It’s good to pay attention and this is something I didn’t do. I most laptops the processor (cpu) is soldered directly to the motherboard but not in this case, it was mounted on a socket. This meant that I also had to remove the processor to make sure that the underside of it and the socket could be rinsed properly. |
 Now when everything is clean clean clean we need to dry it. Your first friend here is the centrifugal force. Simply hold the pieces and rotate your arms like a fool because that’s what you’re going to look like. Your second friend here is your mouth. Make sure you have a dry mouth (!) and blow inside the connectors (and in my case the processor socket) to force the last water out of them. If you have compressed air or air on can then you can use that of course, but be careful that the force of the air is not to strong. Then peg the parts to the washing line and leave them to dry for at lease 24 hours. On this picture you can also see the inside of the cooling heat sink. The pink square is the piece that attaches to the processor while the white is the one that attaches to one of the bridges. Can never remember which one it is but I believe it’s the north bridge that is the one that needs cooling. |
Exciting! Time to assemble the laptop again. One thing that I noticed when I put the processor back in its socket was that it (the socket) hadn’t had enough time to dry. On this picture Testing if everything works is best done with the AC adapter. This is with two reasons. The first is that the AC adapter can’t leave as much power as the battery can and the second is that if something goes wrong then you can unplug the power faster then if you need to remove the battery.  Don’t bend over the laptop when connecting the power as ‘you never know’! What if it blows up? Then you don’t want to have your face there. I ran my first test without the keyboard connected but you can of course connect this if you want to. When you are satisfied that it’s working then put everything back together and that’s about it. But what if it doesn’t work? As you’ve already seen the video I don’t have to tell you that this actually worked in the end. One thing that I found very surprising was that the speaker in the chassis (which I also cleaned) sounded normal. The fan made some strange noise for the first couple of minutes but after that it sounded ok. I guess that was because there as some moist inside it and that it dried up after these minutes. The key to success on doing this whole process is time. Clean the laptop as soon as possible so that nothing is allowed to dry up. If it already has then that’s how it is and you can still clean it but it’s definitely better to clean it while the liquid is liquid so to speak. And leave it to dry for as long as you can. If you can wait more then 24 hours then do so. It can never dry too much as I myself noticed. Good luck! |
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August 25th, 2005 at 19:06
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November 30th, 2006 at 17:18
This I dont get >.