WS520-Water damage?

Last night I spilled a glass of tea. My WS520 was near the spill in it's cradle. Today it is apparent that the 520 wont start. I do not have a hair dryer. My plan is just let it dry out and hope like hell that it start's.

Is there anything else I can do?

Renee

 

You could place it in a (large, to fit) bag of rice and that'll help with the drying process. And don't try to boot it again until it's completely bone dry.

 

Thank you although I don't have any rice...

Renee

 

You can buy packs of desiccant, or if you've bought anything electrical recently there might be a bag in the packaging.

You are leaving all the access panels open?

Tea is acidic which isn't good, but can be survived. Hopefully you didn't have any sugar in it which is the most damaging substance and since you said glass I'm assuming there was no milk.

 

There was no milk or sugar.
As to the remainder I am an invalid and do not have access to transportation for desicant. The machine is in warranty and Lenovo has a box under way.
Renee

 

So is Lenovo replacing the Machine Renee?

If I was you I would first pull out the HDD/SDD and see if any liquid got on it. Now this may sound crazy but I've done it for other electrical components that had coke, coffee etc spilled on them.

You can wash them with 100% distilled water. For it to work you need to make sure the circuit board is completely washed and more than once, I did it 4 times with fresh distilled water to make sure there was none of the contaminating liquid left over.

Then dry it with a hair dryer or desiccant.

Even though it sounds crazy to spill water on electronics, distilled water does not conduct electricity so it can be used to wash electrical components of contaminates. Now I wouldn't use it on all electrical devices and have never had to on a laptop but it can and is used on circuit boards.

Like others already said, never try to turn ON a device after you have spilled fluid on it, immediately remove any battery or power source and dry it completely before trying to turn it ON.

It is when people try to turn ON an electrical appliance that's suffered a spill, without decontaminating and drying it, that majority of the damage is done.

Let me just add that in your case, seeing you tried to turn ON the device and the spill happen days ago the damage may have already been done - I hope I am wrong. I am also not sure if you will be able to get full access to all the electrical parts to clean them. If it was me I would quickly identify where the fluid spilled and wash it with distilled water. However a laptop has many parts and unless you are comfortable with pulling electronics apart and reassembling them, it may be asking too much .