Satellite Pro A300-2C5 stopped working

Hi,
I have a problem with my Toshiba Pro A300-2C5.
It has stopped working today.
I poured a tea over it but removed is as quick as possibe but some water got inside of my laptop.
It was working for a while, I switched it off and switched it on again one hour later but unfortunately it stopped working.
When I try to switch it on, the syptoms are as follow:
- the only light which lights is a power light
- the screen does not work at all (it remains black and switched off)
- fan is working
- it seems hard disc does not work at all so Windows don't start
- keyboard does not work, when I hit tke keys nothing happenes, I tested Caps Lock key but it does not flash
- computer does not read my camera memory card
What shoul I do to make it working again? :(
Any help appreciated.
K.

Hi
The malfunction can be related to different notebook parts in worst case the spilled fluid damages the motherboard and you will need to replace the part.
In best case it could be an RAM fault as happens to a friend of mine.
He spilled coke on the keyboard and after a while the notebook could not power up.
We checked the RAM modules and replaced the two modules with new RAMs and this fixed the issue
You can try this too maybe it helps otherwise all other parts needs to be checked by an ASP technician.

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Message was edited by: miainphillips

So once again: notebook runs fine using battery power but reboot always (in the loop????) when AC adaptor is connected. But using Live CD the notebook runs ok even if the AC adaptor is connected.
Right???
>> I think it may be a BIOS issue because the laptop will run without an issue when booting a live cd, even when it is plugged in.
If the unit runs ok using Live CD, then this means that this cannot be BIOS issue because BIOS does not depend on installed system.
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I think you should firstly disable the automatic reboot when an system crashes Win 7 is configured to restart immediately when a BSOD happens and this happens too fast to see the error I think you mean this by automatic reboot
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