X220 doesnt boot after spill

Hello,
i spilled water on my keyboard. at first my x220 continued working without any issues but i took the opportunity to take off all the keys and whipe it clean. my computer was in standby at this time. after reinstalling all the keys i intended to start my system and it refuses to boot. 
while reinstalling the keys i noticed that the display "flashed up"  once what apperead to me as if the computer was switching from standby to hibernating mode. it did this as i was applying pressure to put the left shift key, being just above the vga slot.
when i know press the power button it starts blinking a few times but the screen stays black, no further reaction. if i take out and replace the battery and press the power button, the screen flashes up shortley as it did while replacing the keys of the keyboard and it does so showing a few colored vertical stripes.
what can be the problem here? will it be due to possibly entered water (are they not supposed to be spill resistant) or might i have squeezed the graphics adapter or other sort of hardware when reinstalling the keys? is there anything i can do now? hooking the x220 up to an external monitor doesnt help either. the external screen stays black and the system still does not boot;
thanks for any help. unfortunately i will not be close to any lenovo dealership for support for the next few weeks as there arent any in northern chile.

Hi,
The image you download should just appear as 1 file.  You should then use the 'Burn a disc image' option in Power2Go to write this correctly to a disc.
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