water damage on laptop

meandu229

i had a few mates up to my university this weekend and 1 of them accidently spilt beer on his laptop,, the laptop powers up but a few keys are not working,, can i claim on his warenty and say it just stopped working and hope they send me a new keyboard to fit or should i just buy areplacement keyboard?

Quincy_3

What make and model as some lappy keyboards can come out be washed left to dry for a few days and replaced, so whats the make and model?

meandu229

its a emachines m5116 ,, would this sort of thing be covered by home insurance

Quincy_3

It may well be depending on the Insurance cover thats something youll have to take up wuth the Insurance company and policy holder

Astaroth

Statutory manufactures warrenty do not cover accidental damage and therefore you would not be covered for the damage. If you did try to claim by fraud then they would request the laptop to be returned and they would inspect it prior to repairing it.

If you have an extended warrenty or home contents insurance then both of these will probably cover accidental damage to your laptop.

Remember that opening up the laptop itself (rather than the access port for ram/ hd replacement) may invalidate your warrenty.

leesmithg

meandu229 wrote:

i had a few mates up to my university this weekend and 1 of them accidently spilt beer on his laptop,, the laptop powers up but a few keys are not working,, can i claim on his warenty and say it just stopped working and hope they send me a new keyboard to fit or should i just buy areplacement keyboard?

Have they lowered the English language grade to below c for universty entrance?

Remove the keys, clean all the gunk out, of course make sure you take a picture of where the keys will need to be located once returned.

Put the laptop onto a shelf in your airing cupboard.

Leave for a couple of days and try it again.

You could also consider removing all the hardware and cleaning out the dust and gunk, also to make sure there are no water molecules festering on the components.

It might be a case that one component is affected, such as HD, Mobo, ram sticks or even the graphics card.

As for insurance, I am not a broker so would not know.

Check you policy.

Quincy_3

leesmithg wrote:

Have they lowered the English language grade to below c for universty entrance?

Remove the keys, clean all the gunk out, of course make sure you take a picture of where the keys will need to be located once returned.

Just be careful removing keys as they are a sod to get back in if they are the U clip type.

albertross_2

leesmithg wrote:

universty ?

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:rotfl: ..........

Quincy_3

albertross wrote:

:rotfl: ..........

Classic, thanks A_T :rotfl: