Is water in a Laptop pretty much always the end of it?
 

Last night at my parents place a water line split and some water ran down and into a light hanging over the table, and started to fill the fixure, as soon as the water hit the light bulb it exploded and broke the glass fixture, causing water to land on the screen of an open laptop, which was turned off and turned upside down immediatly. But didnt take the battery off.

We measured that the other light thats the exact same holds 1/3 cup of water untill it would hit the bulb, and the leak was slow, woudl have taken an hour to fill.

So between 1/4 and 1/3 of a cup of water landed on the screen of a running laptop. This morning it will not turn on, not even try to.

The laptop is an Acer Aspire 9810, its only a couple months old so still under warranty at least if they cover it.

I would say if you let it dry out completely for a few days it should be fine unless the water shorted it before you turned it off. I know a guy who fixes laptops who washes the motherboards in the dishwasher for his referbs, and they work perfectly when he's done with them (that's not how he fixes them it's how he removes all the residue and buildup from pop spills etc). Water won't hurt a laptop unless it shorts it generally.

A leaky window at the Luxor caused my old Dell laptop to become saturated with water. I still used that computer for awhile after but it was never the same after that.

What she said. Depends on what if anything was damaged. Hopefully at the minimum the HD is fine.

I had a friend dump a soda on mine. It froze up for a couple of days...after it dried I was able to back up the files. Ultimately the only feature that I lost with this tragic event was that my mouse pad and battery don't work...good news is that I am still able to use the computer as a desktop with a USB mouse. ...I guess it could be worse!! GOOD LUCK!

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Oh, one more thing. I have to reboot often. It's just was never the same after the soda!

Let it dry out for a few days and if it doesn't work take this drastic measure:

Submerg it (except battery) in 90% rubbing alcohol for a hour then let it dry out for a day and try again.

Works great for cellphones that fall into the toilet. :1orglaugh

The alcohol removes all the water that's trapped inside and cannot dryout.

Good to know:thumbsup

remove everything that you possibly can from it(battery, disk drives, all the screw down lids on the bottom, etc) immediately after the contact with water and let it dry out, preferably with a light breeze blowing over it.

I dropped an entire glass of midori 7 into a laptop once, flipped it upside immediately and let it drain overnight. It turned back on the next day, but gradually over a few days stopped working.

When they replaced the bits inside the hard drive apparently had some rust on it & other parts were corroding ...

If sugar does that to technology, imagine what it must do to our insides!!

I had the same thing happen, my wife dumped a huge glass of coke over mine

I flipped it upside down immediately and pulled the cord off and the battery out, unscrewed it and let it dry, worked fine afterwards

the deal is with electronics.....they can get wet, but they have to be non-functioning when it happens and they can't be wet when they get turned back on....so, if the water/drink doesn't hit the board or electric parts before you unplug it, and you get it dry before you turn it back on, it should be fine