spilled ice cream on laptop

[Shoma]

So I just spilled a bit of melted ice cream on the bottom last row of my keyboard on my laptop. I pipped it upside down,used some wipes to keep the ice cream liquid and drain it as it sees out. Also using a thin napkin, I slid it through each row picking up the residue that was left.

now I no longer see any signs of the spill and there is no stickiness and the hdd was ñot reached by the spill.

so I'm still PARANOID because I never h eard of a spill happening and afterwards it "turned out okay "!

I turned it back on, is is fine, there seems to nothing out of place but its impossible for the computer to be okay after that, what should I do now if anything

[Robert]

Lucky it wasn't coca cola

[emsley]

You get away with spills as long as they are not full cups of tea or whatever you sup.

I remember my old man bought a new keyboard, i always drank a pot of tea at his desk for years I did this, guess what happened that day? Yup - it was fucked.

[Shoma]

Lucky it wasn't coca cola

/does coke have a particular "SOL for keyboard" chemical in them?

[Lucandrake]

I spilled coke on a keyboard once. Whenever I pressed a key the key on the opposite side of the keyboard would be pushed instead.

[VT-Vincent]

Since ice cream is more solid even in it's melted form, you are probably fine if nothing happened yet and you cleaned up the residue. The worst that might happen down the line is a sticky keyboard which can be replaced pretty easily. Usually the hard drive is fine even in pretty bad spills, it's typically the motherboard and fans that get the worst of it.

 

Since I am a technician I actually see this more than I'd like to. My personal favorite is when someone comes in with a computer reeking of coffee or with liquid dripping out the bottom and "no idea what happened... it just, uh... stopped working."

[emsley]

Since ice cream is more solid even in it's melted form, you are probably fine if nothing happened yet and you cleaned up the residue. The worst that might happen down the line is a sticky keyboard which can be replaced pretty easily. Usually the hard drive is fine even in pretty bad spills, it's typically the motherboard and fans that get the worst of it.

 

Since I am a technician I actually see this more than I'd like to. My personal favorite is when someone comes in with a computer reeking of coffee or with liquid dripping out the bottom and "no idea what happened... it just, uh... stopped working."

 

Your a hardware tech? How do you spot a faulty motherboard?

[VT-Vincent]

Your a hardware tech? How do you spot a faulty motherboard?

 

It depends on the particular issue, but in some cases such as a liquid spill or a faulty capacitor a visual inspection can easily determine the motherboard is at fault. For more subtle problems like hard lockups, kernel panics, etc. it is usually a process of elimination. The first thing to do is determine if it is indeed a hardware problem. To do that, you would ideally run another operating system on the computer such as a Linux boot CD or a clean install on another hard drive to rule out any potential software issues. Once software is eliminated, you have to move on to the hardware. Tools like the Ultimate Boot CD (UBCD) make it easy to run diagnostics on both the hard drive and RAM to rule them out. After that, it's on to the video card (if it is non-integrated) and power supply. The easiest method to test both of them is to swap them out one-by-one. If the issue still persists after ruling out all other hardware, the motherboard is the only thing left.

 

There are of course exceptions to this, but they are not common. Some of the other potential problems that could look like a motherboard issue are RAM compatibility issues, memory and CPU timings in the BIOS and user-configured voltage settings in the BIOS for motherboards that support them. On most retail-purchased machines, these are non-issues as the manufacturer's BIOS doesn't provide this level of customization. On a custom-built gaming system though, this is usually the first place to look for potential problems.

[vaportop]

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[emsley]

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Will be when you leave assfucker.