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I spilled water on my notebook!!!

post #1 of 21
6/4/08 at 8:15pm
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The nightmare of all nightmares. I quickly turned it over and tried to blot the water up with tissue..but half an hour later it would not work. When I turn it on I get nothing on the screen. There is the green power light on indicating that it is receiving power from the adapter but the adapter is unusually cool. When I turn it on the dvd drive (which has a disk in it) powers up..but nothing more happens.

What can I do? What is the most likely thing that has gone wrong?
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post #2 of 21
6/5/08 at 2:17am
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What can I do? What is the most likely thing that has gone wrong?
You. Should have let it to dry a couple of days or use something to blow it dry. Water has crept into some tight spot and probably shorted something, perhaps blowing a component or several of them.
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post #3 of 21
6/6/08 at 4:59am
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So...I am on a trip for the weekend. When I go home what should I do? Can a tech trouble shoot reliably the problem?
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post #4 of 21
6/6/08 at 4:42pm
do as zipperi mentioned while u r away, put the comp upside down next to a heater and hope that it would work out. if not, then u r looking at a very expensive paperweight

cheers ...
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post #5 of 21
6/9/08 at 2:25am
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I just started my computer today . It seems to be working well with one major problem. There is no video. When i start the computer after the normal 2 minute boot time I hear the windows "song", if I put a cd in the dvd player It will start up and do soething with it..problem is I can't see what it is doing. Is there a fuse in the video circuit somewhere? Is the video card an integral part of the motherboard? I will take it into a shop this week but I would like to have as much info up front as possible to help me make a decision. I am guessing that they are going to say that it is "probably" xyz and if they replace it it will "probably" work....for a while.

Any thoughts? The computer is fine for my needs although I wish it weren't so heavy and had longer battery life.
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post #6 of 21
6/9/08 at 7:12am
plug in an external monitor and see if u have some "screen". if u do, issue probably lies with a bad inverter (cheap & easy to replace)

cheers ...
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post #7 of 21
6/17/08 at 1:43am
lol fuse...yeah right...you made a classic mistake of not waiting overnight before turning it back on and shorted something out. water doesn't kill components magically, running electricity through it and jumpering connections together that weren't meant to be jumpered does.
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post #8 of 21
6/30/08 at 11:04am
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I just got my computer back from the shop. It cost me about $50 to get it fixed. Something on the video card shorted. Fortunately I live in China and they do component level repair here without charing an arm and a leg. So far it seems to be working fine
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post #9 of 21
7/2/08 at 12:05am
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I just got my computer back from the shop. It cost me about $50 to get it fixed. Something on the video card shorted. Fortunately I live in China and they do component level repair here without charing an arm and a leg. So far it seems to be working fine
That was a good break! It sure could have been a lot worse! In general, as mentioned, if you spill any liquid into the notebook, you do not want to even try running any current through it unti it has been thoroughly dried out.

Glad to hear that it turned out to be not so bad, though.
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post #10 of 21
7/2/08 at 3:45am
Hey guys Hows it going im new here, i tried searching but no solution, similar thing happen to me but with orange juice i shut down the comp. waited a couple days the comp works perfect except the END button get stuck on not physically but internally is there anything i can do b/x when ever i put the comp. into sleep it will keep turning on or when im in a thread it will go all the way down
Thanks in advance
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post #11 of 21
7/2/08 at 2:40pm
if liquid makes it onto a component, then it doesnt matter if you turn it upside down and put a heater under it.... the damage has been done. The chip will develop corrosion. You best bet is buying some safe board cleaner and then taking the unit apart and cleaning the board up. You may still be ok. I have seen some boards that all I did was clean off the liquid and it worked fine after that.
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post #12 of 21
7/7/08 at 6:19am
I know it doesn't really contribute much, but a chinese repair probably isn't going to last very long judging by the kind of shoddy products they send over the pond.
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post #13 of 21
7/7/08 at 6:36am
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I know it doesn't really contribute much, but a chinese repair probably isn't going to last very long judging by the kind of shoddy products they send over the pond.
i hope that we are not going to start a flaming discussion about bad/good products based on a country of origin here. NBF has a OffTopic section for it.

but my personal 2 u.s. cents is this:
. there is such thing as product QA
. the importers are responsible for the final say in what products are coming in and to be offered to the public
. Lenovo machines are chinese manufactured, who can say that they are shoddy? back to previous point - QA (quality assurance) management.

cheers ...
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post #14 of 21
7/12/08 at 12:25pm
This is now a month later---you may have solved your problem by now--but just in case---How much water? Apparently some got into the circuitry and shorted something. Did you allow time to dry out and see if it recovers? You don't specify the make or model, but see if there is a reset button somewhere. Contact the manufacturer's tech support to see what they suggest you do first.
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post #15 of 21
7/12/08 at 12:30pm
Congratulations on getting it repaired.
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post #16 of 21
7/13/08 at 1:25pm
One thing I have seen that is pretty neat is some new Lenovo's have a type of drain built into it in case of a liquid spill
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post #17 of 21
7/21/08 at 10:36am
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One thing I have seen that is pretty neat is some new Lenovo's have a type of drain built into it in case of a liquid spill
now, that is only good if the liquid is not already being "absorbed" into the eletrical circuits, right?

cheers ...
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post #18 of 21
7/21/08 at 10:48am
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I know it doesn't really contribute much, but a chinese repair probably isn't going to last very long judging by the kind of shoddy products they send over the pond.
Their cars seem to be of much higher quality then ours
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post #19 of 21
7/21/08 at 5:47pm
What are you talking about. Their cars are horrible when it comes to crash protection (if they even make a car that isn't a couterfeit of a better engineered non-chinese counterpart):

http://www.burlappcars.com/2007/06/c...rash-test.html

Notice how the whole driver's cage collapses?!? Yeah that = instant death. The other crash test results I've seen show the hood not crumpling as it should and sliding into the cockpit which causes decapitation of the front seat passengers. Their level of safety is right up there with cars from the 1950s in the US. Of course I'm betting it's because their incompetent govt. has 0 regulation on it....not to mention smog emissions.
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post #20 of 21
7/21/08 at 6:15pm
lets keep the discussions on topic please. if you want to debate the relative quality of products from various countries please take it to off topic.
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