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Title: Sooo how much beer has your lap top drank
Post by: edz on January 21, 2013, 06:22:37 PM
Well, mine has just had the better part of a stubby.. and all I can say is thank god for paper towel and a butter knife..and a blow dryer..6 melted keys later its sort o working. keeps wanting to run ffffffffffffffffffffff randfom keys
Title: Re: Sooo how much beer has your lap top drank
Post by: Mace on January 21, 2013, 06:35:28 PM
Your "Improvise, adapt and overcome" Tag line is well deserved.

Now what do you do about red wine stains on the carpet beside the PC desk!

 :cheers:
Title: Re: Sooo how much beer has your lap top drank
Post by: Trex_s4m1 on January 21, 2013, 06:46:24 PM
beetroot gets out red wine stains :| .. dont try that :D  :cheers:

if the laptop still works you can actually disconnect the old keyboard and just plug an external.. isnt very mobile but should work.
Title: Re: Sooo how much beer has your lap top drank
Post by: edz on January 21, 2013, 07:08:25 PM
A stanley knife works on really stubborn ones, just got to find a patch of carpet in a cupboard that matches, and a tin of contact..
Thanks Sami, it seems to be getting better the more I use it, just got to remember what letters  the missing key pads are..Any one got a Toshiba satellite  laptop that they will part out some of the key pads from ?LOL.
Title: Re: Sooo how much beer has your lap top drank
Post by: JU5T1N on January 21, 2013, 07:32:40 PM
just got to remember what letters  the missing key pads are..Any one got a Toshiba satellite  laptop that they will part out some of the key pads from ?LOL.
theres always......well just how good are you with your carpentry tools???
(http://www.japandesign.ne.jp/HTM/PRO-IN/071031/img/diy-kit-2.jpg)
Or this will fit in your pocket, will be hard to use in the middle of the day
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--H6vOfawUTY/ULlta8y75DI/AAAAAAAABd0/2vYvmOkZ9xE/s1600/cube_laser_virtual_keyboard_for_iphone_inuse.jpg)
 ;D Good luck
Title: Re: Sooo how much beer has your lap top drank
Post by: edz on January 22, 2013, 07:32:35 PM
WooHoo, flattened out the buckled key pads..bit of super glue and a fragment of a tooth pick to re-attach the pads..and we are working again...
Title: Re: Sooo how much beer has your lap top drank
Post by: cruisindub on January 22, 2013, 07:42:10 PM
Within the first week, of my very first laptop, my veryfirst and very expensive laptop, glass of water and laptop met in a clumsy moment of taking a drink.
end result; fried mother board.

Very expensive lesson that.
Title: Sooo how much beer has your lap top drank
Post by: ozbogwam on January 22, 2013, 07:55:58 PM
I used to work with a girl who in the space of 6 months spilt 4 glasses of water, two cans of coke, a cup a soup, 3 cups of coffee and the final killer, a curry laksa onto her keyboard.
Title: Sooo how much beer has your lap top drank
Post by: BigJules on January 22, 2013, 08:17:35 PM
I used to work with a girl who in the space of 6 months spilt 4 glasses of water, two cans of coke, a cup a soup, 3 cups of coffee and the final killer, a curry laksa onto her keyboard.
When I was a CIO I would have given her an Etcha-sketch and said don't come back.
Title: Re: Sooo how much beer has your lap top drank
Post by: Mace on January 22, 2013, 08:27:59 PM
When I was a CIO I would have given her an Etcha-sketch and said don't come back.

 ;D

Perhaps too technical for her, maybe a blackboard and Chalk.

 :cheers:
Title: Sooo how much beer has your lap top drank
Post by: ozbogwam on January 22, 2013, 08:30:26 PM
We fix it with all of them except the laksa. She wasn't allowed to eat or drink in the studio from then on
Title: Sooo how much beer has your lap top drank
Post by: PeaBrainPete on January 22, 2013, 08:39:14 PM
Try some of the lenovos. Carbon X1 will resist a spilt drink. Speaking from experience it works. It was a major reason to go for it, especially as it will take a drop. Clumsiness is something I have in spades with things I like, the ugly crockery is however as safe as houses.
Title: Re: Sooo how much beer has your lap top drank
Post by: BigJules on January 22, 2013, 08:43:39 PM
All my HP laptops have watermproof keyboards.
Title: Re: Sooo how much beer has your lap top drank
Post by: edz on January 22, 2013, 09:09:55 PM
I cant really get angry, I was giving my youngest a big hug and a shake after getting home from work, while sitting at the desk, and bingo over the  stubby went...
Title: Re: Sooo how much beer has your lap top drank
Post by: MattNQ on January 22, 2013, 09:30:30 PM
finally, a robust, splash resistant laptop ;D


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