Exposed to water

[ic6x]

So today I was going home from my friend's house with my moped, the way to my home is flooded and I don't realize that my backpack is in the front (exactly between my foot).

realizing it at home, and now it's a half wet, not a half but only the edge of the laptop where the heat vent is there, I can see water on it, so I immediately wiped any visible water, stand my laptop vertically and a fan blowing into the laptop keyboard to let the water out and not to get deeper, gladly I didn't put my battery on because the battery is died long time ago.

currently I'm using a light that quite producing little heat and planned to bring my laptop to hp service center.

so my question, is there will me any possible damage to my laptop?

[Huffer]

Yes it is possible it was damaged. Hard to say without examining it. Don't turn it on. 

[ic6x]

today I can't go to the service center because it was raining heavily, can I let the laptop dry by itself? if yes howblong do I need to wait?

[Huffer · Accepted solution]

Of course you can but I would not try to turn it on until a tech examines it. 

[ic6x]

I fixed by disassembling, including cleaning the motherboard, re-pasting both processor and graphic processing unit.

Examined by myself and no water visible, turned it on after cleaning the dust off (ofc) and it works.

Thanks for helping me by the way.

[Huffer]

Most people could not do those things. You essentially did what a competent tech would do. Sometimes water damage is delayed so if you get by the next week or 10 days I would say you are in the clear.