Laptop won't start.

[Megacake]

Hi all, I have a laptop that had a glass of water spilled on it.

The user of the laptop used it for a little bit afterwards (even though "steam" was coming out of the fan) and then shut it down when the keyboard started to go haywire. (haha and before you imply anything, it wasn't me)

I looked at it today, and when attempting to start it, the power and hard drive light come on for about 2 seconds, and then right as the hard drive starts spinning it powers down. Happens with both battery and wall plug.

Well, I took it apart best I could to see if there was any damage, along the metal parts of the casing there were white marks where the water had sizzled i can imagine, and the insides still felt very slightly moist.

After just looking and having many of the parts exposed I tried my luck one more time with the power and it booted fine (this was with it plugged into wall). Everything worked on the computer other than the 'g' key. I shut it down, put all the casing back on, and tried to start it up again. Again, it started.

So I shut it down again to try and start just from the battery this time, and once I had it in, it went back to the old problem of not starting after two seconds. And then, trying with it plugged into the wall it didn't start again.

I haven't got it to start since. Now, I took the heatsink off the cpu and I noticed a fading of the 'transfer pad' (don't know what that's called). There was a black material that I assumed was used for the heat transfer, but it looked like it could have been damaged/removed during the spill. I will have pictures of it soon to post here.

Is that any reason the computer won't start? What other suggestions do you have? I'm hoping it could be a cleaning issue because everything seemed to be working fine today for the two days i had off, besides the G key.

Anything you can offer would be appreciated, thanks!

[Megacake]

I had a computer that did something similar to this before where it would turn on for two seconds and then turn off, I fixed it by replacing the PSU. Could this issue be power related? Should I try with another adapter?

[washingtonsquarekid]

personally id leave it for another day or so before turning it on
chances are it might be okay if you leave it to dry

[doubledragon5]

You might have damaged the mb when the water siped inside.. It also sounds like you have damaged the cpu