laptops & liquids don't mix.

Yep. I did the unthinkable. I was drinking a glass of water near my laptop and then accidentally spilled some of it on the laptop. rolleyes

Maybe I'll get lucky since it really wasn't that much water. Guess I gotta wait a few days and see. I wanna punch myself because I was just thinking I should back some of this stuff up and then I was like nah, I'll do it later. D'oh!

 

Ack!!!...:eek Just make sure it's 100% dry before testing it out, obviously. Lucky it was just water and not sticky Cola or beer. I get so many of those jobs. Often they need a whole new guts, which usually costs more than the laptop's worth.

 

Put it in a bag of rice and seal it. The rice will absorb moisture. Put the laptop in pantyhose or similar to keep rice out of the slots.

 

I point and laugh because I care. And because I've done worse.

*points and laughs*

Seriously. I dumped the water from a cup of Ramen noodles on the keyboard. Oh, how stupid did I feel. Fortunately a replacement wasn't that expensive, but it was...

 

Thanks ... I once dumped a bowl of Ramen noodles on my lap.. that was not a good idea either :-D

@Laura, I plugged it up and tried to turn it on. No go My coworker told me to bring it in and he will see if he can fix it or hopefully at least save the hard drive.

 

I know of device that can protect against this kind of error.

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=ba...&w=400&h=500&ei=AilpT5qYOoGg0QXI0YiHCQ&zoom=1

:-D

At Christmas I poured half a cup of coffee over shoulder and shirt when went o sniff my armpit for BO:-D Wasn't my proudest moment :booger

 

Unless you actively soaked the computer, the hard drive should be okay.

 

My new laptop arrived today. It's almost my previous laptop's twin so I had the genius idea to just swap the hard drives and YAY! I have my stuff back!! :celebrate Now just to back this stuff up now:-D

 

Whoo.
Now do as Rikky suggested and you should be good for a while.:-D

 

Thank you and yes, yes I am http://forums.llli.org/images/smilies/nerd_smiley.gif LOL

.. don't worry I've learned my lesson!! :-D