Defective keyboard

[NickM]

Gang,

After several years of hard, dirty and sticky usage. My keyboard finally crapped out ( things like sticky keys, buttons giving the wrong inputs etc).

I plugged in the old keyboard for my late wife's computer and it worked ok for about a day, until some carbonated water dripped on it. Now parts of this keyboard don't work either.

Is it possible for things like hackings or viruses affecting hardware?

Or do I just need to buy a new keyboard?

[sunday]

For those activities: https://www.protectcovers.com/

[NickM]

48 minutes ago, sunday said:

For those activities: https://www.protectcovers.com/

I realize I shouldn't eat while on my computer but...

[Ssnake]

Never heard of software damaging a keyboard. Wouldn't rule it out 100% (only 99.97%), but food, fizzy water, and keyboards simply don't mix well. It might be possible to disassemble the keyboard and give it a proper cleaning; you could go so far and put the key caps in a (sealable!) cloth bag and put it into the washing machine at the next opportunity. But whether the wasted time is worth the money saved is something only you can decide. Plenty of youtube tutorials on keyboard disassembly and reassembly. Maybe make a photo of every disassembly step.

[Murph]

Most of the  time it is food, drinks, or just plain old age.  I like the Logitech Keyboards (the mechanical ones), and like the vastly overpriced System 76 Launch Heavy keyboard pretty well.  

 

 

[Ssnake]

The Orion Spectrum G910 was peak Logitech. Now that, about a decade after introduction, the LG Hub software has actually matured into something semi-stable and actually useful you can

- color-code the keyboard, depending on which application has focus

- use

-- nine freely programmable buttons (macros, system commands, mouse actions),

-- times three memory banks,

-- per application

So, 27 freely programmable macro keys per application, muahaha.

The Romer G keys may no longer the the peak of fast reaction times, but they're still very, very good with acceptable longevity. The biggest problem encountered so far are key caps breaking off with their retention hooks still in the key body. And recently two or three keys tend to duplicate on tap, but this keyboard is already a decade old.

I have three more. With some luck they will last me into retirement. I never understood why Logitech marketed this exclusively to gamers, what a waste. This is the go-to keyboard for Photoshop, video editing, and possibly 3D graphics editing applications such as Blender. Unfortunately, every keyboard Logitech released since then was, one way or the other, reduced in functionality.