Netbook screen water damage

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So I spilt beer on my girlfriends netbook, and now the screen is messed up.
The computer itself works fine, boots up normally and the screen comes up as it should, but the colours are all of. Everything is reeally blurry and has a kind of gray/green hue.

After spilling, I turned it off (It was still on and working for a time), and put it in a bag of rice for a few days. This seems to have absorbed moisture from the main circuitry, and only the screen remains the issue.

Has anyone any experience of anything similar? Ive looked around online but not found anything that was really helpful...other than it may be a problem with the inverter and i should get it replaced.

Sup08

Unfortunately there is no real good news for this, but eventually the netbook will burn out if you continue to use it without seeking professional help.
Beers, coffee and any other liquids that contain ingredients in them leave a residue on the motherboard and other essential parts and through the heat of the computer operating will eventually burn the circuits. You would probably be throwing good money after bad as it will eventually burn out. Water damage is different as it does not leave any residue if caught on time and treated before any real damage is done.
You may get a year or only a few weeks but bring it to a professional that may be able to clean up the residue and fix the screen.

yoyo

The screen is built up of many layers so it could be water got in between these layers. You can replace laptop screens easily enough, I'm not sure how much you'd be looking at but check out ebay, think netbook screens can go for €50 odd so its not overly expensive

Nick

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Thanks for the responses.

I will bring it in for professional repair, was hoping there might have been something i could do to magically fix it myself though!