My casual carelessness and messy computer area finally bit me in the ass tonight, as a loose side panel on my gaming box suddenly fell off, knocked over a bottle of water I was drinking, and splashed it on my beloved old keyboard. Those old models are usually fairly sturdy, but several keys no longer work now.
Fortunately I happened to get a new keyboard with the Dell system I recently got, so after a bit of rewiring (the new one is USB whereas the old one was PS/2, so I had to switch over to my new USB KVM as well) things are working again. It’ll probably be a temporary measure though, as it’s a rather cheap keyboard that just doesn’t feel right. Time to do a bit of research…
(And on the plus side, the new KVM has a much more sensible set of hotkeys using the Scroll Lock key rather than Ctrl. I’d been meaning to switch over to USB for a while now, but had been held back by not wanting to have to replace the old keyboard.)