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| Norris2k said: In most (but not all) laptop, you can just remove the keyboard entirely (and replace it). It should looks like something like that. After you removed it, you can clean further, and test without the keyboard. After spilling some coke, I had to replace it and it went just fine. |
Yeah I looked into that. The keyboard is the last thing to come out when taking it apart which doesn't look like an easy job. (Dell Inspiron 7558) Especially since my eye sight close up is pretty bad, and those screws I saw inside when checking the hdd are mighty tiny. It also has one of those fancy backlit keyboards but it should work with a standard one as well.
I'm weighing my options. Spend money on a repair shop, try a new hdd (which is the bigger issue, why can't it reboot normally), or get a better one and try fix it later. I feel about 50/50 that I'm going to wreck it further when I try to replace the keyboard myself... Should have got one that opens from the top as well!
It just passed the hdd tests from Dell Support, no issues found. yay :/
