Hi all,
I was sitting at my ibook the other day when my housemate decided to throw a football at me. It hit a glass of water, the water went all over my desk and a large amount over my ibook, mainly on the keyboard area.
I think I acted quite pretty instantaneously. I flipped it over and unplugged the mains cable - the ibook had turned itself off by this point - then I disconnected the battery and took off the keyboard from the front. Luckily there seemed to be little or no water under the keyboard. I dried up what I could from the rest of the ibook and then left it sitting upside down for a good 30 hours or so.
When I turned it back on it booted up, albeit very slowly. The keyboard seemed to be damaged - the "g" key gives "tg" and so on - which I was unsurprised by. I'm going to leave it to dry some more and see if it fixes itself. If not I can get a new one.
But now we come to the main point of this post. When I tried to access the internet it was veeery, veeery slow. Is this something you would expect to happen after a water spill? Can I expect it to get better if I leave the ibook to dry out some more? If not, which part of my ibook is likely damaged and needs replacing?
I wish I could tell you more about how the computer is behaving, but when I saw it wasn't working properly I quickly shut it down, and don't want to risk turning it on again before I've given it a chance to dry out some more.
I was sitting at my ibook the other day when my housemate decided to throw a football at me. It hit a glass of water, the water went all over my desk and a large amount over my ibook, mainly on the keyboard area.
I think I acted quite pretty instantaneously. I flipped it over and unplugged the mains cable - the ibook had turned itself off by this point - then I disconnected the battery and took off the keyboard from the front. Luckily there seemed to be little or no water under the keyboard. I dried up what I could from the rest of the ibook and then left it sitting upside down for a good 30 hours or so.
When I turned it back on it booted up, albeit very slowly. The keyboard seemed to be damaged - the "g" key gives "tg" and so on - which I was unsurprised by. I'm going to leave it to dry some more and see if it fixes itself. If not I can get a new one.
But now we come to the main point of this post. When I tried to access the internet it was veeery, veeery slow. Is this something you would expect to happen after a water spill? Can I expect it to get better if I leave the ibook to dry out some more? If not, which part of my ibook is likely damaged and needs replacing?
I wish I could tell you more about how the computer is behaving, but when I saw it wasn't working properly I quickly shut it down, and don't want to risk turning it on again before I've given it a chance to dry out some more.
