Thinkpad X230 Tablet - No video after coffee spill

[zogthegreat]

Hi everyone!

I have a Thinkpad X230 Tablet that I just dumped coffee on! I immediately pulled the battery and power cord and then striped down the laptop and started cleaning it with rubbing alcohol, (I used rubbing alcohol because it evaporates quickly). I waited a couple of hours and reassembled everything and it seemed that everything was OK. The next day, the mouse started to act erratically and I noticed some coffee leaking down from the LCD onto the hing. I shut it down again and took apart the LCD and cleaned it out and reassembled everything.

Now when I hit the power button, the lights come on, the CPU fan spins up but I don't have any video.

Does anyone have any suggestions what the problem could be?

Thanks!

zog

[evening_hunger]

-Hm first things first, does it work when you connect an external video? Some monitor?
-Second guess is: since it was working before you disassembled the LCD, perhaps you need to reseat the lcd connector on the mainboard?
-Third thing: erratic mouse behaviour - perhaps you got some cofee into the usb ports?

[zogthegreat]

Hi evening_hunger,

-Hm first things first, does it work when you connect an external video? Some monitor?

I tried hooking up an external monitor, but I don't get anything from it. I'm not sure if the board will default to external monitor without hitting a combination of buttons, (I did try FN + projector but no image)

-Second guess is: since it was working before you disassembled the LCD, perhaps you need to reseat the lcd connector on the mainboard?

I've tried that a couple of times with no results, along with disconnecting and reconnecting the cable from the LCD.

-Third thing: erratic mouse behaviour - perhaps you got some cofee into the usb ports?

I might have, but as I said in the first post, I really did clean the motherboard and components really well with a mixture of compressed air and rubbing alcohol, (although apparently not well enough! ).

The strange part is the coffee coming down the hinge, the coffee spilt on the keyboard/back portion of the system not on the lid.

[evening_hunger]

Perhaps coffee penetrated into the lcd assembly along the keyboard drains. I don't have any practice with the x230 tablet, perhaps some more experienced gentelmen here:)
But a priori it may be that in the tablet, much more electronics is contained in the lcd assembly. Therefore, cofee shortcircuted something there...

[nitrocaster]

Does it boot into the OS? Does CapsLock work?