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| 711311 | 2008-10-10 16:45:00 | While working at my laptop on the kitchen table I knocked over a cup of coffee. Most went underneath where the cooling fan is, some over the keyboard. It stopped working instantly. The laptop is a Dell Inspiron 1150. What happens when coffee gets into the works and would it be repairable? |
tut (12033) | ||
| 711312 | 2008-10-10 18:22:00 | You turn it off immediately. Flip upside down so it can drain. Leave. Then take apart and clean out with isopropyl alcohol and hope it didn't fry anything when it first happened. If it has then its an insurance claim. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 711313 | 2008-10-10 19:55:00 | You turn it off immediately. Flip upside down so it can drain. Leave. Then take apart and clean out with isopropyl alcohol and hope it didn't fry anything when it first happened. If it has then its an insurance claim. I might be out of line here but the average person may do more damage taking a laptop apart than the coffee. Then he may not get insurance. |
Driftwood (5551) | ||
| 711314 | 2008-10-10 21:18:00 | Your not out of line Driftwod but I did take it apart, us electricians are always keen to play around with something we know nothing about. I didnt wash it out but did leave it for a week then tried it but absolutley nothing happened. Might be too late for iso now. I had hoped there might have been some sort of fuse or something. |
tut (12033) | ||
| 711315 | 2008-10-10 21:36:00 | Insurance? | Driftwood (5551) | ||
| 711316 | 2008-10-11 05:47:00 | Yep, insurance is the next step. I was wondering if I could recover files from the hard drive by putting it in a 2.4" external enclosure I have, assuming it is not ruined too. When I tried it I found the pins on the enclosure are differnt from the drive from the laptop. Is there some sort of adapter available? |
tut (12033) | ||
| 711317 | 2008-10-11 05:53:00 | I assume you mean 2.5" instead of 2.4". Your drive is probably IDE and your case is SATA. You can get an adapter here:www.trademe.co.nz Or, you can just get an IDE enclosure |
Blam (54) | ||
| 711318 | 2008-10-11 07:00:00 | The drive on that laptop has an adaptor on the end of it. You need to remove it - then the pins are the same. | jwil1 (65) | ||
| 711319 | 2008-10-11 08:38:00 | Liquid spilled on a PC surprisingly does not cause problems. It can easily be washed off (with the correct method) and then dried completely afterwards. It's when the PC is turned on at the same time then there can be actual damage, as the liquid can often cause short-circuits etc. At this point I think recovery of your data would be the first thing to do. However, afterwards you could try and recover the laptop also. The fact it's not starting even after you dried it could be that there is conductive residue somewhere causing problems. It may also be a fuse like you said, although most of those outside of the PSU section are usually the type that reset themselves on power down. Since you already opened it, you might as well try washing it (probably no hope of warranty or insurance now) Good advice can be found at www.badcaps.net But I imagine you'd have fun disassembling a laptop |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 711320 | 2008-10-12 00:47:00 | Cant remove anything from drive. All appears to be fixed unless it is deep in the hard drive slot. Disassembled it again and washed out with iso but no results. That was an interesting article on washing electronics. I will try for an adapter for the 2.5 drive. Is there also adapters for 3.5 drives too? I saw the adapter on Trademe but there was no indication it would work on 2.5 laptop drives Thanks all. |
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