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So im watching ipl4 eating some sourdough bread and drinking a glass of water. I then stupidly knock my glass of water over, it spilling on the keyboard and iphone. I hold the keyboard upside down while my bro gets paper towels. In the chat box on twitch i noticed -------- was being inputed, and then nothing. The computer then started making the sound when you connect/disconnect something repeatedly, so i unplugged it. My iphones fine btw.
The keyboard is currently under a fan. I decided to try to plug ot in after water was no longer noticeable, but my comp was "unsuccessful in installing driver software".
And the keyboard obv didnt work. So its under the fan
I've read online that some people take apart their keyboard, pour distilled water over it, and let it dry put it back together and its fine.
I've also read that some people use blowdryers and let it dry for a few days and its fine
However, ive read you should immediately unplug the keyboard, and i didnt do that.
So TL, is it salvagable? I promise i become chobo gosu progamer and beat all koreans if you fix it.
+ Show Spoiler +just kidding, i wish. But this really is ruining my day.
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STOP USING IT. RIGHT NOW. AIR IT OUT FOR THE NEXT WEEK.
I did somethign similar, except it was a whopping 12 drops of water. I was like pfft whatever and just continued to use it.
I broke that keyboard forever. It would constantly think I was pressing and holding alt every 5 seconds or so.
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On April 07 2012 06:10 ensign_lee wrote:
STOP USING IT. RIGHT NOW. AIR IT OUT FOR THE NEXT WEEK.
I did somethign similar, except it was a whopping 12 drops of water. I was like pfft whatever and just continued to use it.
I broke that keyboard forever. It would constantly think I was pressing and holding alt every 5 seconds or so.
1 whole week? Like i said, it is under a fan
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Up to you man. I was pretty pissed that I killed a $100 keyboard with about half a centimeter of water from a small cup.
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Open it up and dry it off. If it's currently not working there's a good chance water drops inside the case might be causing short circuits. If some worse damage has happened then it's already too late any way. Putting it under a fan for a week would be silly, if you do have a short, it's inside the case and not really something the fan can hit, so it won't make a difference.
Be careful not to break it further if you do open it up, find a guide online, I'm sure some one has opened those up before.
EDIT: Be aware opening up your keyboard probably voids the waranty. Although spilling water on it probably does as well 
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On April 07 2012 06:39 No_Roo wrote:Open it up and dry it off. If it's currently not working there's a good chance water drops inside the case might be causing short circuits. If some worse damage has happened then it's already too late any way. Putting it under a fan for a week would be silly, if you do have a short, it's inside the case and not really something the fan can hit, so it won't make a difference. Be careful not to break it further if you do open it up, find a guide online, I'm sure some one has opened those up before. EDIT: Be aware opening up your keyboard probably voids the waranty. Although spilling water on it probably does as well
Yeah i read on razers website that spiiling water voids the warranty. Could i perhaps try to plug it in tomoro and then if it doesnt work RMA it saying its defective? I read that someone did that and it worked(cuz the internet is a trustworthy source.)
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On April 07 2012 06:53 Bippzy wrote:Show nested quote +On April 07 2012 06:39 No_Roo wrote:Open it up and dry it off. If it's currently not working there's a good chance water drops inside the case might be causing short circuits. If some worse damage has happened then it's already too late any way. Putting it under a fan for a week would be silly, if you do have a short, it's inside the case and not really something the fan can hit, so it won't make a difference. Be careful not to break it further if you do open it up, find a guide online, I'm sure some one has opened those up before. EDIT: Be aware opening up your keyboard probably voids the waranty. Although spilling water on it probably does as well Yeah i read on razers website that spiiling water voids the warranty. Could i perhaps try to plug it in tomoro and then if it doesnt work RMA it saying its defective? I read that someone did that and it worked(cuz the internet is a trustworthy source.)
Well, you could. I have no idea how effective that would be. I imagine they probably know how to determine if the cause of the damage was a liquid spill of any sort fairly easily.
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A couple hours should be sufficient, especially if it was a little bit of water. plus you did the right thing by putting it under a fan. Now if it was soda or some other drink product you might not be so lucky
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put it in the sun or use the hair dryer
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Strange. I've washed cheap keyboards under running water which worked just fine. Thought they could take it. Maybe depends on if they are plugged in..
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Refrigerator for a couple days max and it should be ok, just dont use it.
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I have spilled water in lager amounts on my blackwidow (not the ulitmate) about 3 times now at least every time I just have unpluged it flipped it over and let it dry for about 20 mins then plug it back in a go back to gaming.
From what I have seen its a pretty sturdy board water wise i have killed quite a ferw in my day with carless water habits.
Sablar its about short curcits which need power to occure but I still wouldnt recomend using that much water to clean a board because you risk water getting inside and staying there better of with high% alcohol, or a damp cloth.
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I cleaned my old one by running it through water lol, I imagine yours will be fine once it dries out.
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LOL, the same thing just happened to me xD keys are hanging and acting all wierd. it was just a tiny bit of water.
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This is the reason I switch to my rubber dome keyboard when i know that im not gonna be gaming. no joke, seasoned keyboards feel as good as mechanical ones
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I spilled half a glass of water on my Filco Majestouch. I immediately turned it upside down and drained all the water out that I could. I pulled many of the keys off and dried out underneath the keycaps and in the switch wells. There was a significant amount of water built up in some of the switches. Some of the keys still didn't work after waiting a day with the caps off drying, but pressing them repeatedly and waiting even longer worked for most of them. Some of them didn't work well, for a couple of weeks, but eventually started to work again. I presume there was a small amount of water in the switch where I could not easily access it to dry it off.
Don't give up hope! Pull off keycaps and try to dry it off as best as possible. It would suck to lose such an expensive (and nice) keyboard!
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On April 07 2012 10:10 hunall wrote:
I have spilled water in lager amounts on my blackwidow (not the ulitmate) about 3 times now at least every time I just have unpluged it flipped it over and let it dry for about 20 mins then plug it back in a go back to gaming.
From what I have seen its a pretty sturdy board water wise i have killed quite a ferw in my day with carless water habits.
Sablar its about short curcits which need power to occure but I still wouldnt recomend using that much water to clean a board because you risk water getting inside and staying there better of with high% alcohol, or a damp cloth.
You sir, are a genius. I spilled freakin Iced Capp on it and i left it for like half an hour trying to figure out what to do with it (the keyboard wasn't working). I left it upside down overnight and it works fine this morning.
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Interesting, I did something similar to my black widow...except it was a full glass of soda right into the key tray, I just took out all the keys and dabbed it down. Mine works fine except for occasional sticky keys that I clean out and they work fine. Fucking indestructible if you ask me...but good luck, sir.
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Just because its working doesn't mean some sort of damage may have been done already. Just thought I'd point that out.
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put it in a bag of rice, it will draw out the moisture XD
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just dry it, and then wait and try every day if the installing driver is working, had the same problem , eventually it worked after like 7-10 days after i tested out shitload of stuff :D
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Let it rest upside down on a towel, like people said earlier I've also put keyboards under the running faucet and it worked fine after letting it dry properly before using it again. If it's something with sugar / glucose that will make it stick, I would write off that keyboard.
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Wow i must have been pretty lucky when i spilled almost a full cup of water on my blackwidow and it was perfectly fine, just dumped the water out and was using it again less than 5 mins later.
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just spille micro drops of water on my keys and instantly many of them werent working anymore or created doubletaps/pressed 2 keys. I am now letting it dry upside down and I am hoping I didnt do serious damage to it by letting it plugged in for several minutes trying to figure out which keys are still working and which dont.
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On October 07 2012 08:22 BlacKcuD wrote:
just spille micro drops of water on my keys and instantly many of them werent working anymore or created doubletaps/pressed 2 keys. I am now letting it dry upside down and I am hoping I didnt do serious damage to it by letting it plugged in for several minutes trying to figure out which keys are still working and which dont.
What a coincidence. The same happened to me 2 days ago.
And yes it fucked up the keyboard bigtime as the keyboard wouldn't even light up or work at all, but it's all fine now.
I removed all keys, used a hairdryer on it for like 10 minutes continuously and then it was all ok.
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On October 07 2012 09:08 Psychobabas wrote:Show nested quote +On October 07 2012 08:22 BlacKcuD wrote:
just spille micro drops of water on my keys and instantly many of them werent working anymore or created doubletaps/pressed 2 keys. I am now letting it dry upside down and I am hoping I didnt do serious damage to it by letting it plugged in for several minutes trying to figure out which keys are still working and which dont. What a coincidence. The same happened to me 2 days ago. And yes it fucked up the keyboard bigtime as the keyboard wouldn't even light up or work at all, but it's all fine now. I removed all keys, used a hairdryer on it for like 10 minutes continuously and then it was all ok.
I wouldn't use a hair dryer on any keyboard, good chance you'll warp the plastic or blow the water from somewhere it won't do damage to somewhere it will. I'd pull the keys off and let it dry upside down on some paper towels.
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Don't use hair dryer.
As i said on first page. Refrigerator. Its the safest solution.
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I knocked an entire glass of orange juice over mine one time. Still works to this day.
The L key was sticky for a while but it's fine now.
I'd say just air it out for a while, bag of rice will help as well.
Water is a good conductor, and if any electricity goes through it to the wrong place, it's toast. The black, burnt kind that you can't eat.
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On April 07 2012 10:05 Sablar wrote:
Strange. I've washed cheap keyboards under running water which worked just fine. Thought they could take it. Maybe depends on if they are plugged in..
you said it yourself. cheap keyboards. This is not one of those. Mechanical keyboards are not the same thing as the cheap membrane stuff that you washed under running water.
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Instead of creating a new thread I thought I would just bump this instead: Disclaimer known terminology - zero
I recently spilled tea on my black widow and thankfully after unplugging it wiping it up and setting it upside down overnight it decided to keep living. However, my space bar no longer makes the "click" sound. It still works but may be a tiny bit less responsive than i'm used to and it's just generally frustrating.
Do you all have any suggestions that I could try to get the space to function as it used to?
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On February 05 2013 01:18 Tahona wrote:
Instead of creating a new thread I thought I would just bump this instead: Disclaimer known terminology - zero
I recently spilled tea on my black widow and thankfully after unplugging it wiping it up and setting it upside down overnight it decided to keep living. However, my space bar no longer makes the "click" sound. It still works but may be a tiny bit less responsive than i'm used to and it's just generally frustrating.
Do you all have any suggestions that I could try to get the space to function as it used to?
I don't want to sound like a dick, but there are thousands of threads across TL, OCN etc on repairing blackwidows after spills.
Here is a guide. Do some searching before you post next time.
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My motto is "lean back before you snack" kept my keyboard clean so far  . That's more on the preventative side though lol.
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On April 07 2012 06:09 Bippzy wrote:So im watching ipl4 eating some sourdough bread and drinking a glass of water. I then stupidly knock my glass of water over, it spilling on the keyboard and iphone. I hold the keyboard upside down while my bro gets paper towels. In the chat box on twitch i noticed -------- was being inputed, and then nothing. The computer then started making the sound when you connect/disconnect something repeatedly, so i unplugged it. My iphones fine btw. The keyboard is currently under a fan. I decided to try to plug ot in after water was no longer noticeable, but my comp was "unsuccessful in installing driver software". And the keyboard obv didnt work. So its under the fan I've read online that some people take apart their keyboard, pour distilled water over it, and let it dry put it back together and its fine. I've also read that some people use blowdryers and let it dry for a few days and its fine However, ive read you should immediately unplug the keyboard, and i didnt do that. So TL, is it salvagable? I promise i become chobo gosu progamer and beat all koreans if you fix it. + Show Spoiler +just kidding, i wish. But this really is ruining my day.
If you do it again, remember. If it was just a couple of drops, shake it upside down for like a minute or so. Then put a towel underneath and get a hairdryer and blow the keyboard. Then put it in the oven on 50 celsius. And let it dry in there
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On March 01 2015 02:53 Marcus_Sw wrote:Show nested quote +On April 07 2012 06:09 Bippzy wrote:So im watching ipl4 eating some sourdough bread and drinking a glass of water. I then stupidly knock my glass of water over, it spilling on the keyboard and iphone. I hold the keyboard upside down while my bro gets paper towels. In the chat box on twitch i noticed -------- was being inputed, and then nothing. The computer then started making the sound when you connect/disconnect something repeatedly, so i unplugged it. My iphones fine btw. The keyboard is currently under a fan. I decided to try to plug ot in after water was no longer noticeable, but my comp was "unsuccessful in installing driver software". And the keyboard obv didnt work. So its under the fan I've read online that some people take apart their keyboard, pour distilled water over it, and let it dry put it back together and its fine. I've also read that some people use blowdryers and let it dry for a few days and its fine However, ive read you should immediately unplug the keyboard, and i didnt do that. So TL, is it salvagable? I promise i become chobo gosu progamer and beat all koreans if you fix it. + Show Spoiler +just kidding, i wish. But this really is ruining my day. If you do it again, remember. If it was just a couple of drops, shake it upside down for like a minute or so. Then put a towel underneath and get a hairdryer and blow the keyboard. Then put it in the oven on 50 celsius. And let it dry in there
The post is almost two years old, I'm sure he's fixed it or bought a new one.
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