Hello hello everyone,
So yesterday, I was cleaning my 2012 A1278 MacBook Pro with one of those wet Clorox wipes. I must have grabbed an especially moist one because I think some of the liquid got under the keyboard, and now my p key types ";p" and the semicolon key sometimes controls the volume and mute buttons. It's the strangest thing. In fact, I was locked out of my user account, and finally understood that it was because not all the keys work properly.
At this point I'm not quite sure what to do. I did some research and it looks like at this point my options are to reset PRAM and SMC, or replace the keyboard entirely. I have a feeling that the problem mainly lies in the keyboard, since an external one seems to work absolutely fine. So, I may have goofed on this one.
Does anybody have any advice about how to proceed? Is there a reliable source where one can buy another A1278 keyboard? I have absolutely no problem installing it myself, but I want to get a genuine Apple keyboard for the look and feel, and am dubious about the Chinese Ebay sellers that I found so far. I saw that iFixit sells the keyboard component as well (for a reasonable price of $20), but it looks to be out of stock at the moment.
Would turning over the mac and blowing some compressed air into the keys help at all? Should I take some 99% isopropyl alcohol and wipe down the keyboard again, in hopes that it'll seep in as last time and perhaps clean off the remaining Clorox solution?
I would appreciate any and all help! Thanks so much for your time!!
So yesterday, I was cleaning my 2012 A1278 MacBook Pro with one of those wet Clorox wipes. I must have grabbed an especially moist one because I think some of the liquid got under the keyboard, and now my p key types ";p" and the semicolon key sometimes controls the volume and mute buttons. It's the strangest thing. In fact, I was locked out of my user account, and finally understood that it was because not all the keys work properly.
At this point I'm not quite sure what to do. I did some research and it looks like at this point my options are to reset PRAM and SMC, or replace the keyboard entirely. I have a feeling that the problem mainly lies in the keyboard, since an external one seems to work absolutely fine. So, I may have goofed on this one.
Does anybody have any advice about how to proceed? Is there a reliable source where one can buy another A1278 keyboard? I have absolutely no problem installing it myself, but I want to get a genuine Apple keyboard for the look and feel, and am dubious about the Chinese Ebay sellers that I found so far. I saw that iFixit sells the keyboard component as well (for a reasonable price of $20), but it looks to be out of stock at the moment.
Would turning over the mac and blowing some compressed air into the keys help at all? Should I take some 99% isopropyl alcohol and wipe down the keyboard again, in hopes that it'll seep in as last time and perhaps clean off the remaining Clorox solution?
I would appreciate any and all help! Thanks so much for your time!!
