Urgent help with laptop need

[Major]

Hi.

Few hours ago my Toshiba Tecra R940-1JF had close encounter with pint of energy drink. Thankfully most of it survived unharmed, but my keyboard is no more. I tried to look for replacement, but couldn't find any.

Does anyone know where in UK I can get another keyboard?

All pointers will be appreciated.

Cheers
Tom

 

[stupar]

Why not plug in an external USB keyboard.

 

[Major]

It does, that's how I use it now, but with factory keyboard taken out laptop has internals within reach of my always curious dogs/kids.

 

[Keith W]

I am amusing you have left it to dry out properly?

At least 24 hours if not more

 

[Major]

Yeah, but energy drinks are sticky as hell, so wouldn't expect it to work even when dry.

 

[Keith W]

EBay has a number of keyboards listed

 

[stupar]

Is this the same as yours?

Look at this on eBay http://www.ebay.com/itm/262564375755

 

[Major]

It is the same, thanks for the link.

 

[Major]

Now that I know keyboard from R840 fits, it will make search much easier . Once again thank you Stu for link and all for input.

 

[gilbouk]

If any of the drink hits your motherboard, in a short time, the acid in the sugar will eat the printed circuits for breakfast. I wouldn't spend any money on it if that's the case, as eventually it will stop working. I would perform a backup of any important data asap just to be safe

 

[Major]

I've got all data backed up already .

After that happened, first thing was to remove battery and then complete strip down. No components inside were wet thankfully, only keyboard. It soaked up a lot of drink, but didn't let even one drop lower. Everything got cleaned and seems to work fine.

Thanks for mentioning this anyway, will wait a bit then and see how things develop.

 

[GTG]

I changed one on a Toshiba laptop. Absolute pig of a fiddle and poor connector / lack of room and ribbon cable length too short made it impossible for me.

And I can easily build watercooled PC`s in half an hour with no problems at all.

 

[Major]

Tell me about it, I took the bloody thing apart from the bottom and then realised I could just pull the bevel above keyboard and take it off in less than 30 seconds - also with plenty of room to fiddle!