Sticky Keyboard Keys

I've recently inherited a laptop with a few sticky keyboard keys. I am thinking about taking all the keys off and cleaning the bare keyboard (as well as the loose keys). Anybody know a good product to use? I am thinking Acetone. Suggestions welcome. Thanks.

Here's what I do, be ready to panic! I use dishwashing detergent and a soft cleaning brush (a big one). I wet the brush, scub the keyboard, and rinse it in my shower until it's thoroughly soaked. Then I hold it upside down and whack all the keys with my hand, and run it under the shower again. Then I whack most of the water out and set it on it's end to drain for 2 days, and it works.

I was refurbishing a lot of systems and had to find a quick way to do it, this method takes me less than 1 minute per board.

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You think I should have mentioned that he should remove the keyboard from the laptop first? I make too many assumptions I guess.

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A lot of laptops have a snap off frame around the keyboard, but...they can be tricky to get off and are sometimes secured with the hinge screws for the screen.

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I'm working on a laptop right now, the keyboard just pops out on this one!

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LIke all keyboards, they are spill resistant, but only to small spills.

Anyway, I just fixed this computer, it had a loose MMC-1 processor module. It's a Pentium MMX233, and the BIOS for the laptop supports up to a Pentium II 400.

I'm thinking about telling the guy it couldn't be fixed, giving him $25 for it as a parts machine, then putting in the PII 400 MMC-1 module.

Oh, MMC-1 and MMC-2 modules had both the chipset's northbridge and the CPU on the same card, allong with cache. This was a standard Intel part.

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It's a single heat spreader made to cover both the CPU and chipset northbridge.

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mBGA is the worst way because it doesn't allow upgrades or repairs, but it does allow the notebook to be thinner.

Actually the MMC packages were the BEST way because they allowed you to upgrade from a Pentium/TX to a Pentium II/BX, or a Celeron/LX to a Pentium III/BX, etc.

MMC allowed you to upgrade both the CPU and chipset simultaniously!

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You mean you DON'T think they could care less, because they don't care at all.

But then why would they have the MMC packages to begin with? The entire point of these was to allow builders to put an entire range of CPU's into the same chassis without having separate boards!

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Actually the northbrige and CPU connected to the rest of the board by a PCI connecton on MMC-1, and by a PCI/AGP connection on MMC-2.

So you could have used just about any hardware you liked as long as 1.) you paid Intel the license fee on the card, and 2.) you made BIOS support it.

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