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.
As long as the laptop wasn’t running, you should be fine. It isn’t contact with liquid that kills electronics in the vast majority of cases, it’s liquid+electronics+power=short. In the case of coffee, the danger is in the residue that is left behind after it dries.
The laptop needs to be disassembled fully, and it needs to be cleaned thoroughly. Toothbrush and pure alcohol should be sufficient, that’s likely what any repair shop will end up doing.
It was running for as long as it may have been bathing in coffee. But I think it isn’t as bad as it could be because it was closed. Thank you.
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