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Dumb, sick girl pours water on PowerBook
I spilled water on my Powerbook accidentally and frantically tried to power it up...I know that's a no-no, but I was scared. How long should I wait to try starting it again? I have the keyboard off and the battery out. I've used a can of air to dry out the crevices. If I lose this laptop, I will lose a lot of work I've done. When I opened it up, there didn't seem to be wet areas, except around the Combo Drive. I have it sitting on my table opened in an A angle.
Can someone please possibly ease my mind?
Can someone please possibly ease my mind?
I’m scared
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Inappropriate?Any amount of water in any location can cause a fatal short that will fry a critical component, so in this case, time really is the best medicine.
Place the Powerbook in a safe location and leave the battery out and the keyboard off with the screen open as if you were using it. Unfortunately, you should leave it like this for at least a week before attempting to turn it on. If you have a desk fan, directing it towards the keyboard area on the lowest setting will help to dry the computer, but I would still leave it out like that for a week since there's no way to know when all of the water has dried.
Fortunately, the Powerbook doesn't have liquid submersion indicators like the newer Macbooks do. So, if it's been a week and it doesn't work (something may have fried after you turned it on the first time), you could always take it to an Apple Retail Store or authorized repair center and give them the time-tested "I don't know what happened" line.2 Comments
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I have a lot of work saved on there that I need to access for my job...is there a way I can get access to it? -
If you have been keeping backups, either on discs or an external hard drive, it would be safer to access the files from the backup via another computer, even if they're slightly out of date. If you don't have a backup, you could remove the Powerbook's hard drive and place it in an external enclosure, but if the hard drive is even slightly wet, you run the same risk of frying it.
