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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Turnsky on April 26, 2004, 11:57:21 am
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long story short, i spilled some chicken noodles onto my keyboard (Logitech elite pro) and it's wrought havok with the keyboard, i'm both using a combination of the keyboard and the on-screen keyboard..
yes, i did clean it out, but it's a little too late for that..
so far the casulties are the keypad's enter and numlock key, BOTH shift keys :( , and the numbers 7,8,9,0. seem a little touch and go. same with
the o key
i get the feeling that i might have to replace this thing.. so, any suggestions on alternative keyboards? (either that, or replace this one with the same type of keyboard, which seems to be a worthy model in the very least)
i may have to postpone foxfire until i can rectify this, however.
:hopping: :hopping: :hopping: there's 250 bucks down the drain.:sigh:
EDIT. it's gone way down in price, i might as well buy a new one.. the same.. it's a good keyboard all round..:blah:
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250? I thought you were talking about the panel of plastic buttons you use to type ****
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well, if you are going for a replace, you might just try throwing a bucket full of water after the noodles, and then drain it and let dry for a week or some.
alternatively, use a knife/scissor to whip up the offending keys, and clean out under that as well.
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this is what I've got (http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/products/details/CA/EN,CRID=1,CONTENTID=6831)
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tried that, i actually took the entire thing apart.
bob, that's what mine looks like, 'cept it's not cordless.
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http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/products/details/CA/EN,CRID=1,CONTENTID=7321
this is what i am hoping for, but let's just say i am not getting it untill i win the lottery or something.
when you took it apart, did you just clean out the noodles or actually washed of some stuff?
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[color=66ff00]Bloody hell guys, mine cost a tenner has all the keys I need and nice action too. My secondary cost a fiver and is pretty good too.
What am I missing?
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250 bucks? Wow, it must be solid gold.
I had this happen to me...twice. First, I get a keyboard that say "spillproof", cause there's always half-full (or half-empty....) coke cans around the computer. Two weeks, the keyboard breaks down. Go and buy another one. Two weeks, it breaks down. Then, finally went and got a Microsoft one for like 50 bucks, which is way too much for a keyboard, but its been working for a while now.
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nice. *puts the rest of his keyboard back together*
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is it under warenty?
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wireless, state of the art uber keyboards with added ergonomical settings and **** like that?
really, i am using a €10,- keyboard at my desktop now, and a laptop keyboard that came with the laptop ( :rolleyes: )
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Originally posted by Bobboau
is it under warenty?
no, bought it brand new, retail..
evidentally, i wasn't as smart back then..
it's a coupla years old.. so no.
it's about 70 bucks nowadays.. i'll pick one up tomorrow.
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I refuse to buy keyboards with all the moronic multimedia/app/power/volume/yadda yadda buttons on it.
Sadly, it's become almost impossible to find a decent-quality keyboard without all that garbage. You have to go with either the $10 junk or an industrial-grade model.
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Originally posted by ZylonBane
I refuse to buy keyboards with all the moronic multimedia/app/power/volume/yadda yadda buttons on it.
Sadly, it's become almost impossible to find a decent-quality keyboard without all that garbage. You have to go with either the $10 junk or an industrial-grade model.
yeah, i know, sad thing is, i only use that multimedia center thingy in the middle, the website-oriented buttons on the sides see no use, at all..
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Originally posted by ZylonBane
I refuse to buy keyboards with all the moronic multimedia/app/power/volume/yadda yadda buttons on it.
Sadly, it's become almost impossible to find a decent-quality keyboard without all that garbage. You have to go with either the $10 junk or an industrial-grade model.
I got one of those Microsoft Internet Keyboard Pros. Got it for free because the E key is a bit flaky
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See that strink of Es? I pressed the key 3 times rapidly and that came out. Minor annoyance.
But anyway, the extra keys can be programmed to do whatever you want them to do. I have the multimedia ones tied into Winamp. Works great when I'm playing Starcraft or Eve. Particularly Eve... I hate its music....
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Utter madness. My keyboard cost me US$12. I've used it for 3 years now, and the only problem I have with it is that I fail to push the A button down straight, and it sometimes resists. No big deal. who uses that button anyway?
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Originally posted by ZylonBane
I refuse to buy keyboards with all the moronic multimedia/app/power/volume/yadda yadda buttons on it.
Sadly, it's become almost impossible to find a decent-quality keyboard without all that garbage. You have to go with either the $10 junk or an industrial-grade model.
Preach it.
A long time back--like 95 or 96--I bought a pair of $10 cheapass keyboards with the whole ergo/split design thing. Fast forward to 04: one of them just goes wonky. The mesh finally just gave up. That's cool, right? $10 over the better part of a decade? Thats good return on investment, I think. I'll go buy another one.
No dice. I guess they lost big by selling so cheap, since the company is completely gone. Microsoft still makes 'em. With all the extra fiddly keys that I can't stand, and they ****ed around with the pgup/pgdn key cluster, and the arrow keys. :wtf: No one else I could find at the time sold them without the extraneous keys.
Finally, my wife found a Belkin (another company to hate for their contempt of the consumer) keyboard for like $50. It has no extra fiddly keys except for the wierd ATX power buttons in the upper right. Unfortunately, when using the number pad in the dark, I would sometimes hit the standby or power key by accident. I couldn't turn off the feature in the BIOS or in windows, so I had to settle for popping off the keycaps.
Sorry. Frustration.
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I curiously enough, am using a microsoft £19.99 keyboard and a slightly more expensive Microsoft mouse. I will say that for Microsoft, can't write an OS to save their lives, but their subsidiaries make a mean peripheral :D
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Bah.
I'm just gonna buy 5 happy-hacker keyboards and move from one to the next as they explode.
I figure I should be set for life with 5 of 'em.
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:lol:
my school sells off its old equipitment every now and again, and its pretty good stuff, usually a max of 5 years old. Can get a pretty decent keyboard for like £3. they also sell 15" monitors for like £20-30. Tis good stuff to sell on to make a bit of cash, but id never use the stuff myself, its got school cooties.
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Originally posted by mikhael
Finally, my wife found a Belkin (another company to hate for their contempt of the consumer) keyboard for like $50. It has no extra fiddly keys except for the wierd ATX power buttons in the upper right. Unfortunately, when using the number pad in the dark, I would sometimes hit the standby or power key by accident. I couldn't turn off the feature in the BIOS or in windows, so I had to settle for popping off the keycaps.
I have one like that. Power, sleep, and wake up keys under the pg up and pg dn cluster. It wasn't $50, though. If it were I'd have never bought it. :p
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bought a new one, just under $50 Australian, a mitsubishi diamond touch model, anywho, i'm just gonna persuade my mother to fork out for onna the top-notch models when my birthday rolls around ;)
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Originally posted by Raa Tor'h
I have one like that. Power, sleep, and wake up keys under the pg up and pg dn cluster. It wasn't $50, though. If it were I'd have never bought it. :p
I didn't have much choice. I can't really use straight keyboards and I can't stand Microsoft ones. This is the cheapest of the ones remaining. Sad, huh?
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Ya know it's funny.. I bought a MS Natural Keyboard Elite PRO with the oober USB ports in the board. That keyboard was grand, it fit my hands perfectly, and taught me how to control most of my freespace controls on my left hand only. It had a problem though after a couple years of use, the keyboard PS2 port's pins were somehow getting ... Shorter! Like the metal ring around the pins inside was being pulled out of the plastic housing on the plug. I tried to fix it by pushing the ring back down and the dang ring, plug with pins snapped off of the rubber connector. I was sitting there saying "well that's the dammnest thing I've ever seen". Now I use the natural multimedia pro keyboard cause it's the only decent one that's corded and split which fits my hands. I hate the new F-lock setup tho, and the wierdo Insert-Home-Delete section of keys. I would like to see board manufacturers include USB ports though on thier keyboards, cause that's really handy when you use USB flash drives and have no front-mounted USB panels on your case.
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:lol: Bob thats hell funny, yeh Only if its a 'Noodle Warranty'
Turnsky u eat noodles over a keyboard? :eek:
I myself just have a cordless logitech keyboard and mouse for AU$90, I got quite a discount :p
Any way u go, go Cordless :yes:
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Originally posted by Xelion
:lol: Bob thats hell funny, yeh Only if its a 'Noodle Warranty'
Turnsky u eat noodles over a keyboard? :eek:
yeah, sorta.. i spilt the residue remains of it.. i swear to god that stuff's more corrosive than coke.
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Originally posted by Turnsky
yeah, sorta.. i spilt the residue remains of it.. i swear to god that stuff's more corrosive than coke.
its salty as hell, thats why....
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there's 250 bucks down the drain.
I wish I had $250 to blow on a keyboard (or anything else for my computer that is). My desktop at home uses a 8 or so year old HP keyboard that I yanked off of a no longer functioning HP computer.
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I've spilled pop into my keyboard before (actually my brother's friend did, I got to rake him over the coals for that). I just pour some water in, drained it and waited for it to dry.
Then I used the keyboard for about a week before the stickiness was worked out of the system.
Guess I was lucky =)
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Originally posted by Turnsky
a mitsubishi diamond touch model
They make keyboards too? :eek:
I'll have to get one, when I get my 3000gt. :D
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Originally posted by Raa Tor'h
They make keyboards too? :eek:
I'll have to get one, when I get my 3000gt. :D
yeah, it's reasonable, the keys are responsive, but it's nothing to email home about:p ..i'll get a pic of it shortly.
EDIT: here we go.
(http://users.bigpond.net.au/Turnsky/images/DSC00321.JPG)
i miss my old one.. :blah:
EDIT2 oh yeah, it has a couple of USB ports in the back of it. quite handy really.;)
EDIT 3: this be the fallen.
(http://users.bigpond.net.au/Turnsky/images/DSC00323.JPG)
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That keyboard looks like it's trying to... compensate for something.
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believe it or not, that scrollwheel on the side of it was immensely handy to me... scrolling up and down in photoshop when i'm using the tablet.