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[HELP] Spilled soda, cleaned ok, but after fixing sticky keys, half of them don't work.
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Dr_Death_Defy24 is in help
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Oh boy, story time! (yes, there's a tl;dr)

So last Saturday, I spilled cherry coke on my CM Storm Quickfire TK with Cherry MX Blue switches. I unplugged it, followed the spill guide to the letter, and it was totally fine, every key worked, and I went right back to playing videogames.

Later in the week, I went to use it again and noticed the left shift, windows, alt, ctrl, and caps lock were mushy. So back I went to the spill guide to fix that, too, and a few minutes later, they were better. Not perfect, but acceptable. Now, I hadnt plugged it in yet, since I'd done this last night, and I only plugged it in again a few minutes ago.

Ok, here's where I fucked up (I think). This morning, knowing I wouldnt be able to use it again before this evening at about 7:00, I used alchohol, where I'd used water before to try and un-sticky the keys to the level of the others, and I figured that a twelve hour(ish) period was equivalant to leaving it over night. I was fairly sure it wouldnt make them perfect, but it was worth a shot, right?

Well, apparently not, because after plugging it in just a few minutes ago, most of the keys work, but many of them dont, all of them below the "home row." Now, what the hell happened? I think I was an idiot and it wasnt totally dry, because on closer inspection there's water coming out of the case.

Yes, yes, laugh it up.

On to my real question though. Did I short individual switches? Is that even possible? And no matter what happened, what's the next step? I cant find any information specific to my situation of only having broken certain switches. Thanks for any help, and yes, you dont need to say it, I'm an idiot for not letting it dry.

Tl;dr, Didnt let keyboard dry long enough, but now only certain keys arent working, the whole board isnt shorted. What's my next step?

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