Hello everybody!
I'm new to this website so this is my first post, please forgive anything unfit to the forum customs.
Here is my problem: I was using a Samsung laptop NP530U4C bought in France this last summer. Unfortunately, I accidentally poured around half a mug of tea on the keyboard. Immediately when this happened, I shut it down pressing the power button for five seconds. I proceeded then opening it to dry it as I could. However, the laptop won't turn on again, unfortunately.
This is for the short version, now for the lengthy one: It was the first time I was opening this laptop so it took me a bit of time to figure out how to do it without getting the whole thing worse. I removed the hard drive and the RAM but then I realised there was a picture with some instructions apparently saying that I had to kill the battery by pressing a certain button with a needle before removing the RAM, which I had not done. This may sound a bit strange, I can take a picture of this if necessary.
Inside, I found little water on the integrate battery and the DVD reader but not much anywhere else, that is not on the motherboard on the bottom side. I could not access the top side of the motherboard because it was attached to the hull with "the ******** screw that won't go". Instead, I slipped some toilet paper (delicately) between the motherboard and the hull, and it went off dry. To be even more sure, I used a hair-dryer (on "cool") thinking it was a good idea (and read then that this was not). Then I removed the keys, dried what was left of the water, reassembled the whole thing and tested the computer... without success.
How it looks like: Now when I press the power button, there is no reaction at all for the first five seconds. Then the power LED lights on, the wi-fi LED blinks once, the fan starts and stops immediately, and the hard drive buzzes on. The screen remains blank, and that's all. Seems like my motherboard is dead. Now after some time, I managed to get the annoying screw off and so access the other side of the motherboard. There seems to be some strange traces around where water could have run. There is no trace of burn, no blown fuse, nothing suspicious, though.
So my question is: I am pretty sure that there is nothing to be done there. But I am a curious man and I want to know exactly why my motherboard is dead. That is, what part is unusable and what was it doing? Some websites on-line read about finding the short-cuts with a multimeter. Is there any kind specifically used in working with computers? Is there any trusted website for Samsung motherboards schematics? Are there thumb rules or producer conventions resulting in the different reactions a computer has when it's dead?
All help for an autodidactic man is appreciated!
I'm new to this website so this is my first post, please forgive anything unfit to the forum customs.
Here is my problem: I was using a Samsung laptop NP530U4C bought in France this last summer. Unfortunately, I accidentally poured around half a mug of tea on the keyboard. Immediately when this happened, I shut it down pressing the power button for five seconds. I proceeded then opening it to dry it as I could. However, the laptop won't turn on again, unfortunately.
This is for the short version, now for the lengthy one: It was the first time I was opening this laptop so it took me a bit of time to figure out how to do it without getting the whole thing worse. I removed the hard drive and the RAM but then I realised there was a picture with some instructions apparently saying that I had to kill the battery by pressing a certain button with a needle before removing the RAM, which I had not done. This may sound a bit strange, I can take a picture of this if necessary.
Inside, I found little water on the integrate battery and the DVD reader but not much anywhere else, that is not on the motherboard on the bottom side. I could not access the top side of the motherboard because it was attached to the hull with "the ******** screw that won't go". Instead, I slipped some toilet paper (delicately) between the motherboard and the hull, and it went off dry. To be even more sure, I used a hair-dryer (on "cool") thinking it was a good idea (and read then that this was not). Then I removed the keys, dried what was left of the water, reassembled the whole thing and tested the computer... without success.
How it looks like: Now when I press the power button, there is no reaction at all for the first five seconds. Then the power LED lights on, the wi-fi LED blinks once, the fan starts and stops immediately, and the hard drive buzzes on. The screen remains blank, and that's all. Seems like my motherboard is dead. Now after some time, I managed to get the annoying screw off and so access the other side of the motherboard. There seems to be some strange traces around where water could have run. There is no trace of burn, no blown fuse, nothing suspicious, though.
So my question is: I am pretty sure that there is nothing to be done there. But I am a curious man and I want to know exactly why my motherboard is dead. That is, what part is unusable and what was it doing? Some websites on-line read about finding the short-cuts with a multimeter. Is there any kind specifically used in working with computers? Is there any trusted website for Samsung motherboards schematics? Are there thumb rules or producer conventions resulting in the different reactions a computer has when it's dead?
All help for an autodidactic man is appreciated!
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