My youngest got a used laptop about 1 week ago. Last night tragedy struck, her glass of water fell over onto the keyboard. The laptop immediately shut down. So today I pulled the MB looking to give it the usual fix, a wash with 91% isopropyl. I have had excellent results with this in the past. This time it looks bad, one of the ceramics blew out. I have pics but no real way of determining the value of the blown component. Is it likely to be the same value as the other ones in the row ? I have some "donor" boards to get parts, but this is the only 400 series Gateway in the house.
Any suggestions, or experience with this type of failure ? I am hoping it is just a matter of ice water hitting a hot component and causing it to fail catastrophically, not an overload condition caused by some other component failure.
Thanks in advance
Any suggestions, or experience with this type of failure ? I am hoping it is just a matter of ice water hitting a hot component and causing it to fail catastrophically, not an overload condition caused by some other component failure.
Thanks in advance
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