On Friday night, I spilled soup on my laptop. It wasn’t much soup, and I thought I’d cleaned it up fast enough to prevent seepage into the innards, but apparently I didn’t; a couple minutes later, the screen went dark and I couldn’t use the power button to shut the laptop off, forcing me to unplug it and disconnect the battery. After opening it up to sponge up whatever moisture I could find, I reconnected the battery and turned it back on. It started booting up as normal, but then I got a blue screen informing me something had gone wrong and the computer needed to restart. Instead of restarting, the screen went dead again. For the rest of that night, ever hour or so I’d turn the computer back on, seeing if it would boot up as normal, but the screen stayed black.
The next morning, I tried turning the laptop on again. This time it started an automatic repair. The first auto-repair failed, and the screen went black, but the second attempt was successful. I then was able to use the laptop without any hiccups all yesterday.
Today, when I started the computer back up, the login screen went fuzzy — like a TV with bad reception — and froze. I turned it off then on again. The second time, I just got some red staticky bars, then the computer screen went black. Third time, every thing seemed to run smoothly. Minutes after getting online, though, that blue screen returned and the computer restarted. After it restarted, I was able to login, but there were no Internet connections available. I restarted the computer again; everything seems to be okay now.
If this wonkiness continues, I may have to take the laptop in for maintenance.