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Sticky Keys

Jun 10, 2005 2:07PM PDT

I accidentially spilled Kool-Aid on my laptop keyboard Does anyone know how I can safely unstick the keys without taking it in to the geek squad at Best Buy?

HP Pavillion Notebook
Zv5150us
Running XP w/Service Pack 2

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Cheaper than geeksquad.
Jun 11, 2005 12:36AM PDT

Order a new keyboard and replace it.

Many are under 100 bucks and a trip to the repair shop can run more than that.

Bob

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if the kool-aid didn't hurt the note book...
Jun 13, 2005 5:05AM PDT

you could pop the keys out, clean them, and pop them back in, not hard, just be sure to not break them (which is possible)

but the kool-aid could've hurt the notebook