I was recording a song, "gladly pay you tomorrow," and I had my bass player over.  She likes to drink beer.  Midway through the vocal she tripped over the mic and spilled beer into my computer.
 
My heart skipped a beat, and so did the computer.  It shut down and wouldn't boot up.  It just ran the fans on high speed.  I wanted to curse.
 
I restarted 3 times and still  nothing.  The fans whirring away.  I thought all was lost...ALLL.
 
In a last ditch effort I took off the cover and put a box fan on high next to the Mobo.
 
Thirty minutes later the computer booted up, and it is still working right now.
 
I think the bass played straightened up after that. The bass she played on my new song was straight out of 47th and South Tenth.
 
Jesse Q Screed

A cheap trick to try in this situation is to pour uncooked rice all over the board to absorb up the liquid.  Of course, if you happened to have some extra moisture absorbers (those "Do Not Eat!" packets) those would be the best.

With a laptop. Quickly unplug, flip and pop the battery out. Every DAW should have a beverage holder. I saw an engineers chair yesterday online that has a beverage holder on the back of the seat support... neat! Expensive too!
 
Drink government beer, it won't do anything.
 
J
 

Lesson learned I hope.
 
Personally, I won't allow anyone like that near my stuff or close enough to even get a good look at it all.
 
If I think I'm gonna have a 'booze hound' around my gear, then the door locks from the inside, with them on the outside.
 
Plenty of bass players out there. Lot's of drinkers to. Too many in fact.
 
If they can't handle their booze then they can't be around my stuff - period.
 
Another option is to do the tracks yourself - lots of VSTs out there now, with great sounding bass samples in them.
 
Just sayin'...

Best advice is to immediately disconnect from power and begin drying, as you did with forced air. My childhood home was carried away in a flood many years ago, and when we located it in the middle of an intersection and recovered the electronics, pretty much everything except the record turntable and speakers worked fine after drying out even though under slimy water for a couple of days. The fans are actually the most vulnerable to water. The electronics will suffer most from arcing and short circuits and to a lesser extent electrolytic corrosion which is why cutting the power or getting the battery out fast is important.

jbow
Every DAW should have a beverage holder. 

 
What?  Yours doesn't? 

Good Advice all around
 
Can't argue with any of it.
Picked up some yellow caution tape from the BIG BOX STORE, I will put up a perimeter tomorrow.
 
Went to my local computer guru and took some internal cd/dvd players he was going to toss.  I have three open bays.  I need to get ready for my female vocalist, but she drinks vodka, so maybe not a big problem.
 
Case Closed
 
You guys rock!  I won't forget the rice trick.
 
Jesse Q. Screed

Hi,
 
On my office the two computers are on a separate table, so if I spill something, I can only lose the keyboard and maybe the mouse. On the music setup, the two computers are on the floor, but I am redoing it with a shelf behind the table for the computers, and the speakers will also go there, so on the table is just the monitor and keyboard on it. This makes better room for me to work with, and not have to get on the floor all the time to swap out inputs and outputs since they will be closer and I can make space for a body to get to things easier.

Jesse Screed
Midway through the vocal she tripped over the mic and spilled beer into my computer.

This explains a lot about your "style".

Yo Bapu, I was waiting for that.
 
Though not necessarily accurate, I left a hole big enough for a space shuttle to fly through.  At least you had the sense of humor to think it, and then to reply it.  I love you man!
 
I checked out your website.  Someday, when I get the time, I want to listen to some more of your music. 
 
Jesse Q. Screed