I spilled water on my power book.

Hate to give you the bad news, you should have waited a full 48 hours to allow the components to compeltly dry. So if anyone spills water on they powerbook, while its off. Take out the battery, keep the lid open and let it dry out for 48 hours or more.

If any of the components were still wet or moist with water. I'm afraid some may have shorted out.

Hi,

Just to give you a little confidence, I went on holiday last year with my PowerBook. We went sailing and after taking a lot of photos and filing my cards, I went below deck to empty them onto my PowerBook. The photos were in the process of downloading when a huge gush of sea water came flooding through the vent (Which was directly above the PB) and all over my camera, PowerBook and me 🙂 The gush had come from the local coast guard's practical joke. (They knew the people we were sailing with)

I was very quick and instantly killed the power to the PB and camera and got a towel to soak up everything. I then left it upside down and open to dry. However, I only left it to dry for a couple of hours before switching back on. (I would not recommend this but the coast guards already accepted the concequences and wanted to know if it still worked) Luckily it did.

PB's are tough computers and the keyboard itself is a relatively sealed unit. I think there is a high posibility that your data will be able to be retrieved, even if there is a problem with the computer and it can't boot. Someone at the apple store should be able to get your data off the drive for you.

Good luck,

Sam

You should be able to take it to a Apple repair type centre and they simmilar to Mobile phones could take some alcohol base liquid and obviously with the power off spray / coat the motherboard/logicboard/circuit board with this alcohol and this will somehow dry it up.

I am not sure about the procedure but anyone that has serviced a mobile phone that fell in the pool or the toilet gets fixed like this.

There might be some damage or not as Apple might have coated most of the insides with a water barier coating.

Sure there must be some wires that is exposed somewhere but it could be limited to a small cheap part that might be damaged.

If you bought it on a creditcard or have house insurance it should cover this maybe even Apple care. ????

Hope this helps or just call Apple Care.

Have Apple have a look as there might be salt from the sea water ??? in there still and this might make a electronic bridge to conduct power if not cleaned propperly.

No, I never took it to Apple since, as it has worked fine since then. Maybe I will take it in so that they can have a look at it. Thanks for the heads up, I never thought about that.

Sam

I had a problem just like yours. Simply enough, at Lake Powell sitting in a raft when a yacht came by and flipped me over. THE WHOLE PB went into the water. it was only in for about 2 seconds and i was only in about 2 feet of water. I quickly put it upside down and let it dry for about 6 hours in the 100 degree temp outside. I brought it inside click the power button and start up screen came on but my PB was making weird noises so i turned it off, let it dry for 3 days thinking my PB was dead and one night our of curiosity, i click the power button and everything WORKED! I was like no F ** way. I was pretty relived to.
So let it dry, it will most likely work if you give it time.

Plus the HD i think it pretty water proof.

hahah sorry i just had to laugh at some of these posts....a PB in a raft? 🙂 thats funny 🙂 but im glad to hear ur computers were fine..and i agree these computers are tough cookies...plus the keyboard is a seperate unit on the computers

You should be able to take it to a Apple repair type
centre and they simmilar to Mobile phones could take
some alcohol base liquid and obviously with the power
off spray / coat the motherboard/logicboard/circuit
board with this alcohol and this will somehow dry it
up.

http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/01/09/stripout_thefans/index.html

it seems like a stupid idea, but would doing something like this rinse out any water left in the powerbook?

Wonder if there are any species of fish that could survive and thrive in that tank? That would be most excellent! (;>)

Joe

Wonder if there are any species of fish that could
survive and thrive in that tank? That would be most
excellent! (;>)

Now that would definatly be a cool computer 🙂

LOL, intresting ideas lol.