Standard USB Keyboard, Black
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- Adjustable height
- Durable, quiet-touch keys
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Our smooth-feel USB keyboard is 100% Windows-compatible and is the ideal replacement for your dirty ol’ keyboard clunker.
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Question by snowwhitelace: How do I fix a keyboard that shorted out in water?
My mom bought me a keyboard from a garage sale. It was the thought that counts. The lady said it worked but it had been rained on that morning and was drenched inside and out. Desperate to make a good present for me, mom wiped it up and took it to an electronics store and asked them to fit a power plug to it. Mom said the keyboard flickered and then went off. I about flipped a gasket when she said the inside still leaked a little bit of water when she picked it up to bring it home!!!!!!!I’ve tried letting it sit out and dry, but I put batteries in today and it’s fried. Is there anything I can do to save this beautiful keyboard? I want to take it with me on a roadtrip.
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Answer by tiffi p
try throwing more water on it and see if that helps.What do you think? Answer below!
Very good but not perfect,
I ordered two of these keyboards and they were delivered promptly and work great out of the box. I do recommend the product to purchasers who want a simple, cheap, functional USB keyboard with good key action with a decent solid feeling to it.
However, as someone who uses a keyboard all day at work and for a probably unhealthy amount at home as well, I couldn’t give the keyboard 5 out of 5.
Someone probably thought it would be a great idea to include “extra” keys that many keyboards have these days: e.g. Power/Sleep/Wake Up. Well, its kinda sorta a good idea. The problem is that the manufacturer achieved this by moving the insert/delete keys down a line.
Look closely at the picture and you’ll see that above the cursor keys there is a block of 3 x 3 keys, not the usual two rows of 3 keys.
Its frustrating to remember that when I want “insert” I need to press where “delete” used to be, and pressing what I thought was “insert” is now “print screen”. On top of that, you might accidentally power off your computer if you try to hit where “print screen” normally is.
This keyboard would be simply excellent if they’d kept the normal layout, or put a special “alt” function that enables different keysets. As it is, it is between 3-4 out of 5.
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|You get what you pay for,
Well great price for this keyboard. BUT the one I recieved new out of the box already had a problem with the enter key being stuck periodically. Scrubbed it down and it still does it. Not to mention I dislike that “power” button on top, accidently hit that many a time. Anyway you get what you pay for, be warned.
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|The only thing you can do is buy a new one. It was nice of your mom to buy it though!!!! Good luck!
No, I’m sorry there is nothing you can do to fix it. The keyboard is totally fried.
Unfortunately, I think its pretty much kaputz now. I have heard of cell phones taking a swim and rising from the dead, but if the keyboard is shorted, there isnt much you can do I’m sorry to say.
I recently read somewhere that if you set your oven to a low temperature, like somewhere under 175 or maybe even the “keep warm” setting, it can dry out things that were wet. I can’t guarantee this, but it’s worth a try. It would cause the water to evaporate. Make sure the temp is low enough to not melt plastic. Check on it constantly and maybe try it for 10 minutes or less. Good luck!
This same technique is used to dry out cell phones.