SvennoJ on 11 February 2017
| monocle_layton said: The coffee most likely damaged a port or a bit could have potentially leak to damage the HDD as well. I suggest connecting the HDD to another pc to see if it's the HDD or the port that's damaged. Sorry for your loss. Liquid spills never bring good |
The weird thing is, once it's past the very first boot sequence, it's all fine. It's running now, hdd is operating as usual, windows reports all the partitions are healthy. It only seems to have trouble powering up and as long as it doesn't reboot it keeps going. Sleep mode doesn't hurt it either.
Indeed spills suck. I've already picked out a new one, good excuse to switch to 512gb SSD and get double the memory and much faster 7th gen i7, and I guess pay for the spill protection plan this time. Happy wife is important, and this laptop wasn't really up to the task with it's 2.2ghz i5, 5400 rpm drive and 8gb ram, but it will still take 2 weeks to get here. It's a shame though, the thing is only 16 months old.
