Water damage to keyboard letters typed are wrong.
Hey guys, I'm not quite sure what I should do. I'm new to the site and I want to make sure I make the right purchase.
Firstly, I love my laptop, my son drop coke on my 17 inch mac book pro (mid 2009 version) a few years ago, I've been using it just fine only that some keys I tried cleaning and I accidentally broke the connectors. I'm literately typing without some of the keys now, looks bad but not bothering that much. There are some keys that are perfectly fine when pressing down such as the letter "p" but instead of writing "p" it rights other characters like "-" or "]" or "i". Sometimes it does actually write "p" but its rare.
My initial thoughts were to replace the keyboard, but than I thought about it some more, and did some reading, and it seems like I may have to replace the entire Logic board ($699). Replacement keys are cheap so I'm not so worried there.
I've taken the laptop apart and put it back together to clean the Coke that lay on the board, and put it back together sucessfully a long time ago so I'm confident that I can do this.
A few questions.
1. Does anyone know if this is the logic board? Or perhaps the keyboard assembly is the culprit.
2. IFIXIT doesn't have the the keyboard for mid 2009 models but does for 2010 and up. Will it be backwards compatible?
Appreciate all the help.
Thanks
Will
Is this a good question?