How can you repair a water damaged laptop on your own?
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Most likely the thing is toast.\n\nThe internals may dry out but if there is any moisture that got into the hard drive then your probably out of luck.\n\nA little note on water damage.  As long as the power supply didn't fry when it was exposed to water there is some chance that you'll be ok (may have to replace HD).  The thing about water is that in and of itself its not bad, its all the little stuff that are dissolved in it that make things so bad.  You can use distilled water to clean an old, sticky keyboard and it will work great.  Because when you poor the water through the keyboard, there is nothing in the water that will be left behind when it dries out.  Its that stuff thats left behind that makes things short out and parts not work properly.\n\nSame thing when your laptop got water damage.  I would guess that given enough patience and some very careful cleaning and inspection that you might be able to put it all back together and get things to work, but the internal connections are going to start to corrode, and if there is any sediment left behind your going to have a hard time cleaning it all.
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repair or reinstall windows...
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Same dumb question - get it in your head that yo need to send the laptop for repairs and stop wasting our time.
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you need a new DRIVE take it to a PC repair shop.
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You are going to need a new case (commenly refered to as a shell) for that machine... repairing the power socket is tricky. its best to swap out the parts into a new shell. sniff around on e-bay or if the machine is under warrenty contact dell and have them send you a new shell and put the HD memory and drive in yourself...
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Turn off your computer and let the keyboard dry. If you have a hair dryer dry off the keyboard with it. I have spilt water on mine and it worked ok after I let it dry.
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My wife has the same laptop and, when the "A" key came off we were forced to replace the entire keyboard to solve the problem. She found a keyboard online and we had the work done by a local PC shop. I don't recommend trying to replace the keyboard on a laptop as a DIY project.
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I agree that the culprit may be a sticky subtance on the keys.  however, BAD IDEA to use water.  go to the pharmacy and grab the highest percent rubbing alchohol you can find.  the higher the better... it drys faster and if above 90% any charge carrying impurities wont be likely to do any damage if there are any at all.  swab off excess liquid from the Q-tip before applying... use liquid sparingly.\n\nif that doesnt work, try attaching an external keyboard.  Most laptops will disable the main keyboard if it finds that a second one is attached via USB or PS2 cable.  If attaching the keyboard does the trick than your laptop needs service and likely a replacement keyboard and/or cleaning.
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You can use softwares like PC Inspector File Recovery for this purpose!
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your LCD screen on the laptop is damaged. Send it bad to the HP manufacture as a RMA through their website, they should repair it if its still inthe warrenty
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send it to dell to get fixed
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So is it not still under that warranty, I assume? (If it is send it in!) \n\nMany people buy broken laptops to either fix or strip of the other parts. I say put it up on ebay with a startng price of about $50, see if it sells for that, you may even get more, because it isn't that hard to buy and replace a harddrive! (Hell, I wouldn't mind fixing it, and I knwo how to do it! and I generally suck at computer things) It may just be more cost effective for you to get it fixed?\n\nHell, if you want to send it off and then have it shipped back to me, I'll give you $100!
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If its the power adapter, why not replace it.  theres universal ones out there at most popular stores, and if you search the internet and hit the auction sites you should be able to find it relatively inexpensively.\n\nAs far as fixing the power adapter, Id try either doing a google search for fixing circuits, OR go down to the local bookstore and/or library and pick up a book that way.\n\nI dont know if Id be so bold as to try experimenting with the power adapter if I wasnt knowledgeable since a power fluctuation could do some serious damage throughout the laptop.\nThats up to you though
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Go to tools and fix it up
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Contact your local computer shop and ask them to do data recovery. It'll probably cost you over $100. We do it for about $20, but unless you happen to be in Madison, WI, I can't really help you.
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I suspect the bios battery has gone dead.  I would look on ebay and find one and replace it.  If it still does not boot the IBM iSeries are getting rather old, so it might be time to retire it?  If you have an attachement and stuff on the laptop you need to retrieve you can go to local laptop service center and for a $60+ diagnosis fee they will tell you what is wrong and how much to repair.  Should you repair it they will usually apply the diagnosis fee to the repair costs.
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They probably lied to you, if its water damage, you cant even boot up the machine, probably resin smell is all you got for electrical short, get another shop to do the fix next time.