Sometimes liquid gets on the laptop keyboard, which can be dangerous for it. In order not to repair a flooded laptop, you need to act quickly, and these actions may differ depending on what kind of substance got on the input device. Next, we will tell you what to do if water, beer, sweet tea or coffee is spilled on the device, as well as what to do to prevent a laptop flooded with beer or water from breaking down in the future.
What to do if the device is flooded with water
If the user flooded the laptop, immediately after that it must be disconnected from the power supply and the battery removed - do not click on "Shut down" and do not wait for the laptop to turn itself off. Nevertheless, a film is glued to the keyboard, which protects the motherboard if moisture is spilled on the device. Therefore, when the liquid has entered in a small amount, if it is pure water, and not beer or tea, coffee, then you need to do the following:
- remove any remaining water with a soft cloth;
- then remove the device and dry it properly.
If the last point is not performed qualitatively, then moisture will remain between the films of the polyethylene printed circuit board filled with beer or water, which over time will lead to corrosion damage to the conductive tracks and failure of the input device.
To dry a keyboard that has been spilled with clean water, it is not necessary to disassemble it. In a ventilated room or under a radiator, it will dry completely in about a day.
How to remove the keyboard from a laptop to dry
Some users have difficulty removing the input device from the laptop. But on modern mobile computers, it is quite easy to dismantle it, since it is attached to ordinary plastic latches. Dismantling must be done according to the following scheme:
After complete drying, the keyboard filled with beer, water or tea can be put back in place. If it dries well, make sure that the device turns on and the buttons work. There should be no further problems with the further operation of the laptop, on which the user has spilled a clean, non-aggressive liquid.
What to do if the device is flooded with aggressive liquids
When the user spilled beer or sweet tea, coffee on the keys, sticky marks remain on the surfaces after drying. At first, the keys of the input device may start to stick, and after a while, after the oxidation of the conductive tracks on the board (usually spilled beer is effective in a day), the keyboard will stop working. To avoid this, it will have to be removed, completely disassembled and cleaned. Disassembly must be done in the following order:
Wipe the board with a damp soft swab. Try to use only distilled water. An aggressive liquid like solvents or alcohol can not only remove the remaining beer, but also severely damage the conductive tracks of the board.
If the laptop turns on, but individual keys stop working, you can clean their contacts on the board. To do this, it will have to cut off the corresponding rubber caps with a clerical knife, and gently wipe the unprotected contacts, thereby removing the dried beer and tea. The caps themselves must also be thoroughly cleaned.
After carrying out the described procedures, you should proceed to assemble the device. It will be possible to glue the caps in place with superglue, trying to use the minimum amount of it for this, so that the substance does not get on the components of the printed circuit board, which can also damage the keyboard.
When working at a computer, especially at home, unpleasant situations often arise - tipping cups, glasses, vases with liquid on the keyboard. A laptop differs from a desktop computer in that the devices necessary for the operation of the device are located under the keyboard and spilled liquid can damage them in a matter of seconds. Such a shocking event discourages the owner of expensive equipment, because of this, the user does not immediately take the necessary actions that will help protect the affected item from breakage. Then, as the subsequent performance depends on the speed and accuracy of the measures taken.
What to do if a user spills beer on a laptop
Among computer specialists, there is an unspoken classification of liquids that users have ever flooded laptop keyboards with, and it is divided into aggressive and non-aggressive types.
Non-aggressive types of liquids include still water and unsweetened tea.
Aggressive liquids include beer, sodas, juices, coffee, milk, and so on. Aggressive liquids quickly lead to breakdowns of microcircuits inside the laptop due to increased oxidizing ability.
On fig. You can see how the motherboard oxidized in a day.
Consider a situation in which a user spilled a glass of beer on a laptop keyboard and what needs to be done to save the equipment. The sequence and speed of the actions performed will avoid the failure of the product and, as a result, expensive costs.
Algorithm of actions to save a flooded laptop
1. Urgently turn off the power to the equipment: unplug the power cord and remove the battery from the laptop. The internal temperature of the device in this case will begin to drop rapidly, and the oxidation processes may not even have time to start, and if they did, they will proceed much more slowly than when the mode is on;
2. With a damp cloth made of a fast-absorbing material (microfiber, gauze or sponge synthetics), intensively blot the beer-drenched surface of the laptop. Try not to press the keyboard at the same time, so that the beer liquid does not penetrate deeper and wet the conductors and microcircuits;
3. After pre-drying with a cloth, turn the laptop over and shake it gently. Thus, you will let the beer that got inside the laptop drain from the internal components. Be careful not to drain liquid into the keyboard and display mounting area. If liquid enters the screen housing, damage to the matrix or monitor cable will be inevitable;
4. Leave the laptop upside down. Fix it securely so that it does not fall. Do not turn it on again under any circumstances;
5. Immediately contact the technical and service support center. Specify the estimated start date of the repair. If it is not possible to start repairs in the next 24 hours, look for alternative companies.
Please note that the repair of a flooded laptop will always be paid, because. this is not a factory defect!
Remember, the amount that you will be offered to pay after the diagnosis depends on the speed and strict adherence to the sequence of the above actions.
A variant is possible in which the restoration of working capacity will cost a small amount, for example, when restoring the keyboard. Otherwise, you will have to fork out for the replacement of the cable, matrix or motherboards, one of the most expensive components of any computer.
Remember that self-disassembly and cleaning of the internal parts of a laptop is a matter that requires certain skills, and often repairs can only be performed by highly qualified specialists using special technical tools and spare parts.
What to do first?
So the glass of water is half full. The second half is already in the laptop.
The first thing to do is - unplug charger and remove battery. The sooner you pull it out, the more likely you are to be rescued.
Even if the laptop is turned off, the power circuits on the motherboard are working. As you understand, this threatens with a short circuit and the purchase of a new computer.
Unfortunately, the owners of MacBooks cannot simply pull out the battery. That's why immediately press the power button until it turns off completely.
Together with battery all peripheral devices must be disabled, as they, too, can become a victim of water.
Then quickly turn the laptop upside down. Water will gradually begin to flow out through the holes between the keys. The remaining liquid can be wiped with a cloth or paper towel.
The main thing is accuracy. Do not press the buttons, because this can drive water even deeper under the keyboard. Keep the device in this state for at least a couple of hours.
What's next? Can you turn it on and check?
When it seems to you that the laptop is completely dry, don't try to turn it on. The liquid was still under the chips on the motherboard. Perhaps the device will even work, but after a while, water and corrosion will still win. Then you will be provided with expensive repairs.
The ideal solution - do not take risks and urgently take the flooded device to professionals, or rather, to the service center. Nobody can handle your problem better than the masters.
And if I'm on vacation, am I too lazy to go somewhere or am I confident?
The success of "self-healing" depends on skills. If you went to the radio circle and are sure that you can disassemble and - most importantly - assemble a laptop, do it yourself. Turn on the video guide(there are such for almost any model of laptops) And just repeat.
Well, then unscrew all the screws that you find. First of all, remove the motherboard and remove the CMOS battery from it (look at the photos how it looks). Because of it, a short circuit can also occur, as it feeds the "motherboard".
Look at the fee. If you see a white coating or darkening on it, take a soft toothbrush and gently clean the problem areas.
Then you need to walk on them with alcohol, and you need to wipe everything, do not be lazy. After alcohol (not inside!) Repeat the procedure with distilled water. Unlike ordinary water, distilled water does not contain impurities of salts and metals that can destroy the elements on the board.
If there is plaque on almost the entire area of \u200b\u200bthe motherboard, remove everything that you can remove from it: the processor, WLAN module and memory. After that, rinse the board with warm distilled water and leave to dry for at least a day.
Can I just dry it with a hair dryer and assemble the laptop?
It is better not to dry with a hair dryer. It can blow out hot dust or, even worse, melt some elements on the board. For the same reason, in no case should you put components on the battery.
Perfect option: leave the laptop elements in a warm and dry room for at least a day(and even better for two days). Before that, do not even try to assemble and turn on the laptop.
Also, parts can be put in a container with rice, because rice is an excellent absorbent, which is found in almost every home. It perfectly draws out excess moisture.
What water, I spilled soda (actually beer)!
The situation is more complicated. Sodas and sugary drinks can kill your laptop much faster than regular water because they contain a lot more acids. They not only accelerate the corrosion of internal elements, but can also ruin the keyboard. Therefore, do not leave the laptop to dry, but immediately disassemble it or take it to a service center.
If you flooded the keyboard beer or tea, I will tell you what needs to be done so that the keyboard is not sticky and works
Hello! It often happens that a glass of freshly brewed, fresh (or not so) beer falls directly on your keyboard. Also, this situation happens with morning coffee or tea. Your elbow hits a cup filled with tea, and your keyboard is filled with tea with sugar.
There is a way out, buy a new one =)
First of all, you need to get ready without a keyboard you will be a couple of days. Of course, you can quickly resolve the issue, but then you will spend much more time and you will have to disassemble the keyboard, remove all the buttons, which is shorter than hemorrhoids for a couple of hours
The disassembled keyboard looks like this
We see that our paths are under the poured coffee. And in any case, even if you dismantled the keyboard, until the tracks under the numbers are all dry, the keyboard will not function normally
First of all, disconnect the keyboard from USB or other power. Then we take her to the bathroom.
We turn on the cold water and begin to fill the entire keyboard with cold water. It is important to do this with love and tenderness. 
Now we take a rag with Fairy or another tool that allows you to remove stickiness from the keyboard. This applies, by the way, when you flooded the keyboard with Coca-Cola, cognac and cola, and beer too.
Three across the keyboard. Good as your back when you massage 
Now, this Fairy or other remedy, rinse again with cold water. Okay. We almost made it.
Now, you can put the keyboard to dry. If summer is in the yard, you are a little more lucky. If winter, a little less. We drain all the water from it and set it to dry for a couple of days. In summer, the keyboard dries completely in a day or two. The main thing is that all the tracks are dry and there is no water on them. Therefore, do not rush to turn on the keyboard as soon as possible
If it is winter, put the keyboard to warm up near the pipe that heats. It is better to take the old keyboard for a replacement for now and use it for a couple of days. 
After a couple of days, we connect the keyboard back to the PC. If some keys do not work, or one key starts another. Pressed up, and on the action down, then you still need to dry the keyboard and wait
After the keyboard is completely dry, you can use it. She's even cleaner than before you filled her up.
The laptop was flooded with liquid - what to do first
So an unpleasant story happened and the laptop or netbook was filled with liquid. This article will tell you how to restore a laptop after liquid (water, tea, coffee, beer, juice, etc.) has been spilled on it at home.
Immediately you need to perform the following steps and only then decide what to do with it next.
1. Unplug your laptop (unplug charger from laptop)
2. Remove the battery from a laptop
3. Wipe off excess liquid dry paper towel or rag
All these actions must be performed immediately after water hits the laptop, without waiting for the regular shutdown of the computer.
The laptop keyboard is flooded with water, juice, beer, etc.
Now you need to determine how far the liquid has flowed. To do this, you need to disassemble the laptop.
First of all, you need to remove the keyboard and see if the liquid leaked deeper onto the motherboard or only the keyboard was flooded.
If the motherboard is not affected - already lucky. There is a chance that you will be lucky on a large scale and the keyboard will not even have to be changed.
So, if the keyboard was flooded with water, then you can try to simply dry it, but it is still advisable to rinse it first in distilled water. If tea, coffee, beer, juice is spilled on the keyboard, then rinse in distilled water necessarily. It is highly likely that after drying it will be fully functional. For drying, you can use for example an electric oven. Set the temperature to 70 degrees and dry the keyboard in it for 4 hours or more. You should not set the temperature higher, because. buttons may melt. You can just put it in the sun for at least 1 day, and preferably for two. It is better to spend more time drying than buying a new keyboard later. After all, if you do not dry the keyboard, moisture will remain between the films and corrosion will gradually eat the tracks.
Traces of corrosion on the tracks and pads of the keyboard
After that, try to connect the keyboard and check its performance in a text editor. If the keys print other letters or the letters print themselves, then the keyboard is not dry enough and there is moisture between the films with sputtered tracks. Repeat the drying process.
If the keys do not work on the contrary, then there is a dielectric or corrosion on the contact pads. Try rinsing again more thoroughly and drying for a longer time.
laptop motherboard flooded
In the event that you are unlucky and the liquid gets on the motherboard, the laptop will have to be completely disassembled. If, when liquid hit the laptop, it did not pass out and continued to work and you managed to de-energize it in time, then there is a high probability of restoring it at home. If, after getting the liquid, he himself passed out, then almost certainly it will not be possible to restore it at home. In this case, it is better to immediately contact laptop repair serviceso as not to aggravate the situation. After all, it is unlikely that it will be possible to find and resolder a burned-out element or chip at home without the appropriate equipment and experience. It is not worth delaying the repair, since the bill goes to the clock and over time, corrosion can destroy the motherboard so much that it will be impossible to restore it.
Corrosion on motherboard flooded with liquid
Remove the motherboard by disconnecting all cables from it and removing all devices. You also need to remove the processor. Remove or solder (depending on the implementation on the motherboard) the CMOS battery.
Now you need to thoroughly rinse the board in distilled water and dry it. You can dry it simply by laying it in the sun.
When the motherboard dries out from the outside, you need to arm yourself with pure alcohol and a syringe with a thin needle. Draw alcohol into the syringe and pour it under each microcircuit on the motherboard, with the exception of chips filled with compound. Alcohol dissolves water and helps it evaporate from hard-to-reach places and micro-crevices. After all the elements on the motherboard are treated with alcohol, continue drying.
Now assemble the laptop and try turning it on. If no electronic elements on the motherboard have burned out during liquid ingress, the laptop will turn on and work for a long time. For example, my laptop has been working for 4 years after a glass of tea was poured on it :-)
If the laptop does not turn on - your way to a computer service.
