Wet Laptop Recovery - Is it Possible? 

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I bet dell didn't even know it was possible.

Surprise that DELL even watch this and response

Wow dell you apparently watch youtube well at least you know your laptop design is good

H34dHun734R i dont even use flash player anymore

omg xD

@@Christian-dc1sb dead

@@gamertygonl yeah i know its completely non required

@@Christian-dc1sb flash player dead

nice one

lol

nice joke

lol

Elijah Jones w

ThatCoder that sounds like a good idea actually

Done.

Was coming to post this. Lol

I'm sorry but i have to.. it's Linus' not linus's

i myself am a grammar nazi but in the heat of the moment i failed myself xD

the problem is… this will be a 10 min advertisement…

You also fail in capitalization.

Ty Guy Amazing stuff mate! You really care about your stuff, you persevere, oh man you are one amazing guy! I could imagine some people just throw away all their stuff. Great stuff man!

Miniply he left off the part where he filed an insurance claim and got money for the devices that never actually got killed haha :p new TV meet old TV lol

***** HAHA i wish. the reason i was so determined to get everything working again was not because I "really care about my stuff"... it's because I didn't have any insurance lol. would have had to replace everything out of pocket

Ty Guy i was just teasing anyway.. but yeah in that case you really lucked out. phone partly aside, at least none of those things are really critical..but its still money lost if they were trashed.

Meanwhile apple products: *one rain droplet goes inside* I must now commit seppuku

Same here!

Yep!

Yeah the unprofessional clips are so much better, they provide a unique feel to the spectator, like if the spectator had a deep link with the holster of the show, thus allowing an unconscious immersion to take place whilst the content is being played.

well, it is still tech tips.

Who gives a fuck! If it got over 10k likes then it's a success.

Yes. Yes indeed.

Nah Linux

Apple product policy : after the product has been fully assembled, soak it over night is epoxy resin to prevent customer from trying to fix it by themselves ! ^^

+skyhacker6 Lol

The L3mu

**medkit ribbon**

Node +200 xp

*Squad mate revive 110

UPGRADE NOW!

*Squad upgrade*

Are you dumb or something. xD?

You made my day :P

Swordie100 He is establishing the horrific (in my opinion) plastic material the Samsung Phones are based on!

oh shite

wow! just wow!

ECCENTRIC xDDDD

linus is donald trump

Tyler Kemery he danced naked in a circle of broken glass while smearing blood on his chakra points

Tyler Kemery I suspect he lost an arm and a leg...

That's how I fix all my broken electronics.

Please, don't get me wrong, but I just don't understand why some americans love to be hipsters against their local companies. I have a MacBook Pro with the best specs and I paid twice that an American would pay(bought in brazil) and IMHO is the best that I could buy, the easiest laptop computer ever to get fully taken apart, thanks to the precise and simplified internal design. If you think that brand or product X is better than Y, it's ok, you don't need to proliferate your hate or to hail the brand. Off-topic: My mother has this XPS 12 Duo(almost 4.5k USD in brazil) and is almost perfect, except for the screen that sucks completely, the ghosting is really strong, only problem on this machine.

Rodrigo Martins not going hipster nigga.

Rodrigo Martins Linus is Canadian but on to the point Apple have done some questionable things in the past(such as soldered on RAM). One thing that irks me(along with other people) is Apple clamming a lot of things that are revolutionary and one of a kind. Although I do agree Apple has done some neat stuff(homogenizing features into one package), it just screams PR nonsense.

undeadkillers Yes, I know he is Canadian, I was referring to people in the comments. Normally Americans and teens that keep spreading the hate of everything. If I don't like something, I don't need to hoist my flag and expect that the others will have the same opinion. I didn't remembered that, you are completely correct about the soldered RAM, this is why I have the non-retina MacBook Pro 15 model atm. In case of Linus, I respect his opinion, I watch him for some years and he devotes his life working with computers, I trust on his view, and probably he knows what he is saying.

Ths guy might be a hipster, but at least his grammar is alright.

your daughter decided your laptop was thirsty hold on for a second nope I can't keep my sides from going into orbit

Yer lol To cute. Had to tell her that the laptop doesn't like water.

Jesse pog I remember making a little gif animation with a PCB igniting (I know, not very realistic), and then text flashed onscreen saying "water is out poison". But I would have waited a bit longer, and I do not recommend using a towel, fibers can get stuck, causing airflow problems or even worse, retain moisture. And I would have waited longer than a few hours.

Yer noted.lol a towel is all i could think of tho. I don't have a compressor to blow it out. So i went all ghetto on it.. I really didn't think it would work.

+SoloNita Exactly and it boot back from standby exactly where he left it, pretty great !

+Noah Fischer wouldn't you be if your pc might die?

+Noah Fischer No I Agree and it is sad when he is normally so upbeat and go lucky to see him so shattered! =(

+Draken Weiner I should point out that if had had a HDD instead of a SSD inside he would have lost all his work!

+Darth Awar I don't think water would damage the data on HDD, but it might be much harder to recover the data though since you need to crack the HDD up to read the disks inside.

You had no likes since last 8 years. Here is your first one :)

You can see the future.

It's not waterproof at all if he would have turned on the laptop while there was still water it would have easily died the only way it could be considered waterproof is if water CANNOT get inside of it at all.

themartonfi it was just a joke. there is nothing to be serious about

+yrjosmiel73 Same exact thing happened to my phone two weeks ago and it still lives.

+yrjosmiel73 Sooo it found its proper place ?? *shots fired

+yrjosmiel73 Should've flushed it.

Adam High Definition Except it's my only PDA and it's a gift. It's rude to simply throw away a gift.

+yrjosmiel73 It's rude to shit of gifts too.

Well he didn't wait 7 days

pathg13 a week is 7 days :o

BOOMProductionsVIDs 9:10 They didn't wait whole week.

pathg13 It seems you're utterly incapable of abstract thinking. What he said, was close enough to establish a connection (to connect the dots) and make the damn joke. And besides, I'm sure you've heard of how there is a place and a time for everything. Well, this was neither the place, nor the time to be pedantic/anal/meticulous. I wasn't writing a dissertation here, but tried to get a laugh out of people. For fuck's sake...

NafanyaZX Lol okay you can get mad for nothing, or you can live life XD Pick one?

My cat sneezed on my DDR slot and motherboard died as tottaly as processor and RAM dont left you PC opened when your cat seek

LMFAO you made my day

Did it get a *cough* virus?

No, it died instantly, I guess no)

lol

All sorts of contaminants make water conductive, not just metals or running through metal pipes, mineral deposits exist in a lot of places, including the atmosphere itself. Rainwater is not very clear, as it picks up lots of debris and pollutants after condensing. That said, it's true - clean water is not conductive, and there are worse sources of water than rain... But also rain water is pretty dirty, chemically speaking.

yes, but... his motherboard has metal in or on it making the water conductive sooooo... ya

any type of metal can make water conductive .

you make no sence first u say it isnt making water conductive then u say it is transfering electricity to it electricity can not transfer in a non conductive enviroment

yep..

their desktop computers are meh though

Dell are Irish, how has no one made a joke about potato power yet?!

their customer service is complete shit though.

I was very tired when I wrote that.

They also make awesome bombs

Dell laptops are pretty easy to disassemble, I don't see what's so amazing.

Duane Erich Zaan because through many experiences of mine, they are absolutely horrible.

Unimpressed. Try bringing a laptop back to life after a beer spill and 30 minutes in a swimming pool. Rain is nothing to fix. Oh, did another that had baby formula spill... Was gagging the entire time cleaning it. They both worked when I was through.

punkypenguin321 Your comment is shit quality.

Kaspars Korde you are what we call "a dont know anything about computers but likes dell because its a name brand" kinda guy.

you're*

Daniel Stevenson He's still not as cool as water cool... I regret nothing

killer1986chris it's your. Your version would be used like this, "you're an idiot."

Actually as I was responding to Daniel saying "your cool" you're wrong bitch, now sit your ass down before daddy spanks you again.

True

+Bryan Geonzon Why are there rats in a place where food is made?!

dalmation black Your guess is as good as mine. I'm guess a piece of food made it inside then the rat found its way inside to get to the food and couldn't get out then the rat chewed through some of the wires and eater starved to death or electrocuted its self.. (This is alot of assuming lol) When equipment just sits around for years and is never cleaned let alone ever opened then it breaks down and is sent to us to fix it usually has surprises mostly spiders, grease fumes typical stuff but every now and then ill find random stuff that caused the equipment failure

+Bryan Geonzon now i know not to buy refurbished items

Burgahs HEY! I do good work! (Sometimes... depends on my mood...)

The more plausible reason is that todays laptop's components are designed to be more resilient to extreme conditions (better insulated capacitors/batteries, built in fail safes, etc.) that if water does get inside the laptop, as long as you take the proper procedures, the machine has a very good chance of not turning into a paper weight.

Yes i think it is also the reason why my brand new g602 is now malfunctioning. Water dripped in mouse, while i was cleaning the dust and something sugary, was holding the DPI clicks, pretty tough and frustrating because i just bought it. So yeah accidentally, when i was cleaning the case, water dripped on a little circuit inside the case. Didn't really bother me because never had done such thing before and many times i had left out my equipments outside, under rain, or forgot them. Nothing happened, nothing malfunctioned. But that water was coming from water systems, not purified, non distilled. After all that happened, i realized that my mouse started to malfcuntion, didn't read anything sometimes. Unwanted clicks, skipping etc. I tried to wash circuits with Vodka (since it's distilled alcohol) but it didn't really work out well. Then someone told me to put the circuits in paint thinner (synthetic). It worked. I salvaged my mouse big time. Only G4 doesn't work and i have to use ALT+TAB or Ctrl+Alt+Del, click somewhere, then back to desktop. So if anyone wants to clean their mouse up, use distilled water, or don't use anything at all. Alcohol (for medical purposes one) works best. But i didn't have any pure alcohol at the time. Thinner also works but it's a bruising/abrasive material. So be aware, don't let your parts sink in thinner for more than a few seconds. You never know what will happen.

Kaptan Kosto I put mine in with a load in the dishwasher then let it dry for a few days :)

Sam B erm

FKProds rainwater is not by any means distilled. cleaner then tap water maybe but damn sure not pure. have you ever heard of acid rain. it worked bc the laptop was well built and he knew what to do

Hey! Stone!!

so who are you, stone?

he is stoned

Come out stone.. im tired of you!.

TheCovertCamper He hooked me up with a free game. Awesome dude!

It would have battery reserve at least for the clock.. amazing computer

@@davidsucesso2419 maybe it connected to the internet and recalibrated the clock

@Laptop Gamer bruh did you come from the 19th century

The RTC usually has its own battery, even in laptops.

XD haha yeah I know but still...

it doesn't really matter how much power is in the battery i don't think, I'm pretty sure a reaction would occur just based on the chemicals in it being mixed with water.

we dunno how long it was running on when it was left out, and the entire time that it was forgotten even if it went to sleep it would be draining the battery. on top of that it sat a week and that battery was losing charge that entire time so the fact the battery was dead means nothing.

About 3 weeks ago I accidentally spilled half a liter of water on my Lenovo laptop. It took about 3 seconds before it shut down, and needless to say I was pretty sure it died. Took the battery out and disassembled it. I let the thing dry at a radiator for something like 13 hours, and it actually turned on. The battery was full AND was charging when the accident happened. The thing is, normal tap water (and rain for that matter) is not a very good conductor. You would think that water is the worst thing that could happen to your electronics, but that is not necessarily the case.

***** If the lithium got mixed with water it is more than likely that the laptop wouldn't have survived at all. That stuff can be dangerous!

edward stables It would have lit on fire... Case solved.

It was a perfect chance to overclock it... What a shame to dry it out

Chris Fokjohn i hope to god you're not serious

That was a bad pun and you should feel bad.

ikr

jamesb1221222 Linus probably knows that.

jamesb1221222 couldn't that work by resoldering? and replacing screws

Considering they still use it today, I would say none of that happened. So it has lasted at least 2 years 7 months.

jamesb1221222 if you clean the boards with alky ( full complete disassembly) it will prevent the oxidation, done when its still wet obviously

+AirScholar But it isn't broken you just don't like the user interface. Technically Windows 8 was a huge success and is why Windows 10 is mostly just Windows 8 with a new UI.

Marc Telesha No, it certainly is broken. Google Windows bugs. 20% of our Windows machines are in storage because Windows bugs on those machines are beyond use.

+Ryan Basile If you haven't figured it out yet. Win + X. I so love it myself

***** Microsoft should just purchase Solaris and then hire "other" companies maintain it.

Windows 10 came out on July 29

Yep, spilled tap water on my keyboard once. I turned it off, took the little battery out, and let it dry a few days with the back open. Nothing broke and the water was from a private well, it is soft water and has no/negligible chlorine content so I can't speak on the mineral part.

Pure and nearly pure water (distilled) is not conductive, water with dissolved salts is conductive because of the ions in it

I once fixed a laptop that had a cup of coffee spilled over the keyboard. I just took it apart and placed every component on a heated floor overnight. The next day, it was abit sticky, and after just a new keyboard, it worked perfectly.

Cool

I was wrong on the soft water bit, it does contain enough minerals to leave a mineral deposit, but not enough to justify a softener.

it is so sad, isn't it.

watch the vid xD

tell me about it lmao

Evan B. Yea man,i also kinda feel the same way if my laptop get wet and broke up..

Retirement Linus is even more depressing

does bc stand for "big cheese" ?

pcgaming today Yes, its a province where we eat only cheese. Kappa

Alex Lavoie It's a joke there is an meme called big cheese $200

Ya, my comment was a joke too

Alex Lavoie You are welcome to visit Netherlands. BC, been to Vancouver for a while, nor London, got NOTHING on Holland. It rains seriously like >250 days a year.

***** Not really, it was an overpriced piece of shit. Alienware sucks.

***** step1 sell the alienware step2 buy better laptop step3 success?

***** Step 2 should be buy *TWO* better laptops. As much as Alienware costs.

FraggedDabloons that or a whole desktop rig

I knew someone who spilled an entire bottle of beer into her laptop she toweled it off then let it stew for a day. Then tried turning it on low and behold it did not work. After a few more days pass she comes to see me with it. I tell her it is dead she leaves it with me with vauge instructions of to see if i can do anyth8ng for it. Just in case I plug it back in try it again in front of her and then nope it is dead and nothing can be done to reverse that. I tell her I can take the working parts out and then she can get a new pc and transfer whatever. I pull the ram and hard drive both of those work. And i pull the battery it is filled with good Samsung 18650 cells. She staggers back in my door a week later asks me if I was able to fix it I said no here are the parts left that worked... as i had told her last time. She left the parts for me to keep and was wanting my advise on where she could get a new laptop... i told her walmart.

Bro. That's impossible

***** i don't know either man, I saw my opportunity at a bad joke and took it

but his laptop kept working... so.... water cooling here i go ;D

John Maclen Sorry Had too. www.instructables.com/id/Repaint-and-Watercool-Your-Laptop/

surely it's why you DO water cool laptops?

+Edwin Animationcraft your friend is a jerk

+MrFuckingFX yeah he actually was. he's okay now

+benjamin plays wtf hahahhahahhahha

do you want to know why you put electronics in rice when it has been water damaged? because some Asian will come and fix it and get free rice

+ThatDamnGamers No, it's because that water/moist is drained by rice... and yes im fun at parties...

Hahaha ya

Their*

why can't you spell?

Swermin Like Swermie He's probably Norwegian.

Where? Kappa

water still got into the rest of the laptop quite thoroughly

only when you press a key yes? ... well that is because you press connecting the circuit yes? ... water is conductive bypassing the press and this causes it to short circuit and if it was connected to a second button due to the waters conductivity it would fry the circuit board ... i know as I've spilled so many fluids on my keyboards (without pressing a button) i should have learnt by now to stop drinking at my pc :P

4 keys died on my desktops keyboard when i accidentally spilled pepsi on it, so i wouldn't say they can't died like that. It was one of those membrane types with 3 layers of plastic encasing wires.

yeah 2 of mine died that were membrane, it wasn't wires though it was a flexi pcb... one with vodka coke, the other milk :P thats why i moved onto a mechanical keyboard, more resistant to small spills

Michael Burt that's what a "flexi pcb" is, wires sandwiched between 2 transparent sheets of plastic.

***** LOL, Linus is much more than a simple unboxing channel

Fuck you! I wanted to find out myself

I watched it and I can confirm it's legit.

Lies, the one with the camera clearly survived albeit severely injured.

I cant believe that really happened!

This video should be flagged! It's too inappropriate for youtube!

potato potato potato potato potato potato potato I didn't, a friend of mine has some equipment to do that, if you really want to i can probably figure it out, but i guess google could help you out as well

just to add the only problematic thing with a wet laptop will be the keyboard

Im Curazy Try spilling juice on one... Works fine, but takes ages before the keys don't get stuck down.

bassl0va must smell nice.

bassl0va Before using it I would disconnect it and run fresh water through it.

The laptop I am using right now had juice spilt on it and I washed it out with fresh water and paint thinner and dried it out with a blow dryer and had it up and running a hour after that because I needed to use it that day.

But dependability does apparently.

NO the new xps 13 is a macbook pro killer. He bought the LAST gen shitty dell laptop. The new XPS 13 is the ONLY good dell laptop in year, and stand alone.

lmao trying hard to be a macbook by stealing the product design inside out

***** you can also shit on crème brulee or how ever it's spelled XD

I think you haven't seen it closely.

Probably a loan from the shop ... i'd be sad too.... :D

Scotty B Spoiler alert lol...As of this comment, I was 4 minutes in.

I missed the gift part, probably too busy giggling as to how someone can " forget about " a 1K bit of hardware ;) and edited the spoiler ( Sorry ) * sheepish grin *

This comment fills me with determination

Not sure I understand why...

+Dramawind Cuz he wanna sea it

***** The whole video is in one take, so I don't think that's possible.

***** Umm... do you mean to cut a part of a one take video and make it look like the cut never happened is not hard? Because it is, especially when the camera is held by a cameraman and isn't standing still on a tripod. Can you give me an example of a scene in Animator vs Animation where this happened?

+William Suryaadmaja dont press any buttons AT ALL im sure thats how peoples phones die they get it wet and instantly try to use it, nah if it was me id take the back off and disconnect the battery i wouldnt be pressing no buttons not even to turn it OFF! that battery comes right out that instant and will not attempt to test for a week or 2 later if i got out to do with it. i can see some people been like "well ive disconnected the battery for 6 hours it should be ok now" .... NOOO its still in the same mess it was in 6 hours ago need to wait at least 7 days even then id still be taking a risk let it dry.

+Julian john my old battery died i bought a new one and it's forced to fit in my phone

i did that but my phone was in the water for so long it got water damaged the phone works its just the screen is finicky and every once in a while the power button stops working for a while so i cant use ir

Linus Wet tips

@@HappySlappyFace Same, I need to order a laptop dell battery since it isn't charging anymore

what's anT440

Lenovo T440s, it's a laptop.

Dash Lambda Its not a laptop its a TANK :P

express496 That happens to have a display and a keyboard~

Dash Lambda and a computer inside

pro tip:water coolers are expensive but the new nature cooler works better than any thing!!!and it's almost free...really really free

I'll have to disagree with that given that I own an XPS 15

Adam Hosein why do you disagree?

Credit where it is due, it has a solid build quality and 5 years later it is running pretty good. However, the dedicated GPU that came with this laptop was a serious problem and has stopped working, (search xps 15 gt 540m issues and you will see). When I had opened it up to change the thermal paste, there was paste all over the die for the CPU and GPU (a lot of waste). Trying to have an item fixed under warranty was a pain (and never got to it because customer service is crap). The Dell "Certified Technicians" on Dell Forums don't know their arse from their elbow when it comes to computers (so asking them for help is a dead end). Operating system issues right out the gate (thankfully I made a recovery disk the first day I got it). The worst thing of all is their product support for the device as it goes on its life, the laptop has no drivers what so ever for windows 10 and they won't help with getting any for it and the slimy bastards whitelisted their mpcie port, so using an external GPU is such a pain (though possible with a few workarounds). In all honesty, it was a waste of money since I bought mostly the name of the device rather than the hardware.

Why not dell desktops? I have a web server running on an Optiplex 745 and it's never gone down in 2.5 years

How does Linus drying out his laptop = never buying Apple?

Two of my friends had their Macbooks exposed to "humidity" and "coffee". They never went back to normal even after replacing the parts.

Chris Mercer I was talking more about the fact that (from personal experience) any bit of water on Mac will kill it. My Mac was never the same when I spilled a tiny bit of water on the keyboard.

***** actually you can..all it takes is a few screws to take the bottom cover off and the i can get to anything i need to (2013 MBP not retina)

everyone here does realize that if you take the same number of screws out that linus did you can remove the bottom cover of a macbook to expose all the same components he did. I don't care if you are pro-pc or pro-mac to each your own but don't let your fanboy-ism blind you from the truth

you'd have to wash each part individually

Rinse it with alcohol (in a spray bottle) and use high-pressure air. Then allow it to dry VERY well, like Linus did.

Dont forget to remove the battery first

oh I already sprayed it with alcohol half an hour ago... should I take out the battery now or should I leave it?

***** if u have not yet turn it on... yes remove it now, if you lucky it might on (alcohol is conductive)

The keyboard or the entire laptop?

well its mostly like a 50/50 chance, although not exactly, one bead of water on an important spot and its bye bye

MrTVintro he said the keyboard so the keyboard

Kirk Norris under the keyboard in a laptop can be important components like the battery so he probably wants to know if it landed on the keys or went under the keys too.

Let me guess; you had the AC-adapter connected when the liquid spill took place?

manufacturing warranty most likely and that mac gule their pieces on to the laptop

I've opened my macbook for cleaning the fan and it's even better to open than this dell, because of the philips screws and the much more clean inner look. In fact that every part is made for this macbook, it all fits together without any kinked wires...

Mine is a 2012 macbook pro. The lower case is hold by phillips screws, because it's allowed to change the storage. The others aren't build for changing anything.

***** I got a screw driver set, along with many other's came with drivers that opened up the macbook's "wierd" screws... so that's not a huge deal. Just grab them off ebay or amazon.. only cost a few bucks. I believe I payed less than $5 if i remember correctly. And I don't know about any glue that's involved in in the macbook air... Are you speaking to the motherboard to the case?

on the macbook air and retina macbook pros everything else is not

Dell XD

hp sux

lol its not that bad i had one of 12 yrs

lostgaming I'll never buy another but I've never had one die on me so I'll give them that. They've all run scorchingly hot and the proprietary software has never run or even updated properly.

true

Give you brother a smack in the face for me will you?