Re: [tlug] Ubuntu Trusty (14.04) issues

["Daniel A. Ramaley" <daniel.ramaley@example.com>]

On 2014-05-17 at 13:00:27 Josh Glover wrote:
> Just for fun, you could try soaking the broken keyboard in clean water
> overnight, then letting it dry completely for several days. It may
> well work, as there's a good chance that your broken row just has
> some dried coffee gunk shorting out a couple circuits.

I used to do this for one of my very first tech jobs, when i was still a 
university student. The university offered very cheap computer rentals, 
so there was a machine in almost every dorm room. And as one may 
imagine, some of them got pretty nasty and would stop working due to too 
much stuff spilled in them. We'd take apart keyboards, and sometimes 
actual computers, soak them in warm water for 10 minutes, then put them 
on an air vent overnight to dry.

Electronics are surprisingly resilient to water, as long as they are not 
powered when they are wet. If you have a dirty motherboard to wash, just 
remember to remove the clock battery. And be sure that everything is 
completely dried out before applying power again. Emphasis on 
*completely*... water likes to hide under chips. Or at least it did when 
i cleaned computer parts; more things use modern surface mount 
technology today and i'd guess that water is less inclined to flow 
underneath those.

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