New HP salt water laptop..lol

[Europhyllia]

im sure i can figure out how to get it apart, i think lol

I think we all can figure out how to take it apart. It's the putting it back together that's a challenge. ;)
Good Luck with it though.

[Pennies2Cents]

Hope she had backups of all her doc, pics etc...

[Big_Pun]

ok I got home and I'm calling this DOA, it was on when it happened I can tell by that nice burned electrical smell. now gotta see if anything can be saved dunno, bright side school is out and she can now upgrade lol, lil background on my sis last month she sent her iPhone thru 2 wash cycles, she saved that by buying a new screen but speaker doesn't work last week she tried repairng speaker and shattered new screen, type writer and pay phones for her from now on lol

[Bill S]

Laptops and saltwater are tough. HOWEVER, we've had decent results with the following techniques (too late for the laptop):

1) Immediately remove power components (cords and batteries).

2) If it was immersed in water, immediately immerse it in RO/DI water or distilled water. Tap water is better than nothing. If you don't have a lot of RO/DI water, use tap water first, then rinse in RO/DI. If it just got superficially wet, do the same with RO/DI - try not to make the situation worse.

3) Separate components. Dry as completely as possible.

4) Place in an oven at the lowest possible temperature, for 24 hours.

Assemble, and fire it up. Likely casualties will be the screen, and if it got real wet, the hard drive. Success on phones and PDAs is about 80%. IF the power source is quickly removed.

Oh - and we have lots of Corrosion X around. I would not use it for this... or WD40.

[corruption]

Assuming it was mainboard components that got damaged, the data SHOULD still be intact on the drive -- this can be pulled and the data removed from it. Usually pretty simple to get the drives out of HP laptops -- a small screwed-in cover that reveals a simple release tray.

-Corruption

[Big_Pun]

yea it was the area near the fan what happen was the water got soaked by her chair and the comp was on the chair on so the heat from comp evap the water and the fan sucked it in, the fan had foam and the mother board there was burned, i found a cheap mother board and shes goin to try that, she took it to a tech to fix