Thread: Water Damaged Laptop and broken switch?

You'll probably find if it works once and then won't after that then something is causing a short circuit, probably a component that was damaged by the water. You can confirm this by removing the battery and power adaptor, holding the power button down for 10 seconds, then plugging the power adaptor back in. If it turns on you have a short circuit somewhere. If it doesn't you have a further issue, perhaps the mainboard has been...

A friend of mine spilt a pint of water over his girlfriend's laptop. I took it to pieces and left it on his floor (on cardboard) for about a week drying out. Put it back together, it turned on and everything worked fine. Then in typical sods law as soon as I got home he gave me a call saying it wouldn't turn on. I took another look at it yesterday, taking the power button thing off (the plastic bit above the keyboard) and checking...