[mkosman]

Hey everyone, I'm new to the site, but I've browsed through a lot of pages, and couldn't find anything covering this--so I spilled water on my laptop (not an uncommon theme, I need to be more careful, I know). It was on at the time, and after about 5 seconds it turned off. I unplugged it, and removed the battery, let it air out. The next time I tried it, it turned on and started up, then after about 10-15 minutes, shut back down. Since then, it has turned on a couple of times for shorter periods of time, but usually when I attempt to turn it on, I can hear the harddrive running, but the screen remains blank, and the sleep indicator light blinks rapidly. Through google, I saw that this might be related to the ram being too loose--do you think that perhaps the ram is simply shot? If it started up before, should that give me some hope that at least the logic board is alive? Any advice would be great

[JonoMarshall]

You should've removed the battery and PSU and allowed your Mac to completely dry out before ever turning it on, some people allow up to 7 days for this, how long did you wait?

Components errode when electricity passes through them and moisture is present, the more electricity/water the more errosion, it's possible that some of your components are damaged. (On a side note, if you removed all electrical sources it would be fairly safe to run a modern-day logic board under optimum temperature water and then allow it to dry out in a warm environment, only the minerals, etc, in the water would pose a risk, but this would be minimal.)

You could try swapping out the Ram to see if that's your problem, or you could disassemble your laptop to look for white errosion damage, but this isn't for the faint of heart! (Another side note, if you have a MacBook and find white stuff on your Ram contacts it is most likely just lube... search this forum to find out more!)

Water damage is a difficult problem to solve as you'll need to try and isolate what's not working, one option could be to purchase a similar spec laptop with a smashed screen, etc and swap the parts out untill you've got a working model? What model do you have?

[chipchen]

Sounds like you didn't wait long enough for the water to dry. Or take it apart for the water to evaporate.

So, logic board is most definitely dead.