One way to kill a laptop is to spill water or some other form of liquid onto a laptop. This can include tea, coffee, red wine, in fact any type of liquid! If you have spilled something on your laptop the best thing you can do is quickly turn the laptop upside down so the liquid does not get through to the laptop’s motherboard. However I’m guessing if you are reading this it might be too late! It all depends on how much liquid was spilled on your laptop.
Laptop Repair Birmingham see common issues with laptops that have had something spilled on them. If it’s a small amount of liquid you may be lucky and only your keyboard has stopped functioning. Quite often the laptop keyboard will stop working or just a few keys. If this is the case a new keyboard can be an inexpensive repair usually no more than £40. Or you could purchase a USB keyboard and use that with your laptop however your laptop would become less portable.
Other issues tend to be complete failure of the laptop. The laptop will not turn on and there is no response from the laptop. Or the laptop lights will turn on briefly and then cut out. If this is the case Laptop Repair Birmingham may be able to help. We can give you a quote for repair. This can range in price depending on what laptop components are damaged.
When you spill something on a laptop it can cause damage to the keyboard, motherboard, CPU and sometimes the RAM so repair prices do vary and it may become cheaper just to buy a new laptop. If this is the case we will still be able to help recover data off your old laptop and we can use the other parts inside your laptop for recycling. This can save a lot of waste and you know that even though the laptop is a write off some of the parts will be put to good use.
