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<br><div><div>On Mar 5, 2012, at 7:38 PM, Brian Morris wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">That would be the highest % of rubbing alcohol not the cheapo 50 or 75% which has the water you don't want.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Daniel Pitts <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:coloraura.com@gmail.com">coloraura.com@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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You could try washing it with an alcohol solution (rubbing alcohol),
and hoping that displaces enough of the material to fix the problem,
but chances are you'll need to replace the keyboard. <br><div><div class="h5">
On 3/3/12 2:31 PM, Jared Dunne wrote:
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My gf spilled a decent amount of water on my old 17" MBP's
keyboard the other day. I was wondering if people with experience
with similar incidents with A1212 17" MBPs could share some tips.<br>
<br>
I immediately turned it off, unplugged, and removed the battery.
I inverted it and wiped down as much of the water as possible. I
left it inverted overnight.<br>
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The next day I put back in the battery and powered it up. It
worked fine except some of the keys were "stuck", meaning it was
acting like they were held down, namely some combination of shift,
control, and command. The behavior was that when I typed
everything was in all CAPS and numbers were punctuation, etc.
Also when I clicked links in the web browser they opened in new
windows.<br>
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I found some helpful videos on <a href="http://www.powerbookmedic.com/" target="_blank">http://www.powerbookmedic.com</a>
and used them to dissemble the MBP and remove the keyboard. Once
removed, I was better able to remove various crud that had found
its way under the keys over the last 4-5 years. I then ran it
under fresh water (didn't submerge) then allowed it to dry for 36
hours.<br>
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The following evening I tried reassembling the machine. I had
some trouble getting the keyboard's ribbon cable back snugly into
it's slot, so I'm not sure that it made a good connection. I
continued anyways and powered it on. The "stuck" key problem had
gone away. While most keys now worked, a seemingly random subset
of them didn't do anything on key press, including T, G, B, left
shift, tab, command, etc.<br>
<br>
I've removed the keyboard again and removed the keys that were
still having issues. There isn't anything obviously afoul with
them, aside from there being some dusty/cloudy appearance between
the layers of transparent plastic housing the connections to/from
the nubs that get depressed, which isn't dramatic different than
the appearance surrounding the working keys.<br>
<br>
Questions:<br>
- Could the behavior be caused by a incomplete connection of the
ribbon cable? Or would that cause boot errors or all-or-none
behavior? Tips on getting that ribbon cable in snugly despite the
lack of slack in the cable?<br>
- Did I screw up by rinsing it off? Alternatively, did I not go
far enough in my rinse?<br>
- Any other tips on what I should do next? Clearly I can buy a
replacement, but I'd like to eliminate the possibility of repair
before doing so.<br>
<br>
Thanks!<br>
Jared-
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