On Wednesday 14 March 2007 10:27:53 pm Bob La Quey wrote: > It is that kind of story. > > First the bad news. I spilled a glass of wine on my > laptop ... the damn thing's lights went out :( > > Oh clumsy me! > > The good news. While not completely backed up > nonetheless I had sent quite a few key files as attachments > to email messages for people I am working with. All of > this using Goggle's GMail. So ... The attachments, hence > the documents are stored on GMail's servers. > > Now I may (or may not) be able to recover the laptop. > But most of the critical stuff is on GMail. > > I see this as a story that becomes apocryphal. Storing on > GMail certainly has it's problems (why trust Google?). But > given the fact that I am often stretched to thin and do not > do proper backups Google may be the lesser of evils. > > I would BTW like advice on the best way to recover my > laptop. I did immediate since it with water and did my best > to blow away any excess. I shall let it dry overnight then > see what happens. Suggestions please. > > Stumbling onward, > > BobLQ
Bob- pull the laptop keyboard ( usually from the top. remove the plate just below the screen - remove the screws, carefully unplug the cable - google for an exploded view or manual for your model) wash the keyboard liberally with distilled water, gently air hose and allow to sun dry or indirect heat source, radiated heat as opposed to hair dryer. reassemble and test. I've had *great* success fixing latop keyboards that had coke, tea with sugar, lemonade and yes, wine, spilled on them. you may have to go deeper to remove all the wine from the MB, but again, i've had great success even cleaning a sticky DVD player using distilled water. the trick is to really rinse it well to remove the dust / sugars that actually will cause the shorting out. C. -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
