VPC-SA4 - Some keys no longer work after spilling water

So whilst on the phone 2 days ago I managed to spill water on my laptop while it was in its docking station. It wasn't too much over the lower right hand corner, I immedietly fully powered it off and cleaned up the mess - gave it time to dry and turned it back on, everything appeared to function fine. While it is in the docking station I use an external keyboard/mouse and 2nd monitor. So it wasn't until I tried to use it from home yesterday I noticed that certain keys simply don't work.

Mostly the top two rows, but also the left shift and the "P" key, possibly others.

What can I do to fix this? Any particular component I can swap out or check? Something deep inside still got moisture and it still just needs to dry?

 

I subb'ed this thread. I spilled chineese soup on my Z13..and I have the same Kind of problem. I cleaned everything I could disassembled the Entire computer still no go. Already ordered a replacement keyboard from Ebay. Will update when I get it next 2 weeks or so. I have dried everything. It could be one of two things; the keyboard circuitry shorted, or; circuitry connected to the keyboard has shorted. I'm not sure which just yet, but the component board has alot of other things connected to it in the Z13; like both speakers, keyboard backlight,fingerprint reader, touchpad and buttons; All of which work, so it's highly possible that the keyboard is at fault here. Luckily it's a relatively easy fix as long as you follow documented procedure or observe how the disassemble and reassemble it, taking pictures along the way.

You could definately try to flush it with some distilled water and try your luck, or just order in a replacement keyboard and fix it up. You actually lucky it's just water, mine was soup (oil, ingredients, chicken) really greasy stuff, that left a kind of stinky smell on the laptop. Some ants helped me out, and I cleaned the rest with alcohol and tons of q-tips, compressed air, bounty, articclean etc. So now everything is very clean looking. Check the thread entitled 'Spilled chinese soup.....' for my pics.

I've no idea how the internals of the SA4 looks, so I can't say what to try. But if it's anything like the Z, it's very likely to be the keyboard's a goner!. 3 days after and my keyboard still does not work.