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Water and Laptop, good mix?

  • 16-06-2008 8:12pm
    #1
    cabrwab
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,269 ✭✭✭


    My poor idiot student brother had an accident, as he was listening to his music he knocked a glass of water over the keyboard. Just turned off straight away. He left it off all night, then when he tries to turn it on it starts turning on but then stops. It appears like the battery is charging. He chanced plugging it in.

    Anyway i assume it is screwed, he has it a over a year. Its a dell latitude, not sure what model number. Any place it could get fixed? Drumcondra pref!


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  • #2
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    I would take out the harddrive, and open the laptop up as much as possible and put it in the hotpress or something, it's a long shot but yu might get lucky. Dont plug it in or attempt to turn it on. And remove the battery.

    EDIT: Sorry, didn't read the bit where you said you had left it off over night. Sorry.


  • #3
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    dont try turning it on

    remove the battery and hotpress it.

    If you want to go the extra 9 yards he can get the manual for his laptop model and that will show him how to completely disassemble the laptop piece by piece.

    Lay it all on a non static surface in the hotpress and pray for a miracle :)


  • #4
    omb0wyn5ehpij9
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,095 ✭✭✭✭omb0wyn5ehpij9


    As the other lads said, take it apart as much as you can and stick it in the hotpress and hope for a miracle!


  • #5
    Jackovarian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 344 ✭✭Jackovarian


    you could put it in the toaster? lol. joke! dont do it!

    yeah, you may be lucky,

    a quick take apart and very fine inspection and you may be lucky.
    on some laptops the keyboard is built like a tray, with round up edges. so the majority of the water may have stayed in that. also, chances are the water is lying in wait around a very tight component using capillary attraction.
    *I am just saying, you may kill your machine, you may be best off getting it done professionally*
    get a cotton bud , ground yourself and maybe wear a static bracelet, take out the battery, and the cmos battery just incase. hold the power button for 30 seconds.

    search around the board in any particular area you think the water may have flowed. look for holes under the keyboard or areas where he spilt the water. force the cotton at the angle between component and board, you may just soak out the water.

    if you send it away to get fixed they'll charge you for a whole new mobo and other bits and bobs they'd like to charge you for.

    but do try what everybody else said first as what i just said is a bit extreme and dangerous to your machine if done wrong.

    hope it works.


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