Solve : Wet Laptop Computer?

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Answer» I have a Dell Inspirion 1100 that was in a house that was flooded. It was under 3" of water for 24 hours. I have opened it up and removed drives and anything that I could easily remove. Then I left the case split apart along with the removed drives in the CLOTHES dryer on a STATIONARY support. I ran it through eight 20 minutes air-only cycles. Then I left it on the work bench for three days. Put it all back together last night, plugged it in, let the battery charge for 4-hours and tried to fire it up. The lights come on and the hard drive will start up for 3 to 5 seconds. Nothing appears on the the screen during that time. Is there anything else that I can do? Usually any pc will go bad if it comes in contact with h2o. I surprised that it still works some what.Quote from: deereboy13 on March 14, 2008, 10:47:36 AM Is there anything else that I can do? Check your insurance. A brief splash of fresh water might be recoverable from, but 24 hrs immersion in flood water, I think not. Thanks, but no luck. The computer is actually my step-son's computer and he was out of town. He lives on the Rock River and an ice jam pushed to the water to an all time record flood level. Since it's flood related, regular HOME owners insurance doesn't cover it. if nothing is showing up at all except possibly a white blinking cursor in the tor left corner i would say its the motherboard if there is no cursor or anything the screen is probably dead seeing as LCD screens don't react well with water. The hard drive may be bad as well due to the tiny ventilation hole.See if its still under warrenty. They mite fix it but I'm not sure how far it would cover.They most likely won't. Basic warranties only cover defective hardware not damage you or anything else cause the computer.I was think that, but I wasnt sure if it would cover it or not. Sorry Quote from: Betaa on March 16, 2008, 05:16:14 AM LCD screens don't react well with water. The hard drive may be bad as well due to the tiny ventilation hole. Those are 2 very good points. I once saw a photo of an expensive LCD TV that was ruined because the owner had sprayed the front with a cleaning fluid called Windex (I think) and it had crept in between the layers of the display and been drawn up by capillary action and was there permanently. Folks, if you have to clean an LCD screen, use screenwipes or put a small amount of suitable CLEANER on a cloth.Thanks everyone. You are all telling me pretty much what I expected to hear. That, it was probably a loss. I have a friend that works on computers and he is going to play with it and see what is and isn't salvageable. Thanks again for the comments.

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I have a Dell Inspirion 1100 that was in a house that was flooded. It was under 3" of water for 24 hours. I have opened it up and removed drives and anything that I could easily remove. Then I left the case split apart along with the removed drives in the CLOTHES dryer on a STATIONARY support. I ran it through eight 20 minutes air-only cycles. Then I left it on the work bench for three days. Put it all back together last night, plugged it in, let the battery charge for 4-hours and tried to fire it up. The lights come on and the hard drive will start up for 3 to 5 seconds. Nothing appears on the the screen during that time. Is there anything else that I can do? Usually any pc will go bad if it comes in contact with h2o. I surprised that it still works some what.Quote from: deereboy13 on March 14, 2008, 10:47:36 AM

Is there anything else that I can do?

Check your insurance. A brief splash of fresh water might be recoverable from, but 24 hrs immersion in flood water, I think not.
Thanks, but no luck. The computer is actually my step-son's computer and he was out of town. He lives on the Rock River and an ice jam pushed to the water to an all time record flood level. Since it's flood related, regular HOME owners insurance doesn't cover it. if nothing is showing up at all except possibly a white blinking cursor in the tor left corner i would say its the motherboard if there is no cursor or anything the screen is probably dead seeing as LCD screens don't react well with water. The hard drive may be bad as well due to the tiny ventilation hole.See if its still under warrenty. They mite fix it but I'm not sure how far it would cover.They most likely won't.
Basic warranties only cover defective hardware not damage you or anything else cause the computer.I was think that, but I wasnt sure if it would cover it or not. Sorry Quote from: Betaa on March 16, 2008, 05:16:14 AM

LCD screens don't react well with water. The hard drive may be bad as well due to the tiny ventilation hole.

Those are 2 very good points. I once saw a photo of an expensive LCD TV that was ruined because the owner had sprayed the front with a cleaning fluid called Windex (I think) and it had crept in between the layers of the display and been drawn up by capillary action and was there permanently.

Folks, if you have to clean an LCD screen, use screenwipes or put a small amount of suitable CLEANER on a cloth.Thanks everyone. You are all telling me pretty much what I expected to hear. That, it was probably a loss. I have a friend that works on computers and he is going to play with it and see what is and isn't salvageable. Thanks again for the comments.

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