Hey fellow peoples of tom's hardware. Hope your day is going well.
So it's been about a day and a half since I spilled coffee on my laptop, it spilled over my left half of my keyboard and some on screen. I cleaned it up closed it, went to class and saw more coffee had leaked onto the screen / keyboard, so I wiped that out but then noticed my touch pad and touchscreen stopped functioning. I restarted it a couple times and only my keyboard was working. Shortly after reading it was bad to keep it powered on I turned it off, later that evening I turned it on one more time and it got worse to the point where it was struggling to login and boot up so I turned off the laptop yesterday evening and have kept it upside down since then. reading that it better to prop it like that.
I did some homework and read that you can attempt to salvage the spill and clean your laptop with Isopropyl alcohol & distilled water. My question is how soon do you guys think this has to be done to try and repair damage done by coffee which had sugar in it. I was going to do it ASAP but I skated to home depot yesterday and the screws there ended up being too small. Today I went to an electronics store and got a right size but it only fit half my pentalobe screws as they are ridiculously small, so the soonest I can get another screw to pop it open would be tomorrow which would set me 2 days post spill. Is it still worth a shot to clean it then? If not what are some alternatives I can do, I need the SSD to be salvaged worst case. I believe my warranty is still intact as I bought the laptop from Microsoft store. The laptop is an ASUS ZenBook Flip UX360CA-UBM1T. It's tough for me to get around or take it to a shop to fix because I live in a college town and my only transportation is a skateboard and maybe a bike.
I appreciate all advice as I am a new and first time laptop owner. I have grown up with desktops and worked and fixed all my desktop problems on my own or with my dad & brother but when it comes to laptops I am in the dark.
So it's been about a day and a half since I spilled coffee on my laptop, it spilled over my left half of my keyboard and some on screen. I cleaned it up closed it, went to class and saw more coffee had leaked onto the screen / keyboard, so I wiped that out but then noticed my touch pad and touchscreen stopped functioning. I restarted it a couple times and only my keyboard was working. Shortly after reading it was bad to keep it powered on I turned it off, later that evening I turned it on one more time and it got worse to the point where it was struggling to login and boot up so I turned off the laptop yesterday evening and have kept it upside down since then. reading that it better to prop it like that.
I did some homework and read that you can attempt to salvage the spill and clean your laptop with Isopropyl alcohol & distilled water. My question is how soon do you guys think this has to be done to try and repair damage done by coffee which had sugar in it. I was going to do it ASAP but I skated to home depot yesterday and the screws there ended up being too small. Today I went to an electronics store and got a right size but it only fit half my pentalobe screws as they are ridiculously small, so the soonest I can get another screw to pop it open would be tomorrow which would set me 2 days post spill. Is it still worth a shot to clean it then? If not what are some alternatives I can do, I need the SSD to be salvaged worst case. I believe my warranty is still intact as I bought the laptop from Microsoft store. The laptop is an ASUS ZenBook Flip UX360CA-UBM1T. It's tough for me to get around or take it to a shop to fix because I live in a college town and my only transportation is a skateboard and maybe a bike.
I appreciate all advice as I am a new and first time laptop owner. I have grown up with desktops and worked and fixed all my desktop problems on my own or with my dad & brother but when it comes to laptops I am in the dark.