Water Dredged Laptop

[Shuffler28]

Hello Everyone!

 

Opinions on this please?  My apt leaked water on a heavy rainy day. The leak happened right above my laptop and external monitor. My laptop was close to soaked and my monitor had a bunch of water all over it. 

 

I dissembled the laptop.  Dried everything off.  Cleaned as much as I could with rubbing alcohol, but there's still a little corrosion I couldn't get off the motherboard (all pictures are before I cleaned everything).  After everything was dry, I reassembled the laptop, and powered it on.  Everything seems to work fine, I reset Windows, all devices work.  

 

My question is, what possibilities will there be in the future for possible failure?

[Doug_Dangger]

I would put it a plastic bag full of rice for about 2 weeks to be sure.

[Charmeleonnz]

7 minutes ago, Doug_Dangger said:

I would put it a plastic bag full of rice for about 2 weeks to be sure.

Plus use a fan haha

 see LTT video on Dell xps 13: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8211HNs4eY

[SupaKomputa]

wow that's a very bad corrosion, better get it check by a laptop technician.

[PwnyTheTiger]

Hey if it works, it works.. But I'd be wary of it suddenly puffing the magical white smoke someday. Til then #yolo

[kirashi]

38 minutes ago, Shuffler28 said:

Hello Everyone!

 

Opinions on this please?  My apt leaked water on a heavy rainy day. The leak happened right above my laptop and external monitor. My laptop was close to soaked and my monitor had a bunch of water all over it. 

 

I dissembled the laptop.  Dried everything off.  Cleaned as much as I could with rubbing alcohol, but there's still a little corrosion I couldn't get off the motherboard (all pictures are before I cleaned everything).  After everything was dry, I reassembled the laptop, and powered it on.  Everything seems to work fine, I reset Windows, all devices work.  

 

My question is, what possibilities will there be in the future for possible failure?

Uh... assuming it even boots, that corrosion is going to eventually be a point of failure. Could fail in 10 years, could fail 3 days from now.

 

[The_russian]

1 hour ago, Shuffler28 said:

My question is, what possibilities will there be in the future for possible failure?

Basically guaranteed, the question is when it will have problems or completely fail, not if. If I were in your situation, I would back up all data immediately (though you should be backing up important data regardless), then either use the laptop with the mindset that it can stop working any minute, or just post the laptop for sale making it very clear in the posting what happened and any quirks that resulted.

[Arika]

if it still works you can continue to use it, but do NOT store any data on there that isn't backed up or you're not willing to lose.

[Master Disaster]

White Vinegar will remove the corrosion and stop it from getting worse however all those components will likely need replacing, will have corrosion under them that you'll never get rid of with them in place and its highly likely there will be some pad/trace damage under them as well.

 

The image isn't the best quality but the top component that's covered in corrosion looks to be a power regulator, I would STONGLY suggest you take it to a trained profession and get those components replaced, if the power regulator fails very bad things can happen.

 

For now get some white vinegar and a toothbrush and go ham until there's no corrosion visible.