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Laptop + Corona = Bad

Oat23 · 2010-05-02 23:54:42

My mate spilled beer onto the touchpad of his Dell Inspiron last night. It got down under the left/right click buttons on his laptop and now the touchpad and left/right click doesn't work. He's not sure what to do and I said I'd asK on here for him. It's booting fine luckily enough and he's still able to use it with a…

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03-05-2010 12:54am

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Oat23

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My mate spilled beer onto the touchpad of his Dell Inspiron last night. It got down under the left/right click buttons on his laptop and now the touchpad and left/right click doesn't work. He's not sure what to do and I said I'd asK on here for him. It's booting fine luckily enough and he's still able to use it with a mouse for now. Any idea what he should do?

Cheers!

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#2 03-05-2010 1:00am
Solitaire

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Be glad the laptop is only half broken?

You could have avoided that if you yanked out the battery and left it to dry in an airing cupboard for a few days...

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#3 03-05-2010 1:33am
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find an online guide on how to dis-assemble the laptop, carefully of course!

Its most likely liquid damage to the small circuit board under the mousepad area.

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