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Answer» Could someone please tell me if my other LAPTOP is a complete loss or should I attempt to have it repaired. About 4 months ago I set my laptop down on the floor and the dog knocked a glass of juice off a tv tray. Well the whole drink did not get it. The comp seems to work fine except 1/4 of the keys no longer work. They don't stick or anything, they just don't work. I'm just wondering if I will be wasting my time and money to see if it can be repaired.Is this laptop still under warranty? If so, you should be able to get the laptop repaired for free. If not, you may still be able to get the keyboard fixed. Just bring it over to the computer store.If you search around the internet, you can find a replacement keyboard for your model. You'll need someone to install it if you're not confident enough to open up the laptop to replace it.Quote from: Carbon Dudeoxide on June 09, 2009, 12:49:06 AM Is this laptop still under warranty? If so, you should be able to get the laptop repaired for free. If you're honest about what happened when seeking warranty coverage for such a problem, I don't believe that would be covered under warranty. Warranty generally covers defects in manufacturing, not abuse or accident by the owner.Quote from: soybean on June 09, 2009, 07:50:00 AM If you're honest about what happened when seeking warranty coverage for such a problem, I don't believe that would be covered under warranty. Warranty generally covers defects in manufacturing, not abuse or accident by the owner. Unless your warranty covers ACCIDENTAL damage.tdb1216, Enlarging on the "warranty" suggestion. If you purchased the computer using a credit card quite often the actual period of the warranty is extended (often doubled) by the warranty provision of the purchase as covered by the "credit card issuer". If that is your case you should pursue that as that particular feature will normally indeed cover "accidental damage".Another option to the keyboard replacement would be a USB wireless or wired keyboard. I would continue to have some concerns however as to what is going on with the non functioning part of the keyboard insofar as potential electrical shorting issues from what the event may still be causing.goodluck,truenorthIf you Google your laptop model #, you may be able to find a guide that will assist when trying to replace the keyboard, if you decide to do it yourself. Replacement keyboards are not usually very expensive so it would be well worth the effort to have it repaired. Of course I would follow the others SUGGESTIONS concerning the warranty first. Some laptop are have a built in defense mech. and turn off when they COME in contact with water my brother had this happen to his laptop it only took him about $100 to fix it if your still under warranty I would use this so you don't gotta pay anything.Quote from: GlitchPC on June 09, 2009, 07:52:46 AM Unless your warranty covers accidental damage. Just say you left it on the table and it started raining. Quote from: Carbon Dudeoxide on June 09, 2009, 10:28:41 PM Just say you left it on the table and it started raining. "yes... that's right. It started raining fruit juice.... I know... it doesn't make sense. It's difficult here, everything is all sticky- had to hose down everything, but we're slowly rebuilding. The kids... well they can't use the palyground at school until the groundskeeper comes back from his holiday, because it's sticky and mildy unpleasant. Not to mention the groundwater contamination... Oh of course it wasn't in the news, they wouldn't publicize something as catastrophic as it raining fruit juice, the nation would go into a panic, everybody would be fighting to get inside, to avoid getting all sticky."I used to repair computer terminals and i would often discover dried coffee stains on the CIRCUIT board but the terminal still worked sometimes.Often though,there would be a fault attributable to it.I repaired hundreds of these units and I discovered that the sweet stains(coffee with sugar) were nasty as far as signal leakage was concerned.Dont ask how I found out.I dont hold out much hope for sweet juice. However,if you are competent and confident enough to remove the keyboard you could give it a good old wash in soapy water,followed by blowing out with air and an extended drying time in a hot place.Seriously,it may work but you must take care to ground yourself when handing your keyboard or you will kill it with static.Quote from: fernmo on June 10, 2009, 08:49:19 AM However,if you are competent and confident enough to remove the keyboard you could give it a good old wash in soapy water,followed by blowing out with air and an extended drying time in a hot place.Seriously,it may work but you must take care to ground yourself when handing your keyboard or you will kill it with static. Most laptop keyboards aren't designed to resist water. On top of that, they don't come apart like most normal keyboards do, so it wouldn't dry out properly. I'm strongly against trying this.Ditto.

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Could someone please tell me if my other LAPTOP is a complete loss or should I attempt to have it repaired. About 4 months ago I set my laptop down on the floor and the dog knocked a glass of juice off a tv tray. Well the whole drink did not get it. The comp seems to work fine except 1/4 of the keys no longer work. They don't stick or anything, they just don't work. I'm just wondering if I will be wasting my time and money to see if it can be repaired.Is this laptop still under warranty? If so, you should be able to get the laptop repaired for free.

If not, you may still be able to get the keyboard fixed. Just bring it over to the computer store.If you search around the internet, you can find a replacement keyboard for your model. You'll need someone to install it if you're not confident enough to open up the laptop to replace it.Quote from: Carbon Dudeoxide on June 09, 2009, 12:49:06 AM

Is this laptop still under warranty? If so, you should be able to get the laptop repaired for free.

If you're honest about what happened when seeking warranty coverage for such a problem, I don't believe that would be covered under warranty. Warranty generally covers defects in manufacturing, not abuse or accident by the owner.Quote from: soybean on June 09, 2009, 07:50:00 AM

If you're honest about what happened when seeking warranty coverage for such a problem, I don't believe that would be covered under warranty. Warranty generally covers defects in manufacturing, not abuse or accident by the owner.

Unless your warranty covers ACCIDENTAL damage.tdb1216, Enlarging on the "warranty" suggestion. If you purchased the computer using a credit card quite often the actual period of the warranty is extended (often doubled) by the warranty provision of the purchase as covered by the "credit card issuer". If that is your case you should pursue that as that particular feature will normally indeed cover "accidental damage".Another option to the keyboard replacement would be a USB wireless or wired keyboard. I would continue to have some concerns however as to what is going on with the non functioning part of the keyboard insofar as potential electrical shorting issues from what the event may still be causing.goodluck,truenorthIf you Google your laptop model #, you may be able to find a guide that will assist when trying to replace the keyboard, if you decide to do it yourself. Replacement keyboards are not usually very expensive so it would be well worth the effort to have it repaired.

Of course I would follow the others SUGGESTIONS concerning the warranty first. Some laptop are have a built in defense mech. and turn off when they COME in contact with water my brother had this happen to his laptop it only took him about $100 to fix it if your still under warranty I would use this so you don't gotta pay anything.Quote from: GlitchPC on June 09, 2009, 07:52:46 AM

Unless your warranty covers accidental damage.

Just say you left it on the table and it started raining. Quote from: Carbon Dudeoxide on June 09, 2009, 10:28:41 PM

Just say you left it on the table and it started raining.

"yes... that's right. It started raining fruit juice.... I know... it doesn't make sense. It's difficult here, everything is all sticky- had to hose down everything, but we're slowly rebuilding. The kids... well they can't use the palyground at school until the groundskeeper comes back from his holiday, because it's sticky and mildy unpleasant. Not to mention the groundwater contamination... Oh of course it wasn't in the news, they wouldn't publicize something as catastrophic as it raining fruit juice, the nation would go into a panic, everybody would be fighting to get inside, to avoid getting all sticky."I used to repair computer terminals and i would often discover dried coffee stains on the CIRCUIT board but the terminal still worked sometimes.Often though,there would be a fault attributable to it.I repaired hundreds of these units and I discovered that the sweet stains(coffee with sugar) were nasty as far as signal leakage was concerned.Dont ask how I found out.I dont hold out much hope for sweet juice.
However,if you are competent and confident enough to remove the keyboard you could give it a good old wash in soapy water,followed by blowing out with air and an extended drying time in a hot place.Seriously,it may work but you must take care to ground yourself when handing your keyboard or you will kill it with static.Quote from: fernmo on June 10, 2009, 08:49:19 AM

However,if you are competent and confident enough to remove the keyboard you could give it a good old wash in soapy water,followed by blowing out with air and an extended drying time in a hot place.Seriously,it may work but you must take care to ground yourself when handing your keyboard or you will kill it with static.

Most laptop keyboards aren't designed to resist water. On top of that, they don't come apart like most normal keyboards do, so it wouldn't dry out properly. I'm strongly against trying this.Ditto.

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