Power Button after small Condensation?

Hi, I was wondering if anyone else is having the same problem as me, this just started happening after god knows what cause but recently my iPhone 4s just goes nuts and starts locking itself on and off as if someones pushing the top power button, The top power button works now and then but only for a short period of time after my phone finishes going crazy locking itself whenever i push the Home button to try continue what I'm doing, It also hangs itself up when im on calls to people and whenever I'm doing ANYTHING on it it goes crazy every 5 minutes, Anyone know any solutions for this? Would be much appreciated! Also if I didn't make anything clear don't be afraid to ask

Ok, here's my complete configuration:
1) Motherboard: MSI X58 Platinum
2) Processor: i7-920
3) BIOS version: 3.80 (latest version)
4) VGA: Inno3D 8800 GT (512 MB DDR3)
5) Memory: 3 x 2 GB (Corsair DDR3 triple channel)
6) Hard drive: 300GB (Western Digital Velociraptor) + 1TB (Western Digital Caviar Black)
7) Optical Drives: DVD-RW (Asus), DVD-ROM (Asus)
8) Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate (64 bits)
9) Power Supply: Sensonic 650 Watt

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The SMC especially on the very first 2-3 months of Early 2008.
Use to suffer from a "restart on wake from sleep" issue.
Some one told me that is not what "inrush current issue" is but that is what I (and couple others) called it.
Best to always have a workstation on 1500VA UPS.
Not share the outlet or cirucit even with anything major.
Yes it could I guess, poor phrase, but put more stress on PSU over time as a result also.
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Stories of people going on vacation etc for two weeks to come back to a "dead" Mac Pro started showing up in 2007.
If it had an actual SMC button, use that to reset.
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After reading and resetting everything with Keyboard I still get blank white screen on 2nd? page of boot. The only way I can boot to Mavericks is unplug power cord, push and hold power button while plugging power cord in. Fans run at full speed, machine boots then runs normal except the dvdrw will not . The mid 2011 IMAC had the same problem with LION. I changed hard drives, formatted, and installed a clean install of latest os x mavericks. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Report generated August 30, 2014 at 6:56:41 PM EDT
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    iMac (21.5-inch, Mid 2011) (Verified)
    iMac - model: iMac12,1
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        iMac 1920 x 1080
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        Untitled (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 119.17 GB (87.12 GB free)
        Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
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        Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
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    Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus
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    [loaded]    com.sophos.nke.swi (9.0.53 - SDK 10.8) Support
Startup Items: ?
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    CUDA Preferences Support
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         1%    WindowServer
         1%    fontd
         0%    firefox
         0%    SystemUIServer
         0%    SophosWebIntelligence
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Repair
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OS X Mountain Lion- Reinstall OS X
OS X Lion- Reinstall Mac OS X
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When I try to login with my username, no characters appear as I type.
I can login as a guest, but from there I can do nothing, because the keyboard is still inop and if I wanted to, for example, have the software updated, I need to type an admin login, which is impossible.
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What happens if you close the lid? Sleep?
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I've spilled beer on my old macbook last december. I've reassembled pretty much the whole mac, cleaned the motherboard with Servisol (isopropyl alcohol) and applied new thermal compound. The mac is working (if turned on from the motherboard, however the power button doesn't work properly. If pressed several times, sometimes it either changes the brightness of the screen or takes you to the widgets.
The keyboard was disassembled and cleaned and everything else apart from left shift and power button appears to be working on the keyboard. The keyboard was disassembled soon after the spillage, which was few months ago.
As it was few months ago when I cleaned the keyboard, I''ve forgot whether the power button is a part of the keyboard or an individual module. Could anyone give me some advice on that? Any other suggestions regards to the power button?
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