Re: Water Damage

2002-12-31 Thread Rob O'Donnell
At 22:24 30/12/2002 -0800, Doug Hardie wrote: The one server that I have responsibility for (mailserver running FreeBSD 4.6) took awhile to get rewired properly. When it was yanked out, some of the internal cables were disconnected. Had to find the motherboard book to figure out how to set

Re: Water Damage

2002-12-31 Thread Chuck Swiger
Jim Durham wrote: [ ... ] That's an excellent idea because the alcohol will absorb the water (I believe the correct term is that water is misable in alcohol), so when the alcohol evaporates it takes the water with it. Yes, water and alcohol are misable in any proportions, but there's slightly

Re: Water Damage

2002-12-31 Thread Doug Hardie
On Tuesday, Dec 31, 2002, at 02:32 US/Pacific, Rob O'Donnell wrote: If it's a PS/2 type keyboard connector (small plug) there is a plastic pin that often gets broken off and left in the socket if connectors are pulled out violently, blocking a new keyboard being inserted. (Seen it often with

Re: Water Damage

2002-12-31 Thread Cliff Sarginson
Drink it. Water and alcohol have quite different somatic effects. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: Water Damage

2002-12-31 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 01:22:37PM -0800, Doug Hardie wrote: On Tuesday, Dec 31, 2002, at 02:32 US/Pacific, Rob O'Donnell wrote: If it's a PS/2 type keyboard connector (small plug) there is a plastic pin that often gets broken off and left in the socket if connectors are pulled out

Re: Water Damage

2002-12-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 12:07:41PM -0800, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jim Durham wrote: [ ... ] That's an excellent idea because the alcohol will absorb the water (I believe the correct term is that water is misable in alcohol), so when the

Re: Water Damage

2002-12-31 Thread Cliff Sarginson
Listen. I have a friend, an electronic genius. He, one night dunked his incredibly expensive, state of the art. mobile phone in a glass of Baileys Irish Cream Whiskey, The next day he washed it in distilled water. It works again. The only moronic thing about him is that he uses a mobile phone.

Re: Water Damage

2002-12-30 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
I have carefully dried out all the units. You may want to use some distilled water, or very clean water, if there is any visible residue/chalk/salt on the boards. What I normally do with WiFi equipment which got wet/soaked is to rinse them well with very clean water and then dry them in an

Re: Water Damage

2002-12-30 Thread Fernando Gleiser
On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: I have carefully dried out all the units. You may want to use some distilled water, or very clean water, if there is any visible residue/chalk/salt on the boards. After that, you can rinse it with isopropyl(sp) alcohol, this is the alcohol

Re: Water Damage

2002-12-30 Thread Jim Durham
Fernando Gleiser wrote: On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: I have carefully dried out all the units. You may want to use some distilled water, or very clean water, if there is any visible residue/chalk/salt on the boards. After that, you can rinse it with isopropyl(sp)

Re: Water Damage

2002-12-30 Thread Doug Hardie
Thanks for all the suggestions. Here is the latest update. The water from the sprinklers was purer than that from the tap. There was no residue from it anywhere. A bit of head (oven and hair drier used) and it was easily evaporated. However, all of the units except for one router were