Comments on: Water Damaged Laptop Repaired

By: Joseph Watananga

Joseph Watananga — Sat, 18 Jul 2020 12:30:25 +0000

My computer has lights on which means the power supply is fine.The problem lies on video.It is not displaying the video.What might be the problem sir?

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By: Waleed Rishmawi

Waleed Rishmawi — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 19:57:11 +0000

In reply to Tayo.

Tayo: it looked good and it is still up and running. I got the fan and the keyboard and will instal them soon. Yes I agree most water damage stories has a sad ending but this one had a very good end. Have a blessed day.

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By: Albert van Bemmelen

Albert van Bemmelen — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 15:40:03 +0000

In reply to Tayo.

You may be right about the topic but you completely missed the point I was making Tayo. Because after I installed back the original standard PCI to USB drivers on my old Presario laptop (a good dual 1.86GHz laptop with 4GB RAM) it worked again like it always had including the Windows 10 installation on it! And without those software drivers there is no working hardware possible in todays modern electronics! Maybe you are happy with how things are going in the big company world. However many things are going terribly wrong on the small customer business side why I mentioned it!

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By: Waleed Rishmawi

Waleed Rishmawi — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 10:23:22 +0000

In reply to Parasuraman S.

Parasuraman: thanks man for your encouraging words, I always love to read your comments. I finally got the fan and the keyboard and waiting for the customers to bring the laptop for installing them.
have a blessed day

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By: Waleed Rishmawi

Waleed Rishmawi — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 10:20:01 +0000

In reply to Albert van Bemmelen.

Albert: indeed. computer companies want you to keep updating your system even if you have to buy a new computer simply because old systems has no longer any updates. that is very sad but true. thanks for sharing your thoughts and have a blessed day

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By: Tayo

Tayo — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 09:55:01 +0000

In reply to Albert van Bemmelen.

Terribly off topic Albert. This forum is hardware repair and will likely never touch software issues. For ancient laptops like your c700 you could/should just install linux on it and use it as an opportunity to learn something new. Good luck

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By: Tayo

Tayo — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 09:40:06 +0000

Two things:
1. I'd like to know what the board looked like after you cleaned it.

2. Please advise your clients to use a silicone keyboard cover.

Most water damage stories do not end with a happy ending...even with the most competent of repairmen.

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By: Parasuraman S

Parasuraman S — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 15:24:21 +0000

Good that it came to your hands for solution! Your determination brought life back to the laptop! Very professional work carried out unshakably, in-spite of the various damages noticed! Most of the technicians would have recommended an exchange for a new one, instead of setting their hands on it. Good job there and many thanks for sharing!

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By: Albert van Bemmelen

Albert van Bemmelen — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 14:07:09 +0000

She was very lucky the damage was not irreparable and her Windows 10 laptop still functions. And an external keyboard or even an external USB soundcard dongle does the trick in cases where the original parts can't be fixed.

Sadly other problems keep pestering Microsoft's new Windows 10 version. Like the previous free Java updates that no longer work without a necessary program licence from Sun! Which also with the obligatory new drivers in updates from microsoft easily keeps killing older laptop USB Intel chipset drivers. So they have to manually be downgraded to standard Compaq Presario C700 'PCI to USB' drivers. Which happened to my laptop that no longer was supported by HP/Compaq, neither was supported by Microsoft and neither worked with the Intel online chipset upgrades for Windows 10. But searching on my harddisk for the mentioned standard drivers (3 of them!) fixed my no longer working external USB ports. And firms like Microsoft and HP/Compaq are way too happy in scrapping older but still perfectly good working laptops!

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