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Shadow Jerusalem
7th June 2011, 08:52
alia spilled water on her laptop, turned it off unplugged it, removed the battery, dried everything off with a towel, took a hair dryer on a cool setting to everything else, have a fan on it trying to get anything residual.... any other ideas? or am i trying to save a corpse?
nothing sparked, flashed, blew up or weird otherwise happened... thoughts? screwed or saved?
Shadow Jerusalem
7th June 2011, 09:25
tried testing it, got a blank white screen, back under the fans it goes
U dried the parts with a towel?
Froberg
7th June 2011, 13:08
Under fans?
Shit dude, turn that shit upside down and give it 48 hours without doing anything to it.
Chances are you've managed to screw it up already!
Psycho Xeno
7th June 2011, 17:33
Should have put it in the oven at just above 100F, NO BATTERY and preferedly no LCD screen. Let it cool for about 5 hours and it should have been alright. Same effect as leaving it out in a car in 90F weather. Which shouldn't be done, but neither should spilling stuff on it.
But now...
Shadow Jerusalem
7th June 2011, 19:48
As in circulating desk fan fro. Yes Alex I toweled everything off.
That can give the components electric thingies that are not good for the components.
Froberg
7th June 2011, 22:45
Shadow; The blowdryer thing freaks me out..
Alex; Do you mean Electrostatic Discharge?
I'm assuming he didn't physically pry the case open..
Goatie
8th June 2011, 09:01
Sounds bad.. hope ya get it up running again.
I've only tried spilling cola and coffee on my cheap $5 keyboard. Took it apart, washed it, put it back together again and no sticky keys. That's why I always buy cheap mice and keyboards.. too much spillage of coffee and cola. I've never seen the point in having a laptop ever since the first and only one I bought back in '99. No trouble with electronics getting ruined by liquids ;P
Froberg
8th June 2011, 10:19
Yeah I always buy the trusty Logitech Media Keyboard, replace it when I wear it down.
Raven-Glock
8th June 2011, 19:40
If this was a desktop only your keyboard would be fucked.
THINK FOR THE FUTURE
GAME FOR THE PRESENT
Shadow Jerusalem
19th June 2011, 06:42
Laptop works fine now, thanks all!
Psycho Xeno
20th June 2011, 02:39
What did you do to it?