Alrighty, so my fiancé’s stupid cat (And I say that affectionately...) spazed out and knocked over a glass of iced tea onto my laptop keyboard a week ago. It immediately shut itself off and I unplugged everything and let it dry... I even went as far as taking all the peripherals out (HD, CD-ROM...etc.) and didn't touch it. Go to turn it back on, and the fan starts up, CD-ROM clicks, and then nothing. It won't boot up. The lights come on, but nobody's home. For a while the 3 green keyboard lights came on and stayed on, but they won't even do that now.
Did the cat (Now known as, s**thead...) manage to fry my motherboard? Everything I have looked up and tried to find says so. I'm very worried it's the hard drive because I didn't hear anything from the hard drive when turning on the power, and dummy me didn't transfer the things I was working on to my storage drive before the crash.
As far as data retrieval, my sister had a savvy data recovery guru for a computer teacher last semester and we've given it over to him to grab all the stuff off the HD... That is, if it hasn't been fried somehow as I am worried it is because when I took out the HD there was a bit of tea on the bottom of the drive. My fiancé tells me that the HD should be ok because it's completely sealed... But I worry.
It is a secondhand(I wouldn't ever buy a Dell laptop myself...) Dell Inspiron 5100 running XP if that helps.
And thanks in advance for any insight, help, squashing of my worries!!!
or go to any electronics store and ask for "contact parts cleaner" or "de-oxidization spray". Follow directions on label for spraying and cleaning your motherboard. Let dry for amount of time that's on label and you should be ok.
Your hard drive unfortunately is not completely sealed. There's still an external circuit board that is easily shorted when liquids are spilled on it, however, the way that the dells have their hard drives underneath the keyboard and usually underneath the pcmcia slot I think you're ok.
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