[Hrgeeks] Wife Juice

[remad]

Depending on the model keyboards can be had pretty cheap on ebay.
Most people smash the screens and part them out.  Could be a quick and
easy fix.

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 9:57 AM, John Bos <jbos at pobox.com> wrote:
> 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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