Never spill anything on your keyboard!

and I mean, ANYTHING!

[sidyadav]

Incident:
About a month ago, I started to converting my room into a rest home. All food, drinks, water, chips, beer was served in my room!

It was pretty cool for a while, until...
One day, I kept a glass of water on my computer desk. I then went searching for a CD, and couldn't find it, and accidentally hit my hand over the glass of water and.......

YES - It just spilled all over my keyboard.

It was 3AM in the night (Friday), and I tested the keyboard, worked fine, just left it and went to bed. Next day , I wake up and..the keyboard wasn't functional anymore :(

Steps taken:

I unplugged the keyboard after about 13 hours of the incident, and left it to dry for about 8 hours.

After the 8 hours, dis-assembled the keyboard and cleaned it, used a vacuum cleaner and dried all the inside parts using a blower.

Still nothing.

Conclusion:
Ended up buying a brand new Microsoft Internet Keyboard, worth $40USD (the old one was a Elite L something, a cheap one for $20USD :)).

I still miss the old keyboard though..have been attached to it since 2 years, but hey, the new keyboard's got like a 100 new features, just need time to get used to it!

Moral of the story:
Never keep any food/drink near your computer desk! and if you do, take safety measures.
If, accidentally you happen to spill anything on the keyboard, unplug it first!

Unfortunately, my room is back to the 'geek' room, with just a computer, printer, scanner, FAX machine, digital camera, another computer and a bed ;) (and of course, me sitting on the computer 13/7 :))

Sid

[TallTroll]

If you never snarf your coffee, how are you supposed get the oaken patina on your keyboard?

one for the old time Foo-ites. I can't find a link any longer :(

[limbo]

I remember your thread Deejay

an absolute classic :)

I had a similar thing happen to me while reading a FOO thread not to long ago (lawman was too blame this time)- only I was only the phone to my suppliers, talking numbers, or something equally boring, and reading the thread at the same time (not advisable) but as I read it, one line caught me off guard, and I *snorted* with laughter. Not a stifled quaff, we are talking the full blown 'do you ride-plummy-horsey-english' snort! and loud to boot. I have no idea why I made this sound and how it's eruption caught me as off guard as the supplier but it brought an abrupt end to the conversation. I had to hang up beacause it sent me spiralling into a severe attack of the giggles.

I can't remember what I said to the suppliers when I had gathered my thoughts but I am sure it was apologetic.

There is a lesson to be learned here - maybe certain FOO threads could have a health warning attached to them?

[eWhisper]

There is a lesson to be learned here - maybe certain FOO threads could have a health warning attached to them?

or a share to seem human story...

I was on the phone with a potential client reading the You know you're spending too long on the computer when... [webmasterworld.com] thread when digitalhosts's comment:

"When you refuse to answer the phone and can honestly say, "If it's important they'll send email".

caused me to start laughing as it's something I had said about an hour earlier. Of course, the person on the phone who was talking about spending money had no idea what I was laughing about, so I read him the thread.

He didn't get half the jokes.
But thought I must be a geek who knew what he was doing to get such a kick out of the thread.

So he hired me on the spot.

Thanks digitalhost :)

[Herenvardo]

I had a related problem with my PC some time ago...
I won't explain it here but, if your computer's box uses to be open, try to do not smoke near it unless you have a spare motherboard... The ash on the slots is letal!
Fortunatelly, I HAD a spare motherboard.
But since then, there is completely prohibited to smoke, eat, drink and spit* in the room where the computer is.
[small]*: I added that prohibition because a dirty custom of my brother...

Greetings,
Herenvardö