[tpicco]

damn...Last night I spilled a glass of ice & water on my iMac keyboard... I immediately flipped it, shook the water out as best as I could, and used compressed are to try & blow/dry the rest...

today I discovered that a few keys don't work on that side of the keyboard: The right shift key, the up arrow key, and the row of 4, 5 & 6 on the right side numbers area...

Is this worth paying to fix? Is it a major deal? Should I just get a new keyboard? (Admittedly, I could live with this until I upgrade hardware in general, but if it isn't prohibitively expensive to fix...)

[SLiMeX]

A suggestion might be to pop the keys off and let it air dry. See if that helps.

I know I have a few keyboards laying around my basement, so I'd probably get fed up with the not working one and plug in a Dell or something...

[P]

Water? I spilled coffee in mine, that took some doing to clean off, but it can be done. I even cleaned oatmeal from a PC keyboard once...

Anyway, disassemble the thing and survey the damage. You probably need to pop off a few keys to find the screws, Apple hides them pretty well. Then wipe everything down - especially the green cable film thingy - with a moist rag and finally dry it off with tissue or something. EVERYTHING should be completely dry when you put it back together. Takes a bit of time, but it isn't too hard.

If you need to buy a new keyboard, I recently got a Logitach S530 and I'm liking it so far. Looks great too.

[Eriamjh]

You still have water inside. It really needs to dry completely.

Put it in the sun for an hour.

[tpicco]

um... screws? hidden? hmmmm... somewhere in this clear plastic keyboard are screws... ok...

For the record, I have one of those half-ball iMacs with the screen on the adjutable metal neck...