Update:<div><br></div><div>I continued drying it for another week or so then plugged it in. It booted halfway through bios and just stopped so I removed all the removable parts again except the hard drive. It booted this time and ran very slowly. Started adding back the parts one at a time. Finally found the cd drive to be causing problems so i replaced it with a spare. Now the laptop has returned to full functionality except for occasional sticky keys and buttons.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Bossman</div><div> </div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 11:23 AM, derez <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:derez@packetforge.net">derez@packetforge.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 00:13 -0500, John Bos wrote:<br>
</div><div><div></div><div class="h5">> Wife spilled fruit juice in my Dell Inspiron E1405.<br>
> I removed CD drive, keyboard, HD etc.<br>
> Wiped everything out and let it dry for 2 days.<br>
> Reassembled partially.<br>
><br>
><br>
> When I power on i see a green led for about 5 seconds, No sounds,<br>
> clicks, HD noises, monitor flickers.... nothing.<br>
> Then the led goes out.<br>
><br>
><br>
> Any practical ideas?<br>
<br>
</div></div><div class="im">Sounds like you have done most of the easy and perhaps more, but<br>
ultimately you have to weigh your time spent dealing with it against<br>
buying another equivalent machine (or nicer machine for same money :) ).<br>
Troubleshooting sucks and you can waste a lot of time on it (as I have<br>
over the years). Not only is it your time today, but future time as well<br>
since will never have any idea what damage the juice did that could<br>
cause it to fail in the future. Basically, initial cost of time spent +<br>
cost of time spent dealing with problems in the future + cost of wife<br>
being upset for losing data and access is far higher than cost of<br>
another machine..<br>
<br>
( $(ti) + $(t(1+n)) + $(w:/) ) < $(another machine)<br>
<br>
Don't pick me apart on the calculation as it may not be academically<br>
accurate symbols but you guys get the idea ;)<br>
<br>
<br>
~d<br>
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