Spend $600 for a new laptop and transfer your files from your old hard drive.
I’ve pulled out my memory and hard drive and was able to salvage everything. Just remove it as soon as you can
DO NOT turn the laptop on and remove the battery RIGHT NOW!
Try this:
Hold it upside down and use a warm hair dryer to blow up in between the keys. Might take a while. Also leave it upside down for several hours so the liquid can drip out with gravity.
Been there, done that. Best of luck.
you can remove the hard drive and get an IDE external port to plug it into any other computer through the USB interface. Those are sealed pretty good.
Lapjobs can’t take liquids in them like a regular keyboard- I have hosed down my regular keybord in the kitchen sink and it still works. (I had a backup spare before i tried that)
They have keyboard condoms just for this occasion.
Yeah, it can be saved, but you will be a few days without it.
First, make sure it is unplugged and that the battery is out.
Second, with a soft damp cloth, clean off as much milk as you can.
Third, fill a small tub with about an inch of water and submerse your laptop, with the screen in the upright position in it. Do not let the water get higher than the hinge level, that is important.
Now let the laptop soak for about four hours, replace the water, and let it soak for another four hours.
The waiting will now begin. Get a soft cotton towel and lay the laptop, keyboard down on top of it. Do not allow the keyboard to be pressed into the towel, just lightly resting on it, or even just off of it a bit.
You need to make sure the laptop completely dries before starting it again. This usually takes about 3 days.
Have a bagel for breakfast instead. If you do drop it on your laptop, the only result will be that for the rest of the day the computer will print only in Yiddish. Good luck!
Here is an Obama “after the fact” solution:
Next time, pry yourself away from FR for five minutes while eating.
Good luck.
This happened to me, but with a desktop at work. I took the keyboard out and washed it in a deep sink and blew it out with a air hose, then dried it in a oven at work at 125°F for 24 hours and it was fine.............
In case you haven’t done it already, REMOVE THE BATTERY and POWER CORD.
I’ve done this before and read much of it being done. It is very likely the hard drive is safe. The exception in my experience would be if the fluids damaged the hard drive circuitry on the motherboard (been there done that). In that case, the controller built into the drive could be damaged (though the data might still be recoverable professionally).
On the other hand, it is possible that the computer could reboot in some form when the innards are dried.
I suspect you’re looking at a new computer but recoverable data (that expectation would be the middle of the bell curve).
In any event, good luck.
What kind of cereal was it?
I can't say whether the rest of the laptop can be repaired or salvaged. You may be better off buying a new one.
Not to be too repetitious, but remove all electricity (battery and charger) until it dries and get the HD out (and the memory too if you can reach it). It's probably too late as I write this, but canned air will at least clear where you can reach with it.
Life happens. I have a friend with a newborn. Newborn met open laptop. I shall say no more. ;-)
Just the same I hope you can salvage your computer... good luck !!!
Mine wasn't a laptop, so it might make a difference but, the same thing happened to me a few months back and I posted a thread for help. My son spilled his cereal on my keyboard. The letters were coming out all jumbled and couldn't be read because they mad no sense. It dried on it's own and was normal again.
This calls for a SpillSock.