Re: water on Laptop..damm..

Roger Mellie wrote:
Hi, I bought my daughter a cheap IBM 600x laptop, about 6 months ago, for about £180 and a good job too! She reported that she spilled some water on the keyboard, and she cleaned the water off with a paper towel, and it seemed to work OK. Then she said "it just turned itself off" I bought the laptop, back home, and ran a hairdryer over it with the HDD, the battery, the CD ROM, and the memory removed.
Then I put the HDD, the battery, the CD ROM, and the memory back in the machine and turned it on. IT powered up, the lights on the laptop came on, but nothing from the screen.... I'm leaving the laptop open for now, with a fan nearby blowing cold air on the thing.. Do you guys reckon it's Dead in the water? or is there anything else I can try?

Time to reach for the insurance claim forms...

If it isn't insured, it almost certainly isn't economic to repair it..

All you could do is strip out the mainboard and open everything up to the air. There is a faint chance that there may be a few droplets of water trapped somewhere that you can find and remove..

Look for any evidence of corrosion and make sure you remove all of it. Corrosion byproducts are invariably bigger than the original material and the increase in size can cause bridged insulation gaps.

Even so, the odds are that something got fried.

Good luck..
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Sue
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