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Water damaged Acer laptop pop.

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Jock1e
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Posted November 23, 2012 at 9:50PM

Just a quickie.Son in law got offered a Acer laptop that had water damage.

All I know is that is it only uses half the screen.Whether it is just a small picture in the middle bottom half or top half I don't know

Would that just be the display needing reset or something to forget.

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Woolwell

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Posted November 23, 2012 at 10:21PM

Forget - where else did the water damage?

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Jock1e

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Posted November 23, 2012 at 11:17PM

The house that it was in.

It still starts but just fills half of the screen.

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Jock1e

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Posted November 23, 2012 at 11:18PM

Sorry that was a bit quick it was general house damage due to flooding or burst pipe.

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northumbria61

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Posted November 23, 2012 at 11:26PM

It still starts but just fills half of the screen.

Perhaps when the water level drops you will get a full screen!

Sorry Jock1e Just my little joke. Perhaps it hasn't fully dried out yet and may return to normal working when it does.

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Jock1e

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Posted November 23, 2012 at 11:57PM

No it has been drying out for about a month now so I would imagine all the water has gone or it would not start at all.

The screen is intact with no cracks so has to be something inside.

Would a damaged graphics card if it has one cause that sort of problem.

I have never been inside a laptop before so was thinking along the lines of getting it see if I could fix it,If not just strip it to see how easy or hard it is.

Probably get it for £10-£20.

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Jock1e

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Posted November 24, 2012 at 9:24AM

Ok I will see what happens no doubt if I get it I will be back.

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Woolwell

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Posted November 24, 2012 at 10:41AM

IMO it's with zero. Another thing to consider is if as a result of the house damage and there was an insurance claim that wrote the laptop off then technically the laptop could belong to the insurance company.

There are many things that could have been damaged internally.

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Jock1e

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Posted November 24, 2012 at 10:50AM

Woolwell

I was thinking about that as well but was thinking more of spare parts if I cannot get it to work.

It cost me £45 recently for a new hard drive for My Grandaughters acer laptop.So even if it is no good some parts may come in handy.

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Woolwell

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Posted November 24, 2012 at 10:52AM

The hard drive could be fine and seeing as you get a small screen with data it is probably ok.

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Posted November 24, 2012 at 2:17PM

Hard drive memory and DVD drive are probably all that's worth salvaging.

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