Solved! Help Repair Water Damage

Okay, I can, and will try that, however, this was weeks ago. Do you still think the rice will help after all this time? They left the laptop high and dry for a week or two to air out before giving up and calling me.

I've always heard rice helping absorb moisture from a phone or something small, but, a full-size laptop? That takes quite a bit of rice!

Still, I will try it if you actually think it will help.

Well, short and sweet, that didn't help.

I went to Costco and bought a 20 pound bag of basmati rice. I wrapped the laptop (with battery removed) in a pillow-case. I got a large garbage bag, put in half of the rice as a bottom, placed the laptop (wrapped) in the garbage bag on top of the rice, then covered the laptop with the other half of the bag of rice. I sealed the garbage bag, and left it, not for 2, but, for 5 days. I unwrapped it this morning, reinserted the battery, and booted it up. No luck; the keyboard, at least the left side, doesn't work properly. I press S, and it comes up with 5s, press v, and it comes up as vx, etc.

So, I've replaced the keyboard with no luck. I've wrapped it up and left buried in rice, all to no avail. So, some other component within the computer is clearly damaged. I just have zero idea what and where.

Any other ideas?

Oh, I should mention that I can plug in an external keyboard, and everything works fine. It just defeats the purpose of a laptop having to drag around another keyboard.

I'd love assistance if anyone else has an idea.