Dell Inspiron Water Spill won't Turn On - Help!

Sorry to hear about your loss. As for your data, just pop your HDD into an external USB enclosure and copy the data over to your other external. Or perhaps you may even want to image it with Ghost or Acronis True Image.

fix water spills

I have saved some computers and items, keyboards etc in similar circumstances.
yes, unplugging them and taking battery out a very good idea.

the problem is usuly there is trapped water somewhere or other in some places. around some components.
so, first you can try to turn it upside down for a while, shake it gently about etc.
then possibly like put a vacum cleaner hose to openings. floppy drive hole etc. try to get some strong airflo in their to move it around, and it'll dry out.
next stepup. would be buy a can of compressed air, staples, office depot etc etc have it. and then empty the can everywhere. around all the keys in everyplace you can get the tiny tube.

best is if you find the directions too, and see how to at least partially disassembl it. i think the keyboard lifts off without too intense work. a coupl screws and popup some plastic thingy. so a bit of work looking thru your manual or google it. if you takeup keyboard, and do the can of air, or two, most likely it will work just fine again. from my limited experience. but water can sit for quite a while in some areas if spilled quite a bit in there, and not forced out e.g. by the compressed air, or at least vacuum hose.

brian

^Good advice, that.

Water that is trapped in tiny spaces takes ages to dry out. Something about the surface area exposed to the air.

Still, it's possible that the machine got fried when the spill occurred...just try the suggestions out--oh, and consider using a hair dryer--it's designed to dry stuff out.

I don't know if this makes a difference to the whole problem but was the computer on or off when you spilled?? To me it would make sense that you could possibly save it if there was no electricity running to the parts when it got wet, vs. it being on and then water all on the mobo and stuff, i dunno just a theory

yes usb encloses are great

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decent return policies, have used them sometimes
That said, I'll take the timeout to recommed two of their encloses i just got, ok, I'll just put their names, please take the time to find them on newegg.com website, that is reasonable huh?
17-145-374 EXECL|BYTECC 3.5U2|ME-350U2(V3)-BK 1 $24.99 $24.99
that is one of the two i recently got from them.
you need to have a tiny bit of computer knowledge and skills. not lots of instructions with them. you open the box, insert a dvd drive or hard drive, plug in the plugs, make sure the jumper on the back of the drive is in the 'master' spot, not slave or sometimes they dont work. and plug them into the usb port, plug in their external power supply. and you just created your own external drive cheap. i do recommend reading the reviews, as some of them have a habit of not recognizing certain drives, or windows doesnt just find the usb device when you plug it in etc.
i just got a small one that just say's 3.5" mobile drive, and 'smart drive' usb2.0 high speed on the side. think it is differnt than the exact model above. it has a nice aluminum small case. love it. had very few instructions with it. so if above your head get help or skip the idea.
brian

Sure thing! Well, you would want a 2.5 enclosure (like this one...)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817119210

...as 3.5 enclosures are for the bigger 3.5 drives used in desktop PCs. 2.5s are the smaller drives used in notebooks.

Just slap your notebook HDD in that enclosure, plug in the USB, and you are good to go!

ok mostly true... when the computer is on, you do have power through most circuits. But when u turn your lappy off, there is still power running through some circuits (eg. the power button, the WiFi tracker if you have it, and most importantly the battery). So it is possible to still fry parts of your laptop when its turned off.

oops... so sorry, just posted to a really old thread... (i used the link at the bottom...) my apologies again...