Hi all,
Recently, I accidentally spilled some water on my macbook keyboard. (MacbookPro 13", late 2011)
I left the device to dry for about 24 hours (of which the first ~10 hour upside-down) and afterwards tried using it again.
First, all seemed to be working fine. Afterwards, each key stroke showed strange characters, as if the alt/option key was constantly pressed. Upon rebooting, my mac first prompted me with the boot device choice screen (as if the alt/option key was pressed, even though, physically, it was not), but in macOS the keys were working fine again, except the left alt/option key, which appeared to be somehow automatically disabled. Pressing it, e.g. in combination with other keys, has no effect. The right option/alt key was still working fine.
After some time, my top keyboard row (azerty/qwerty...) also stopped working so I decided to put the macbook upside down again to leave it dry for another >24h.
Now, the entire keyboard is working fine again, except the alt/option key issue appears to remain. When booting (without physically pressing a key), the boot device choice screen is shown, and in macOS, the left option/alt key is no longer functioning. It appears to be automatically disabled somehow?
I tried cleaning the key by removing it but that didn't help... Underneath the key everything appeared to be dry, except *maybe* in the plastic thing under the key, some fluid might be left; can't tell for sure.
On the internet, I can't find anything about the auto-key-disable feature nor any information about how to re-enable the key...
Does anyone here have some thoughts/ideas?
Many thanks in advance!
Best regards,
Wouter
Recently, I accidentally spilled some water on my macbook keyboard. (MacbookPro 13", late 2011)
I left the device to dry for about 24 hours (of which the first ~10 hour upside-down) and afterwards tried using it again.
First, all seemed to be working fine. Afterwards, each key stroke showed strange characters, as if the alt/option key was constantly pressed. Upon rebooting, my mac first prompted me with the boot device choice screen (as if the alt/option key was pressed, even though, physically, it was not), but in macOS the keys were working fine again, except the left alt/option key, which appeared to be somehow automatically disabled. Pressing it, e.g. in combination with other keys, has no effect. The right option/alt key was still working fine.
After some time, my top keyboard row (azerty/qwerty...) also stopped working so I decided to put the macbook upside down again to leave it dry for another >24h.
Now, the entire keyboard is working fine again, except the alt/option key issue appears to remain. When booting (without physically pressing a key), the boot device choice screen is shown, and in macOS, the left option/alt key is no longer functioning. It appears to be automatically disabled somehow?
I tried cleaning the key by removing it but that didn't help... Underneath the key everything appeared to be dry, except *maybe* in the plastic thing under the key, some fluid might be left; can't tell for sure.
On the internet, I can't find anything about the auto-key-disable feature nor any information about how to re-enable the key...
Does anyone here have some thoughts/ideas?
Many thanks in advance!
Best regards,
Wouter
, thanks for your help.