I left a cup of coffee on the table next to my laptop, was in a hurry to drop my daughter off at her mom’s house on time. I came home about 12 hours later to see myself in this situation.

I would love to add pics but attachments aren’t allowed. Are links allowed?

Most of the coffee flowed under the laptop and hardened in the vent on the underside of the laptop. I would like to get some people’s opinions as to how compromised my laptop is.

It was on the entire time I was gone. It was closed. It seems to be fully operable, but I don’t want to risk continuing to run it and ruining a $3000+ laptop.

If this isn’t the place to ask for help, please point me in the right direction.

Thank you.

  • DrKeksimusBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Still works ?? that’s amazing

    It needs to be opened, and cleaned … unplug everything, even the battery

    If you’re broke, watch a lot of water damage repair video’s on YT… ( from you’re phone :) … so you get an idea of what water damage looks like

    then watch a tear down of your model, ground yourself (to avoid static electricity damage) and clean everything up with Qtip and alcohol

    watch out for liquid that may have gotten under chips, which will dry out very very slowly and be very easy to not see

    Don’t solder yourself unless you have an experienced mate to help you out… a lot of those PCB’s are thick and absorb heat, making soldering very difficult without experience

    But from the looks of it, you’re not gonna need to solder on new connections