All in all, using any type of heat in an uncontrolled way at best may do nothing for you, and at worst will damage by scorching or melting the plastics making up most modern electronics. A home oven is not a suitable heat source because its heat output at a given thermostat setting is not constant (there will be drops and spikes). (There has also been some halfway decent advice).įirstly, DO NOT apply heat to an electronic device unless you have a way of precisely controlling the temperature and you know the tolerances of the material you are working with. There has been a lot of bad advice posted here, which is typical for a public message board. I hope this was of some help in answering your problem. Spilling soda, coffee w/cream and other goodies requires a different approach and technique to restore your electronics. If this is the case, you most likely did damage to other parts of the unit as well and now all you have is a nice looking paper weight. This may/maynot be part of the main printed circuit/mother board. However,if you turned the unit on, you most likely blew up the switch mode power supply that is in the unit. Use canned air to help remove any moisture that you are able to see as well as clean the rest of the board. Redo if necessary, you should be good to go from there. Be in absolutely no hurry here! Let it dry! Recheck for moisture, recheck the connectors as well. The alcohol will absorbe the water and dry the board at the same time. Spray the entire assembly, electroics, case and connectors. Next, get a spray bottle/mister and fill it with denatured alcohol. You do this so that you can remove any condensation that is lurking in the crevices of the plastic housing as well as on the electronics themselves. Unplug the ribbon cables as well, gently. Pull out and remove all of the components that you can. Now, IF(!) you did not turn the unit on, you are ahead of the problem. I work in an environment where people do just what you have done, spill stuff into their electronics. Thus the electric current probably had more than ample time to jump across circuits it wasn’t supposed to. The electronic device - the laptop - was turned on, and power was running through it for a while, while it was still wet. However, in this particular case, the damage seems to have been done. Next, if the liquid was sticky or sugary then I would recommend rinsing the device completely with water to wash away the residue.įinally, let the device dry COMPLETELY before running power through the circuits. Thus, when electronics get wet, the best thing to do is immediately cut the power (remove the batteries, etc… No problems whatsoever despite the fact that I completely saturated them.Ī couple of years ago my girlfriend spilled coke on our cable-remote, so I immediately removed the batteries, washed it with water, and then let it dry completely. I then removed them, and waited a couple of days for them to completely dry, and put the batteries back in, and they worked absolutely perfectly.
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In my experiment, I took out the batteries, and dropped the electronics in a sink full of water, and left them soaking in the water for 30 minutes. (I experimented with a calculator, an older sony-walkman, and a remote control for a 13 inch tube television that I didn’t want anymore). I actually experimented with old electronics, by dunking them driectly into water, to see what happened to them. It’s a long shot, but given that the laptop’s not working, and as long as you can keep the rice outside of your machine, it couldn’t hurt.īut as I said, I’m interested in what other ideas people might have. This is not an uncommon situation. If the container is properly sealed, the only place that moisture can come from is your laptop. The theory, that apparently works well for cell phones, is that the rice acts as a desiccant – absorbing moisture out of the air. Perhaps you should bag the rice in nylon or some other very porous material. My concern with this approach, of course, is that rice grains are small enough that they might end up in your laptop instead of around your laptop, which is what you really want.
Place your laptop in a sealed container filled with uncooked rice for a few days. But I’ll throw it out there to use at your own risk… It’s actually not that off-the-wall, as I’ve heard it recommended repeatedly for people who’ve dropped their cell phones in water. Be it a sticky sugary residue, powder of some sort, or who knows what else, anything but plain water is going to be much worse, and much less likely to be fixable. If it’s soda, coffee, tea, milk … whatever … when it dries it’s going to leave a residue.
It’s worse if what was spilled is anything more than plain water.
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