So the other night I was using my old laptop, an IBM t22. I was also enjoying a delicious beverage (uh...beer, if you must know). One thing led to another and I managed to score a direct hit to my keyboard. I immediately turned the thing off, flipped it upside down, and tried to dry the thing as best I could. I left it in a flipped position overnight, but when I turned it on in the morning it wouldn't boot. When I turned it on, the drives still spun up as normal, lights flash as normal, and I still got the IBM 'welcome screen' before windows starts (it's windows 98). The screen I get looks something similar to this picture, even though its not my model:
The options in the lower right say to press F1 to enter the BIOS and F12 to choose temporary boot device. I can't get into either option and after a few seconds of holding at that IBM screen, it goes to a black screen. I've tried putting in a spare t22 keyboard I have around, but to no avail, leading me to think this is something much more serious.
When switching over to the new keyboard, I found that there wasn't really that much damage on the motherboard itself. Just a two or three small drops of stickiness which I cleaned with water and a Q-tip, then let dry for 24 hours. No luck there either. Any suggestions would be appreciated because I was hoping to play around with Linux on this thing. Did I fry it? I know it's old, but we've gone through a lot together
