[GTALUG] laptop repair in GTA/Markham?

[Alvin Starr]

I second grabbing the torx screwdriver.

I got a cheap(ish) multi-bit screwdriver kit at Princess Auto and it has 
been great for fixing things like that.

It may not be a corroded trace but it may still just be wet inside and 
the coffee and water would happily conduct.

If you take the board out and can a bit of clean water can be used to 
flush the wet parts.

Also things like keyboards don't take kindly to dirty water under the keys.

On 1/9/19 10:22 AM, Don Tai via talk wrote:
> I'd try buying the correct torx screwdriver sizes at CanTire and take 
> it apart myself. Then clean and put back together.
>
> On Wed, 9 Jan 2019 at 10:20, Tim Tisdall via talk <talk at gtalug.org 
> <mailto:talk at gtalug.org>> wrote:
>
>     So, my laptop won't turn on today and it's likely due to a coffee
>     spill that happened yesterday.  I suspect a trace on the board may
>     have become corroded.  I took it to the ASUS repair centre on
>     Markham and the absolute minimum cost to repair it would probably
>     be $400 and if I want to keep everything on my SSD I would need to
>     remove it first (but I don't have the necessary torx bits to do
>     that).  I think they only swap parts out and don't attempt to
>     actually repair.
>
>     Does anyone know of a good and reputable repair place that would
>     be able to fix a corroded trace on the board if that's all it is? 
>     It's an Asus Zenbook UX305C.
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