Posted: 1/23/2005 11:48:07 PM EDT
My 4 year old was walking through my bedroom and knocked over my drink. I had set it on the rail at the end of the bed while I was folding clothes. Earlier, I had been laying on the bed, near the end, surfing on her wireless laptop. Can you guess where the drink spilled? Thats right, in her 2 thousand dollar laptop. Laptop died and smelled a little of burnt electronics. Now, it is flatlined. She is currently at work. I told her hoping she would calm down by the time she gets home in a few hours. I said I was sorry a thousand times. Its not going to help. She is pissed. I will never be able to forget this or live this down no matter what. Its gonna be a bitch to replace since I just got through building my no ban. 
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Sounds to me like she just got a new "no-ban" 
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Since you reference no other "she" than the 4 year old, it sounds as if the laptop belongs to her. Knowing that 4 year olds don't work, I'm going to assume there's a lady in your life and you just toasted her laptop. Take it apart, break down the components and hit them with some tuner cleaner and compressed air, then try to fire it back up. Can't hurt at this point and might actually work. If you can find the identical same model, you can always just swap the hard drive and be right where you were before. I bought a laptop off ebay used just like the one I killed, and did this and it was back to like before in less than a half an hour. |
Hafl an hour? Must have been that ebay "Buy It Right Fucking Now" option. |
with optional "Beam me down Scotty" shipping method! |
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I spilled a Sobe into my laptop. I unplugged it and jumped in the shower with it, rinsing it until the water ran clear. Once that happened, I went to the store and bought a bunch of rubbing alcohol. I took the laptop apart and washed everything down with alcohol. I dried everything and re-assembled - good as new.  Worked for a year afterwards. |
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Damn, that's gotta suck! Maybe you can sell a couple of guns to a friend, for him to sell back to you at a later date. That way you can pay for her new laptop (same model or better!), since it was your fault for putting a drink next to the damn thing. YOU are going to have to suffer until you can get enough money to buy your guns back. I'd get that laptop ASAP if I were you. BTW, she's probably just so pissed because you lost all her porn that took ages to collect. Oh, and her online boyfriends that she'll never be able to talk to again! Hahaha 
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Beat me to it. She probably lost all his pictures, including the ones of them together...
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| My wife spilled some wine in her laptop and fried the motherboard. (Still looking for a Dell 1150 motherboard!) If you need the data off of the HD, get an external 3.5 USB HD enclosure and you can transfer you data from the old drive to another computer. Uscrew the housing to get the drive itself out, and the adapter that plugs into the laptop comes off so it's a standard plug. |
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There's a very good chance you can save it. The smell you smell isn't componets frying but the drink. Most quality laptops are sealed to a great degree. Sparks and that stuff is from the movies. Your average laptop consumes maybe 18 volts. Laptops/notebooks are designed for issues like this. The best thing you can do is use distilled water and warm (warm, not hot!) air from a from a hairdryer. If your clothes dryer has one of those shelves in it to dry shoes, wrap the laptop in a pillow case. set it on the lowest setting and run until dry. Don't put the laptop in a tumble type dryer...lol. The pillow case will keep the dust down and trap the lint. Using a hairdryer has some risk since you are blowing dust into the laptop. I gather nothing touched the LCD screen? LCD's don't really enjoy heat or water. Hard drives are completly sealed from the elements. You never take a hard drive apart. I've done this with two laptops. An IBM and a NEC. One drank some Pepsi and the other hot coco. Both came back to life and the NEC is still working today. |
