Spilled wine on my keyboard

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Doh.

It's the Logitech DiNovo and seems to have broken it :(

Quite a few of the keys don't respond anymore. I've taken it apart and had a look, but nothing obvious.

Anyone have any ideas, or is it for the bin? Out of warranty, but it's such a good keyboard I'd like to try and save it.

Thanks.
 
You could wash it with thoroughly deionised water, a good wash out, then leave it to dry in an airing cupborad for a week or so. This might unstick keys if electrical shorts are present within them. If an internal chip is damaged then not likely to make any difference.
 
Have had vodka spilled on mine (G15) and left it overnight to dry, then took the keys off the next morning and cleaned them all, while the keys were soaking I used cotton buds and nail varnish remover (had no white spirit) and cleaned keyboard itself. Left it overnight to dry, put the keys back on in the morning.

All works now apart from the spacebar doesn't like being pressed on the right hand side (I broke it when taking it off, easily solved with a bit of Blu-tac) and the slider for disabling the Win key is very sticky as it couldn't be removed for cleaning.

This is assuming the DiNovo uses the same mechanisms as the G15 and no Wine has went down into the circuits, if it has then you have to hope that it hasn't caused any damage and it will all work when dry. Hope it all helps :)
 
To be honest, I have never managed to rescue a keyboard after spilling on it (and I have wrecked a few) My last was my G11, took it back to PC world and said it was faulty and they replaced lol.
A wrote my last PC off by spilling coffee on it so I think its time to ban myself from any drinks near the PC!
 
If this keyboard is anything like my Ideazon Zboard then it's not good. I spilt tea in mine and some keys stopped working.

Opened it up and the silver painted tracks on the flexible keyboard circuit had partially eroded/dissolved in places causing open circuits..

I did manage to fix it but you need a multimeter to test the track continuity and some conductive silver paint.
 
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