My Asus Pentium M laptop refuse to power

Not trying to flame Benimur but I would seriously reconsider the carbon tetrachloride route. This is a fairly dangerous chemical and exposure to it or its vapor can affect the central nervous system. Prolonged exposure can cause liver or kidney damage or cancer; chronic exposure can cause comas and death. Not really the chemical you want to be splashing around the house around kids?.

Remove all power to the computer including the CMOS backup batter, open it up remove as many parts (hard drive, keyboard, PCMCIA cards, etc.) as you can and let it dry out upside down for several days in a dry hot room. It would be better to disassemble and air dry, but if you can?t go that route the other way should work, eventually. Definitely attempt to recover you valuable data by connecting the laptop drive to a desktop as a slave but again be careful. There is always a chance that the laptop drive could be damaged and could in turn damage the desktop.