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Spilled tea on right side of keyboard.

Hi, I stupidly spilled tea on my laptop (it’s a very old laptop but still working perfectly fine, well, used to), the tea mostly went over the right side of the keyboard. So I unplugged it, tipped it upside down & left it. I don’t believe much tea was spilled but after an hour, I just wanted to see if the laptop was functioning at all. I turned it on no problem but when I went to test the keyboard, most of the right side wasn’t working (well they were kinda working, for example I’d press ‘m’ & ‘m#’ would come up, the return key seems to the back space tab etc). If I continue to let it dry, will the keys right itself or is it completely beyond hope?

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Laptop keyboards usually do not survive liquid spills - even in drainage hole business-class machines. With laptops, the keyboard ($-$$) usually acts as the crumple zone to protect the motherboard ($$$). The manufacturers would rather kill the keyboard over the motherboard, and I agree with that mindset. AT LEAST I can move the motherboard and base plate to a new upper case or just swap the keyboard out and be on my way. Head onto eBay and buy one just in case because the odds are very much against you. Acer didn't have chronic problems with this for years, so it probably isn't plastic welded in requiring an entire palmrest or JB-Weld.

What you need to do is take the laptop apart and clean the motherboard using this guide. If you have an ultrasonic cleaner that’s the absolute best way to clean water damage, but most people don’t have one at their disposal. In lieu of that, 99% IPA and an anti-static brush will work. To be absolutely sure, clean the entire board - even the parts you don’t suspect were part of the tea spill. We can’t help you find the guides needed without a model.

In addition to cleaning it, use this time to repaste the CPU and clean the dust bunnies out. Since you need to do a complete teardown on many Acer laptops to do this, getting it out of the way now is ideal. I don’t recommend Artic Silver 5 for laptops since it doesn’t seem to cure right for me (and many laptops are a pain to redo), so for this I’d buy Artic MX-4. Refer to this guide to see how to change it.

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Thank you so much for your reply!

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@kelsie90 It may be held in with sliding tabs or screws if it's old enough to predate the plastic weld design disasters (circa ~2015). However, they've spread enough you can't count on it.

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well you may need to use some alcohol on that area

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Hey I spilled hot Ramen on right on top of my keyboard. Luckily my space key was the only key affected. I took a pair of tiny tweezers, wrapped a semi dry makeup or baby wipe around it, pressed the tweezers at the edge of my space key, pressed the tweezers underneath the key, pushing the key up and slid the wipe underneath my space key. I kept repeating this process until my space key finally pressed down normally again. You can do it. Don't give up

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