Hello, I saw my laptop was leaking liquid so I opened it today to check it out. Battery is not swollen but there was quite a lot of yellowish/transparent liquid inside.
I will get the battery checked but is there any possibiity this is due to humidity or my vape? I know the vape thing might sound crazy but I vape just glycerin and a cloud of vape forms everday in my room. Can it be that the vape tranforms into liquid inside the laptop somehow?
Do you have any pics?
How much liquid?
Blowing a vape into your laptop could potentially cause a build-up of moisture, but I wouldn’t know the exact requirements for it. The exhale is mostly made of Propylene Glycol and/or Vegetable Glycerin.
If you’re comfortable with opening the laptop, I would remove the battery and CMOS (this will reset your BIOS settings) and check for moisture inside. You can clean the components with 70 - 90% (100 is too harsh) isopropyl alcohol or distilled water.
Alcohol, because it evaporates without leaving a residue, distilled water because it lacks minerals, so it’s not likely to leave a residue.
Make sure everything is 100% dry after. Be gentle on all components
My guess would be a heatpipe or vapor chamber has ruptured.
did you find where it was coming from? Certain area with more liquids? Probably not the heatpipe because those have only a small amount of liquid (not neccesarily water).
I don’t think vape would transform in to enough liquid to leak out of the laptop. Heat from the laptop would also prevent condensation while it is running. It could also be a coincell battery (for time/bios) or burst capacitors.
This might actually be the case cause most of the liquid was near the heatpipes near the fans and the battery is below the fans so it couldn’t have gone up there.
What can I do in this case?
If the heatpipe is bad, you would need to replace it. You might be able to find a broken version of your laptop on Ebay, for example, broken/missing screen or bad motherboard. Really you just want the heatpipes
Heat pipes and vapor chambers don’t contain “quite a lot of liquid”. The largest you’d find in a computer contain a few drops worth.
Are you sure you haven’t just spilled something?
Or someone or pet didn’t pee on it? Leak from roof or upstairs neighbor?