Water In Laptop Please Help

Dundalk Daily

I have spilt sometea on laptop keyboard, a tiny amount i must say, pic on comp froze so i knocked it off, now it wont go on. Its lifeless, bar the battery light comes on for few secs when i hit the main button, will this dry out, is it possible to retrieve info from it in any way. Its a sony vaio pcg-fr415s

thanks

Steveo1983

Try putting it in a hotpress for a while to dry it out. As for getting the data back that should be pretty easy just remove the hard disk and connect it to another pc.

Ruu_Old

Wrap it in a towel and keep it in somewhere warm (between the LCD and keyboard), linen or hot press or something and hope for the best. Leave it there for a few hours.
If it still won't come on after that, you can remove the hard drive and I think you can pickup a 2.5" to 3.5" converter so you can plug the drive into a PC to retrieve the data.

Dundalk Daily

has been off now for a full day and still no life is this looking bad:

Ruu_Old

The water might be still sitting there, try the hotpress for a while.

JackKelly

if there is no luck, you could try cleaning the tea off the mainboard. I have a link to a good site for saving laptops from spillage.I'll try find it.

[edit]for the future, this is the link. Check out the comments. Some of them give good advice

Dundalk Daily

Tim thanks for the link, laptop is now turning on with a company type screensaver coming up and nothing else but at least its a start. Fingers crossed.

Access

Would you call this problem a "tea - break"?

- sorry, couldnt resist!

Dundalk Daily

Folks I have whay appears to be a sony type screensaver coming on now and nothing else, an improvement as the machine wouldnt even go on few days back. Is this an indication that it is on the mend or simply the machine switching on and nothing else. Any help appreciated.