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keyboard cleaning mistake?

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Chessire

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Feb 8, 2010
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Hopefully someone will be able to help me out. I hae been cleaning my keyboard for the last couple of hours. After watching a ideo on YouTube i started prying off the keys to get under them as they are isibly dirty underneath. i was using damp Q-tips. Now the right arrow and the \/ and the comma don't work (as i am sure you can see). Or capital i if i use the shift button despite the fact that i haen't touched either of those yet.

Help?
 
Chessire said:
Hopefully someone will be able to help me out. I hae been cleaning my keyboard for the last couple of hours. After watching a ideo on YouTube i started prying off the keys to get under them as they are isibly dirty underneath. i was using damp Q-tips. Now the right arrow and the \/ and the comma don't work (as i am sure you can see). Or capital i if i use the shift button despite the fact that i haen't touched either of those yet.

Help?
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You do realise you've just invented the worlds first illiterate Mac.:D
 
If the keys are completely goosed you could use the onscreen keyboard or try and pickup a cheap wireless keyboard.
 
Well, I'll be helpful.

You know those little rubbery-plastic domes underneath the keys? Those need to be right on the contact or the key won't work. So go back and make sure those are on the right spot as they're rather easy to knock off.

What were your Q-Tips damp with? I'm hoping your answer is rubbing alcohol (isopropyl) and not water...
 
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