U4CX

Hello everyone,

I have a fairly new (4 months old) Toshiba laptop. Recently (3 days ago), I spilled about half cup of water right on top of the keyboard. I immidiately shut down the whole thing, and let it dry. After 5 hours, nothing was working, so I slept and waited till next day. When I woke up, all the keys started working except the "w, s, l, ." keys. 2 days passed, those keys are still not working. I dunno if it's still wet inside and I'll wait for more days or should I send it to shop to repair?

Note: When I open laptop, it makes a semi-loud squeeky machine noise for about 5 seconds, then goes into windows normally. The "w, s, l, ." keys actually worked for about an hour yesterday, but then went back to non-working. Now they are still not working.

Thanks for any help.

crazijoe

Since it is fairly new, I would send it in to have it repaired under warranty. The bad thing about moisture is it can cause corrosion that, in time, will affect it latter in life.
Our company had a laptop that got water in it from a leaky A/C unit above the users desk. The laptop dried out and everything was working fine for about 3 months. Then it started blue screening anf the ethernet port quit working. Luckly we had onsite service and the culprit was corrsion on parts of the PC board. Ended up having to replace the motherboard, HDD, and memory.

JamesO

Might want to pop the keyboard out and dry it on a heating pad or put it over a floor heat register.

Water can get inside the keyboard membranes and cause issues. If it is "clean" water, the keyboard should be something you can save, it the liquid is anything other than clean water, probably need to replace the keyboard.

Usually you can find laptop keyboards on ebay for about $50.

JamesO

Sgt_Grim_Reaper

I would have taken it all apart if not under warranty and let it dry out before putting it back together. But since it's under warranty just turn it in, but don't tell them about the water.

U4CX

Thanks everyone,

I'll take it to the shop next week.