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liquid on my 9300

post #1 of 10
11/22/06 at 10:02pm
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came home today to find my wife cleaning off my 9300, apparently my daughter hosed it down pretty good with bleach spray. So it wasnt dumped in fluid but apparently enough to kill it. It was on when my wife was wiping it off, I turned it off, turned it back on and it started to load windows and stopped. I put it in the closet and now it turns on for about 2 seconds and turns off. I'm out of warranty what are my options? Local repair shop for estimate, Dell for estimate or dumpster?
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post #2 of 10
11/22/06 at 10:56pm
Sorry to hear man I guess in some cases it just pays to buy and extend your warranty
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post #3 of 10
11/23/06 at 12:26am
Open it up and let it dry out for a day or two

You may get lucky

Otherwise probably a new MB

Check places like Ebay, ir the For sale area here on these forums
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post #4 of 10
11/23/06 at 1:45pm
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well it booted to desktop today, wierd thing is its found new hardware. so far calling it "base system device" and windows cant figure out what it is. Clock is also 5 hours off.
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post #5 of 10
11/23/06 at 1:58pm
well thats a good sign in some ways, at least its booting up
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post #6 of 10
11/24/06 at 1:26am
Sounds to me like fluid went through the keyboard and trickled down the cmos battery wires where a droplet shorted out the battery at the mobo.
It's great that your laptop has recovered, but what makes me nervous for you is that bleach does not fare too well with copper, zinc, tin, etc, and even your silver based mobo map has these ingrediants in it's alloy. Most certainly the solder does, and those points are most likely to come into contact with the caustic chemical.
Microcrystals may grow like a fuzz on them and eventually com into contact with one another shorting circuitry, and even though the resistance may be high, it's still like adding a resistor where it doesn't belong.

I do not have an easy answer as to how to remedy this. I myself would rip the whole thing apart and thoroughly clean every bit with cotton swabs and distilled water. But even then, it would be a long time before I would trust it 100% after that enough not to back up everything you care about on that hard drive.

I'm not sure, but securing your internet connection and enable file sharing will keep you fairly safe from preditors but allow you to be able to access your data on that hdd if you ever need to remove it and read it on another computer via enclosure.
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post #7 of 10
11/24/06 at 11:30am
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Opening it up does not intimidate me since I build my own desktops but I couldnt figure out how to get the 9300 apart, I took out every screw, the dvd drive and the battery. The black part of the case would then almost seperate but there was still something there holding it together that I couldnt figure out and instead of yanking on it and possibly breaking something I just left it.
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post #8 of 10
11/24/06 at 11:59am
You have to take off the Screen hinge cover, The screen (4 screws), and Keyboard (two screws). Then there are 7 screws holding the palmrest down. That is what is keeping it from comming apart.

http://support.dell.com/support/edoc...0/sm/index.htm
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post #9 of 10
11/24/06 at 10:51pm
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thanks for the link, i got it all apart and cleaned out all the bleach crust i found. put it all back together and even cleaned out some dust jammed into the heatsink. Booted up and now theres is no missing hardware. And to think the 9300 made it to Iraq and back as my carry on but a few months home with the kids...

oops spoke too soon, no sound, no sound card listed. I tried simply reinstalling the driver but it says theres no device to update. Could I have left something unplugged to cause this?
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post #10 of 10
11/25/06 at 3:54am
I used to have problem with sound card too , when i spilled a big cup of water as big as a glass of beer at the bar on my lappy.

I luckily recovered after open it up . let it dry.. boot up and it didn't work, open it up a gain and boot... for like 4 or 5 times.. the only thing that does not work is touch pad and it's really annoying when it moves the curors everywhere with out any touch. So i have to cut the wire of touch pad and use USB mouse.

I used a blow hair dry to dry some part of it under low heat.

I hope you can fix it. It's just a luck if it recovers after the fluid spilled on it.
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