USB Problem with laptop

charl11 · 05-15-2008, 02:56 PM

Hi,

I'm not entirely sure which as to which forum this problem belongs in. So I have an Advent laptop with Windows XP. Today, stupidly I spilt a little bit of juice onto the right side on the laptop where there are two USBS and the battery charging pin. After I did this, I turned the laptop off and dried the side just incase any water had gone in. Anyway, everything seems to be working fine but I keep getting a message which says 'USB port has malfunctioned' and I'm assuming that this was a consequence of the spillage.

Does anyone know how to fix this and is the rest of the laptop going to stay un-damaged?

Thanks :)

**TriggerFinger** · 05-15-2008, 03:18 PM

Hi,

how are you with soldering or electronics repair? i ask because you may need to do such for you to repair this kind of problem. you may need to desolder and solder. try cleaning it first. get hold of the service manual for your model and use it to guide you as you disassemble your system. but you have to know what you are doing otherwise the repair attempt will do more harm than good.

if you are uncomfortable doing such, bring it to a local repair shop.

i

charl11 · 05-15-2008, 03:29 PM

That I'm not to good at to be honest. I'll take it to a repair shop. Thanks for your help.

05-15-2008, 02:56 PM	#1 (permalink)
charl11 Registered User Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 4 OS: XP	USB Problem with laptop Hi, I'm not entirely sure which as to which forum this problem belongs in. So I have an Advent laptop with Windows XP. Today, stupidly I spilt a little bit of juice onto the right side on the laptop where there are two USBS and the battery charging pin. After I did this, I turned the laptop off and dried the side just incase any water had gone in. Anyway, everything seems to be working fine but I keep getting a message which says 'USB port has malfunctioned' and I'm assuming that this was a consequence of the spillage. Does anyone know how to fix this and is the rest of the laptop going to stay un-damaged? Thanks :)

05-15-2008, 03:18 PM	#2 (permalink)
TriggerFinger Moderator Hardware Team Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: USA Posts: 11,784 OS: Vista SP1, XP SP3, PCLinuxOS2007	Re: USB Problem with laptop Hi, how are you with soldering or electronics repair? i ask because you may need to do such for you to repair this kind of problem. you may need to desolder and solder. try cleaning it first. get hold of the service manual for your model and use it to guide you as you disassemble your system. but you have to know what you are doing otherwise the repair attempt will do more harm than good. if you are uncomfortable doing such, bring it to a local repair shop. i __________________ DBAN - Memtest86+ - BartPE - Linux LiveCD - ImgBurn - HDD Diags - Disk Copy HOW TO BURN AN ISO FILE

05-15-2008, 03:29 PM	#3 (permalink)
charl11 Registered User Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 4 OS: XP	Re: USB Problem with laptop That I'm not to good at to be honest. I'll take it to a repair shop. Thanks for your help.