Water in laptop. Help please

[FJRider]

I spilt beer all over this laptop a couple of months back and never did anything about it.

Another preventable accident ....

[bosslady]

if you put your ear to it.....









can you hear the ocean?

[Zerker]

yes more water would certainly help the insurance claim, being powered on while water is being poured would help (be very careful not to touch the water or laptop, electrocution and all)

if you were to use oil to displace the water (probably not worth it at this point, just keep drying it, use rubbing alcohol (as pure as you can get) to clean up any hard water deposits that you can see) then don't use vegetable or cooking oil this stuff will turn rancid over time and will feel and smell awful, yes it is non conductive and will displace the water but not worth the mess.

I would also consider the laptop to be a ticking time bomb, the water just needs to conduct current between to points of contact and the whole thing will go, or rust to weaken a part to point of failure.

I would suggest you use a shared drive over your network (either from your router if it can take an external drive or a computer that will always be on) to store your information you want to keep and access it with the laptop (except stuff that needs fast access like game save files and game data), that way when the laptop goes 90% of your stuff is on the networked drive and the rest should be able to be rescued from your regular backups, just plug in an external once a week and leave it to do it overnight, then it's only one weeks worth of info to loose at the worst.