How To Revive Gadgets After A Liquid Spill
January 19, 2006 | In: How-To's, Peripherals, Wireless Computing
I’m sure most of you have experienced the horror of liquid spilling into your rawkin new gadgets at one time or another. Of course, there’s bound to be irrepairable damage in a lot of cases, but sometimes there’s hope for revival.
A friend of Chris J over at Grynx had one such liquid related incident recently. A leaky roof had been dripping gunky water into a LinkSys router and with the help of a little patience, some Qtips and the spouse’s toothbrush, they were back online in about 24 hours.
Chris just posted a detailed, step-by-step how-to guide on his blog documenting the entire process. Have a look, and be sure to bookmark or print it out for future reference.
Water damage happens to all of us sooner or later, whether it be a coffee spill, leaky roof or basement, R&C in your hard disk or your kid giving your laptop a drink, so be prepared.
2 Responses to How To Revive Gadgets After A Liquid Spill
Jeremy Wright
January 19th, 2006 at 12:40 pm
In my case, it fried the HDD and motherboard, so this wouldn’t have helped… But still, great tip
Paul Short
January 19th, 2006 at 1:05 pm
Hi Jeremy, thanks for dropping by. I remembered the laptop incident you had while writing the post so I linked up. Sucks you couldn’t have been as lucky with your laptop as the guys at Gynx were with the router.