Thinkpads Forum

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This is fine from the perspective of both my thinkpads were working flawlessly. Until last week, when my wife placed in the laptop bag a bottel with some dishwashing liquid. The cap not being so tight...

about 200ml of liquid soaked the X60

Result:
Bads:
- Small board on base of screen fried - no backlight, no lights except wifi light.
- Keyboard - f1, tab, caps, fn and first two colums of letters from the left not working, power button erratic
- one dimm fried - slot appears to be ok (the slots in the cover were the culprit)
Good:
- mobo seems fine, water drainage worked as advertised
- lcd is ok
- wifi hdd etc ok

So... trying now to rebuild the poor little thing...

Inverter board - found relatively cheap, any advice on compatibility etc?
Keyboard - can it be fixed? How can the keys be removed and put back? Can the pads be cleaned? Or its hopeless?

Thanks - and i'll post the results

The X60 Hardware Maintenance Manual specifies two inverter boards: FRU 39T5699 and 41W1024. They are interchangeable.

There's probably a short somewhere on the keyboard that is causing your problem. I would usually say that you could try soaking the keyboard in some distilled water and then let it thoroughly dry, but since we're talking about soap, you may not be able to save the keyboard.

Thanks for the info - found in the HMM that there are two fru's, that's why i've asked.
The keyboard has soap between the two contact layers... so its done...

Awww, I got lucky on a desktop keyboard and was able to salvage it with cleaning the board with alchohol... But only when I took the whole thing apart.

This thread shoud be, i think closed.

Gave up on the X60. For almost the money needed for a complete screen with inverter, fried memory and keyboard, i've found a nice T400 with the 1440x900.
The good parts will be sold (mobo, ram, hdd, battery etc)