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Wet Dell Inspiron 5100 won't turn on

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by catbox.sausage

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I had my laptop sitting on a table in my hotel room this week and I came back to my room and the entire table was soaking wet. I picked up my laptop and some water drained out. It was plugged into the outlet, but the battery was full before I left. In the middle of the night, I woke up and saw that there was an orange light flashing on the laptop, but didn't do anything about it. In the morning, I tried to turn on the laptop and it wouldn't respond, no lights, no sounds, nothing. I used a blow dryer on air and dried it out a bit and tried to turn it on again, nothing.

Today, 2 days later, I took the laptop apart to get to the insides and I got the green power LED and the green battery LED on the front of the laptop light up dimly and turn off. I noticed there was quite a bit of corrosion on the control board for the hard drive. I grounded myself and scraped a bunch off and tried to start it again, but got the same results with the LEDs.

Does anyone have any ideas I could try at this point?

Thank you so much

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by nicknielsen

I suspect the drive controller board is not the only place you have corrosion, and once you have corrosion on the components, it will only get worse. Your best bet is to spring for a new laptop or get the corroded bits on the old one replaced.

Incidentally, what caused the soaking in the first place? If it was environmental and you notified the hotel, they may help with the costs.

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