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Alright so I spilt about 3 or 4 teaspoons of hot chocolate (90% hot water 10% milk) on my laptop keyboard and screen, it is a brand new samsung. I shat bricks then ran got a tea towel and wiped that shit up, then i turned it off and unpluged battery and AC adapter (about 12 seconds after the spill) while this was happening the laptop was fully functioning i even hung up with someone on skype so they wouldnt hear me screaming in horror of my baby going down.

So it has been about 30 minutes now, of the laptop silently sitting on my kitchen table, looks completely dry to the eye. How long do I wait before i turn it on, and what precautions should i make before doing so.

P.S I care alot because I use it alot and don't have the money to replace it!

thanks, andy

To be on the safe side I would wait 24 hours in a dry area. Even take a blow dryer to it from a distance off 2-4 ft. from the spill. Also keep it upside down so any liquids can drain. Good luck.

I think laptops are a lot more resilient than we often think, and I think you are already fine. If you want to play it really safe you can put your laptop in a big bag of rice as rice will absorb the moisture. (Some people always have 5kg big rice bags so it's not that weird of a suggestion)
Be careful using things like blow dryers, it could go wrong.

Yea I will try to avoid blow dryers, at the moment it is sitting normally as I read that upside down the moisture will go somewhere bad or something, so should i keep it standing normally? Also no rice sadly

Blow dryers aren't bad as long as you use them in a dry place as well as a good distance. I was going to list the rice option but people usually don't enough rice to stick a laptop in, and with the provided method there was no need to purchase rice. The 24-hour wait with the procedure is just a safety precaution since you highly value the laptop. It's necessary to eliminate the risk as best as possible but still being practical. Again said, good luck.

Just an FYI, I've done all 3 three methods on over 50+ electronic devices. All devices that did not short before my control worked just as before. These devices range from the spills, to the drops in the toilets, to even pools lol.

okay so if i leave it on a dry table for 24 hours it should be all good?

I mean a dry in the air, lack of humidity. That alone would most likely solve it if you had it upside at least. Make sure no part of the laptop is underneath the spill drainage

Oh Crap, that sucks
Well, hopefully your laptop will survive... Best of luck.

You kind of reminded me of this



Anyway don't worry a laptop isn't that fragile, it can survive a couple of teaspoons of liquid.

My sister spilt a bottle of vodka on her laptop a year or so ago. It kept working, so she just used it like normal. A week or so later, after the vodka solidified, the laptop stopped functioning. So she called me up, I pulled it apart and the motherboard was completely fried. How did I fix it? I threw it out and gave her my laptop instead >_>

Good luck!

Let it dry out, then take out to a computershop.
And just say what happened, a good store will say they will open it up try to clean it out as much as possible.
Sticky keyboard can be replaced; liquid getting to the mobo (and then become sticky/solid) will eventually cause the motherboard to shortcircuit.

The keyboard is meant to pool up some liquid due to people spilling shit over it all the time. Open it up and see.

Okay it is fully functioning but I am worrying it will stop working, it is new so i think the keyboard has contatined all the liquid, the thing is, how can i remove the keys, its under the spacebar and enter button because they are extremely sticky and stiff, i really want to remove them and clean them out, can this be done on a Samsung RC530?

I hate removing the keys. Only a couple times have I sucessfully removed one. I don't want to pull too hard. And when i got them off I didn't pull very hard either. They just came off. I have watched tutorials, but they have only helped a bit. It's much better that i can remove the whole keyboard that's connected only with 5 little brackets. Removing the whole keyboard probably won't help much in your situation though.

But about your laptop, I remember somewhere that with those type of keyboards you have to remove the cover over the spaces between the keys and then you can remove them normally. Maybe there are guides about it.

thanks, its working and its just a few stiff and sticky keys now, but im worried that if i just leave it then at a later time the stuff stuck under the keys will do damage to the laptop overtime