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Well, short and sweet, that didn't help. I went to Costco and bought a 20 pound bag of basmati rice. I wrapped the laptop (with battery removed) in a pillow-case. I got a large garbage bag, put in half of the rice as a bottom, placed the laptop (wrapped) in the garbage bag on top of the...

Okay, I can, and will try that, however, this was weeks ago. Do you still think the rice will help after all this time? They left the laptop high and dry for a week or two to air out before giving up and calling me. I've always heard rice helping absorb moisture from a phone or something...

A friend owns an Asus X54C. She was using it on the deck, closed the umbrella, and water cascaded down onto the open laptop. Now, the keys on the left side of the keyboard (r,s,v,w,z,b,c,2,4, etc.) all produce multiple keystrokes (press r, and it actually produces rw, press s, and it produces...