Liquid Spill: Does Rice Really Work? #shorts #tech #pc

Did rice really work to save a device from a spill? Well, let's see if this laptop was saved after a 7-year-old poured water directly on the keyboard. This customer brought their laptop into my shop because they said water, or Pepto-Bismol, was dumped on their laptop. He immediately dried it out and filled the laptop with rice. But this laptop was dead, so I put Travis-ty on the case, and he started the disassembly process to see what the damage was. We could see that it was mostly clear except for these major corrosion areas. We cleaned these areas with 91 percent isopropyl alcohol and cleaned the board in the ultrasonic cleaner.

Now that it was clean and dry, did it work? NO! The motherboard had a short and still did not power on. After some testing, I found that there was a shorted MOSFET on the GPU core. So we replaced that and tested again. Excellent, now that the laptop turned on and worked, we needed to replace the keyboard.