My Reply follows quote. On 05/06/2004 11:09 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Recently my Wallstreet was attacked by a glass of water. I took it apart and there didn't seem to be any water inside the machine....but of course, now she's dead (and I'm so depressed). If I plug it in it tries to start up, whiring while the green power light goes on...but I don't think the hard drive even starts spinning and then it shuts back down. In this process the screen doesn't light up and I have to wait a couple of hours for this to happen again (it won't start with the startup button). So the process (just to repeat) goes like this.
1. Empty battery bays. Insert power cord. 2. Startup light comes on, quick whirring sound for 2-3 second. 3. Sound stops, light goes off, and the machine is dead. 4. Repeat in an hour with same results.
It doesn't seem to me like the entire machine is shot and with the wide array of parts on ebay I'm hoping someone could give me an idea on what this might be....any ideas from the Wallstreet family?--------- If you are lucky, and your water is soft, you may be able to revive the machine by THOROUGHLY drying in out. As a minimum, I would remove the keyboard, hard drive, processor card and disconnect as many of the ribbon cable connectors as I could reach without disassembling the computer and let it air dry for a day or so.
I suspect that water has gotten into some of the connectors and is causing faulty circuits. I suppose you could use a hair dryer on it after you have done the disconnections to speed things up, just don't over heat things!
Also try washing the parts in 90% iso-propyl alcohol. This should flush out the water. Then let them dry using a mild heat source. A space heater on it's lowest power setting placed far enough away to avoid over-heating things will do.
Also try disconnecting everything you can and attempt to boot. Take out the second memory card (if any), the HD and it's cable. Pull the battery. Also do a power manager reset.
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Clark Martin
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