[Hrgeeks] Wife Juice

[John Bos]

Update:

I continued drying it for another week or so then plugged it in. It booted
halfway through bios and just stopped so I removed all the removable parts
again except the hard drive. It booted this time and ran very slowly.
Started adding back the parts one at a time. Finally found the cd drive to
be causing problems so i replaced it with a spare. Now the laptop
has returned to full functionality except for occasional sticky keys
and buttons.

Bossman


On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 11:23 AM, derez <derez at packetforge.net> wrote:

> 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
>
>
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