Hey guys, so my keyboard is currently broken. I'm typing from my laptop in case anybody is wondering.
My keyboard is a Gigabyte GK-K6800 and it's not working, although I'm not sure why. I opened it up to clean it out since it's been a couple years and I thought it'd be a good time, in hindsight, probably not the best idea. I just took the plastic part of the keyboard and ran it under water. I probably should've waited for it to be completely dry before trying to put it together again, I guess I must've thought it was no longer wet. Either way, I actually couldn't remember it was put together. I looked up some guides on how keyboards work and I have a much better understanding now, but I still don't know what's wrong. My keyboard has three small metal slabs that don't seem to do anything, I assume they're just for keeping the plastic sheets in place. Is the plastic layers supposed to be above or below the LED/Cable/Processor piece?
Here's a rough image of what it looks like. (http://i.imgur.com/OmfNW7J.png)
As for the other side, it looks something like this. (http://s.hswstatic.com/gif/keyboard-controller.jpg)
I tried both sides and both don't seem to work so I'm really not sure. The LED still lights up I know part of it still works.. I think the issue is the plastic layers simply aren't sending any response. Is it possible that the plastic layers short circuited or anything?
I was going to just buy a new keyboard right away but as I was trying to fix it, my computer randomly played a song on my desktop and I only have a mouse at the moment so I'm hoping that the keyboard started working for a bit and was randomly inputting keystrokes.
Sorry if this sounds really dumb, I honestly have no idea about keyboards. My knowledge came from a couple minutes of Googling. Thanks in advance.
My keyboard is a Gigabyte GK-K6800 and it's not working, although I'm not sure why. I opened it up to clean it out since it's been a couple years and I thought it'd be a good time, in hindsight, probably not the best idea. I just took the plastic part of the keyboard and ran it under water. I probably should've waited for it to be completely dry before trying to put it together again, I guess I must've thought it was no longer wet. Either way, I actually couldn't remember it was put together. I looked up some guides on how keyboards work and I have a much better understanding now, but I still don't know what's wrong. My keyboard has three small metal slabs that don't seem to do anything, I assume they're just for keeping the plastic sheets in place. Is the plastic layers supposed to be above or below the LED/Cable/Processor piece?
Here's a rough image of what it looks like. (http://i.imgur.com/OmfNW7J.png)
As for the other side, it looks something like this. (http://s.hswstatic.com/gif/keyboard-controller.jpg)
I tried both sides and both don't seem to work so I'm really not sure. The LED still lights up I know part of it still works.. I think the issue is the plastic layers simply aren't sending any response. Is it possible that the plastic layers short circuited or anything?
I was going to just buy a new keyboard right away but as I was trying to fix it, my computer randomly played a song on my desktop and I only have a mouse at the moment so I'm hoping that the keyboard started working for a bit and was randomly inputting keystrokes.
Sorry if this sounds really dumb, I honestly have no idea about keyboards. My knowledge came from a couple minutes of Googling. Thanks in advance.
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