if you ever dropped water or liquids on a notebook and placed it in a bucket full of rice afterwards, did the notebook work again?
if you ever dropped water or liquids on a notebook and placed it in a bucket full of rice afterwards, did the notebook work again?
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/16155441
rice absorbs moisture.
Curious if this works to recover notebooks or other electronics.
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Immediately remove the battery/power, then use a bunch of silica gel packs that have been dried out instead of rice (enclose them in a bag with the laptop): They're commonly available and won't get into things and cause problems down the road.
Alternately, just take it apart as much as you can and set it in front of a fan to dry out.
Keep in mind, it might be too late but it's worth a try.
If you really want to try and save it and are tech savvy, try tearing it down and giving it an isopropyl alcohol bath but if you aren't, it'll do more harm than good. Keep in mind ISO can damage some parts.
Keep in mind ISO can damage some parts.
I've never had isopropyl damage anything - what kinds of things are sensitive to it (so I know what to lookout for)?
Now acetone on the other hand...do NOT use it to clean plastic unless you know what you're doing, lol.
Acrylic for sure, I think it can damage some screens too. Acetone will definitely mess up a lot of stuff.
I had no idea acrylic and ISO didn't get along. Good info.
I use ISO to strip the acrylic paint from my miniatures when I fail at their paint job.
I learned the hard way lol, glad you can learn from my mistake!