Sager laptop Short-Circuited by Vomit, What can be saved?

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Hey some back story first, I'm a 19 yr old college student who doesn't drink. Well a guy came back one night from being out, wandered into my suite and puked on my laptop.
Immediately pulled the battery, flipped it and put a fan on it hoping to drain the stuff from my keyboard. I gave it ample time. It booted up completely once and then was shutoff and refused to boot a second time, not even POST. It was rather expensive so I couldn't ask the kid to fully reimburse me even though its only 15 months old.

Is there anyway I can test individual components and attempt resale of them?

Thanks guy, it would really help me considering he hasn't payed me yet and I'm trying to get money for a new laptop.

Update: I believe the motherboard to be shorted out. However, Sager laptops are relatively modular so can I salvage and test the RAM, CPU, GPU etc.
 
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my guess would be that it's just the motherboard. The only way to really test anything else though would be to have a different computer to put it in. The hard drives you could put in pretty much anything, but the ram would have to be something that takes laptop ddr3 ram, the processor and GPU would be the trickiest because they would have to be tested in another computer that supported that same processor and gpu in the BIOS, as well as the physical socket.
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Hey thank you. I did a poor job of explaining it. The "liquid" made it underneath the motherboard and I believe that's where it shorted out. So i believe the motherboard to be fried.
 
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If you feel upto it, it still might be worth dismantling the laptop down to the motherboard and washing the contaminated parts of the board (using a toothbrush and dish soap/washing up liquid) and letting it dry out thoroughly, wine, tea, cola, vomit can be pretty corrosive but you might get lucky.
 
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joemattress

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Hey thank you again, unfortunately I know that it is damaged beyond repair, I am strictly just asking if there is a way I can test components I suspect to be unaffected, to minimize replacement costs.
 
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my guess would be that it's just the motherboard. The only way to really test anything else though would be to have a different computer to put it in. The hard drives you could put in pretty much anything, but the ram would have to be something that takes laptop ddr3 ram, the processor and GPU would be the trickiest because they would have to be tested in another computer that supported that same processor and gpu in the BIOS, as well as the physical socket.
 
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joemattress

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Thank you very much! That's what I figured it would come down to.
What are your thoughts on a faulty component putting the new motherboard at risk?
 
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