[Turnsky]

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.

 there's 250 bucks down the drain.

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..

[diamondgeezer]

250? I thought you were talking about the panel of plastic buttons you use to type ****

[kasperl]

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.

[Bobboau]

this is what I've got

[Turnsky]

tried that, i actually took the entire thing apart.

bob, that's what mine looks like, 'cept it's not cordless.

[kasperl]

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?

[Martinus]

[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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[Rictor]

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.

[Turnsky]

nice.  *puts the rest of his keyboard back together*

[Bobboau]

is it under warenty?

[kasperl]

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 ( )

[Turnsky]

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.

[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.

[Turnsky]

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..

[Thorn]

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
eeeeeee
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....

[Taristin]

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?

[mikhael]

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. 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.

[Flipside]

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

[an0n]

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.

[Jiggyhound]

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.