Recent content by Davi Rego

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    Water spilled on laptop. Laptop turns off after 10 seconds

    A combination of different factors causes the problem we face in this specific part of the brazilian coast. Anytime you drive by the beach, you can actually see the salt fog blown from the sea. It piles up as cristal flakes on hot surfaces such as videocard coolers and leaves a permanent moist...
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    Water spilled on laptop. Laptop turns off after 10 seconds

    I dont really agree. I've been doing that with my electronics for more then a decade. You just have to make sure you get it completely dry afterwards. I even do this to functioning electronic equipment. You see, I live near to the sea, in a very very salty coast. If I dont periodically wash off...
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    Water spilled on laptop. Laptop turns off after 10 seconds

    These guys are really bringing your hopes down. I dont know if I'll bring it up or further down with my story. The same thing happened to me 4 months ago! But instead of ice tea, I spilled BOILING HOT tee on the keyboard. The difference is that I immediately removed the powercord and battery and...
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    Solved! Laptop water spill, it works fine on external monitor, but no screen.

    Yeap. At least it's what windows 10 is telling me. It's saying that they are both on the Intel(R) HD Graphics 4600 I also play some games using the GeForce.
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    Solved! Laptop water spill, it works fine on external monitor, but no screen.

    Yes! The cable! Thanks for the suggestion! It was really a point that I had to double check and so I did since you mentioned it. The pins of cable the are really really tiny, so it's hard to check conductivity them all, but I did check some of them and they were fine. I was as careful as I could...
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    Solved! Laptop water spill, it works fine on external monitor, but no screen.

    Hi everyone, I spilled some water 4 months ago on my laptop keyboard. It went off of course. I took it apart and dyed it up with Isopropyl alcohol, changed the thermal paste and cleaned the dust out of it. Made it fresh again. It worked fine, and even better then before (since now it had...