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Originally Posted by THEFERMANATOR
It was a 9 year old COMPAQ that I had revived from the dead SEVERAL times already in the past. What got it was it was still warm when I sprayed teh dust out, and my canister of cleaning air got tilted and some liquid hit the CPU dead on when I sprayed the heat sink and fan out  . I got it to do one motherboard boot before it completely gave up the ghost on me, but it died completely during a BIOS test. It's done for as I already took the hard drives out of it and unlocked them so I could transfer the data to another PC, and then I erased it so I could use it in an external hard drive enclosure for back-up.
Yep Willy, she pulled MAJOR rank on me here. It always seems to happen that way. |
LOL Welcome to married life...
Yea, liquid spray on a hot chip will crack if for sure. Sorry for your misfortune. Well, the offer of the CPU still stands. Even though you pulled the HD you can still rebuild the comp if you want. Not sure it would be worth if since it's 9 yrs old.
BTW, it was nice of you to buy your wife that superfine anniversary present...... 
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