As I'm sure you're all aware, about six weeks ago I was stupid enough to pour coffee over my work laptop.
Well, it went off to the repair shop, and obviously my prompt if panicked reaction saved the day.
It was stripped down, cleaned up in an isopropyl alcohol bath. The processor daughter card was damaged, but that was replaced with a refurbished spare - tracking one down was the reason it took six weeks to repair my laptop, and it's back, almost as good as new.
All the data has survived, not that it wasn't backed up. The only problems are that it seemed to have lost its network configuration data - hardly a problem really, and the SSID was tied to the processor, so naturally excel whinges that it hasn't been properly activated, again something that just requires the contacting corporate IT dance .
Resyncing the data back wasn't a problem either, all I needed to do was download the data from OneDrive to cover the missing days and open OneNote, and tell it to do a sync. Fifteen minutes work at most.
Obviously before I say it's really fixed I need to use it for a few days, rather than a quick click around but everything looks great.
Oh, and if you're worried that you might be at risk of spilling something on your laptop, check out this sensible advice from the NYT...
[The original title of this post was 'Coffee 0 HP Powerbook 1' - complete brain snap on my part, the laptop in question is a ProBook - a 6470b to be exact]
Well, it went off to the repair shop, and obviously my prompt if panicked reaction saved the day.
It was stripped down, cleaned up in an isopropyl alcohol bath. The processor daughter card was damaged, but that was replaced with a refurbished spare - tracking one down was the reason it took six weeks to repair my laptop, and it's back, almost as good as new.
All the data has survived, not that it wasn't backed up. The only problems are that it seemed to have lost its network configuration data - hardly a problem really, and the SSID was tied to the processor, so naturally excel whinges that it hasn't been properly activated, again something that just requires the contacting corporate IT dance .
Resyncing the data back wasn't a problem either, all I needed to do was download the data from OneDrive to cover the missing days and open OneNote, and tell it to do a sync. Fifteen minutes work at most.
Obviously before I say it's really fixed I need to use it for a few days, rather than a quick click around but everything looks great.
Oh, and if you're worried that you might be at risk of spilling something on your laptop, check out this sensible advice from the NYT...
[The original title of this post was 'Coffee 0 HP Powerbook 1' - complete brain snap on my part, the laptop in question is a ProBook - a 6470b to be exact]
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