Water Spill Laptop Damage

Notebook Repair for spill water laptop damage.

Here I Explain how I repair my notebook LCD screen with water damage. Use same steps to repair water spilled on laptop all hardware. It is major problem as water or tea spilled in laptop or laptop keyboard. Laptop water damage is common issue. If you are facing problem about spilled water on laptop. Water goes inside the LCD screen and it will create dot or stains on the screen. It is very noticeable with white background. It also happen if dust inside the LCD screen.

Basic steps for How To Repair Water spilled on laptop.

1) Disassemble laptop. On this website you will find detail procedure for how to disassemble / assemble laptop.

2) Separate all hardware component.

3) Keep all laptop hardware aside for more than 24 hours, allow them to totally dried.

4) Use light air blower to clean all laptop hardware.

5) Use cotton and cleaning solution like isopropyle to remove water trace on system board and hardware.

6) After complete dry out laptop from water spilled damages, Assemble laptop. These steps can repair water spilled on laptop not working.

How to repair water spilled on laptop macbook.

Use this method to fix tea coffee spilled on laptop keyboard or LCD.
To fix water spilled problems You need to open LCD screen.
Note: The LCD screen is very costly, be careful before doing this spilled water laptop screen repair. It can be damage screen if you make mistake. Continue at your own risk.
I will explain here how to troubleshoot laptop water damage for Dell Latitude D610 notebook. And how to open uninstall LCD screen of laptop. To repair water spilled on macbook keyboard, it is necessary to disassemble laptop. This is first steps for laptop troubleshooting.

Step 1) Disconnect AC adapter and remove battery from notebook.

Step 2) Lift up rubber screw seals marked with red round in image and remove all screws inside there.

Step 3) Carefully separate the screen bezel from the LCD cover and remove the bezel. You can unlock screen bezel with nails or a small Flathead screwdriver.

Remove two more screws from the front and two screws from both sides marked as red round.

Step 4) Now carefully remove the LCD screen from the cover and place it on safe place. Disconnect the video cable and the inverter board cable, it is connected at two placed as show red arrow.

In This dell laptop model the inverter board(glass type) is attached to the screen with two screws. Remove both screws, disconnect the screen cable and remove the inverter board.

Step 5) Carefully peel off sticky tape and foil, put them aside. You’ll have to put it back in place during the Laptop LCD screen reassembly.

Remove two screws from both sides of LCD screen.

Step 6) Carefully place the screen. Carefully unglue the film that covers the circuit board and remove two screws from the board (top circles. Do not touch the PCB circuit with fingers.

After both screws are removed you can lift up the circuit board. But it is still attached to the LCD.

Steps 7) Start separating the metal frame from the laptop screen. There are a lot of latches on all sides of the screen. You can unlock them with nails or a small flathead screwdriver.

You have LCD screen into three part: metal frame, LCD and background (rest of the parts).
If dust is there inside the screen, it can be between the LCD and the background. Do not clean LCD or background with your fingers. Remove dust with a very soft cloth.

After I split the screen I found that the background has a few some kinds of optical layers (three transparent sheets) and in my case they were damaged by water. The water dried out and left stains between these optical layers. This create dots on laptop screen. It can be repairable.

Very carefully separate the LCD with attached circuit board from the background.

To remove damaged optical layers it’s necessary to remove metal locks on both sides of the screen. It’s like a small clip that keeps layers in place.

How to clean laptop spilled water on it.

After I removed both clips, I was able to look between the layers. At first I tried to clean up the dried water marks on screen with a soft cloth but it didn’t help. The stains were still visible and didn’t want to go away.
Fortunately I had another similar laptop screen lying around, it had a cracked LCD. I decided to borrow the optical layers from the cracked screen and transfer them to laptop LCD screen. I wasn’t sure if it’s going to work, but as I mentioned before I didn’t really care if I break the screen. It was just an experiment. It result in successfully repair water spilled on laptop.
So I disassembled the cracked screen and carefully transferred the white background and all transparent layers to my screen.

After that I assembled my screen back, removing dust and lint with a very soft cloth. Breathlessly connected my new screen to the notebook. Turned it on and…
That’s a miracle, it works! Initially water spilled on laptop screen is not working properly.
No dust, no lint, no water mars inside the screen! It’s clear and the background is absolutely clean!

Problems caused due to water, tea or coffee spilled on laptop.

1) Water spilled on laptop won't turn on.

2) Tea spilled on laptop keyboard sticky keys.

3) Dots on laptop screen or laptop screen become blunt.
4) Laptop display black screen.

5) Laptop display white blank screen.

6) Laptop keyboard work weird.

7) laptop not working or crash.

8) Keyboard type automatically. It require to clean laptop hardware and need to remove water strain and dots from hardware.