well I'm an idiot and screwed

[aubz]

I wouldn't flush it even with distilled water! The water could easily allow electron transfer if it got mixed in with dust or tiny amounts of other substances inside your laptop!

[Sgt. Hollywood]

If it wasn't dry, yes that's a possibility, but the chance of residual conductivity, after drying at low such a low power contact is little to none.
But of course, all this work is at user's determination.

[Oldman]

I haven't had opportunity to clean laptop keyboard and have some experience with regular keyboards. I cleaned them with cotton puff or paper towel soaked with rubbed alcohol.

[Xenitc]

Happened to my Asus a6jm as well. I just turned it off, took the battery out, turned it upside down for like 5min and than waited for about another 15min and used it again. XD

If it is an internal problem you could consider washing your notebook. There are some guides for that on the internet, you have to disassemle the notebook and wash each part with a bit of washing up liquid (apart from the HD i think...).
However, usually liquid will condense after a while, so i would just wait for a day. and place it under a red light or just the sun.

[Jebus Christ]

Thanks for the guides guys. I opened up the keyboard and cleaned up as much as I could. My p button is still not working and I was wondering whether buying a new keyboard even fix it or is it something else internally that is messed up?

Still the clean seemed to have helped as the left side of my keyboard no longer seems stuck in and the keyboard now feels like new(in terms of stiffness)

Thanks for any suggestions.

[E.B.E.]

You could try looking for a new keyboard on the ASUS eStore, assuming you're in the US.

I would guess that a new keyboard should fix the problem, I don't think it's an internal issue.

[Jebus Christ]

so liquids could short circuit the keyboard itself?

[E.B.E.]

More likely, the (remains of the) liquid just prevent that specific key from making proper electrical contact when you press it.

[JoeNewberry]

More likely, the (remains of the) liquid just prevent that specific key from making proper electrical contact when you press it.

I'd say that's the ticket. Since keyboards are usually based on a matrix system, if it actually shorted out a wire then you should lose a large portion of keys at once.

A replacement keyboard should correct the problem.

[Asusteve]

I had the same happen to a Sony Vaio 2 yrs ago. I was doing a girls 21st birthday party mobile disco and the girls father came round to chat to me to do his speechs at 10pm, and then all of a sudden the plug socket power went off (we were in a marquee in his garden), i noticed that the idiot had put his drink on my table and with 2 inchs to spare on the end of the table his half pint of lager was half toppled into my keyboard. the Sony reacted by not turning off, so i ended up pulling the battery out. We then went into his house to try fix, disasemble and dry with hair dryer. however the hair dryer did more damage as it was to hot for the plastic and was starting to slightly melt the plastic so i left it. After putting it back together it still didnt work. It was a good job that i carried 2x Pioneer cdj players and my mate kept the party going, otherwise the party woud have been over when the vaio got damaged. The man in question owned his own bus company and i requested if he had insurance to pay for his accident. He said he hadnt and basically he didnt give a toss as he expected me to claim on my insurance, which i was not prepared to do. If i did that id end up with no ins if someone did have an accident as a matter of my fault.

Anyway, next day it still didnt work, then the 2nd day it lit up and started to boot. Then it fully loaded, Then i notice the keyboard didnt work, so that night fo the next 5 hours i litterally stripped everything down and took all parts to bits and washed them with neat water as the beer was sugary.
Water will not damaged a pcb as when boards are manufactured they wash them with water anyway. I put it back together and still a couple of keys didnt work (s & d). I then got a new kb off ebay as theres a place in Leicester near me that recycles computer parts.
A new keyboard cured my problem all for £20 which was well worth it, and last year i still sold my Sony vaio 4yrs old for £200.

Keyboards do short out when wet, so get a new one and youll be sorted.
Also you could use a usb keyboard for now till you get a fix.

And last but not least, the girl was pretty Peeed that her father had wrecked her 21st birthday party night, as she had a big long request sheet of songs which i only carried on laptop (old stuff).If the idiot had kept his drink in his hand, it wouldnt have happened.

Lessons were learnt after that night, especially on my behalf. My laptop now sits in a professional laptop flight case, and seperate insurance is in place.