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Hi guys, need some help.

I lent my netbook to my girlfriend a few days ago while I formatted her laptop. Yesterday she spilt a glass of orange juice on the keypad. She turned it off and put it infront of a fan.

When she brought it back to me last night I booted it up and the screen is just blank white. I left it to boot and the window welcome tune still played but obviously I couldn't see anything.

Can anyone help? Recommend what's wrong? Or just advise how much it will be to fix?

Thanks so much.

Woman and technology....
 
get the service manual, take it apart, clean the OJ off properly and ensure there is no residue left behind, assemble it, power on and pray.

OJ will leave a horrible sticky residue behind, and it most likely got in all the wrong places depending on how the keyboard is sealed on the underside.

Alternative take it in for repairs.
 
Going to try take it apart and give it a clean. See what happens, haven't tried with another monitor though, I'm too scared to boot it up again!
 
Careful when you take it apart - there are screws and ribbon cables all over the place. If you tear one of those cables when you are really stuffed.

Changes are the OJ leaked down onto the motherboard - take it all apart and clean and dry it all off.
 
Just plugged it into a monitor, seems to work. What do you guys think could be causing this? What will need to be replaced?
 
Shnorkiller said:
Just plugged it into a monitor, seems to work. What do you guys think could be causing this? What will need to be replaced?
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get the service manual, it will give you the step by step instructions to take it apart, if you are not tech savy then rather take it in.

could just have gotten into the lcd's connector causing a short, but no real way to verify without checking.
 
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I took the back cover off, took a few screws out and then decided im not practical enough to remeber how to put it back together. I have manual following problems too, haha. I think i'll take it in, get a quote and decide from there. Thanks everyone!
 
I took the back cover off, took a few screws out and then decided im not practical enough to remeber how to put it back together. I have manual following problems too, haha. I think i'll take it in, get a quote and decide from there. Thanks everyone!
 
Whatever you do, don't delay with the following:
Remove battery and keep it separate from laptop. It will prevent corrosion due to electrolysis. It applies to any battery powered electronic equipment - i.e. cellphones.
 
As bizarre as it sounds remove the battery and put a few more glasses of clean water through it to rinse the OJ out.

Then wait for it to dry.

It might just live then. If it doesn't...you are going to have to start replacing components and if that's the case you might as well just buy a new one.
 
sajunky said:
Whatever you do, don't delay with the following:
Remove battery and keep it separate from laptop. It will prevent corrosion due to electrolysis. It applies to any battery powered electronic equipment - i.e. cellphones.
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Thanks, have kept the battery out since this whole situation started.
 
SauRoNZA said:
As bizarre as it sounds remove the battery and put a few more glasses of clean water through it to rinse the OJ out. Then wait for it to dry.
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That's a terrible idea. Why on earth do you think it would work?
 
SauRoNZA said:
As bizarre as it sounds remove the battery and put a few more glasses of clean water through it to rinse the OJ out.

Then wait for it to dry.

It might just live then. If it doesn't...you are going to have to start replacing components and if that's the case you might as well just buy a new one.
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NAG - Wesley said:
That's a terrible idea. Why on earth do you think it would work?
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would have to agree - considering also that our water is also not as clean as we think it is.

wil anycase take alot of soaking to remove OJ stickyness?

RIP laptop :P
 
Neo_X said:
would have to agree - considering also that our water is also not as clean as we think it is.

wil anycase take alot of soaking to remove OJ stickyness?

RIP laptop :P
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well if technically if there is no more power stored in the laptop(caps etc) u could leave it in a tank of water (just not the screen) and leave it to dry very well and it should work fine

But I don't recommend it:D
 
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