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@gtalug.org <mailto:talk@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. --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org <mailto:talk@gtalug.org> https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
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