[GTALUG] laptop repair in GTA/Markham?

[Dave Collier-Brown]

There used to be a good little laptop repair shop at https://goo.gl/maps/APtaLkcY4262  Eglington west of the Allan expressway. I see two little PC places there, but they aren't familiar...

Google lists lots of places, including one called "laptopwash.ca" (;-))

--dave

On 2019-01-09 10:30 a.m., Alvin Starr via talk wrote:

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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