A week ago my father spilled cranberry juice all over his laptop.. ugh! We let it sit in rice for a few days. Today I have taken it apart and cleaned it with rubbing alcohol. When I put it back together, it still will not work - when I press the power button, the button lights up for 2 seconds and turns back off. What else could I try? Lol.. I have until tomorrow afternoon to try to fix it. =/ It is a Inspiron N4010. Thank you!
Oh, no! Cranberry Juice!
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NEWS! I drenched all of the components under the keyboard with rubbing alcohol and sat them out to dry over night. This morning I put the components in and started the laptop! It turned on, went through the Inspiron Page, went into the Diagnostics page, fan even started. It then shut off. Now when I press the Power button, the Power lights turns on and stays on but nothing else happens. I will keep trying. I guess if worst case scenario is getting rid of it, it doesn't matter what I do to it now.
linkin
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That might indicate overheating. The rubbing alcohol probably wore away all the thermal paste on the CPU and cooler. You'll need some more.
You should be able to see a copper plate or similar with a heatpipe connecting to another plate and then to an exhaust vent or similar. Unscrew that and take it off. Clean it up with the alcohol, apply the new paste to each chip that the block was cooling (just a rice grain sized amount, no more is necessary) and the screw on the blocks.
If you have any computer stores around, pick up some cheap thermal paste. Make sure it's something decent and not a generic silicon paste, as that will dry out over time. Arctic Silver 5 works well.
You should be able to see a copper plate or similar with a heatpipe connecting to another plate and then to an exhaust vent or similar. Unscrew that and take it off. Clean it up with the alcohol, apply the new paste to each chip that the block was cooling (just a rice grain sized amount, no more is necessary) and the screw on the blocks.
If you have any computer stores around, pick up some cheap thermal paste. Make sure it's something decent and not a generic silicon paste, as that will dry out over time. Arctic Silver 5 works well.
BlownFiveLiter
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Got my first laptop for free that way. Dell CPiA PII 400MHz, I think? Found a new motherboard/processor on eBay and swapped them at my kitchen table. Took about 2 hours and I spent a grand total of $40. At the time, it was a 3 year old laptop, so that's not too bad. Ran Windows 2000 well, for what it was.
