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Laptop help 21:16 - Nov 17 with 2195 viewswelwynranger

Accidently spilt water on my laptop.
Now the cursor doesn't work.
Any tips or is it knackered now
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Laptop help on 21:20 - Nov 17 with 2171 viewsHooping_Mad

if its just tap water you may get luckey turn it off, then turn it upside down near a heat source and leave it for 48 hrs. (so the liquid wants to run away from the k/b & mainboard)

Maube put a kitchen towel over the lcd panel

If you can take the back off even better disconnect the battery.

If you give me a model number I can quote an aprox repair cost if its still broken in a day or 2.

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Laptop help on 21:24 - Nov 17 with 2145 viewscaptainmycaptian

Pc in bag small ports covered up of necessary and pour in some rice as very hygroscopic place mesr heet source
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Laptop help on 21:25 - Nov 17 with 2141 viewswelwynranger

Laptop help on 21:20 - Nov 17 by Hooping_Mad

if its just tap water you may get luckey turn it off, then turn it upside down near a heat source and leave it for 48 hrs. (so the liquid wants to run away from the k/b & mainboard)

Maube put a kitchen towel over the lcd panel

If you can take the back off even better disconnect the battery.

If you give me a model number I can quote an aprox repair cost if its still broken in a day or 2.


Thank you I will try thst
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Laptop help on 22:02 - Nov 17 with 2028 viewsBoston

Spilled water! What in gods name are you, some sort of bloody non alcoholic?

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Laptop help on 03:31 - Nov 18 with 1842 viewsnumptydumpty

Dont do what i did some time ago, when my phone got water damaged.

Some smart Alec gave me his genuine advice to put the phone in the airing cupboard. Suffice to say, in similar circumstances, he would not be in my top 100 people to ask for help again.

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Laptop help on 07:12 - Nov 18 with 1793 viewsPlanetHonneywood

OPs like this remind me/us, it's time to back up!

Good luck WR.

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Laptop help on 12:44 - Nov 18 with 1581 viewskensalriser

Mine was tea. Opened up the laptop, removed the keyboard, mopped up everything I could then put it on the radiator to dry for a day or so. All fixed.

Next time, not so lucky, a few keys stopped operating. Found a replacement keyboard on ebay for something like 15 quid, all good.

Never dropped alcohol on it, that would be a waste.

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Laptop help on 12:54 - Nov 18 with 1582 viewsR_from_afar

I haven't got any tips, sorry, but I knackered my home laptop by spilling soup on it .

The good news? A local repair shop replaced a board and fixed it .

Good luck!

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Laptop help on 13:21 - Nov 18 with 1526 viewsTwoHalves

Not laptop-related but similar: My TV remote started to malfunction so I dismantled it (eventually), washed the rubbery keypad thing in the sink with Fairy Liquid and used Isopropyl Rubbing Alcohol (behave) to clean what I now know to be the Printed Circuit Board (PCB) with a cotton ear bud. To my amazement it now works perfectly again. Used the ear bud method on my Bose CD player too when it kept displaying error messages.
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Laptop help on 14:12 - Nov 18 with 1437 viewsLblock

I don’t have a laptop and don’t drink water

No idea why I clicked on this thread


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Laptop help on 16:57 - Nov 18 with 1267 viewsHooping_Mad

Laptop help on 12:54 - Nov 18 by R_from_afar

I haven't got any tips, sorry, but I knackered my home laptop by spilling soup on it .

The good news? A local repair shop replaced a board and fixed it .

Good luck!


Anyone can swap parts, pcb repair is where its at !

Well until my eyes went

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Laptop help on 16:58 - Nov 18 with 1257 viewsHooping_Mad

Laptop help on 13:21 - Nov 18 by TwoHalves

Not laptop-related but similar: My TV remote started to malfunction so I dismantled it (eventually), washed the rubbery keypad thing in the sink with Fairy Liquid and used Isopropyl Rubbing Alcohol (behave) to clean what I now know to be the Printed Circuit Board (PCB) with a cotton ear bud. To my amazement it now works perfectly again. Used the ear bud method on my Bose CD player too when it kept displaying error messages.


The rubber bits just need a conductive coating, old trick when spares weren't available was to glue tin foil to the back of rubber bits!

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Laptop help on 17:04 - Nov 18 with 1229 viewscaptainmycaptian

Ps you can tell the internationals are on
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Laptop help on 17:21 - Nov 18 with 1196 viewsHooping_Mad

Laptop help on 17:04 - Nov 18 by captainmycaptian

Ps you can tell the internationals are on


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Laptop help on 18:06 - Nov 18 with 1140 viewsBrianMcCarthy

Laptop help on 14:12 - Nov 18 by Lblock

I don’t have a laptop and don’t drink water

No idea why I clicked on this thread



Maybe you spilled water on your laptop and it auto-typed your last post?

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Laptop help on 11:35 - Nov 20 with 765 viewswelwynranger

Laptop help on 21:20 - Nov 17 by Hooping_Mad

if its just tap water you may get luckey turn it off, then turn it upside down near a heat source and leave it for 48 hrs. (so the liquid wants to run away from the k/b & mainboard)

Maube put a kitchen towel over the lcd panel

If you can take the back off even better disconnect the battery.

If you give me a model number I can quote an aprox repair cost if its still broken in a day or 2.


Thanks Hooping Mad.
I tried that and it worked.

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