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.
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.
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