I have learned to keep liquids far, far away from my laptop the hard
way.
Approximately 34 hours ago I spilled a partial glass of milk on my
laptop keyboard. I immediately shut it down and unplugged the power
chord and began drying it out. I took out the battery and the disc
drive and laid it upside and let it dry for over 24 hours. A couple
hours ago I turned it back on to see what damage I had caused and
almost all of the keys are typing the wrong thing, some not working at
all. I know the best thing to do is probably replace the keyboard, but
I'm trying to avoid that if I can.
First I am going to connect a desktop keyboard to it to make sure it's
just the keyboard that's malfunctioning. (I sure hope that's it, too!)
If that's the case, I want to try and pop off all the keys and clean
it, or just remove the keyboard to do so. But I can't figure out how to
get the keyboard off. I have researched how to pop the keys off and put
them back on carefully. I am going to try all that I can think of, and
come back and post again. But if you have any suggestions, I could
REALLY use the help. I just purchased this laptop not even a month ago
and I already screwed it up. So any feedback would be great!

"Demi" <dsfrakes@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:1166140764.314542.12610@79g2000cws.googlegrou ps.com...
>I have learned to keep liquids far, far away from my laptop the hard
> way.
> Approximately 34 hours ago I spilled a partial glass of milk on my
> laptop keyboard. I immediately shut it down and unplugged the power
> cord and began drying it out. I took out the battery and the disc
> drive and laid it upside and let it dry for over 24 hours. A couple
> hours ago I turned it back on to see what damage I had caused and
> almost all of the keys are typing the wrong thing, some not working at
> all. I know the best thing to do is probably replace the keyboard, but
> I'm trying to avoid that if I can.
> First I am going to connect a desktop keyboard to it to make sure it's
> just the keyboard that's malfunctioning. (I sure hope that's it, too!)
> If that's the case, I want to try and pop off all the keys and clean
> it, or just remove the keyboard to do so. But I can't figure out how
> to
> get the keyboard off. I have researched how to pop the keys off and
> put
> them back on carefully. I am going to try all that I can think of, and
> come back and post again. But if you have any suggestions, I could
> REALLY use the help. I just purchased this laptop not even a month ago
> and I already screwed it up. So any feedback would be great!
>
=======

go here and download / save the entire manual:

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/su...reg_R1002_USEN

then, if you DO need to order a keyboard , the part number is on pg 55
of 254

First remove power, battery etc then go to pages 107,108,109,110 for a
walkthru on r/r keyboard

Good luck.

Bobb

- Bobb - wrote:
> "Demi" <dsfrakes@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:1166140764.314542.12610@79g2000cws.googlegrou ps.com...
> >I have learned to keep liquids far, far away from my laptop the hard
> > way.
> > Approximately 34 hours ago I spilled a partial glass of milk on my
> > laptop keyboard. I immediately shut it down and unplugged the power
> > cord and began drying it out. I took out the battery and the disc
> > drive and laid it upside and let it dry for over 24 hours. A couple
> > hours ago I turned it back on to see what damage I had caused and
> > almost all of the keys are typing the wrong thing, some not working at
> > all. I know the best thing to do is probably replace the keyboard, but
> > I'm trying to avoid that if I can.
> > First I am going to connect a desktop keyboard to it to make sure it's
> > just the keyboard that's malfunctioning. (I sure hope that's it, too!)
> > If that's the case, I want to try and pop off all the keys and clean
> > it, or just remove the keyboard to do so. But I can't figure out how
> > to
> > get the keyboard off. I have researched how to pop the keys off and
> > put
> > them back on carefully. I am going to try all that I can think of, and
> > come back and post again. But if you have any suggestions, I could
> > REALLY use the help. I just purchased this laptop not even a month ago
> > and I already screwed it up. So any feedback would be great!
> >
> =======
>
> go here and download / save the entire manual:
>
> http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/su...reg_R1002_USEN
>
> then, if you DO need to order a keyboard , the part number is on pg 55
> of 254
>
> First remove power, battery etc then go to pages 107,108,109,110 for a
> walkthru on r/r keyboard
>
> Good luck.
>
> Bobb



Thank you so much. I think I'll probably replace it but I'm trying
everything I can until then.