Posted 19th Jan 2017
This morning my sons laptop was in a puddle of clear fluid it appears to be leaking from the battery compartment does anyone know what it is I'm worried that its toxic and my son has already got it on his hands taking the battery out. Its not water and the only part of the laptop thats wet is inside the battery compartment any help would be greatly appreciated.
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sorted byIt's worth checking that nothing has been split onto it as I've never heard of a laptop battery leaking and it's the only part of the laptop which is capable of leaking.
If the battery can be removed I'd take it out and bag it up.
Take lots of photos.
Let's hope the headline reads: Expert removes laptop from bag and smells 7up shocker oO
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So definitely wear the gloves!!!
CPU coolant - in a laptop ?
Yes, some laptops are watercooled, but very top of the range things. Like several thousands of pounds worth so doubt it will be that.
Yes, they are liquid cooled, the fan blows through a radiator cooling the coolant,
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That made me actually lol.
Or you could seal the child and laptop in a bag of rice and place in the airing cupboard for 24hrs -that seems to sort most problems (_;)
No cat and no drinks involved
My son is nearly 19 and he is very responsible with his stuff never broke a laptop, games console or phone ever
Do you think its possible it overheated and fractured, he did have a problem a few months back where it just shutdown and wouldn't turn back on and he said it was hot.
No cat and the child has nothing to fess up to, apparently this happens a lot according to the internet but no-one seems to know what it is. I will post the answer to the mystery when I get it inspected by Asus
Be sure to let us know the outcome (make and model of Laptop would help -name and shame !) This has obviously never happened to anyone before , so it would be interesting to learn more .
No cat and the son is toilet trained I least I hope he is he's 19
Its an Asus N56VZ i7 8GB RAM 1000GB and it wasn't cheap bought it for uni hoping it would do him the whole 3 years
Well as he's 19 and toilet trained I would hope he has got straight on to Asus and informed them of this unlikely problem with their machine . As its a "fit for purpose" claim it doesn't matter whether its out of warranty ,provided he hasn't made unauthorised modifications to it they must still sort it by law . Still baffles me how a Laptop can leak a puddle though , you'll struggle explaining that .
Outrunner is talking rubbish. Your laptop isn't water cooled. That's a copper heatsink and heatpipe, there is no liquid coolant in laptops.
I think you personally getting it inspected by Asus is the best way to find out the answer.
Of course it does, cos there's a lot of cats and kids that don't fess up to piddly incidents.
Actually I have seen a lot of posts about this exact same thing happening and no animals or children involved, people who know that there has not been any accidents and the laptop was perfectly fine when last used. The next morning finding it with a pool of liquid underneath it only problem is nowhere does anyone say what it was because the laptop seems fine when dried out and they haven't had it looked at.
I appreciate it is almost inconceiveable, but responsible adults have been known to distance themselves with such mishaps as well.
Lol. Spills / previous dunking is more plausible than random liquid ejected from and pooling under laptop; laptop drying out; then working fine as if nothing had happended.
Regardless: I hope that no harm has come to humans and animals.
This would be from Lithium/Thionyl chloride (SOCl2) primary cells. Thionyl chloride reacts with moisture to produce SO2 which has a sour smell.
LiIon secondary cells contain solvents like ethyl acetate and ethyl carbonate which have a fruity etheral smell. a bit like juicyfruits.
however, there is no mention of a smell so.... someone is probably telling porkies or a cat crept in and .....
Do you think this could happen everyone seems to think this is not possible but my son would of told me if there had been an accident with a drink. I'm sending it to Asus for inspection will they know if it was this that happened I'm worried they will just turn round and say water damage to get out of it
errrm, sorry, that was a joke. that's what fuels the warp drive in star trek.
Can the people downvoting this comment explain why? Is Outrunner's explanation of how a heatpipe works not accurate?