Wet Laptop! Help

[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!