Spilled juice on keyboard of HP dv2700

I bought a new laptop for school, found this as a 600$ open box 1.8GHz proc. 4 gig ram...Not a bad deal. I didn't get the warranty because it was more than half of what the computer cost.
Dumb move.

After trying really hard to be careful, I accidently spilled some cranberry juice on the left side of my keyboard a few (about 5) weeks ago. The spill affected the keys from the esc to the 4, down to the v basically)

I freaked out, unplugged my computer, took the battery out, and held it upside down to drain it... I wiped it best I could, and took care of what I could see externally. I left it upside down for the night... It worked fine when I turned it on the next morning, it booted oddly the first time,
For a while the keys were sticky and I tried running a moist washcloth over them, which seems to have fixed them.

I had problems with the spacebar sticking, I got frustrated and pulled at the key a little and now it's crooked a bit.. It still gets sticky if I don’t use the keys for a day or two and the tab caps shift are a little sticky.. So is the wireless switch

I feel like I got away lucky but I've noticed the fan has begun to whir on and off about every other seven seconds randomly... I'm worried.

I'm pretty clueless as to what to do... My friend told me to go to IRT and ask if they could order me a new keyboard, I just never got around to it.
I read up on similar situations all saying sugary things are bad for the computer....

What do I do? I don't have a lot of money to spend but I'm assuming it's fixable since it's working decently. Do I take it to a computer shop and explain the situation and ask them to clean it?

(I’m also missing one of the little silver linings from the headphone jack..No clue how that fell out, I’m assuming they are easy to replace?)

 

Keyboard costs like $20 on ebay. It takes 5 mins to replace it.

Your freaking out way too much on something so small and simple. You should be freaking out if the juice got further than the keyboard.

Yes the headphone hack stuff is also replaceable

 

If I were you I'd ring around a few Computer repairers in your area and ask for a quote clean it up, tell them it works fine just a bit sticky, they must see plenty of this kind of accidental spill.

 

That would be a waste of time and money going to computer repairers.

You just need to pop out the messed up keyboard, clean the sticky mess underneath it and install a new keyboard. It will cost you about $15 + 5 shipping for a new keyboard and 5 mins of your time.

A computer shop will charge you some unbelievable price for replacing it or cleaning the keyboard with already messed up keys.

 

Can you post a sellers website where one could buy a keyboard for $15, just for the record.
Plus if you damage a zif ribbon which wouldn't be hard to do, it's going to cost much more than $15

I got a guy around here that chargers $50 to REPLACE a cpu labour, what do you think he'd charge for a keyboard?

 

Sounds about right: $25-$30 an hour.

 

You gotta be kiddin me...

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/US-Keyboard-...hash=item190269740844&_trksid=p3286.m63.l1177

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Keyboard-HP-...hash=item320322480334&_trksid=p3286.m63.l1177

You make it sound like ZIF ribbons will self destruct as soon as you touch it. The ZIF ribbon on the keyboard is very easy to install, you would have to be very clumsy or an idiot to damage it.

All you have to do is follow this video

Your willing to pay a guy to undo 3 screws?

 

For the price of the new keyboard and post, then having to do the job yourself (plus cleaning) if you're a clumsy school aged kid, I'm guessing it might be a better choice to get someone to give it a clean for around the same money. (If you could get it cleaned cheap enough)

I know I'd do it myself because I have put in a CPU in a HP before, but only because I thought it would cost in the hundreds to do so, now I know it's only $50 I'd rather get someone else to do it.

 

While it may not be complicated, I haven't opened a laptop before, I don't know anything about their internals.
I don't want to experiment and learn on a computer I can't replace.
I want to try to get it done right...
I'm probably gonna order the parts and take it down to the campus computer department to see what they can do.

 

If you're going to have someone look at it, I wouldn't buy anything yet, because it might just need a clean, that's what I meant.

Although our knowledgeable friend flipfire is probably right, I'd ask around to see if it could be cleaned cheaply, because this sort of thing would be easy for someone who's done it many times. That is my point no offence.

There's no use spending $25 when the guy down the road could of cleaned it for $15.

 

Watch this video first. You do not need to open up the laptop or do anything invasive. You only need to undo 3 screws and take out the ZIF connector.

The keyboard, RAM, HD and DVD drive are CRU parts (Customer Replacable/Removable Units)