[Ham-Computers] Help with HP laptop

[johngadd at comcast.net]

I agree BUT  first remove the internal battery, remove the laptop battery, remove the AC connector    and then turn the laptop up with the keyboard down and out. Let the liquid run downhill and to a corner. Use a bounty and mop it up and THEN follow with the wash clean instructions  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: WA5CAB at cs.com 
To: ham-computers at mailman.qth.net 
Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2010 10:58:53 PM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain 
Subject: Re: [Ham-Computers] Help with HP laptop 

I agree with Herb.  I've had two experiences with keyboards with conductive 
liquid spilled into them where after a fresh water washdown and drying they 
were returned to service.  Neither were laptop keyboards but unless in your 
case the liquid got across lands carrying 120 VAC I don't see that as 
making any difference.  Just more trouble to disassemble and wash down. 

In a message dated 3/21/2010 10:40:28 PM Central Standard Time, 
hgerhardt at wavecable.com writes: 
> If it was mine, I would open it up and visually inspect the innards.   
> Then I 
> would wash the areas where the liquid had spilled and dried with distilled 
> water.  I would make sure there was no visible dried stuff anywhere.  Once 
> cleaned, I would thoroughly dry all the components.  You can use many 
> things 
> to dry it with, from a food dehydrator to a hair drier...... 
> 
> Once cleaned and completely dry, I would reassemble all the pieces and try 
> to power it up.  I would expect it to power up again..... 
> 
> Have had a similar thing happen to one of my hand held ham radios and it 
> worked just fine after washing it, cleaning it and drying it.  Might not 
> work but what do you have to lose. 
> 
> >From my experience with modern low voltage electronics, shorting things 
> out 
> with a liquid or other substance, generally does not burn out any 
> components.  Instead as the liquid dries, it bridges the traces on the 
> printed circuit boards creating shorts till the substance is 
> cleaned/removed. 
> 
> If that does not work, I would install the hard drive into another laptop 
> that uses the same hard drive and then try to write the contents to an 
> external hard drive.  My laptop has two separate hard drives in it and 
> that 
> would be the ideal way of trying to retrieve the data.  Maybe you can find 
> someone in your area with a dual hard drive laptop that uses the same hard 
> drives or if your friend has not bought a replacement yet, maybe he can 
> buy 
> one with dual hard drives or at least a hard drive expansion slot. 
> 
> Good luck, 
> 
> 

Robert & Susan Downs - Houston 
wa5cab dot com (Web Store) 
MVPA 9480 
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