[GTALUG] laptop repair in GTA/Markham?

[Don Tai]

Switching tactics, can you get to BIOS? Can you boot to something like
Ubuntu with a USB key? The coffee and the boot issue might be coincidental.
Remove the battery (see video) and see if you can start up with a brick.

On Wed, 9 Jan 2019 at 10:20, Tim Tisdall via talk <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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