Minor set back

30. May 2009 by Sean.

I spilled a beer on my laptop at last night’s working session.  Not just a little bit, either.  It was so bad that my off-switch stopped functioning and I had to yard my battery out before I started seeing sparks (wouldn’t be the first time my lair/R&D lab smelled of burnt plastic).  After that, I held my laptop keyboard under the tap, turned it upside down to let the water drip out, then opened it up as much as I could to let it dry out.  The next morning, it didn’t work very well.  It didn’t boot properly the first few times, I got USB-related blue screens of death, and the glide-point didn’t work. But, after letting it run, eventually all the moisture evaporated and it’s back to its usually crappy running mode.

 I don’t really know if that’s the proper procedure for a beer spillage, but I panicked.

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