[conspire] laptop that got pineapple juice in the keyboard

[Luke S Crawford]

You can speed drying time by using rubbing alcahol.  I periodically
remove my keyboard from my laptop and submurge it in rubbing 
alcahol for a few hours.   It dries quickly.  You can get a big 
thing of 99% pure alcahol at fry's for cheaper than you can get the 99%
stuff at the drugstore, so that is what I use.   

the same procedure should work for the rest of the laptop, though 
I would not submurge the hard drive, and yeah, dissassemble it first.   

Ross Bernheim <rossbernheim at speakeasy.net> writes:

> I agree with Bruce that disassembly is required. Remove the drive and
> recover any files you need.
> 
> Clean the the board with steam distilled water and a toothbrush. Be
> sure to rinse with more
> of the distilled water before leaving it to air dry. After it has air
> dried, put in a closed container with some
> rice for a day or two to remove any remaining moisture.
> 
> Re-assemble and see if it powers up as normal.
> 
> Good luck.
> 
> 
> 
> Ross
> 
> 
> On Jun 6,  02010, at 12:59 PM, bruce coston wrote:
> 
> > Get the drive out , recover file . Or abandon it and survive without
> > the file . You may want to use the goodness of extra pure water to
> > clean stuff , like the industry , but it's expensive . Only consider
> > the data recovery pro if truly desperate . Possibly sell the parts
> > online as it's hard to isolate the failure without a known good
> > machine for all part swapping . - good luck as I fear you may need
> > it - Bruce
> >
> > ,,...m: Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com>
> > Subject: [conspire] Juice in keyboard
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> > I am trying to decide what to do with a laptop that got pineapple
> > juice in the keyboard. It functioned with a few stuck keys for several
> > days, then stopped booting into Linux. Enough of the circuitry
> > functions so that the hard drive light comes on briefly when I turn it
> > on, and I can shut down normally with the power button. I don't know
> > whether it can be fixed, or whether I will have to get the hard drive
> > taken out and mounted elsewhere. I am open to questions and
> > knowledgeable suggestions. Jokes that are more funny than painful are
> > also acceptable.
> >
> > Almost all of my files are backed up, except for one that I turn out
> > to need as soon as possible. I have another computer with Linux....
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