I left a cup of coffee on the table next to my laptop, was in a hurry to drop my daughter off at her mom’s house on time. I came home about 12 hours later to see myself in this situation.
I would love to add pics but attachments aren’t allowed. Are links allowed?
Most of the coffee flowed under the laptop and hardened in the vent on the underside of the laptop. I would like to get some people’s opinions as to how compromised my laptop is.
It was on the entire time I was gone. It was closed. It seems to be fully operable, but I don’t want to risk continuing to run it and ruining a $3000+ laptop.
If this isn’t the place to ask for help, please point me in the right direction.
Thank you.
If you haven’t already, turn the laptop off, unplug the charger cord and unplug the battery.
Then let it dry, go to a reputable repair shop and hope that at least your storage is not compromised so you can recover your data.
Alright. Sounds good. Thank you.
You can’t just “unplug the battery” though as they are suggesting. Any modern laptop requires you to open the laptop up by removing the bottom panel to gain access to the battery.
A repair shop should at least be able to open it up, confirm there is no damage internally, clean the bottom panel off and reassemble. If they do find damage internally, some shops will have the ability to repair at the component level, and some shops will only offer replacement of the components, which will cost a lot more money. If everything is operational though, you probably won’t need to have anything swapped.
Unscrewing the back and taking out the battery is literally the easiest part of laptop repair