- Apr 1, 2012
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Hi everyone,
I'm attempting to fix a water damaged laptop (an HP Pavilion g6 2311ax that is less than 1 year old). The laptop was wet late last year (somewhere between October and November roughly), so it's well and truly dry. This is a friends' laptop btw, not mine.
The laptop was off at the time it got wet, and the owner removed the battery and hdd as soon as he discovered the laptop was wet.
When the laptop is turned on, it seems to power up (powers up, dvd drive will open and appears to read disks, Ethernet port lights up, other "sockets" light up, WLAN button on keyboard lights up, I'm pretty sure I can hear the hdd starting up.)
Now, the problem: The screen remains completely blank. I'm thinking that the graphics "chip" may be the problem (i.e. it's destroyed). I've connected the laptop to an external monitor as well, but there is no signal whatsoever.
So far I've taken the entire laptop apart, and I've cleaned the entire motherboard with Methylated Spirits (it may not be the perfect thing to use, but it can't really make it worse, and I've used it on other similar things before with no problems) as well as using compressed air to blow of anything that may be on the motherboard. This hasn't helped at all.
Do you agree that it is most likely only the graphics chip that is the cause of the problems, or could it be the entire motherboard?
It says that this laptop has Radeon graphics- does anyone know if the graphics are integrated, or does the motherboard have a separate chip that is replaceable?
I'd really appreciate any help that anyone can give me!!
Thank-you for reading my post!
I'm attempting to fix a water damaged laptop (an HP Pavilion g6 2311ax that is less than 1 year old). The laptop was wet late last year (somewhere between October and November roughly), so it's well and truly dry. This is a friends' laptop btw, not mine.
The laptop was off at the time it got wet, and the owner removed the battery and hdd as soon as he discovered the laptop was wet.
When the laptop is turned on, it seems to power up (powers up, dvd drive will open and appears to read disks, Ethernet port lights up, other "sockets" light up, WLAN button on keyboard lights up, I'm pretty sure I can hear the hdd starting up.)
Now, the problem: The screen remains completely blank. I'm thinking that the graphics "chip" may be the problem (i.e. it's destroyed). I've connected the laptop to an external monitor as well, but there is no signal whatsoever.
So far I've taken the entire laptop apart, and I've cleaned the entire motherboard with Methylated Spirits (it may not be the perfect thing to use, but it can't really make it worse, and I've used it on other similar things before with no problems) as well as using compressed air to blow of anything that may be on the motherboard. This hasn't helped at all.
Do you agree that it is most likely only the graphics chip that is the cause of the problems, or could it be the entire motherboard?
It says that this laptop has Radeon graphics- does anyone know if the graphics are integrated, or does the motherboard have a separate chip that is replaceable?
I'd really appreciate any help that anyone can give me!!
Thank-you for reading my post!
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