I had some Cadbury chocolate tonight while browsing on the web, and it melted  . I managed to get most of the liquid out using a small painting brush but since I did it upside down, it moved downwards and got pass the vent and is inside the vent. How do I get the chocolate removed? I don't have a screwdriver to open the case so that is gone. What do I do? It is near the motherboard.And I am using a TOSHIBA Satellite L745DIts best if you can safely open the laptop to remove the melted chocolate, however you may be ABLE to avoid this since chocolate under heated conditions will eventually dry out and the brown chocolate will turn white tinted and become a chalky dry form, the airflow of the system will blow any dry chocolate out.

However if any chocolate made its way to electronic parts or the fan, it could cause problems later on. But if you dont feel comfortable opening the laptop to remove it, it is a gamble depending on how much melted inside.

I had a user at my last job whos desk was a mess and he had a similar issue with chocolate melting and getting into his laptop. Somehow he got melted chocolate also into the side vent of the laptop. I could have removed the chocolate by dissassembling the laptop and removing the heatsink ETC and placing the heatsink into a pot of boiling water to remove etc, then dry it and then apply new thermal compound etc, but I decided to leave it be since the FLOW of hot air is outwards and gravity is down and the motherboard is to the right of the heatsink that is located on the left side of the laptop. In a matter of a few months, it got dry and chalky and most of it blew out on its own. The rest of it I was able to jab a wooden tooth pick into and it was very brittle and came out with the AID of the airflow out the side vent.It's been 5 days...it should be taken to a shop and properly dis-assambled cleaned and re-assembled.