so the situation as below, I'll try to be brief, any questions i will follow up with answers a.s.a.p.
Situation: So I have what I think is a very good gaming laptop, recently moved to the czech republic and now through my fault the motherboard has an issue.
Problem: I spilt white wine on the keyboard at about 2 in the morning, the laptop continued to work fine and no problems for 1hour after, I wiped it immeaditely after it happened and held it upside down to not let it sink into the laptop, not much was spilled at all. Dried and continued using it. 3am, put laptop in standby as i normally would and went to sleep
10am next morning, try to turn laptop on, it seemed to start up and made all the correct fan noises etc but display wasn't showing at all. thought i had issue with just the screen somehow. Tried a few basic things(turning off and on etc) but still no display. about to give up and so left it running on for about 30 minutes.
After this 30minutes it started to fizz and i smelt something burning, the laptop then switched off and i tried to turn it back on, it would do all the normal things but then burning smell and switch off after 3-4 seconds. I then took it to a computer shop.
the guy had it for 3-4 days and then said i will need to replace the motherboard at the cost of 10,000 czk crowns (roughly 300 gbp). Its alot of money. When i got it back, now it doesnt turn on it all. he said the insides had completely melted and soldered together due to the heat produced.
I cut my losses and am using my girlfriends laptop as i type this now.
13 days after this, I decide to open it up, i've done this before as I like to mess with my old laptops so i have a basic knowledge and am happy taking them apart.(i've tried to upgrade a cpu on a laptop before so i have some experience, it eventually would just overheat as it was too powerful but i had fun and learnt alot.).
At this point the laptop would not start at all when i pressed the power button and the battery wouldn't charge when connected.
So i opened it up just now, and there is indeed a burn connector but still seems fine enough(now i can see this for the screen). and one definite problem, a chip, a tiny chip close to the bottom of the motherboard has completely burnt out and i wiped this away gently. I reconnected everything and now it seems to load up fine, but still no screen, the fan is working and it seems to be running, left it on for 30minutes now and nothing bad has happened and nothing else has overheated for sure.
edit: as doing this, i checked the connector i mentioned earlier, that seems to be for the screen 100%, would explain why it isn't working. I have attached pictures below hopefully that will give more details about it.
laptop specs:
Name: Asus R510J.
Cpu: Intel Core I5-4200h 2.8ghz
gpu: Nvidia geforce 940m
Ram: 8gb
Hard drive - now disconnected but has been tested externally and is working absolutely fine.
Hope you can find out my motherboard from these specs and the pictures.!
I understand the motherboard may need to be replace entirely, I think I could certainly do this but i have no idea which one or specs or anything like that. never dealth with motherboards before.
From other posts, is it possible to replace this completely burnt out chip and have it running again??? if i had to use an external monitor/new screen that is an entirely new problem and i can deal with it seperately . I wonder exactly what this chip did....if anything???
all and any help is appreciated!!!!
Situation: So I have what I think is a very good gaming laptop, recently moved to the czech republic and now through my fault the motherboard has an issue.
Problem: I spilt white wine on the keyboard at about 2 in the morning, the laptop continued to work fine and no problems for 1hour after, I wiped it immeaditely after it happened and held it upside down to not let it sink into the laptop, not much was spilled at all. Dried and continued using it. 3am, put laptop in standby as i normally would and went to sleep
10am next morning, try to turn laptop on, it seemed to start up and made all the correct fan noises etc but display wasn't showing at all. thought i had issue with just the screen somehow. Tried a few basic things(turning off and on etc) but still no display. about to give up and so left it running on for about 30 minutes.
After this 30minutes it started to fizz and i smelt something burning, the laptop then switched off and i tried to turn it back on, it would do all the normal things but then burning smell and switch off after 3-4 seconds. I then took it to a computer shop.
the guy had it for 3-4 days and then said i will need to replace the motherboard at the cost of 10,000 czk crowns (roughly 300 gbp). Its alot of money. When i got it back, now it doesnt turn on it all. he said the insides had completely melted and soldered together due to the heat produced.
I cut my losses and am using my girlfriends laptop as i type this now.
13 days after this, I decide to open it up, i've done this before as I like to mess with my old laptops so i have a basic knowledge and am happy taking them apart.(i've tried to upgrade a cpu on a laptop before so i have some experience, it eventually would just overheat as it was too powerful but i had fun and learnt alot.).
At this point the laptop would not start at all when i pressed the power button and the battery wouldn't charge when connected.
So i opened it up just now, and there is indeed a burn connector but still seems fine enough(now i can see this for the screen). and one definite problem, a chip, a tiny chip close to the bottom of the motherboard has completely burnt out and i wiped this away gently. I reconnected everything and now it seems to load up fine, but still no screen, the fan is working and it seems to be running, left it on for 30minutes now and nothing bad has happened and nothing else has overheated for sure.
edit: as doing this, i checked the connector i mentioned earlier, that seems to be for the screen 100%, would explain why it isn't working. I have attached pictures below hopefully that will give more details about it.
laptop specs:
Name: Asus R510J.
Cpu: Intel Core I5-4200h 2.8ghz
gpu: Nvidia geforce 940m
Ram: 8gb
Hard drive - now disconnected but has been tested externally and is working absolutely fine.
Hope you can find out my motherboard from these specs and the pictures.!
I understand the motherboard may need to be replace entirely, I think I could certainly do this but i have no idea which one or specs or anything like that. never dealth with motherboards before.
From other posts, is it possible to replace this completely burnt out chip and have it running again??? if i had to use an external monitor/new screen that is an entirely new problem and i can deal with it seperately . I wonder exactly what this chip did....if anything???
all and any help is appreciated!!!!