Lap Top/Notebook Spilled Beer on keyboard....

[BAH HUMBBUG!]

Hey Hypsters,

Here's the deal, my friend has a compaq that his friend spilled beer on. He never tried to get it fixed and tried to power it on once, it started but he couldn't log on or something. He doesn't really remember.

Since then he got a macbook and his old notebook is just sitting around. He said if I could get it fixed he would sell it to me dirt cheap. I'm curious if anyone knows best case/worst case scenario what may be wrong with the notebook?

Or how much it could/would cost to fix it? I know this is fairly vague but just wondering if you guys or ladies have had any experience with this before?

I should know more about what the current status of the notebook is by tomorrow.

 

[black_dust]

Hey Hypsters,

Here's the deal, my friend has a compaq that his friend spilled beer on. He never tried to get it fixed and tried to power it on once, it started but he couldn't log on or something. He doesn't really remember.

Since then he got a macbook and his old notebook is just sitting around. He said if I could get it fixed he would sell it to me dirt cheap. I'm curious if anyone knows best case/worst case scenario what may be wrong with the notebook?

Or how much it could/would cost to fix it? I know this is fairly vague but just wondering if you guys or ladies have had any experience with this before?

I should know more about what the current status of the notebook is by tomorrow.

Depends on how much beer went on it, and im not too savy on the workings of a laptop keyboardm, but Desktop keyboards are pretty salvageable if you spill liquids on them. all you do is crack it open and dry the PCB inside. But seeing as laptop keys are right above all the major hardware....

Any chance you could just scope it out before buying? test the keys and what not? When my mate did it once when he pressed E, RT came up instead.... soon fixed it though.

 

[BAH HUMBBUG!]

Depends on how much beer went on it, and im not too savy on the workings of a laptop keyboardm, but Desktop keyboards are pretty salvageable if you spill liquids on them. all you do is crack it open and dry the PCB inside. But seeing as laptop keys are right above all the major hardware....

Any chance you could just scope it out before buying? test the keys and what not? When my mate did it once when he pressed E, RT came up instead.... soon fixed it though.

Well my friend is going to let me check it out but he brought it today and the battery is drained. He charged it but it either wasn't fully charged or died fast, but he said the it powers up but nothing is on the screen. He is willing to sell it to me for $20 though.

 

[black_dust]

$20? id buy that just to mess about with!

 

[BAH HUMBBUG!]

Well maybe I will. He owes me $50, so it's more like $70 but still can't complain.

 

[JTIZZLEVILLE]

I had a compaq and a similar thing happened to it. I spilled a whole cup of Dr. Pepper on my. It totally soaked the keyboad. I mean, DP was running out of my USB ports and my CDROM drive.

It still worked for a while. Then my keyboard stopped working but everything else seemed fine. then my hard drive finally crashed.

The point is....i still wonder if I could have saved it if I would have fixed it quick enough. Who knows...

 

[BAH HUMBBUG!]

I had a compaq and a similar thing happened to it. I spilled a whole cup of Dr. Pepper on my. It totally soaked the keyboad. I mean, DP was running out of my USB ports and my CDROM drive.

It still worked for a while. Then my keyboard stopped working but everything else seemed fine. then my hard drive finally crashed.

The point is....i still wonder if I could have saved it if I would have fixed it quick enough. Who knows...

Hmmm...well I have the computer now so I am going to take it in tomorrow to a shop around here somewhere and see what they say.

 

[Kritish]

He is willing to sell it to me for $20 though.

Wow, I'd buy that son of a ***** just cause.

 

[BAH HUMBBUG!]

Wow, I'd buy that son of a ***** just cause.

Sounds good, does anyone have any kind of rough idea what it might cost me to fix? I mean like $50-150? Or $200-$500? Obviously depending on what is wrong with it.

 

[Kritish]

Sounds good, does anyone have any kind of rough idea what it might cost me to fix? I mean like $50-150? Or $200-$500? Obviously depending on what is wrong with it.

I call that a hell of a deal.