Water in a laptop, can it be saved?

Shane

i trick with mobile phones when they come into contact with liquid is to completely immerse them in dry rice............worth a shot i reckon.

Start filling out your insurance claim form. That will fix it. It'll actually go faster :-)

Then get a USB to SATA interface from ebay and download your data.

Open any hatches in the bottom and let the air in Let it dry for a few more days, then try turning it on.

Either way the hard drive should still be fine so if you don't have the skills yourself take it to a tech and get em to load the drive into an external hard drive box and you'll be able to recover all your data.

I had a similar case where my daughter had her mobile phone in her bag with a bottle of soft drink. Needless to say the soft dring leaked, about 300mls and the phone was swimming in the drink for about 2 hours. Luckily the phone was turned off at the time. When she told me I thought the phone was a gonner so with nothing to loose, I removed the covers and battery and then washed the phone out under running water and then soaked it overhight in distilled water. Rinsed it again with distilled water in the morning, put it bast together and the phone worked. That was about 2 years ago and the phone is still working.

As far as computers go, we had a server flooded during a heave storm when the roof collapsed. It was running at the time but the puwer cut out straight away. The water flowed through the server so it was fully soaked. Again, removed the covers and rinsed it with fresh water (as per the insurers instructions) and let it air for a few days. Can't remember exactly how long as we were without power for a week. We we fired it back op again it worked fine.

It is quite likely that your laptop will also be fine provided you remove any covers that you can as well as the battery and let it dry out thouroughly. Try starting it on the battery and hopefully it will be ok.

Good luck,

Sn00py2

Take all the covers off and then use a hair dryer to dry it out.

from Marty.

Computer tech here,

Remove battery as circuits are still powered even if laptop is off.

As written, remove as many covers as possible, key also as they usual only need a couple of screws taken out to remove, and leave to dry in a warm environment for many days.

It will take a long time for water to evaporate from under the key board pads etc.

Remove/open as many covers as possible and remove the battery. Now take to it with a hair dryer on cool with a burst of hot every now and again. Give it a good seeing-to for 10 min or so. Wait an hour and repeat, do this another half a dozen times then leave overnight before turning on using only battery power. Tip from an old retired techo :)

Mike

Hi

Bring it to Perth - It will dry out in about 1/2 hour :)

Cheers
Greg

If its clean clear water you have a real good chance.

Coffee, softdrink, beer, soup or salt water...good luck

MUST remove battery early as possible.

One thing that people consistently fail to do...is keep drinks away from electronics.
I see some many people with drinks right next to their keyboards, and usually those who do that are the less carefull ones, and wont be told.

I know sooner or later that person is going to tip their drink in their keyboard, and there will be all sorts of grief, shouting and unsociable words.

These days if its not my equipment I keep my mouth shut.

Keep drinks away from ya equipment and turn away from the gear when you drink it.

cheers

Thanks to everybody, for their input and suggestions, A tech savy mate pulled it apart and found little water had got in, puter works fine now, if your reading this, then it must be working

Shane