So my mother spilled some water on her laptop and asked me to fix it. So I had a look and found that it turns on normally and then gets to the Toshiba boot screen but then asks me to 'Reboot and Select a proper Boot device'. For some reason it was booting from 'LAN' instead of the hard drive. So I went into the BIOS and saw that the only boot option available was 'Realtek PXE'. For some reason it wasn't detecting the hard drive. I opened it up and saw that the hard drive was properly connected and 'dry'.
At this point I assumed that it was a failing hard drive problem so I removed it and replaced it with a old laptop hard drive that was made for the same type laptop but it did the same thing. So I tried booting from the potentially broken hard drive on my PC and it worked perfectly. I then was a little confused so I quickly swapped the RAM out for some old sticks and nothing changed.
I don't know why this is happening. I've left upside down for hours and hit it with a blast from a hair dryer but it's still doing it. I even took the CMOS battery out for a few minutes and still nothing happened (I didn't really expect anything to happen.) .
What should I do?
EDIT: Fixed it. After leaving it for a day it just started working again.
Laptop's don't really like water. They tend to stop working properly when they come in contact with them. Especially when you turn them on while still wet.
[QUOTE=Drumdevil;38767398]Laptop's don't really like water. They tend to stop working properly when they come in contact with them. Especially when you turn them on while still wet.[/QUOTE]
I didn't turn it on when it was wet. It had already been sat there for hours turned off while occasionally being dried with a hair dryer before I looked at it.
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