How to save your laptop after liquid damage?

How can I protect my laptop from spilling

Liquid damage can be fatal for laptops. 

However, they increased during this period of generalized teleworking. First tip: act quickly.

Since the massive increase in home work, there has also been a significant increase in the number of accidents involving liquid damage on laptops.

How much is it to fix a water damaged laptop?

Recently, the most affected by this type of case were smartphones, which are rather quick to take a swim in the toilets (which happens more frequently than one might think). But in recent years, they have become increasingly water-resistant, and laptops do not follow.

Laptops, on the other hand, are devices that are really sensitive to this issue. And a few drops on the keyboard are sometimes enough to cause a disaster.

Rescue guide of a drowning laptop

If you want to save a laptop that has suffered a liquid damage, you need to know what to do, and especially do it quickly.

iFixit repair specialists have developed a guide to help people who spilled tea, coffee, water, milk, soda or even beer on their laptop (they were also asked to clean cat urine on a keyboard). iFixit has also seen an increase in traffic to the liquid damage pages on its website in recent times.

Here are the main steps to save your computer from drowning:

• Do not panic ;
• Forget everything you've heard about using rice;
• Be careful, unplug the device and turn it off;
• Drain the liquid;
• If you can, open the laptop to help it dry;
• Disconnect the battery;
• Clean the motherboard - either yourself or by taking it to a repair shop;
• Once dry, you can restart your computer.