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how can i mend my laptop after liquid damage?
on my laptop!
Anyone got any bright ideas on how to mend my laptop which got a glass of wine over it last night and now won’t fire up?
Considered giving it a hair of the dog, but might just throw it at the wall instead! 🙄
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aww oooo expensive glass that.
Let it dry out completely before you try booting it up….sounds like you might have tried already tho.
apart from leaving it some more….and an odd pleassssssseeee worrrrrrkkkk (beggin) I dont have a clue.
was the wine red or white? they say if you spill red, chuck white on top? -
I did the exact same thing Lorraine….I stripped it down….took off the keyboard and and dried off as much wine as I could see, then I let it dry out completely for a long time and luckily it rebooted……..I lost a strip of my screen though which has never returned!
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quote Cheryl Smith:aww oooo expensive glass that.
Let it dry out completely before you try booting it up….sounds like you might have tried already tho.
apart from leaving it some more….and an odd pleassssssseeee worrrrrrkkkk (beggin) I dont have a clue.
was the wine red or white? they say if you spill red, chuck white on top?:lol1: It was white! If it had been red I could at least have seen where it was! Unfortunately it went in through the speaker grill. What a dork!
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What make and model is it Lorraine?
If you are up for striping it down yourself and trying to dry it out I may have a manual for it.
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Put it in the dishwasher Lorraine – that’s what Rob does :lol1:
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Hi Martin
It’s an HP, not got it here so don’t know model. It’s a newish one though, an I’m really mad! (I know, should never eat or drink near a computer.)
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quote Phill:Put it in the dishwasher Lorraine – that’s what Rob does :lol1:
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Hi Lorraine
in theory wine shouldnt be to bad for your laptop, white wine out of the 2 i think would be the worst has i think correct me if i am wrong but i think it contains more acid. the worst stuff for laptops is sugary stick juices if it was coca cola you could forget. i tipped a whole can of lager through the cooling vents of a mini mac, which wouldnt fire up. a freind of mine who is a bit of a whizz on applemacs, took the motherboard out and washed under the cold water tap, as soon as it dried he popped it back in and it fire up straight away and has worked fine ever since (18 months ago).
you need to find someone you can trust! to take a look at it, the worst thing is that you are leaving yourself wide open to be ripped off.
in conclusion a quikie clean 99% of time usually sorts it out
simon – cardiff
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Phill, stop giving Robert a hard time, it was me that told him to do that :lol1:
Actually it would probably be the best thing for lorraine to do but she would need to strip the laptop down and just put the motherboard and possibly the keyboard in the dishwasher.
I do this with all the broken laptops I buy that have had a liquid spill and it works on a lot of them. Providing that someone hasn’t spent a lot of time trying to reboot and caused other damage. -
quote martin:Actually it would probably be the best thing for lorraine to do but she would need to strip the laptop down and just put the motherboard and possibly the keyboard in the dishwasher.
Would it be too late for me to try that in an effort to restore my screen. It happened about a year ago.
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also Isopropyl Alcohol spray or other pCB cleaner from the likes of Maplin or RS components would help cleanup the PCB’s.
Watch some of the cleaners on plastics though.
Harry when you say strip what do u mean how wide, top to bottom or left to right?
Tim.
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Top to bottom Tim…..it hasnt disappeared completely…..its like the area is shaded white, about two inches of the screen. Its a pain really having to reduce the page size.
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Harry it is very unlikely that it will make a difference with your laptop. Have you tried running the laptop on an external monitor?
Try this first as this will tell you if the fault is with the screen itself or with the graphics card.
What make and model laptop is it because some have a separate graphics card that can be replaced but unfortunately most have them built into the motherboard. -
oh dear Lorraine, bummer eh.
you’d never catch me doing something so silly 🙄 🙄
funnily enough, i spilled literally half a mug of tea on mine, twice, left it on end (hard drive end up) and by the rad, 2 days later, it fires up no prob, but i did immediately remove the mains and battery, didn’t even wait for it to shut down!
it was the coffee which killed mine, more to do with the fact it had sugar in i guess!
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check your invoice for ‘accidental damage’ cover… if it was a Dell it is an option on their website. I dont know about HP’s cover but its sort of thing Dixon/PC World sell so maybe you took out one of those rip off insurance covers they love selling, if so ‘test it out’ as i like to know if they are worth any money LOL
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Just hooked it up to another monitor and it seems fine on that…..its a Dell Inspiron 8600 Martin.
Sorry Lorraine, didn’t mean to hijack so badly! 🙁 I’ll buy you….eh………a glass of wine???
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quote Harry Cleary:Just hooked it up to another monitor and it seems fine on that…..its a Dell Inspiron 8600 Martin.
Sorry Lorraine, didn’t mean to hijack so badly! 🙁 I’ll buy you….eh………a glass of wine???
:lol1: :lol1: (drink1) Glad you have an answer Harry.
As for the laptop-I am using it to type this!
Put it on the boiler overnight, fired it up tonight, started it in safe mode, and-after a couple of false starts-here I am!
All files still on and appear to be working, although I have just backed up the important ones, – like the Tax return I just finished slaving over in January – in case it decides it is still poorly. So Cheers!
Thanks all.
Lorraine
(Oh, Dave, sorry, not mug enough to fall for the insurance spiel, that’s what house insurance is for-isn’t it?)
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Never mind Lorraine. It was probably just suffering from a hang over. 🙁
I’ll get me coat. -
quote Phill:Put it in the dishwasher Lorraine – that’s what Rob does :lol1:Martin did tell me that and i have to say it is the best but wackiest solution i have ever heard of. worked a treat!
just wait till the day comes mr fenton… you will be sitting staring at your beer drenched sticky keyboard and you will hear my voice whisper… "you know your going to try it, go on, go on, go on!" :lol1: :lol1: :lol1: -
thats great news about your laptop, just goes to prove a few glasses of wine doesnt do any harm even down through your speaker grill., stick to the hard stuff, what ever yo do, dont pack in the booze and start drinking coke.
one thing you didnt share with us is how many glasses of wine did you actually have? before you started dunking your laptop in it?
on a more serious note as long as the machine isn’t making any clicking noises, I would have thought you have a got away with it this time and you shouldn’t have any more problems.
Simon
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possibly was shorting, now isn’t. Stroke of luck hey 😀
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Certainly was a stroke of luck Dave 😕 As to how many glasses of wine-I blame it all on the dog. That glass of wine wasn’t mine Officer-honestly! 😳
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quote Lorraine Clinch:Certainly was a stroke of luck Dave 😕 As to how many glasses of wine-I blame it all on the dog. That glass of wine wasn’t mine Officer-honestly! 😳
😀 😀 well done Lorraine, now………don’t let that happen again!!! 😀 😀 (I find drinking straight from the wine bottle helps considerably! 😀 )
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Lorraine, glad to hear it’s working OK, if you have been using it for a while without problems it should be OK but best to back everything up as you have just to be certain.
Harry, if yours is working OK on an external monitor then the fault lies with the screen itself or the screen cable. Sometimes the cables become loose or the contacts get dirty and cleaning the contacts and reseating the cable sorts out the problem.
If it is the screen itself then I am afraid it is an expensive repair as screens are one of the most expensive items. -
lorraine .i watched a program on channel four a bout dealing with mishaps such as this …..strip them down as much as you can ……dab as much as you can with a rag …..never ever use a hair dryer on printed circuits …i note youve sorted it ….but its a good tip for future …ps another tip is stay off the wine
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