Water Spill- think pad twist

Hello All, I accidently spilled a little (maybe a 1/4 cup) into my think pad twist. The water quickly drained out the sides. After it dried, i turned it on, and the screen flickered and distorted, but evenutally i got an "installing windows updates" screen, which then flcikered and the machine turned off. Help! Any suggestions? My understanding is that the keyboard is spill resistent, so maybe it;s not that bad? thanks!

Hi
Welcome to the forums
Please have a look here
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/askjack/2012/jul/05/drink-spilled-on-laptop
http://m.wikihow.com/Save-a-Laptop-from-Liquid-Damage
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Please don't bother to send me links to the manual - have gone over it three times and can find no useful instructions in it for this situation.
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I would like to share my experience to the community and to fellow mac users regarding my water spill accident on my 1-week fresh Retina Macbook Pro.
Before begining, i appologize for gramar or spelling mistakes since I am French and English is not my first language.
So lets begin ...
My 2006 macbook pro started giving away and i knew that i had to replace it very soon. So i opted for a high end machine because i knew i needed something for at least 5 years.
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So enough introduction ... After taking a sip from that cup of water i accidently spilled the cup on my keyboard. To be precise i spilled around 160 ml of tap water on the keyboard while the computer was ON (on battery).
I froze for 5 seconds cursing in French, looking at the puddle of water on my keyboard, then i immediatley FORCED shut down the computer.
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To my surprise, we kept on bringing paper towels and absorbing ...The water was just sitting on top of the computer and i had the impression that not a whole much was making it inside.
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Friday morning, when i arrived at the office, i checked the laptop (still haven't turned it on) ... Paper towels were wet, so i changed them ....
I left it over the weekend at work .... doing some research on water spills ... i decided not to use rice or hair dryers or opening the machine ... i estimated that what could've made it through the inside of the laptop was roughly 20 ml of water that was absorbed by a plastic sheet seperating the keyboard from the logic board.
Monday, D-day, i tried turning the laptop ON and it booted normaly ... i was a bit skeptic, i was thinking maybe the RAM modules were fried or certain keys on the keyboard or the sound controller ... but nothing everything seemed normal.
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