I mistakenly spilled tea on my laptop keyboard. I turned it off immediately, and also dried it by a blower, but it kept turning on and off automatically for a while, and then stopped doing so. I haven’t turned on the laptop since and have kept it in a V shape upside down position. What should be my immediate action? Should I just leave it to dry or do something else? And turn it on later or get it to a repair shop?
Whatever you do, do not turn it on. From what you said, it’s likely already damaged somehow with the internals shorting, which makes the computer turn on and off at random. A trusted computer shop is a must so they clean the insides and diagnose any damage.
I had a water leak in the attic once that percolated through the ceiling exactly over my open laptop, which was off at the moment. I pulled the power cable out and threw the laptop on the couch while I sorted the leak out, but failed to remove the battery – when removable batteries were a common feature.
I got back from the attic and the laptop was on. The keyboard was shot and only worked properly again after I replaced it and the system clock was forever wonky, randomly jumping back in time, which I fixed by installing a program to check a time server every minute and set the clock if needed.