Professor Moriarty
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First, I know I'm amazingly lucky as I managed to get the laptop away quickly and cleaned and pretty much absolutely everything still works. No sparks, no blow-ups - *whew*
But, and it's amazing how annoying the little things are, my Home/End PgUp/PgDn buttons don't work any more (or at the moment?). They'd have got the brunt at the end of the keyboard.
Does anyone have experience with this kind of accident? Is that just it and I'll have to live without (and remain thankful the rest is fine).
I had a similar incident. It was the end of my Alt key, which made logging on a lot of fun. I also lost several other keys. So I hope this doesn't happen to you.
I had in mind you got a machine recently. If so it may have some spill coverage and I'd encourage you to take it back to a professional if that is the case. As you will normally find a couple of sheets under the keyboard and contacts on the keys. Liquid can get trapped in those, change the behaviour of the contact and make keys not work. You can also lose additional keys over time.
If not the best thing you can do is to:
- Dry it paper towel between the keys that stuff (assuming you've done this)
- Clean it (bit of water or solvent if you can get under those keys as Irn Bru will leave a sticky residue when it evaporates)
- Leave it to dry preferably overnight if you can manage not to use it for a good while.
Good luck!
EDIT Oh and of course disconnect from power, remove battery etc if you are playing around with it too much 
< Message edited by Professor Moriarty -- 30/10/2012 12:10:51 PM >
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