Hi all,
First up I would like to say I HAVE READ THE STICKY, just so you are aware.
Now, my girlfriend recently spilled a cup of tea on her laptop, I'm not talking a little bit of tea, I'm talking an entire glass. I happened to be at her place at the time so when she spilled it I managed to get in, shut off the laptop, flip it upside down, try and drain it etc.
I told her that she should leave it off an in a warm dry place for at least a week, yet this was apparently impossible as today she called me and told me that she had turned her laptop on this morning to work on an assignment and it was working fine, I informed her that regardless of it working fine she should still have shut it off etc etc, long story short she didn't listen.
I saw her using her laptop about 3-4 hours after she had turned it on and noticed that although it was plugged in the battery was reading 0%, plugged in, not charging (she was on win7) quite literally about 10 seconds after I pointed this out the laptop shutdown.
There was none of the sparking I'm used to when I spill things on electronics, it just turned off: similar to if it had run out of battery.
So, she had the following problems:
Space bar became a bit ****y
Power meter read 0%
Laptop shut off and won't turn back on after 3 hours
So my question is this: what has happened here? is it likely to be the logic board which is fried? or is it probably just the battery which has had it?
and depending on which: how much would any of you guys estimate it will cost to fix, because despite her insistence I am NOT letting her try and lie and get away with saying it 'just broke' because that would be stupid.
First up I would like to say I HAVE READ THE STICKY, just so you are aware.
Now, my girlfriend recently spilled a cup of tea on her laptop, I'm not talking a little bit of tea, I'm talking an entire glass. I happened to be at her place at the time so when she spilled it I managed to get in, shut off the laptop, flip it upside down, try and drain it etc.
I told her that she should leave it off an in a warm dry place for at least a week, yet this was apparently impossible as today she called me and told me that she had turned her laptop on this morning to work on an assignment and it was working fine, I informed her that regardless of it working fine she should still have shut it off etc etc, long story short she didn't listen.
I saw her using her laptop about 3-4 hours after she had turned it on and noticed that although it was plugged in the battery was reading 0%, plugged in, not charging (she was on win7) quite literally about 10 seconds after I pointed this out the laptop shutdown.
There was none of the sparking I'm used to when I spill things on electronics, it just turned off: similar to if it had run out of battery.
So, she had the following problems:
Space bar became a bit ****y
Power meter read 0%
Laptop shut off and won't turn back on after 3 hours
So my question is this: what has happened here? is it likely to be the logic board which is fried? or is it probably just the battery which has had it?
and depending on which: how much would any of you guys estimate it will cost to fix, because despite her insistence I am NOT letting her try and lie and get away with saying it 'just broke' because that would be stupid.