How To Drain Your Water Induced Laptop

If water ever floods your laptop, start panicking. The presence of water or any kind of moisture  could render your laptop useless. If you are crazy enough to attempt to  use your laptop with water still flooded in it, you could do serious damage to your battery and damage your laptop's electronics. Not to mention the fact that you could overload your wall socket and possibly blow up your house lights. But not worry! Here is how to drain your water induced laptop.

Unplug Your Laptop
Unplug Your laptop from the mains IMMEDIATELY.  Remove the battery from the bottom of your laptop. How do you do this? First hold down the release tab next to the battery pack and free the pack from the laptop. Be careful about this as you do not want to be electrocuted. As you know, water and electricity don't mix.Next, open the laptop. To do that first, unscrew the screws holding the laptop at the bottom. Then remove the screws holding the laptop screen . These screws are located a the rear end of the laptop, next to the power outlet.

Remove the Hard Drive

Now remove the hard drive from its slot by unscrewing the screws holding both corners of the drive and then release it from the laptop. (Keep a mental note of how you took ithe hard drive out out because if you put it back wrongly, your laptop won't work.) Check the hard drive for moisture..If there is any present,  use a towel to press on it.  Do not wipe the hard drive as you will end up moving the moisture around. If there is any additional moisture, use a blow dryer to remove it.

Next, separate  the laptop screen from the laptop body by gently pulling the screen until the two silver pegs holding the screen have been removed from their slots.(Do not remove the two wires leading from the screen to the motherboard.) Then separate the two parts of the plastic body to gain access to the internal components.

Unscrew the Metal Plate
Unscrew the metal plate covering the motherboard and set it aside. If your memory doesn't serve you that well, take pictures of the inside of the laptop so that you have a frame of reference when reinstalling all the components. You can start by taking an overall picture of the inside of the laptop and then closeup pictures of the individual components.Disconnect the components one at a time and dry them out the same way you did  the hard drive. Once the components  dry out, sit them  outside to for the air to dry them out as well.

Finally, reinstall the components in the order that you removed them.(If you are having difficulty committing the order of the components to memory,refer to the pictures to help you reinstall everything correctly).Reinsert the battery pack and turn the laptop back on.Fingers crossed, So long as you haven't permanently damaged anything, your laptop should be up and running.

That's a wrap on "How To Drain Your Water Induced Laptop" Hopefully you you wont go through too much trouble draining the water out of your laptop and puting your laptop back again.

Cheers!


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