I dont' consider myself among the lucky at all. The keyboard was saved in time and rinsed. It SHOULD be fully functional.

Has anyone seen this problem before? Half the keys dying?

I recently had a spill on my keyboard. It was gatorade so I removed the keyboard so that I could rinse it with distilled water. After it dried I plugged it back in but a curious thing happened. Two rows (two rows only) were no longer functioning. Thew qwerty and the asdf rows no longer worked while ...