Help! I had a spill, sticky keys, and now unresponsive keyboard.
A little over a week ago someone spilled some tea on my MBP. I immediately turned it off turned it upside down an left it alone for about an hour. It was working fine after, just a few sticky keys, most of which was the space key. A friend recommended taking a q-tip dipping in rubbing alcohol and rubbing it around the sticky keys because it had a low evaporation temperature and that it soak up the remaining liquid. I tried a few times and it worked, but certain keys, mostly my space key just got stick again. I tried earlier today and may I over did it a little and spilled a bit of the rubbing alcohol on the keyboard and track pad. I turned it off and left alone for a bit. I restart my MBP; I heard a weird beeping with a blank screen. I restart again, everything seems to be working fine. Now the keyboard is not responding and the track pad assumes that I'm always right-clicking.
I'm not all that tech-savvy, and I rather not try to take it apart myself to try and fix with some online manual. Is there anything that I can do before I just go to the Mac store and have them look at it?
No, there probably isn't anything else you can or should do — your cleaning efforts have put paid to what was probably already a dire situation. Just take it in to be repaired, and brace yourself for a bill that could be anywhere between $350 and $1000+.
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