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  • Spilt water on laptop, wont work now
  • alric
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    Just spilt a little water on the laptop, dried it off straight away, but it wouldnt start up.
    Only a black screen, then the fan comes on, and it just stays like that.
    I had it on the radiator 24 hours now, but still the same.
    Any ideas?

    Its anHP, i5, Win 10

    CaptainFlashheart
    Free Member

    “Water”

    Uh huh…..sure…

    coconut
    Free Member

    I don’t believe him.. how could you write that if it didn’t work.

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    survivor
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    I concur….

    You killed it during the watering part.

    Laptops unlike flora and fauna do not require water to operate.

    Skip this step with your next one.

    jambourgie
    Free Member

    You’ll probably need to take it apart to let it dry out properly.

    alric
    Free Member

    so take it apart completely, or just…?

    ok,so it was green tea

    devash
    Free Member

    Should have mixed in some MiracleGro with the water?

    jambourgie
    Free Member

    Well the idea is to get some air into it. So I’d dismantle it as much as sensibly possible and then leave it upside down somewhere warm. So, maybe battery, keyboard, CD drive, HDD etc. Open anything that can be opened.

    It’s out of warranty one assumes?

    Poopscoop
    Full Member

    Laptops are huge fun to take apart!

    I’m joking obviously, they can be a bleedin mare on occasions.

    Look for a walk through and have bucket loads of patience at the ready.

    Even then I would say it’s 50/50 it will work again after drying.

    Not sure if your joking about it being tea?

    If you’re not then the odds get even worse, particularly over time, even if it initially does dry out and work for some time.

    lazlowoodbine
    Free Member

    Some are easy, some are fiddly as hell. Either way there could well be tea in places that won’t dry without opening it up. Be careful getting it too hot, some laptops have pretty shoddy soldering and it doesn’t take much to upset them.

    I once spilt beer on mine and instantly whipped the battery out and took the keyboard off to dry it and check underneath for wasted ale. Luckily it hadn’t got in but the keyboard was pretty crunchy for a few weeks..

    sbob
    Free Member

    alric – Member

    ok,so it was green tea

    Dude, see a doctor.

    spooky_b329
    Full Member

    Sugary drinks kill laptops, might be OK with tea if you dry it out and stop trying to turn it on!

    I did mine with orange juice, worked fine for the rest of the day, but the following day it would not boot up. I ended up taking it apart and worked out that if I disconnected the trackpad it would start up so I could back up my latest stuff 🙂

    legend
    Free Member

    So is this a stealth “How do I delete history/files remotely?” thread?

    mechanicaldope
    Full Member

    Dropped* mine in the canal. Was fine.

    *crashed bike into with laptop in rucksack.

    alric
    Free Member

    coconut-
    I’m using the old laptop I had befor I bought the HP off here
    It’s had micro ants living in it, they love electronics

    alric
    Free Member

    turned out to be the memory that took the hit
    so swappped the RAM and it’s all good

    Not like the old laptop, which died, suddenly, of natural causes, (food poisoning, suicide etc)

    leffeboy
    Full Member

    You might even discover if you clean the ram with deionised water and a toothbrush that it will work again. The problem isn’t the water but whatever else is in it. If it was something salty you are in real trouble…

    But if you are bored deionised water and gently with a toothbrush

    wiggles
    Free Member

    I bet many a laptop had met a salty end

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