laptop + tea = ?

capriboy1978 · 14 Jan 2010 at 16:18

oops.

The inevitable has happened and a guest has just spilt tea on my hp lappy. It was only a splash and landed on the touch pad area. This was quickly wiped off and the machine held upside down and turned off / batt removed.

I've stripped it down and a small amount of tea has seeped through the touchopad onto a surface mount chip underneath which i've removed with blotting paper and left the chassis disassembled to air. i can't strip the touch pad out as the top cover of the laptop has 2 security screws i can't remove. there's lots of bend in the cover so i've propped it open.

Anyone have any similiar experience/advice they could share? don't fancy shelling out for a new one and it's too damn cold in the office at this time of year to go use my i7 rig every time i need to send a msg.

Ta

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capriboy1978 · 14 Jan 2010 at 19:51

Hi Jon,

thanks have run out of iso so used some tim cleaner instead - the only tea was on the chip under the touchpad. Security screws look like + with a very large head and extremely shallow. Nothing I have will touch them and I cba to machine something to do it - it'll have to do!

First time i've stgripped it this far and it wasn't too difficult so not a bad use of my time.

capriboy1978 · 15 Jan 2010 at 14:06

yup.

tosh helpfully no. the screw holes, 10, 5 and 3 which appear to be the lenght of thread. Put it back together and amazingly I donb't have any left over. Which is a first and must be bad. Borrowed a dehumidifier last night and ran it in a sealed system with the laptop for a few hours. Will power her up tomorrow and cross me fingers.

capriboy1978 · 18 Jan 2010 at 19:52

it was very sweet tea, my fallback when out of full fat coke. Using the laptop now, all good except ocassionally theres a noise like a fan catching / arcing - if i lift it off my knee it stops and starts again when put back for a little while. For the life of me I can't replicate it pressing on the casing anywhere even when it's beem doing it and I lift it up.

Hasn't done it today, yet which must be a good thing

Will just keep using it and see what happens!