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Posted by Barry Watzman on February 1, 2006, 10:24 am
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I think that there is a chance that it's just not dried out completely.
I'd leave it on, as the heat generated internally will probably do
more for it than anything else you could do. It may take a long time to
dry out completely.
nick_rc@hotmail.com wrote:
> One of my less coordinated colleagues managed to spill some "water"
> over a Dell Latutude D600. I followed the usual procedures to dry the
> thing out (a few days in my airing cupboard - that's a small cuboard
> housing the water heater where you can dry clothes for anyone reading
> this who's not from the UK!) and it worked. Great I thought but when I
> tried the laptop a day or so later, nothing. So I put it back in the
> airing cupboard overnight and the next day it worked again but after
> switching it off for a few hours it would not restart (absolutely
> nothing). To cut to the chase the laptop will start up when it's warm
> (and will then run for days with no problem) but if you let it cool
> down then no joy.
>
> I have taken it apart and dried the components individually and the
> reason I said "water" at the begninning is that there seems to be some
> sort of residue on some of the components (I suspect Coke!). I managed
> to clean much of this off using solvents but it doesn't seem to have
> made any difference.
>
> Any ideas which component(s) is likely to be causing the problem or
> should I just give up and use it for spares?
>
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