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| Author: | Vision [ Thu Jun 02, 2005 3:56 pm ] |
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aiight, my gf's lil sis spilled water on their mouse and now the computer doesnt work... i had them switch mouses but the comp still doesnt work... at start up it brings them to the startup selection menu with safe mode... and safe mode doesnt even work... can the mobo be fried????... |
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| Author: | Genocide [ Thu Jun 02, 2005 8:06 pm ] |
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maybe.... if it was a usb mouse it might have shorted something out but i cant be for sure unless i get my hands on you're girlfriends box :) i would try to reload windows try the repair if that doesnt work format and then install |
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| Author: | Vision [ Thu Jun 02, 2005 8:57 pm ] |
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F*CK i forgot to ask if it was USB or not... i think it is, its a Dell they got last year so probably... do u think i can salvage the hdd??? at least connect the hdd to another computer and make it a non primary hdd???... i'm not gonna hook it up to my comp but they have another one i could test it on... |
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| Author: | Vision [ Thu Jun 02, 2005 9:35 pm ] |
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aiight it was not a usb mouse and she doesnt know if it hit the keyboard or not.... |
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| Author: | Mithril [ Fri Jun 03, 2005 5:57 am ] |
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hmmmm thats strange , normally a spill on the KB or mouse isnt gonna F*CK with the tower itself. |
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| Author: | CorpseHumper [ Fri Jun 03, 2005 6:23 am ] |
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You might try disconnecting the USB devices. If the shit works when you don't use the fried USB bus, you might simply add a PCI USB card to reconnect the devices again and everything could work. Similar thing happened with my big tower here. The onboard USB fried. |
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| Author: | S|y Cat B|ue [ Fri Jun 03, 2005 7:46 am ] |
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Yeah, I wouldn't think water contact on the mouse could short circuit the whole mouse and cable to knock out the CPU. Crazy... Tell ur g/f's little sister to never drink water again. Teehee ;-) |
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| Author: | SuperEffect [ Fri Jun 03, 2005 8:08 am ] |
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It is very easy to fry a serial port,so if this is the case just disable it in the bios and use usb.Like corpse said you can also get a usb card for cheap if you need more usb ports or there fried.But you need to disable the fried port,be it usb or serial. |
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| Author: | Vision [ Fri Jun 03, 2005 3:45 pm ] |
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awesome thanks guys... yea i never thought something like this could happen... i'm still not positive if the water spill is 100% responsible for the computer not booting to windows but i wont be able to look at it until monday... but i think i'll still have access to BIOS so thats definitely a good thing... LOL, knowing me and my rage i probably would have beaten the living shit out of her if it was my computer... |
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