SvennoJ said:
Captain_Yuri said:
If I had to guess, it would be the connector port on the hard drive itself. The hard drive on the inside is probably fine but the connector port might be damaged or it still has some coffee on it that is preventing it from making a proper connection. |
That was my first guess too, yet I took the connector off, all nice shiny pins, nothing to see there. Also no traces of coffee anywhere near the hdd which sits in its own silver wrapping. Underneath the hdd also clear. The other end of the connector on the motherboard looks fine too (frigging tiny connectors in laptops ugh). The connector looks fine, all shiny clean, motherboard on the side I could see was clean too. I'm guessing the coffee didn't get past the keyboard membrane.
My other guess was that maybe the short circuiting keyboard is interfering at the boot process, as when the message comes up it keeps repeating until you hit a key to stop it. I pried some keys off to clean underneath a while ago after it happend, it was definitely there yet trying to clean with limited access didn't help, hence using the external keyboard. That did stop the p from repeating ad infinutum which made it kinda difficult to use :)
Kinda frustrating it has in depth diagnostics to test each memory module in fine detail yet for the hdd nothing but "not found"
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In most (but not all) laptop, you can just remove the keyboard entirely (and replace it). It should looks like something like that. After you removed it, you can clean further, and test without the keyboard. After spilling some coke, I had to replace it and it went just fine.
