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I know what to do after a water spill, having had a few close calls (and a keyboard cover for that reason.) I spilled some today, but no water got in the keyboard itself. Instead, a little bit got in the left side ports (USB, etc.) The laptop turned off and I have in the inverted “V” positon, I’m waiting to try to turn it on again. My question is- will it make a difference that the water entered in the side, and NO water got in the keyboard?
There are too many variables here to answer your question. How much water, how much force did it have, how far did it seep in? Was it just water or something else and how pure was it as the dissolved contents may be the worse part.
water does not damage electrics, water damages electrics that are on because the water conducts electricity if you get it over something like a motherboard you can short everything to everything else and fry potentially any component pretty much, however you might get lucky and dry it out and everything’s fine, usb ports to my understanding have over current protection which if you’re lucky might have stopped a short doing damage, i would recommend taking out the battery (if you can) and the whole thing out, depending on how much water got in it might warrant a tear down and a dry out with the hairdryer but if it wasn’t too much just leave it a couple days somewhere warm to dry and don’t turn it on until your happy it is, then see what happens unfortunately i cant really advise on what to repair if it doesn’t work as like i say you can be joining everything to everything else it can fry anything but iv had reasonable success in the past so feel free to msg me when you have a bit more infomation
