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Laptop Water Spill (Pls Help; System Image Help)

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Like an idiot, I spilled a pretty impressive amount of water on my laptop (AORUS 15-X9). I have since disassembled it and removed the battery. I've had a giant fan blowing on it for about 8 hours now and am going to leave it alone over night. I'm gonna try to turn it back on when I wake up and attempt to create a system image. The laptop is still under warranty, so I can get a replacement because I'm pretty sure I'm gonna have issues with the keyboard and mousepad after this. Assuming it has the same hardware, will I be able to load the system image onto the replacement laptop and have everything working smoothly again?

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I don't think you'll get a new one on warranty after dousing it with water. The water damage will be obvious.See if your covered by your home insurance.

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Warranty doesn't cover user caused damage as far as I know.

Did laptop just blackout or you managed to turn it off by unplugging? If you had a SATA Disk drive, it has own case so I guess that should be fine... If any hardware is broken it will not boot even with working installation media though.

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do not boot it up tomorrow. put stuff in rice and wait 3-4 more days

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6 hours ago, LWM723 said:

I don't think you'll get a new one on warranty after dousing it with water. The water damage will be obvious.See if your covered by your home insurance.

Allow me to be more specific. The warranty is an accidental drop and spill protection plan. I used the wrong wording to describe it.

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6 hours ago, RageTester said:

Warranty doesn't cover user caused damage as far as I know.

Did laptop just blackout or you managed to turn it off by unplugging? If you had a SATA Disk drive, it has own case so I guess that should be fine... If any hardware is broken it will not boot even with working installation media though.

The laptop shut off pretty soon after I pulled it off the charger. I'm gonna assume the water caused it to shut off, but I honestly can't be sure because sometimes my laptop will go into sleep mode after disconnecting. As for the rice, I assume I should screw the back cover onto the laptop again before I put it in the rice right lol?

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6 hours ago, GDRRiley said:

do not boot it up tomorrow. put stuff in rice and wait 3-4 more days

 

3 minutes ago, DetectiveMelon said:

The laptop shut off pretty soon after I pulled it off the charger. I'm gonna assume the water caused it to shut off, but I honestly can't be sure because sometimes my laptop will go into sleep mode after disconnecting. As for the rice, I assume I should screw the back cover onto the laptop again before I put it in the rice right lol?

God no, rice wont do a thing but make it look like its dry if even that.

The problem is that the battery is still putting some current through your machine. If only for the on/off switch to work.

That current + water means the contacts will oxidize and "grow" bigger each time you boot it up till it fries something.

 

The only sollution: Disconnect the battery if possible and get it to a repair center ASAP.

As ong as the battery is attached it will continue to do further damage

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26 minutes ago, Dujith said:

 

God no, rice wont do a thing but make it look like its dry if even that.

The problem is that the battery is still putting some current through your machine. If only for the on/off switch to work.

That current + water means the contacts will oxidize and "grow" bigger each time you boot it up till it fries something.

 

The only sollution: Disconnect the battery if possible and get it to a repair center ASAP.

As ong as the battery is attached it will continue to do further damage

The first thing I did was remove the battery

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5 minutes ago, DetectiveMelon said:

The first thing I did was remove the battery

So it might not have done any damage, but it can also have in that time. You should always let it be cleaned /  checked at a repair center.

A tiny amount of water somewhere beneath a chip will cause issues when you have it up and running again.

 

In the end its your own call.

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