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Spill on laptop yesterday -what to do

Mar 20, 2016 12:30PM PDT

I spilled tea on my Toshiba Satellite laptop yesterday and I got it cleaned up and removed the bartery overnight and just plugged it a while ago after putting the battery back in and the charge light is flickering. Yesterday after the spill it froze and I couldn't get it to power down until the battery was taken out. Should I have done something different on it or will it boot up okay if the battery gets a full charge?

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That's predicting the future. At best a guess.
Mar 20, 2016 12:49PM PDT

If the power was on during the spill the usual failures are the keyboard then the mainboard. Repairs if it's the mainboard are now running more than a cheap laptop so get estimates if it doesn't come back.

The data is usually OK. We pull the HDD and put it into a 20 or less dollar USB case for the owner to copy their files out.

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On mainboard
Mar 20, 2016 1:58PM PDT

How can I tell if it's the mainboard that's gone?

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By changing it.
Mar 20, 2016 5:34PM PDT

Since you don't have a light on the charging LED you may have lost the charger too. Any decent tech can check if the charger has failed too.

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No light on battery charging
Mar 20, 2016 5:29PM PDT

It blinked and lit up for a while and now, nothing. Anything I need to do or wait some more? I had a bad time trying to turn it off after the spill yesterday.

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Will another charger work on it?
Mar 21, 2016 7:46PM PDT

I want to see if the chager for my husband's laptop can charge it so I can save stuff if that's the case. Will that be possible? He has the same Toshiba Satellite laptop that I do.

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My laptop appears to be working but no power
Mar 23, 2016 12:28PM PDT

It can charge my cell phone through a cable connected to it but I can't get it to come on at all. This is after the spill Saturday afternoon late. I'm hoping I can replace the battery and power it on to keep using it but I want to know what do I do to get it to come back on?

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Since there's a chance you can lose the second charger.
Mar 23, 2016 12:52PM PDT

You may want to use another method to get your data out.

There are plenty of YouTube videos on how to remove the drive and put that into some USB case so you can copy out what you didn't have on backups.