Hi,
I just had an accident with coke zero and a small portion of that spilled on my keyboard.
I took some keys off and dried it, and it seemed really that nothing had happened.
I connected the keyboard (mistake...) and it was working, then went blank and seemed to have been switched off. After disconecting and reconecting, All leds went on and It was like frozen and windows could not intall it.
I then disconected it and dissasembled it, and noticed some of the spill had went to the bottom of the case and spread. Some got to the small pcb that is behind the big key plate, and I noticed it has a small ammount of liquid behind it, and that at one part of that small cirtuit has a white goo, alsmos transparent, that i am not sure if its normal or if some component had a leak due to a short circuit or something.
I dried all the parts with absorvent paper, and plced it all under a fan.
I wonder if theres still hope for it? Could it be that just that small pcb got defective, since i assume the reason wondows didnt recognized the kb is because of that small pcb being in short cirtuit?
I really am hating myself now for not letting it rest for like a week imediately after the spill.
This is the pcb that had the white goo, between those 2 large components that has a transparent plastic band across it:
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6133/6010103286_5dc3549158.jpg