As a bit of self-punishment. I purchased a DOA VAIO. It's a VGN-N320E I think. The Dx was death due to spilt water. The price was right but now I want to resurrect it.
I noted some signs of water damage just inside the two USB ports and the mini firewire and headphone jacks. The coating on the board was bubbled and there was some signs of drying in a charged environment (white powdery residue), like the board cooked for a bit.
the person I bought it from thought that the water didn't damage the computer and kept using it. The AC adapter blew (doesn't work at all) but he said the computer kept working till the battery died. It was diagnosed at Best Buy as needing a new motherboard.
I used a universal laptop adapter to test it and took a reading at the power connection, so I know the board is getting 19.5v. I don't know if something in the Sony adapter communicates with the computer , making universal or generic adapters not able to work.
Secondly... and here's the real question all the way down here... Do you think that there is a way to get a water-shorted board working again? Do mobo analyzers, or by-mail chip replacement services really work? It's about $350 to replace the board with something known to be good. I can't see putting that much money into it, but $100 for a few new chips sounds like a reasonable plan.
Anyone used mobo analyzers or board repair services?
Thanks ya'll
I noted some signs of water damage just inside the two USB ports and the mini firewire and headphone jacks. The coating on the board was bubbled and there was some signs of drying in a charged environment (white powdery residue), like the board cooked for a bit.
the person I bought it from thought that the water didn't damage the computer and kept using it. The AC adapter blew (doesn't work at all) but he said the computer kept working till the battery died. It was diagnosed at Best Buy as needing a new motherboard.
I used a universal laptop adapter to test it and took a reading at the power connection, so I know the board is getting 19.5v. I don't know if something in the Sony adapter communicates with the computer , making universal or generic adapters not able to work.
Secondly... and here's the real question all the way down here... Do you think that there is a way to get a water-shorted board working again? Do mobo analyzers, or by-mail chip replacement services really work? It's about $350 to replace the board with something known to be good. I can't see putting that much money into it, but $100 for a few new chips sounds like a reasonable plan.
Anyone used mobo analyzers or board repair services?
Thanks ya'll
