Wet Laptop! Help

[mancitygaz]

Have recently had a drink spilt over my laptop,
Thought it might dry out but no such luck,
When plugged in it powers up for a couple of seconds, screen goes white then completely dies,
No power at all from the battery.

Just asking to see if anyone knows a simple solution for this or is it as i suspect completely fucked?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

 

[Major]

Have recently had a drink spilt over my laptop,
Thought it might dry out but no such luck,
When plugged in it powers up for a couple of seconds, screen goes white then completely dies,
No power at all from the battery.

Just asking to see if anyone knows a simple solution for this or is it as i suspect completely fucked?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Gaz it appears you have flooded the mother board, i would personally take it to your local pc shop and see what they suggest dont bother with pc world they charge a fortune, but i would think its a new mother board, graphics card, sound card and maybe more replacing..... get a new one.
If your local i would have a look at it for you i know a little.

 

[yozzer]

Have recently had a drink spilt over my laptop,
Thought it might dry out but no such luck,
When plugged in it powers up for a couple of seconds, screen goes white then completely dies,
No power at all from the battery.

Just asking to see if anyone knows a simple solution for this or is it as i suspect completely fucked?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

was it a drink ..or was you watching porn and jizzed on it ..and now its wet n sticky

 

[MCFC-alan88]

The real problem with Laptops is that pretty much everything that makes them run is under they keyboard (Duh!), but what makes it worse is there is no protection between the two, odds are good that the drink has fried pretty much everything involved.

 

[Nyull]

Take it to aria.

Aria House
Belle Vue Avenue
Pottery Lane
Manchester
M12 4AS

They're quality and not too expensive.

 

[auction294]

pm me, we specialise in laptop repairs. No labour charge, just component if you want it doing and we'll do that at cost. It will be the board. Worst case scenario if it isn't worth fixing I can get your data and transfer it to something like USB Drive, External Drive or DVD, again no charge.

 

[mancitygaz]

Thanks for the help, much appreciated.

 

[MCFCinUSA]

sorry you've reached us a bit late with this.... anything electrical that gets soaked like this - stick it in a box of dry uncooked rice and leave it for a couple of days (until all the moisture is drawn out) but before you turn it on again.

this can revive cellphones that have been dunked down the toilet, and also notebooks... if you could have taken it apart and done this with the motherboard & components separately this would speed things up for you.

 

[auction294]

but before you turn it on again

that's the key thing, too late now but taking a laptop apart is not a simple thing. Then getting it back together again is another story. Sony's are a real pain in the ass. Most independant pc repair shops send them off to a specialist for that reason. We repair them in house.

Aria are okay, very competive on pricing for new components and in fact probably the cheapest in the UK for most stuff. I know them pretty well, but I wouldn't use the words quality and repairs in the same sentance especially when one of their techies is scouse.......

 

[MCFC-alan88]

but before you turn it on again

that's the key thing, too late now but taking a laptop apart is not a simple thing. Then getting it back together again is another story. Sony's are a real pain in the ass. Most independant pc repair shops send them off to a specialist for that reason. We repair them in house.

Aria are okay, very competive on pricing for new components and in fact probably the cheapest in the UK for most stuff. I know them pretty well, but I wouldn't use the words quality and repairs in the same sentance especially when one of their techies is scouse.......

I like to call them spring loaded disaster zones. There aren't actually many springs, but fuck me there's alot of screws. Laptops are the bane of my existance at work.

 

[MCFCinUSA]

that's the key thing, too late now but taking a laptop apart is not a simple thing. Then getting it back together again is another story. Sony's are a real pain in the ass. Most independant pc repair shops send them off to a specialist for that reason. We repair them in house.

Aria are okay, very competive on pricing for new components and in fact probably the cheapest in the UK for most stuff. I know them pretty well, but I wouldn't use the words quality and repairs in the same sentance especially when one of their techies is scouse.......

I like to call them spring loaded disaster zones. There aren't actually many springs, but fuck me there's alot of screws. Laptops are the bane of my existance at work.

recommend you buy a DELL then; I've taken apart and replaced around a dozen of them - swapping out motherboards and even upgrading CPUs with my own heat sink putty... I'm not a pro tech either. Dell make decent kit and it's not too difficult to pull it all apart and put it back together again.

 

[auction294]

Sorry, cannot agree with that. A Dell laptop is no easier, nor harder to fix than any other brand. By far the most complex are Sony. In fact Dell, certainly in Desktops make a number of components proprietory so that replacing industry standard parts becoming 3 times more expensive as the only option to source the item is from Dell, or third party outlets authorised by Dell. Example of this is the humble power supply unit, roughly £10 for a generic brand. Equivalent for a Dell would be around £70 as the PSUs are reverse engineered.

Dell are in business to make profit, not provide the end user with an easy upgrade or repair path. As are all manufacturers.

 

[Halfpenny]

Going to hijack this thread with my own problem.
I have numerous keys missing on my HP Pavilion Dv6700. How easy is it to swap out the keyboard? Have a little bit of experience replacing components in other devices, LCD screens and the like.

 

[Damocles]

Going to hijack this thread with my own problem.
I have numerous keys missing on my HP Pavilion Dv6700. How easy is it to swap out the keyboard? Have a little bit of experience replacing components in other devices, LCD screens and the like.

Piece of cake.

Remove all of the keys (which is easier when there is one missing), then fit new ones by pushing a replacement set in.

This is a similar procedure to what you need to do. Don't forget to write down the positions of every key though before you remove them!

You can find the keys on eBay. Don't worry, all the DV series keys are the same.

EDIT : Found this for you too, these look a better prospect than eBay.

 

[Halfpenny]

Going to hijack this thread with my own problem.
I have numerous keys missing on my HP Pavilion Dv6700. How easy is it to swap out the keyboard? Have a little bit of experience replacing components in other devices, LCD screens and the like.

Piece of cake.

Remove all of the keys (which is easier when there is one missing), then fit new ones by pushing a replacement set in.

This is a similar procedure to what you need to do. Don't forget to write down the positions of every key though before you remove them!

You can find the keys on eBay. Don't worry, all the DV series keys are the same.

EDIT : Found this for you too, these look a better prospect than eBay.

Mean the full keyboard. Couple of the plastic cushiony things underneath have gone.

 

[bluekat]

Don't do what I did when I spilt a brew on my laptop, I set up my missus hairdryer to try and dry the keyboard out, however, I didn't realise she used an industrial strength dryer and it melted my keyboard completely!