmm, put the laptop into a pen of hungry kittens.

 

You should have done thorough cleaning of the mobo before using it daily.
The laptop gave you a chance, but you didn't use it. It showed you that it's not dead, needed some milk-stain treatment of the components, but man, you made it pass away now. You've spent so much time here with posts (practically useless and disassembly related), you could search for a tutorial or even a video on youtube of disassembly of your laptop series. Sorry to let you know, but now it's supposedly a real dead one.

 

Agreed, you should never attempt to power on before being pretty damn sure you've got rid of all he residue on the motherboard. You probably just ensured its death now

 

I understand I should have cleaned it.. I just felt it wasn't a 'safe' idea. For how much I knew about laptop maintenance. I wasn't thinking about how it would need the residue removed.

I'm being pretty damn lucky, but it's 'giving' me another chance now.