well... i am a coffee drinker... so ?
ok, i've had the imac 400 for about 6 months now, so cool ..
this morning, half awake, i drink my coffee as usually, and eventually spill it on the keyboard (lucky enough it was only the keyboard...)
and it just stopped working, wouldn't answer a key stroke...
a bit of a worry.. anyway, i looked up, for the first time, prices for a new keyboard...and decided i'd try to repair it myself,
so i found myself dismounting the poor thing... took off the transparent covers, and found a white plastic cover underneath, sticked with (not too strong) glue..
took it off, thinking i would see the base of the keyboard and would then be able to easilly access the membrane to see what was wrong...
and saw an incredible amount of tiny little screws !!! amazing quantity of them, i couldn't believe my eyes, after unscrewing the bloody screws, i eventually took apart the keyboard of the membrane, finding lose little plastic nipples for each key, that of course fell everywhere.... making sure i didn't lose any, i started cleaning membrane and keys , and finally put it all back together, after err, about 4 hours work ....
so i guess that will teach me a lesson, not to drink coffee next to the computer, hey..
anyway, as a proud geek , i took fotos of the process, anyone interested, ask me..
(and no, no pics of the coffee, i am thinking about , say water from now on.. coffee with sugar tends to make things a bit sticky..)
well, yes i managed to save my $80 keyboard, and put it all back together...at least i have a clean one now...
Jc
ok, i've had the imac 400 for about 6 months now, so cool ..
this morning, half awake, i drink my coffee as usually, and eventually spill it on the keyboard (lucky enough it was only the keyboard...)
and it just stopped working, wouldn't answer a key stroke...
a bit of a worry.. anyway, i looked up, for the first time, prices for a new keyboard...and decided i'd try to repair it myself,
so i found myself dismounting the poor thing... took off the transparent covers, and found a white plastic cover underneath, sticked with (not too strong) glue..
took it off, thinking i would see the base of the keyboard and would then be able to easilly access the membrane to see what was wrong...
and saw an incredible amount of tiny little screws !!! amazing quantity of them, i couldn't believe my eyes, after unscrewing the bloody screws, i eventually took apart the keyboard of the membrane, finding lose little plastic nipples for each key, that of course fell everywhere.... making sure i didn't lose any, i started cleaning membrane and keys , and finally put it all back together, after err, about 4 hours work ....
so i guess that will teach me a lesson, not to drink coffee next to the computer, hey..
anyway, as a proud geek , i took fotos of the process, anyone interested, ask me..
(and no, no pics of the coffee, i am thinking about , say water from now on.. coffee with sugar tends to make things a bit sticky..)
well, yes i managed to save my $80 keyboard, and put it all back together...at least i have a clean one now...
Jc