Papatek Guide to Fix Spilt Liquid on Laptop

Aug. 20, 2010 - PRLog -- The laptop is a Dell Inspiron 1545 and you know it should go without saying "be careful of food and drink around your computer". However, you accidentally knocked fruit drink or a late night glass of milk on your laptop or your child spilled a good portion of milk directly into your keyboard. You hear a popping noise, the screen goes black. Water by itself is not as bad as milk or juice, both of which are corrosive/acidic, or coffee, tea, soda, etc.  
See DELL Inspiron 1545 Keyboard:
http://papatek.com/Dell-Keyboard/Dell-Inspiron-1545-keyboard.html
Now what do you do?  You know it can’t be good for the computer. How do you fix it?

First and most important –Calm Down and unplug the computer from its power source.  
Disconnect it from the power cord and remove the battery. If needs, please remove the keyboard.  The old adage – Water and Electricity don’t mix – is quite true. For your laptop spilled water, let your laptop dry. Do not attempt to turn on the computer for at least 72 hours. Let it sit in a cool, dry place. If you disassembled the laptop, reassemble it after 72 hours have passed.

Second – suspend the laptop upside down over a sink and see what liquid you can get to dribble out. Please carefully look beneath it to see if any juice got deeper into your laptop.
If it's just on the keyboard, you can gently try to pop a key off. Many times, the keyboard area is further protected underneath with a rubber or plastic membrane.  Clean up what you can. If they come off fairly easily, take a picture of the keyboard before you remove any more, so you know how to put them all back on. You can also lay them out on a surface, in order, as you take them off. Once you have access beneath the keys, clean all the juice out of the keyboard with damp cloths and/or cotton swabs. Also clean the keys as best you can. If you have the picture of the layout, you can just throw them in a colander and rinse them off with warm water in the sink for a bit. You may need to take the keyboard apart further to get all the juice out of the various layers. Once you get it all cleaned up, make sure it is completely 100% dry before you start putting it back together. This may take 12 hours or more.
Refrence: http://papatek.com/Knowledge/Keyboard-Knowledge/Knowledge...

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