Corsair K65 Disassembly Water Damage Cleaning Repair Guide

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Step 1

              Corsair K65 disassembly Water Damage cleaning               

• Unplug your keyboard. The wire is located near the back and on the bottom of the keyboard.
• Place your keyboard onto a workspace with plenty of room.

Unplug your keyboard. The wire is located near the back and on the bottom of the keyboard.

Place your keyboard onto a workspace with plenty of room.

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Step 2

• Pry each keycap off by grabbing the keycap with your fingers and pulling directly up.
• Pulling the keycaps off at an angle may damage the keys or the switches on the keyboard.
• A specialized tool to remove the keycaps will make this process a lot easier and faster, but is not required.

Pry each keycap off by grabbing the keycap with your fingers and pulling directly up.

Pulling the keycaps off at an angle may damage the keys or the switches on the keyboard.

A specialized tool to remove the keycaps will make this process a lot easier and faster, but is not required.

Step 3

• Unscrew the exposed 9mm Phillips #0 screws with your mini Phillips #0 screwdriver.
• There should be 17 exposed screws in total.

Unscrew the exposed 9mm Phillips #0 screws with your mini Phillips #0 screwdriver.

There should be 17 exposed screws in total.

Step 4

• Peel back the Corsair logo with a knife.
• Remove the logo, exposing another 9mm Phillips #0 screw.

Peel back the Corsair logo with a knife.

Remove the logo, exposing another 9mm Phillips #0 screw.

Step 5

• Unscrew the now exposed 9mm Phillips #0 screw.
• There should now be a total of 18 9mm Phillips #0 screws.

Unscrew the now exposed 9mm Phillips #0 screw.

There should now be a total of 18 9mm Phillips #0 screws.

Step 6

• Carefully separate the bottom half of the keyboard from the top half of the keyboard.

Carefully separate the bottom half of the keyboard from the top half of the keyboard.

Step 7

• Apply the rubbing alcohol to your cotton pad.

Apply the rubbing alcohol to your cotton pad.

Step 8

• Wipe down the affected parts of the keyboard interior with the alcohol-soaked pad.
• Allow the interior of the keyboard to dry for a few minutes before reassembling the keyboard.

Wipe down the affected parts of the keyboard interior with the alcohol-soaked pad.

Allow the interior of the keyboard to dry for a few minutes before reassembling the keyboard.

To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.

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kumashikota - Oct 10, 2016

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キーボードの中に液体が入ってしまい、どうしようかと困っていたところこちらのサイトに辿り着きました。

丁寧な説明のお陰で無事、拭き取ることが出来ました。本当に有難うございました。

Robert Lipowski (robdevilXI) - May 7, 2018

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useless guide. buttons cant be cleaned

qwuzzy - Oct 27, 2018

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broke the white and blue connector, no way to get the board in the same orientation as you did.

ah93493 - May 3, 2019

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Extremely bad guide. Doesn’t go over how the switch to change the LEDs need to be carefully moved away or it will snap. I can’t imagine how many people you’ve costed a keyboard. 0/5 stars.

St Schiff - Apr 5, 2020

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