My left keyboard is messed up

[Spammathon]

Well, I spilled tea into my keyboard recently.
Good thing tea isn't really corrosive or acidic.

My laptop is completely alive, except for one thing....
The keys on the left side of my keyboard are sticking down like crazy, and they make annoying snapping noises too.

After the spill, I couldn't open up my laptop to begin with (I don't have an arrowhead screwdriver) so I'm pretty glad it's alive.


Any ideas for fixing up "sticky keys" without opening a laptop? XD

[Ethan]

You could try to pop the keyboard off and clean under it with a Q-Tip or something like that.

[surgeongeneralissimo]

spill some cleaning solution onto the keyboard
or google up a guide
like this one: Clean Your Sticky Laptop Keyboard

[Spammathon]

Oh, thanks
Man, that seems like a lot of work though xD

[323]

Press shift five times! You'll hear a beep, and then the Stickey Keys menu will open

[Spammathon]

Too bad I can't press it fast enough

It takes time to rebound back up

[323]

Too bad I can't press it fast enough

It takes time to rebound back up

You have two shift keys

[Aleena]

Unless you have a saitec or some other nice LED or gaming keyboard, Just go pickup a keyboard online (Their honestly like 5 bucks WITH shipping)

So...Yeah. 5 bucks...Doit.

[323]

Ten bucks with shipping: Amazon.com: Buying Choices: HP Standard 104 key PS/2 Keyboard

That's for a nice PS/2 keyboard. I had a great mechanical PS/2 keyboard before, but that broke, so I'm stuck with a dumb old Compaq one that's not mechanical.