Hands up those have have spilled something on their laptop!!!!!!!

mine isn't a lap top, but my Mac keyboard, a couple of years ago I think? 2015? or maybe even 2014.... and it was coffee...with MILK that they say is the worse....
I just went and bought a new keyboard....lucky me, I had the money at the time (£40)....
hope yours dries and you can solve it asap !!!!!!!

 

not yet (she says as she is sitting in front of the screen with her afternoon coffee) but had a few near misses, i'd rather smash the cup on the floor than have the liquid hit the laptop personally so i hope yours dries out (and quickly - going backwards in terms of technology is always hard)

oh yep and i have one of these too - sending sympathy

 

they dont make them to last IMHO esp. the scrolly wheels - and they need to make the cords out of thicker, beak/teeth proof coating stuff too - dont they realise how attractive these things are to pets?!

 

Oh no... hope it will be ok. I've not spilled on my laptop but come close, spilling all over the table.

 

i don't know if the old 'put it in rice' trick applies to laptops... never tried it on a mobile phone either actually...

 

(all my cords from EHDs, mice etc have sticky tape covering chewed thru sections of cord to cover the wires - i think of it like putting a bandaid on my tech stuffs boo-boo's)

 

I have tossed a huge full mug of milky orange tea over a keyboard and had to replace it.
Feel your pain though, must be so much worse.

 

Not me, but my youngest son knocked over a full glass of tea on my laptop a few years ago. I took it apart completely, cleaned parts as best I could, and laid all the pieces out on a table in a sunny window. I used a cotton swab with a bit of alcohol to wipe around bits and pieces where the tea hit. I read that it would help with the stickiness of the sweet tea. We were leaving on vacation the next day, so I just left it there for the week we were gone. I was really scared to come back and put it all back together, but when I did it worked just fine and continued to work for a few more years.
I totally feel your pain and hope all is well with yours!!

 

Oh boy. That's so fun. I sure hope that your quick thinking was fast enough to save all the important electronic bits. I'd be like waiting on pins and needles until you be sure it's dry and test it out again. Good luck!

It's only by some miracle that I have spilled on my keyboard (I use desktops only these days), but I have spilled my pop/water over my desk several times in the past. I've learned where it the safest spot to keep my beverage and leave a coaster there so it goes back in the safest zone always.

 

Oh no!!! That is so frustrating. And yes, I've had that happen. It was within my first year of scrapping, and I didn't have an EHD. Boo. Anyway, I was a breastfeeding mom and so I tried to keep a glass of water near me at all times. I'm sure you can guess what happened with my full glass: I barely touched it and of course it tipped ALL OVER my laptop. and it never worked again. Luckily, a tech friend at DH's school found a case to hold my HD and I was able to save everything--like DD's birth photos and our wedding pics!
And of course with my next laptop, I buy a Nalgene bottle to hold my water (you know, with a top lol). But then I had a glass of wine and spilled a bit on my laptop. DH was like "dude, if you broke this laptop too, then you're done. No more computers!" lol, but it was fine.
Anyway, I'm crossing my fingers for ya @wombat146! At least you've got an older laptop to use in the meantime!

 

Oh boy... hoping it dries up and is workable! Ugh!

I have not (**knocking on wood**) yet. But... ugh. All these thread with "Have you..." insert something sorta on the downside, I'm starting to worry!