How can everyone be dropping orange juice and pepsi and coffee on there keyboard and it still works. Help. I had a few loose keys on my dell inspiron 4100. I took them off to fix them. I cleaned under them with a Q-tip and alcohol and now the thing doesn't work. I did this one other time with no problem. I know it's the keyboard because I connected and external one and it worked fin. Dell said the keyboard is shot and I need to send it in. I asked him if I could do it myself and he said no. I think I can. About a third of the keys still work, the rest don't. I only had 5 keys off to clean. Does anyone have any ideas other than replacing the keyboard?
How can everyone be dropping orange juice and pepsi and coffee on there keyboard and it still works. Help. I had a few loose keys on my dell inspiron 4100. I took them off to fix them. I cleaned under them with a Q-tip and alcohol and now the thing doesn't work. I did this one other time with no problem. I know it's the keyboard because I connected and external one and it worked fin. Dell said the keyboard is shot and I need to send it in. I asked him if I could do it myself and he said no. I think I can. About a third of the keys still work, the rest don't. I only had 5 keys off to clean. Does anyone have any ideas other than replacing the keyboard?