Steve Easton said:
Yep. I've done it too.
Back when I lived in an apartment, the one over me flooded ( burst washing
machine hose )
My computer which was on, and keyboard ( I wasn't home ) just happened to
be right under a light fixture in the ceiling,
which "funneled" the water right onto the keyboard.
Took it apart and went at it with a blow drier to get it nice and warm and
then just let it set for a couple of days.
Worked like a charm.
However, when I restarted the machine there were all kinds of files and
folders with weird names that only Bill the Cat could possibly pronounce.
Took me a while to clean it up.
How about this one...I had a user (this was about 13 or 14 years ago, back
when the Pentium-75 was all the rage) that took his company laptop on
vacation to Disney Land with him. On the way back they hit some turbulance
and his daughter dumped her Sprite all over the laptop (and him).
He said he figured it was toast so anything he tried wouldn't make things
any worse, he took out the hard drive and battery, turned the kitchen sink
tap on as hot as it could go, let it run over the laptop for a few hours,
pulled it out, took his wife's blow dryer to it for another few hours, put
the hard drive and battery back in, and it powered right up. He used that
laptop for the next 2 years, until I figured he finally deserved a new one
and promised he'd keep all drinks away from it.
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