Latitude D830 got soaked

[stevo1210]

Hey Everyone,

Haven't been back here in a long time since I've been busy with work and what not. Anyway, a colleague at work spilt juice all over her Latitude D830 laptop... and it doesn't work anymore. Basically when you press the power button, the power light comes up for two seconds like it's booting, then shuts off dead. I think it was on at the time of the spillage as well.
Anyway, I hate computers these days so I wasn't even bothered to pay any interest at the time of the spill.

Today she asked if I wanted it for a pack of cigarettes ($20 in money terms).

Now... this gets me a bit interested... only a bit. Reasons to ponder? I've thrown out (gave away actually) god know how many laptops in the past few weeks as part of my clean up around here, dragging one home makes me feel slightly bad. Second, $20 can get me some gas to go 60 miles or so.

So I was thinking... do you guys think this can be saved at all? Like if I took the whole thing apart, drenched it in my bath tub real good and dried it really good, will it most likely come back to life again?

Many years ago I had a Inspiron 4000 which had tea spilt onto it and left it out to dry and it worked again, but these newer laptops are a bit more complex than that I think?

Opinions please.

I guess I might sacrifice $20 for a little "fun time" project if you guys think it can be saved.

P.S. Has a brand new Dell Battery purchased 2 weeks ago before the spill.

[gerg]

Re: Latitude D830 got soaked

I repaired a laptop similar to this. An exchange student spilled a beer on a laptop I used rubbing alcohol and a toothbrush and scrubbed it down and it booted but it took a long time i had to pull every key from the keyboard also and scrub the switches because they were sticking because of beer.

[c_hegge]

Re: Latitude D830 got soaked

My Dad's D531 got wet. Thankfully, it didn't get on the motherboard or anywhere where it will affect it. I've never repaired one that was actually damaged by water or drinks before, though.

[Time2Retire]

Re: Latitude D830 got soaked

Last year I fixed one that had soda spilled on it. It shorted out the mobo, so I got a replacement mobo. I then found the LCD inverter was bad. Replacing that got it working again. I think it cost me around $250 to fix it, and I gave it to my sister.

It may have been possible to fix the mobo, as a small fuse of some sort blew. When it blew it did damage the board, and I am not that good with fixing that tiny stuff.