please help.laptop fell in bath?

Question

i was in th bath with my useing my laptop when i slipped and it fell into the water.luckyly the power cable had fell out so i didnt get frazzled lol. but now it wont work properly. my dad said to put it in the oven. so i did ON LOW for several hours. the water has stopped dripin out so i now its dry inside.when i turn it on nothin happens apart from making a high squeeling sound - so i now the speackers are woring.what can do to make it work again. can i get a new inside bit? the outside looks fine please help.

Answer 1

The question that really needs to be asked is:

Why the hell were you using a laptop in the bath???!!!???!!!

I know portability is the whole point of a laptop but a bath takes what, 20 minutes? Surely you could have found time in your apparently hugely hectic schedule to tear yourself away from it.

The airing cupboard is perfect for an electrical thing that's become waterlogged, but noooo, you put it in the oven. I am very good friends with an apprentice technician and she would get you sectioned under the mental health act for that!

I just can't get my head round this, I've had to re-read the question about 5 times now because I can't get over the INSANITY of putting a laptop in the oven for SEVERAL hours.

If I were you, I would take the hard drive out, as data may be recoverable. Then get rid of the laptop.

Then, crucially, just don't go near any computer ever again!

Oh yeah, rbbr_chckn, you put a hard drive in the freezer for 10 minutes, that gets it going again, not the oven.

Answer 2

The first thing you want to do is make sure all of your computer's devices, cables and power cords are disconnected--don't forget the power cable. Next, ground yourself and discharge any static electricity you may have built up. You can do this by simply touching a metal surface such as the computer's power supply.

Next, check that your new EIDE drive is set for the Cable Select jumper position. This step will differ depending on the manufacturer, but usually it involves locating a set of pins on the back of the hard drive and setting the jumper--a small plastic sleeve that covers two pins. Refer to the documentation that came with your drive.

Now you will remove the hard drive bracket from the computer's chassis, (1). Unplug the interface and the power cables from the original drive. The power cable will be a smaller connector with multicolored wires running into it.

Then, remove the screws holding in the bracket. The bracket will lift right out.

Slide your new drive into the empty bay, making sure the pins and connector slots on the back of the hard drive face the back of the bracket, (2). Also check that the power connector will be closest to the bottom of the computer when the bracket is reinstalled.

Most drives will come with screws with which to secure the drive in the bracket. Find these and insert them into the proper holes for your bracket.

Reattach the power and interface cables to the original drive, (3), and attach the appropriate cables to the new drive, (4). The colored edge of the interface cable should line up with Pin 1 of the connector on the back of the drive. (There is usually a notch on the connectors for the interface cable.)

Place the bracket back in its place and tighten the holding screws, (5). Replace the cover of the computer and boot up.

.....then go kill yourself. ....You FAIL at life.

Answer 3

Good one.......

All right.....putting the laptop in water will not screw up the hard drive and hence you will still have had your data intact. However, putting the laptop in the oven was not a good idea....cos, we cannot estimate as what you mean by "Low", as per your Microwave settings. You are lucky that the laptop did not blow up when you kept it in the microwave.

Nuking your laptop is acceptable to a certain temp, but anythin more, can fry up its internals... Basically, you'd have had ur plastics melted, which include some components on the circuit board-as a blown capacitors, resistors etc.

Hence, it would be in the best interest, that you take this to a laptop technician if you can retrieve the data from ur old harddrive and start shopping for your new laptop.

Answer 4

Think about this people... Electronic devices are exposed to temperatures well above 300 degrees. If the oven was on low it might not have hurt the majority of the components. The batteries were probobly damaged. The LCD screen might be toast but other than possibly melting some plastic it should be ok... except for the water damage. Your best bet is to open it up & make sure all of the water is gone. Use compressed air to get under components & don't be afraid to bake it again (under 250 if possible, with the batteries out). It'll either work or it won't. Good luck!

Answer 5

...sell it on ebay with 'exactly' this product description...
Joking aside: If you are bathing quite a time, in lightly salted water, with shampoo and other stuff in it, I think there is not really a chance to get it working again. Too many things may have corroded...
Last try would be, build it apart and flood the mainboard with lots of destilled water. After that, dry it with a hairdryer.
If that does not work either, buy a second notebook of the same type and exchange the parts. This way you get sure about which parts are rotten and which parts are working...

BTW: Why do you take your notebook in the bathroom?

Answer 6

What happens when you disconnect your laptop from mains? It automatically switches to battery power. So basically your switched on laptop got submerged in bathwater. Now I'm not much of an electronics buff, but I know water+working electronics=sparks. If that was not enough to kill it, you put in the oven on low.

Perhaps I got the best solution to this:
-Put it back in the oven
-Stick your head in the oven too, just to get a good nice view of what's going on in there. Those oven doors are way too thick to see what's going on inside. Besides, you have to listen for strange noises your laptop might be making whilst in the oven.
-Switch on the oven. I know it can give you a tough time, but hang in there. It's really worth the wait.
-After a few more hours it should be ok.
-Get nominated for the Darwin awards.

Besides, your rocket scientist dad should buy you a new one. If it was ever going to work, it certainly won't now.

And do everyone a favour: remove your blood line from the gene pool. You're bringing down global IQ.

Answer 7

using a laptop when in the bath is realy a very silly thing to do.
I am afraid that you will have made a mess of the motherboard and other parts and to have it all renewed will probably cost you more that a new computer. you might of got away with it if you had just spilled a glass of water over the keyboards A good tip do not take drinks near a computer its more relaxing to move way from it to have a break and not as expensive. and never take one in the bathroom.

Answer 8

the best thing you can do is re bath it as some of the internals may well be a bit dirty as you were in the bath with it, clean it really weel mind, then turn oven to 200, leave for about 5 hours and then either throw it in the nearest skip or sell it on ebay as faulty!. LOL

Answer 9

Did you check the laptop was piping hot through-out before use, also don't listen to the guy that said put it in the oven again, its dangerous to use reheated laptops.

Answer 10

Actually, putting a hard drive in the oven on low is a very good last resort fix for a bad hard drive. I don't think the oven did any damage at all, the problem was going in the water in the first place. Assuming this is a windoze based laptop, find a dumpster; it's not worth attempting to fix.