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Spilled coffee on my laptop, what is a definite replace and can I soak

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Earlier today I spilled coffee on my dell laptop. Immidiately I turned it off, unplugged power,placed it upside down and disconnected battery/hard drives. Hard drives seem unaffected but I found some liquid above the battery.

Cleaned it up externally with some isopropyl alchohol. Not sure if it’s definitely dead/should order a replacement. I need to be back to work ASAP and got deadlines soon so cant really afford to keep putting it together and waiting for parts.

The keyboard is definitely soaked. There’s coffee and sticky residue on both sides of the keyboard. I’m thinking of soaking everything where I found residue in distilled water to get rid of sugar etc.. and then soak in isopropyl. (Other than battery/lcd)

1) Do I definitely need a keyboard replacement or is there a good chance it will be fine after soaking it. There was less than 10 seconds between the spill and the laptop being completely powered down, and then maybe like 10-15 mins before unplugging the battery.

Want to know if I should just order a new keyboard to save myself the hassle of finding out later, or if I could actually fix it with a good soak in distilled water then isopropyl.

Same with the battery, is it more than a 50% chance that ill need to replace it or will i likely be okay? No visible coffee or residue inside/around the edges though maybe i cleaned it off.

2) can I soak the motherboard inside a vat of isopropyl with the fans/heat sinks or will that affect the fans/thermal paste?

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@esdey length of exposure in this case does not matter. What matters is what got involved. From what you describe “Do I definitely need a keyboard replacement or is there a good chance it will be fine after soaking it” I would not even chance it. Replace the keyboard for sure.  “can I soak the motherboard inside a vat of isopropyl with the fans/heat sinks or will that affect the fans/thermal paste? “ No. You will have to take the heatsink/fan off to clean it properly. If anything I give your battery the highest survival chance since the outer package is pretty resilient for as long as the battery connector was not involved with this. This will explain how to reapply the paste Cómo aplicar pasta térmica

Since this is pretty extensive work you have ahead of yourself, consider making some guides for the rest of us. https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/new

Update (02/11/2020)

@esdey not an easy job but it most certainly can be done. You did not give us your complete model number etc., but here are the instruction for the keyboard removal for the series you picked as your device

Inspiron 15 7000 Gaming Service Manual

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I don't know - the palmrest looks like it's one of those integrated with plastic weld ones. Won't be cheap if it is since it's bottom top assembly and OP needs the entire top case if it's not modular. GRANTED I'm judging from a photo, but I've seen that before.

It may even border on totaling the laptop out. I would try my luck on this since it likely isn't $10 precautionary repair like 90% of them. I would probably pop the keys off and clean them with alcohol and hope for the best, honestly.

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