Hi Guys,

I looking for some clarification really - a friend has an Acer laptop, he also has a son with - as it seems - shaky hands... so his son spilt a drink on the laptop and it crashed, he rang me and i said he would need to let it really dry out to have any chance of getting away with it...
any how that was a few weeks ago and he's let it dry out - when he tries to boot it up now you can hear things kicking in - hard drive/fan spins, power lights come on but after a second or two everything stops - the power light is on but the HD light doesn't flicker and there is no sounds from inside that indicate anything is going on - the screen stays blank all the time, no messages, not boot screen nothing.

He thought maybe a new screen would fix it, but i think the mobo is water damaged and he basically needs to get a new one - OH btw i plugged the laptop into a VGA external monitor and the monitor didn't even register an output when i power up the laptop...

What do you guys think?? F***ed..?? Or fixable..??

Your advice, as always would be very much appreciated.

Cheers Guys...

Laptops REALLY don't like liquid inside them! Sounds to me like the graphics chip has blown, particularly if there's no external monitor output. That kind of problem would rarely result in a faulty screen - there are many more parts inside the laptop that can blow up first before the liquid gets to the screen! Time for a motherboard change, I reckon

youre never supossed to spill stuff on computers so the liquid probably got iinto the system and wrecked a few things ... youre freind is mostly gonna need to buy a new system sorry

It is unfortunate, because whenever liquid go inside any product you need to shot down the product right away, open it and dry it yourself. It might be that some part are still wet and causing some malfunctions. Do you smell something burnt? if not it might be that the laptop could still be OK.

Anyhow I have found this tech support site I found recently to be very helpful Here is the page for Acer laptop support.

There is also free live chat support if you need it.

Good luck