[Hrgeeks] Wife Juice

[derez]

On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 00:13 -0500, John Bos wrote:
> Wife spilled fruit juice in my Dell Inspiron E1405.
> I removed CD drive, keyboard, HD etc.
> Wiped everything out and let it dry for 2 days.
> Reassembled partially.
> 
> 
> When I power on i see a green led for about 5 seconds, No sounds,
> clicks, HD noises, monitor flickers.... nothing.
> Then the led goes out.
> 
> 
> Any practical ideas?

Sounds like you have done most of the easy and perhaps more, but
ultimately you have to weigh your time spent dealing with it against
buying another equivalent machine (or nicer machine for same money :) ).
Troubleshooting sucks and you can waste a lot of time on it (as I have
over the years). Not only is it your time today, but future time as well
since will never have any idea what damage the juice did that could
cause it to fail in the future. Basically, initial cost of time spent +
cost of time spent dealing with problems in the future + cost of wife
being upset for losing data and access is far higher than cost of
another machine..

( $(ti) + $(t(1+n)) + $(w:/) ) < $(another machine)

Don't pick me apart on the calculation as it may not be academically
accurate symbols but you guys get the idea ;)


~d