Just sat down with a fresh cup and knocked it into my keyboard. Turned it off and started pulling keycaps off, then soaked it up best I could to no avail.
Wouldn’t turn back on after so I dug out every screw, pulled the back off, soaked up as much coffee as I could on the pcb, and ran some isopropyl alcohol under the other side of the PCB where I couldn’t reach.
To my surprise this was enough to get it to turn back on. Keys were registering their neighbors too so I had to scrub it with a toothbrush, but afterwards it’s fully functional and saved me $250 for a replacement
fyi - unless you completely dry it, it will likely die from corrosion in the near future.
I’ve saved a few keyboards that something like this has happened to. Immediately unplugging followed by methodically drying at all piece by piece and then leaving it overnight to completely dry and it’ll be good to go
Also, using demineralized water then baking @ 55C helps with avoiding corrosion, if you need it. If you can get away with just isopropyl alcohol, all the better.
Hoping I’m good with just the isopropyl, but I am aware that it may come back to bite me. It’s doing good so far today so fingers crossed. There was already a decent amount of corrosion I could see when I got it apart, so I figure if it was gonna get me today it would’ve already