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I know eating and drinking at the computer's a bad habit. And now it's caught up with me. I spilled a cup of tea on the laptop - hence my lack of posts lately...

Let it dry out for two days, and it does seem to be starting, but the screen is fried, and hooking it up to an external monitor didn't seem to work, either.

So I'll have to find somewhere to repair it. Fingers crossed, please...

That's no fun.

Good luck in getting it sorted.

Too late to give good advice so I won't

I find a is the most useful tool in situations such as this.

Do you have sugar in your tea? Apparently sugar eats laptops (like 2legs)

No, no sugar, just milk, which is bad enough. The HDD seems to be fine, but the tea ran through the RAM and I think the screen is short-circuited. I'll leave work early today - everyone else is taking part in a meeting after lunch that I'm not in, anyway - cycle back to the house, fetch the car, and go to Coleraine to find a repair shop.

What kind of tea was it? Just so I can boycott that brand from now on?

pc tips?

Sorry to hear that. with finding a genius who can fix the problem.

with getting it fixed.

Hope its save-worthy

#2 did the same a year or so ago. Someone took it apart and washed the innards out for us but only after they'd left it a week for the to curdle.

Risking carrying more clover to Ireland...

Hope you can get it sorted quickly, expertly and cheaply.

Expertly maybe... But the motherboard seems to be fried, so the only option is sending it back to the manufacturer for repairs.

Is that a fried motherboard with chips? Doesn't sound too healthy...

>>Is that a fried motherboard with chips? Doesn't sound too healthy...<< says the man who eats keyboards: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/F19585?thread=4051934&show=20&skip=0#pi3

They never let me forget...

It was too tempting.

Motherboards are never fried. A short circuit just blows a component or two. These chips cost a couple of small denomination coins to replace. The transport, diagnostics, packing and call centres cost a lot more. Then there are taxes, insurance, advisors, consultants, foreign holidays, people who want to rob you....