You'd better unplug it, remove the battery and clean it real good with electronics cleaner and let it dry out. The beer will slowly go acidic and eat things.

I would turn it off until it was completely dry. A few years ago I spilled tea on a laptop and turned it on before it was dry. The thing shorted and smoke came out of it. Goodbye laptop. 

Nah... it's all good guys. As soon as it happened I had all that stuff going through my mind but as I said there wasn't any liquid penetration. I was very VERY surprised and I'm attributing it to the keyboard design. Methinks I should keep an eye out for this model because I'm sure it's only gotten cheaper since last year. 

It's like the keys are slightly concave and they held the liquid. There really was only a few drops that got through underneath them (I shined a flashlight on them to see) and where the keys actually pass through to the guts of the laptop are covered by the keys like a reverse umbrella. It's partial fluke and partial really good design.

The lappie has been running fine since I posted this. As far as the battery and MOBO, etc... not a drop got near that stuff. Just the keys and the screen.

That was a horrifying moment though. I NEED this thing. Cheers.

Shame on you wasting beer like that!

I spilled beer all over my old Macbook Pro once...  I dried it up..  eventually I sold that computer in a pawn shop...  ( after I properly re-installed os x ) Thing is:  If it still works 10 minutes later, than I'd say you've got a 97% chance the thing is going to work in a year.  Computers are surprisingly resilent. 

I bet you, if I still had the old Epson 386..  From when. "Prodigy," was a brand new Internet portal... The thing would still turn on...

I've read that you can put electronics in a container of rice, and it acts as a really good dessicant...will dry things right up.

I hope you were able to salvage some of the beer though.

This is why I use IBM Model M's, I have a cache of the things.

My current one is probably 20 years old now, countless sodas and coffee has been spilled in it, you can just open it rinse it with distilled water, dry it with compressed air and it's fine, you can't kill these things, you could probably just throw it in the dishwasher.

That, and it makes an awesome clicky sound when typing 

the problem will be the sticky residue left behind under the keys.....

chuckebaby


pop that keyboard right out,disconnect the ribbin from the back of the keyboard,soak right in the tub/or equivevint.
at this time sop up any remaining alchohol inside the laptop itself.
remove the keyboard from being submerged in water and let dry in a warm spot for 24 hrs +.

put it back together and youll be fine.

trick is to get it in the water while its still wet with beer.
if it drys(beer) it wont work as effectively.
i clean keyboards like this all the time.
is that strange?

well i just backed a videocard at 250 for 20 minutes to fix a common
short(thats called reflux)

Hey Charlie,


Was just wondering how your repair went on the video card save

Alcohol I think is a good cleaner that will leave no residue. 

My daughter spilled Mt Dew on her lappy. The computer worked fine, but the keys were gummed up and stuck pretty badly. I used some contact cleaner to try to clean it up.... it was passable. 

Lesson learned.... be very very careful with any liquids around lappys..... a desktop ... no problem.... just buy a new keyboard...