Question Spilled liquid on a ThinkPad P1 Gen 3 keyboard

[Corobori]

Hi,

I spilled some liquid (a Cuba Libre to be precise) on my keyboard, and some keys are not working. That was 4 days ago. I tried everything, such as an air dryer, leaving it upside down for a day, but nothing had any effect. The device has been working without any issues. I am using a docking station most of the time. I just ran a system check, and it is fine.

I was planning to remove the keys, but it appears not easily accessible. I saw this video, and before trying that, I am wondering what I should look at once it is open?

 

[Lutfij]

I spilled some liquid (a Cuba Libre to be precise) on my keyboard, and some keys are not working.
Remove the keyboard from your laptop, then dunk it into an ultrasonic cleaner and let it do it's thing. If that's not possible, replace the keyboard.

 

[Corobori]

I spilled some liquid (a Cuba Libre to be precise) on my keyboard, and some keys are not working.
Remove the keyboard from your laptop, then dunk it into an ultrasonic cleaner and let it do it's thing. If that's not possible, replace the keyboard.

I am not sure this kind of keyboard can be removed entirely; it looks pretty built-in to me.

 

[Lutfij]

Yes you can remove it! just that you need to remove the entire palmrest;

View: https://youtu.be/1BOzqZzP1FY

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https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkP...Replace-keyboard-Thinkpad-P1-gen3/m-p/5263115

Good luck!

 

[geofelt]

The keyboards can be replaced.
Look up a youtube video using "ThinkPad P1 Gen 3 keyboard"

View: https://www.youtube.com/live/_GTK3985f-4

They can be found on ebay, not too expensive.

 

[Corobori]

Good luck!

Thank you for the video, I won't try my luck on that !!! I have replaced keyboards before on notebooks but this one has got waaaaay too many screws to remove and things that can go wrong. My fingers are fine as far as using a keyboard, but not with that kind of work.

 

[NightHawkRMX]

Thank you for the video, I won't try my luck on that !!! I have replaced keyboards before on notebooks but this one has got waaaaay too many screws to remove and things that can go wrong. My fingers are fine as far as using a keyboard, but not with that kind of work.

Would recommend taking it to a trusted service center for this repair in this case, or you could simply use an external keyboard, although inconvenient.

It used to be that you could undo a small handful of screws and the entire keyboard of a laptop would come out. As devices have gotten thinner, keyboards have become less and less replaceable. On some laptops (especially anything apple) the keyboard is not even a separate replaceable unit and is instead part of the entire top cover.

 

[Corobori]

Would recommend taking it to a trusted service center for this repair in this case, or you could simply use an external keyboard, although inconvenient.

Since most of the keys that are no longer working are numbers, I am using a numeric keypad for the moment. And for the couple of letters missing their ALT+ value😉But most of the time I do not need it is hooked up to a docking station.

It used to be that you could undo a small handful of screws and the entire keyboard of a laptop would come out

I have dismantled several keyboards on Thinkpad T series before quite easily, but as you wrote, nowadays it is a job for a specialist.