poured e-juice on laptop, will it damage circuit board?
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The potential is there, but if it didn't fry it immediately you're probably okay. You'll want to pop all the key caps off though and clean it out before the juice gets too sticky in there
I'd say the potential is worse than with water. With water, you leave it off until it's completely dry and generally you're fine. Coffee (black) isn't too bad. Coffee with sugar and cream? DIsaster.
Now, you MAY be safe from getting anything on the mother board as many notebooks have a solid membrane between the actual keyboard and internal circuitry. So it may be possible to take the notebook apart and clean just the keyboard up.
If you're not up to snuff on doing this yourself, take it to a qualified repair shop so they can give it a thorough cleaning and testing.
Now, you MAY be safe from getting anything on the mother board as many notebooks have a solid membrane between the actual keyboard and internal circuitry. So it may be possible to take the notebook apart and clean just the keyboard up.
If you're not up to snuff on doing this yourself, take it to a qualified repair shop so they can give it a thorough cleaning and testing.
I can only say it might not be good. Some juices affect some plastics badly. Don't know how conductive juice is either. What juice is it? Hopefully someone else will have more info for you. This can't be the first time this has happened.
Some of the laptop keyboards (Dell's primarily) I've taken apart have had a rubber membrane sitting over the electronics. So, you might get lucky and not fry anything. However, ejuice is sticky stuff. So, that keyboard will probably never be the same.
EDIT: retired1 beat me to it.
EDIT: retired1 beat me to it.
I'm not sure on the conductivity of eliquid, distiller water is non conductive tho. Certainly turn it off leave it off. Remove the battery. If any damage has not been done yet there certainly is still potential for shorting while it is powered up if juice is still inside. Take it apart clean with a damp rag, (isopropyl is ideal), be carefull to avoid delicate components. Remove all residue, leave it to dry for a good few days at the very least.
Most laptop keyboards are not "open" to the inside of your computer.
At least, most i have replaced aren't.
It sure can make them sticky though. Look down in there w/flashlight and see if open to inside......I highly doubt it.
Defiantly take it to a good repair guy and you should be able to save it.
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Ah, but the keyboard is attached to the Laptop.
Well, that bites.
I'm still kickin' it old school on a desktop...lol
What kind of laptop is it? We can search out how to remove the keys and properly clean it out safely.
A lot of times a leaky clearomizer will leak liquid to where it connects the battery (Ego Twist in my case). It never caused any problem for me. Why is that? no shorts or anything
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I spilled beer on my numpad. 0 stuck for like 2 years. If I tapped 0 it went 0000000000000000000000000000. It JUST stopped doing that three weeks ago.
Man. I have an old computer.
BikerBeagle, that is hilarious. You literally made me laugh out loud. I coulda spilt mah beer, dammit! ;-)
Had dat happen wid my ol' Sony VAIOS laptop. Replaced several keys as needed. But I wound up ordering a new KB when I ran out of alternate keys using KeyTweak. My local 'puter shop replaced my KB for da same price (mitt labor) as one I found on line (sans labor).
Good luck!
Good luck!
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You MIGHT get lucky but I would still be popping the keys off or opening the laptop (some the keyboard lifts off in one piece) and checking under it and cleaning what I can.
You MIGHT get lucky but I would still be popping the keys off or opening the laptop (some the keyboard lifts off in one piece) and checking under it and cleaning what I can.
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I've fixed many of these.
1-download the service manual for your laptop
2-follow the instructions to remove the keyboard
3-spray it liberally with WD-40. If there are particular keys affected, pop them off, and spray inside. Press the key cap back in place.
4-wipe it down and let it dry (you can clean the laptop innards with alcohol wipes)
5-put it back together
If that didn't fix it, pickup a replacement keyboard from eBay; they're cheap.
1-download the service manual for your laptop
2-follow the instructions to remove the keyboard
3-spray it liberally with WD-40. If there are particular keys affected, pop them off, and spray inside. Press the key cap back in place.
4-wipe it down and let it dry (you can clean the laptop innards with alcohol wipes)
5-put it back together
If that didn't fix it, pickup a replacement keyboard from eBay; they're cheap.
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