So I spilled water on my laptop and it's fine. Too good to be true?

[BritishUK]

Hey all,

I spilled a glass of water on my laptop earlier, It's a DV7-651ea. I reacted pretty fast so only about 40-60ml of water went onto it. It didn't blow or even turn off and I fliped it over immediately, switched it off and dried it with tissue and banged any excess out whilst it was still upside down. Impressively, It turned on straight after, and worked completely fine, including the keyboard. Everything seems to be absoluteley fine.

This all seems too good to be true so I wanted to know if this is going to corrode the inside? My laptop is pretty weird because it's a DV7 but it looks different to every other DV7 I've seen on the internet (including the one in the service manual for my exact model). I wanted to take it apart and see if the inside was wet but I simply can't get into it, the only thing it will let me access is the HD, RAM and CMOS, all of which were dry so it didn't penatrate that deep. But there's still the motherboard directly beneath the keyboard, right?

Anyway, I took a picture. I was hoping that mabye this keyboard is "waterproof" (as in, has some rubber membrane underneath it or somthing like that. Surely if the water had got to the MB it would've shorted right?

Image Below, Thanks.

[Dragon-Fur]

BritishUK,

First "waterproof" notebook I have ever seen!  Smiling.

I do not think dv7 notebooks are actually waterproof.  Never heard of such...

I'd not try that twice. 

You might place that notebook in a nice warm, dry place and let it dry out lest the smaller bits end up letting you know which ones are less than damp proof.... speakers?

I wish I could offer practical advice.  I love that fact that so far your system has escaped serious harm.  You ought be be careful until it is fully dry lest you didn't find all the water ...  corrosion is not the only danger with water + electonics. 

Good Luck!

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[AU4U]

Water does not conduct electricity, the minerals and heavy elements do the conducting.

A large server can be safely cleaned (spray washed), while operating, with DISTILLED (3x) WATER.

[Dragon-Fur]

Yeahhh... Not the first time this week I have been caught for lack the "fine point". 

Water and servers:  Having worked with servers most of my life... I still wouldn't just hit one with a hose - distilled water or not... It would make me sad.   I think I might become traumatized.  

BritishUK was fortunate!

[AU4U]

Interestingly enough, the 1 time I saw this being done, the feeling was more like, Confused and Traumatized.

If what they were doing was to cause a problem, the natural gas supply going to the USA from Alberta Canada, would of shut down.

This "Cleaning" was done at the ATCO Gas servers, responsible for all switches and pressure regulation for the gas pipeline.

I guess they know what they are doing.

Personally, I wouldn't pour distilled water on my Envy 3D,,, but that's just me.