Orange juice (with pulp!) in a laptop keyboard.

[Seth]

Ray recently posted about a similar issue. However I believe his suspect beverage was wine.

Anyway, yesterday I got a dell laptop that had some orange juice spilled onto the keyboard. The lappy would boot to the Dell screen and freeze with a continuous series of beeps. The beeps were caused by stuck keys.

Underneath the keyboard is a metal plate. The plate had very little OJ on it, and none of it reached the mobo. So, I let the keyboard soak in hot soapy water for two hours. I then rinsed it very well, blew it out, and let it sit in the sun for a couple of hours. The lappy now works perfectly.

With a little more care and distilled water, the same can be done with a mobo if needed.

[Terry Hanushek]

Seth

Good job

It sounds like your customer really lucked out this time - a few drops of OJ on the mobo could have made a paperweight out of the machine.

Terry

[Seth]

Thanks Terry.

I work on a lot of laptops, as many techs in my town refuse to work on them.

I've revived many dead lappy's by stripping them down and cleaning them out. Even a microscopic piece of metal (that can be found in dust), can short out a laptops motherboard.

[mylanta]

All the power to you. Mark me down as one who does not deal with them (I think my fingers are just too big!)

[mommalina]

All the power to you. Mark me down as one who does not deal with them (I think my fingers are just too big!)

Rich, it's an intelligent, honest, moral person who admits his limitations and doesn't risk hurting others. Good for you!

I once had a dentist who should have gone into another field. If he just touched your cheek, you could end up with a black-and-blue mark! During my first and only visit, he extracted a tooth. After that I could not sit in a dental chair even to have my teeth cleaned without shaking like a leaf.

Other dentists in the practice were great. Why they did not dump him, I don't know. The staff would smile knowingly when a patient politely asked to see another dentist for subsequent treatment.

Lina

[Seth]

Sheesh Lina, that guy should should give up dentistry and become a neuro surgeon.

[mommalina]

Sheesh Lina, that guy should should give up dentistry and become a neuro surgeon.

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Lina

[Seth]

His motto could be, "Frontal lobotomies for all!"

How do you presume he's still a dentist?

[Guest110]

I have all manner of creatures living in my keyboard...

[mommalina]

His motto could be, "Frontal lobotomies for all!"

How do you presume he's still a dentist?

Seth, that happened some 35-40 years ago.
Hopefully he found another profession. Anyway,
he should be retired by now. Thanks God!

Lina

[fleamailman]

Back to topic, how far is has the orrenge juice got into the laptop then? is it just the keyboard?

[Seth]

Back to topic, how far is has the orrenge juice got into the laptop then? is it just the keyboard?

FMM,

My original post explains all that:).

[fleamailman]

Yes your right, it is better to read the posts before trying to help,
thanks.