Laptop liquid spill

 Laptop liquid spill

Greetings all. I have a Lenovo v570 laptop I purchased a couple months ago and I have spilled beer on the keyboard. A number of keys do not function now. I took out the keyboard and inspected the inside of the computer for liquid and no liquid appeared to be on any of the components. Computer functions fine with an external keyboard, touch pad works fine, only problem is a number of keys on the keyboard dont work. No liquid appeared to come into contact at the keyboard connector inside the unit and as such I ordered a replacement keyboard. My question is: Is a replacement keyboard likely to solve the keyboard issue?

re-Laptop liquid spill

Only way to know for sure it isn't the motherboard is to replace with a known good keyboard. Careful with the keyboard ZIF lever, if you break it off you need a new motherboard.

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 Re: Laptop liquid spill

Thanks for response. Not much force needed to operate ZIF lever eh? I will handle with care. Interestingly, liquid seemed to drain out of the bottom of the machine. I discovered a small pool of liquid under the machine sometime after the spill, did a little bit of internet searching on the topic and apparently its a design feature of this laptop. Quoted from another site "Starting with the immediate successor to the T43, the T60, Lenovo added actual drain holes to the chassis of their laptops, and redesigned the keyboard assembly so that it had a slight rim all the way around it. So in theory, if you spill something into it, the rim will keep the liquid from spilling past the keyboard and into the guts, and the drain holes will channel the liquid through and out the bottom." Lets hope this design feature worked properly haha.