It's fucked. You'll have to buy a new one.

If you dismantle and clean it, at best you'll regain most of the keyboards functionality.

I've gone through 3 keyboards.

On each one I did a quick dismantle, thorough clean and dry hoping if I did it faster or more thorough it might work out differently. You're chances of regaining functionality are slimmer with a more sticky liquid.

Sorry, man.

edit: then again, I've never spilled wine. It might clean out!

Likewise, as well as beer and other liquid crap I've spilled into mine. It's all the crud in my keyboard that makes keys get stuck and seem to fail, but ruin it... I doubt it, unless you hit the brain with the liquid. A good thorough dismantle and cleaning should help.

Just don't let the liquid get into the circuit while its plugged in, and it should be perfectly fine after the innards and key caps are cleaned.

I've ruined a perfectly good keyboard by tilting it the wrong way before. oops. My "gamer" keyboard I won at Fragapalooza a couple years ago is excellent for spills, the inside of the actual keyboard is sealed, all the liquid can get into is the keys and the tray that holds the key sets. Its really quite nice. Totally worth what I paid (not sure its worth the $120+ retail price though)

My computer was originally assembled in 2002.

The only parts of it which are still original are the case, monitor, CD-RW drive, mouse, keyboard, floppy drive, 2.1 speakers and sound card. EVERYTHING else has changed at least once, motherboard included.

The parts of my computer I like the most are the keyboard (even though it's cheap), my five-button mouse, and my monitor, which may be a power-hungry flat CRT but has the lowest dot pitch I've ever seen and can hit 120 Hz at lower resolutions.

Back then, as far as I'm aware, there was no such thing as DOSBox and 75% of my games were DOS based, so Windows 2000 was out of the question as not everything DOS based would work with it. We got the computer in early 2002... or it could've been late 2001 come to think of it, so XP wasn't exactly out yet either, and do you honestly expect anyone sane to install Windows ME on their own personal system?

Not sure when my current computer was built, but the case, power supply, video card (and the heat sink on the current card), sound card (on-board don't work fully I found out recently, never used it for the life of the system and only found out when I went to take out the old one because of stupid drivers not working correctly), CD-ROM, hard drive (I think) have been replaced on this system. Doubled the RAM at some point. Right now, I'm saving up for a new system, as I'm sure the CPU will die at some point... No telling how much heat damage it got during it's life.

*shrugs* In any case, XP would've given me the same DOS problems at the time so if it was out I probably dismissed getting it for the same reason I didn't get 2K.

Nah. I'm going to be getting a whole new system soon and I intend to have Vista loaded onto it.

Vista! Awesome! Glad to see someone who's not afraid of it from all the FUD.

Anyhow, I spilled pepsi in my keyboard two nights ago and I think its about dead. I spilled water in it before and it corroded the traces on the switch layers. I took the whole thing completely apart, redrew them on with a circuit-writer pen, but it was too time consuming. I'm not about to rip it apart and repair it again.

Anyhow, I'm looking for a good board now. The DiNovo was recommended to me, but damn thats pretty expensive.

A few years ago I spilled some of a chocolate milkshake in this keyboard. I quickly yanked the plug and cleaned it out thoroughly, and it seems to have not suffered any problems, except the left alt key being a bit finicky at times.

The OS got bogged down. It would start taking too long to boot up, and just performing everyday tasks would be slower.

Yes, I could have avoided this by not installing and uninstalling programs often, but I like to try new applications regularly. The OS should be robust enough to allow for this. XP isn't.

My main killer of electronics is static. I've killed 3 mice and a keyboard with it, so I've gotten into the habit of gounding myself on the case before touching anything. I can get a big shock if I even get up and sit down in my chair .

I haven't spilled much, but what I have hasn't ever hurt anything.