I've just poured half a can into my laptop...

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Don't drink a can and leave it right in front of your laptop

Bulmers...what can I expect?

It immediately shut down, but I turned it on it's side and drained the remaining cider from it.

I'm posting from it now, so all seems to be ok, plays music ok, wireless is working ok. Am I lucky?

Photi

It won't thank you in the morning.

Hal1

It might be ok once you are sure theres no more moisture inside at the keys. I wouldn't use it tbh. Leave it open like a book and put it in the upside down position. Get a hair dryer after a while and run it over it on a low heat, so you dont melt the keys. Most modern keyboards have a waterproof membrane, lets hope yours does too.

Zillah

Probably very lucky. As said, I'd leave it off until its had a night to dry.

The Gnome

Ah yes, the Bulmers spilling. Been here myself but not so lucky. Make sure you clean the keyboard out, when it dries it gets sticky and annoying also have a look inside to check for leakage, sometimes the liquid can sneak through and dry on the circuit boards causing much woe and short term anger at cider / red wine.

homerjay2005

what model is it? chances are something will fail in the future, how old is it?

Peyton Manning

just keep the laptop indoors where it can stay out of trouble. pour a few pints of water over it, should sober it up a bit and tuck it into bed. It'll be horrible when it wakes up but it should be fine after a while.

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homerjay2005 wrote:

what model is it? chances are something will fail in the future, how old is it?

It's a Dell Inspiron 1501, got it in March.

Capt'n Midnight

Hal1 wrote:

It might be ok once you are sure theres no more moisture inside at the keys. I wouldn't use it tbh. Leave it open like a book and put it in the upside down position. Get a hair dryer after a while and run it over it on a low heat, so you dont melt the keys. Most modern keyboards have a waterproof membrane, lets hope yours does too.

Don't use hair dryers or hand dryers on computers, as any damage will then be fatal. Even 20 years ago I knew people who wouldn't even look at stuff that had been forceably dried.

If you dry it that way you evaporate off the water, leaving behind the dissolved solids, that gunk up the computer, along with salts that conduct electricity, sugars for fungi to grow on and worst the film may not be water soluble so you can't wash it off then.

External / cordless keyboards are cheap.

anthony4335

Sure Dell, made in Ireland, of course it will work after a little lubrication.

tom_ass19

simular thing happend to me but it was a phone and a sink. was washing dishes after da dinner n my phone dropped in, wouldnt turn on. the oven was off with before i eat dinner n i left it in their, took all the part out of the phone and it turned on in the morning. But i wouldnt put a laptop in their. kinda funny tbh