WEBVTT 00:00:06.560 --> 00:00:13.519 With its factory tuning and data center DNA, an Intel 730 series SSD is an 00:00:11.759 --> 00:00:17.199 amazing choice for gamers and performance 00:00:14.920 --> 00:00:20.480 enthusiasts. So, I've gotten some complaints that we don't do enough crazy 00:00:18.720 --> 00:00:25.119 projects anymore. Now, the fact of the matter is that a lot of the time we I 00:00:22.560 --> 00:00:28.800 mean, we don't plan to to do crazy things that, you know, our things are 00:00:27.439 --> 00:00:35.440 broken and stuff. It just kind of happens. So, it kind of happened this time. Uh, this is my Dell XPS12 that 00:00:33.600 --> 00:00:39.360 I've been using for the last quite a while. Uh, we were in the middle of 00:00:37.120 --> 00:00:42.399 shooting something yesterday and I kind of ran off this morning. I was running 00:00:41.040 --> 00:00:46.840 around looking for it going, "Where the heck is it?" Cuz it wasn't at home and I 00:00:44.640 --> 00:00:53.520 found it on the porch and unfortunately it rained last night. So, 00:00:50.879 --> 00:00:58.160 this is the state of it. This water is actually dripping out from inside the 00:00:55.440 --> 00:01:02.520 notebook. Now, there is an extremely good chance that this notebook is 00:01:00.239 --> 00:01:07.360 completely dead. With non batterypowered devices, it's often you can you could 00:01:05.519 --> 00:01:11.840 basically submerge it and then if you could open it up and completely dry it 00:01:10.400 --> 00:01:15.119 and make sure there's no residue or nothing to short it out, there's a very 00:01:13.439 --> 00:01:18.880 good chance that would live. With something with a battery in it, it's 00:01:16.799 --> 00:01:24.080 constantly getting power provided to it. So, the chances of uh shorting something 00:01:21.200 --> 00:01:29.600 out and destroying it are very good. So, it was actually left open like this. So, 00:01:26.799 --> 00:01:34.759 the water was able to force its way in through the keyboard. Uh, so this is I 00:01:32.799 --> 00:01:39.200 mean this is in very very rough shape, but you know, $1,000 notebook. You're 00:01:37.920 --> 00:01:44.320 still going to you're still going to take a shot at fixing it, right? So, I'm 00:01:41.920 --> 00:01:49.280 pulling out my iFixit kit with my Torx heads here. Actually, these are a handy 00:01:46.880 --> 00:01:53.920 new thing that we've got now. These nice little magnetic trays. All right, we're 00:01:51.280 --> 00:01:58.240 going to do a uh sub $100 or might we might have actually done it by the time 00:01:55.200 --> 00:01:59.520 this video is done, but sub $100 handy 00:01:58.240 --> 00:02:02.719 things and we're going to highlight those cuz I think they're great. So, I'm 00:02:01.360 --> 00:02:06.320 going to pull off the bottom here. We'll be back in a moment. All right, so this 00:02:04.719 --> 00:02:12.560 is kind of the moment of truth. We're going to open up the shell. Fortunately, 00:02:09.920 --> 00:02:17.680 I don't have an Apple computer, so it comes apart even though it's an 00:02:14.720 --> 00:02:24.080 ultrabook type form factor. So, you can see the entire inside is 00:02:20.360 --> 00:02:26.000 absolutely soaked 00:02:24.080 --> 00:02:30.160 um with water being able to run out a little bit more freely now that I have 00:02:28.160 --> 00:02:35.519 it opened up. Now, one thing that I'm going to want to do pretty much 00:02:32.160 --> 00:02:39.120 immediately here is disconnect the 00:02:35.519 --> 00:02:41.280 battery connector. I mean, the like I 00:02:39.120 --> 00:02:46.360 said, it's it's probably a done deal at this point, but it still can't hurt to 00:02:44.560 --> 00:02:51.680 have the power disconnected. Unfortunately, it looks like it looks 00:02:49.519 --> 00:02:55.680 like Dell glues that in. Why would they do that? 00:02:53.160 --> 00:03:01.519 Dell, what are you guys doing? There is a chance that if I dry this out 00:02:58.280 --> 00:03:02.800 completely and replace the battery that 00:03:01.519 --> 00:03:07.599 I'll be able to get it back up and running again, but I'm going to have to figure out how to get this connector off 00:03:05.120 --> 00:03:12.080 first. So, panic moment there, guys. It turns out that water on a connector 00:03:10.400 --> 00:03:16.959 that's beatated up kind of looks like glue. So, no, the battery is not glued 00:03:14.720 --> 00:03:20.560 in. So, what I'm going to do next is pull the battery out. And actually, I'm 00:03:19.280 --> 00:03:25.000 going to I'm going to pull it apart as much as I can without going so far that 00:03:23.440 --> 00:03:30.720 I lose track of how it goes back together. And then, um, basically, I'm 00:03:28.560 --> 00:03:34.080 going to put it somewhere to dry. And then we're going to do the old rice bag 00:03:32.080 --> 00:03:38.239 technique. This is just a handy sort of do yourself a favor trick is whenever 00:03:35.920 --> 00:03:43.360 you're taking something apart, um, take lots of pictures because even if you 00:03:40.959 --> 00:03:48.080 forget one little detail, it can be a major hassle later on. Um, and then one 00:03:46.080 --> 00:03:55.599 thing that I'm doing as well is because it's got several different kinds of 00:03:50.840 --> 00:03:58.159 screws. I am making sure that um that I 00:03:55.599 --> 00:04:02.080 take pictures of the heads as well as the threads next to the place where they 00:04:00.400 --> 00:04:08.319 come from. This just makes your life a little bit easier when you're putting it back together. You can see I've got the 00:04:04.480 --> 00:04:11.319 battery out now. Um, and then I've also 00:04:08.319 --> 00:04:13.760 got the I'm I'm just I'm just loosening 00:04:11.319 --> 00:04:16.479 PCBs so that I can get a little bit of air flow going through them. And then 00:04:15.040 --> 00:04:20.560 what I'll do is I'll just set up a fan to blow on it for now before I do the 00:04:18.880 --> 00:04:23.520 rice bag trick later on because you can't count on the rice to do 00:04:22.079 --> 00:04:27.120 everything. That's more of a that's more of a finishing move, so to speak. So, 00:04:25.680 --> 00:04:33.600 I'm pretty close to having it about as disassembled as I think I'm going to get it. Um, I was hoping that because of the 00:04:32.080 --> 00:04:37.840 way the screen works on this notebook with this metal border around the top of 00:04:35.759 --> 00:04:41.360 it that the screen itself wouldn't have really gotten any water in it because it 00:04:39.520 --> 00:04:45.040 was upright when it started raining. But Luke pointed out to me, well, hold on a 00:04:43.120 --> 00:04:49.199 second. Surface tension, it's going to come around here and then it's going to 00:04:46.720 --> 00:04:54.720 drip onto the screen from this gap in between where the uh the I don't I think 00:04:52.479 --> 00:05:01.919 they call it a ferris wheel style convertible screen. So, he was right. 00:04:59.280 --> 00:05:06.520 Water did get into the screen. So, we've got the carbon fiber top off now. It's 00:05:04.720 --> 00:05:11.120 really light. Carbon fiber is kind of cool. But the good news though is that 00:05:09.520 --> 00:05:15.759 because it comes apart quite easily, much like the rest of this notebook, I'm 00:05:13.039 --> 00:05:20.000 able to open it up and get at least I mean there's not much water in here. So, 00:05:18.000 --> 00:05:25.840 I'm really not that concerned about this part. Um, and it's mostly the bottom 00:05:23.680 --> 00:05:29.440 components here that I'm worried about. So, basically what I've done is I've 00:05:28.000 --> 00:05:35.440 removed the motherboard kind of as much as I can. You can see it's quite loose. It's only being held in uh over here and 00:05:33.600 --> 00:05:38.160 then I've prized it up a little bit so that it's going to it can get a little 00:05:36.639 --> 00:05:42.960 bit more airflow. I'm going to go position this in front of a 00:05:39.880 --> 00:05:46.080 fan and cross my fingers. I've taken the 00:05:42.960 --> 00:05:49.120 SSD out. Um and then in order to speed 00:05:46.080 --> 00:05:50.639 things up, you can um dry things out by 00:05:49.120 --> 00:05:53.840 soaking them in alcohol and then letting that evaporate away. So, this I need 00:05:52.479 --> 00:05:59.039 some data off of. So, I'm going to go ahead. I'm going to do that with this. But I'm going to give the Notebook 00:05:56.720 --> 00:06:06.800 probably a good solid week before I take another shot at it. So, uh, here's my 00:06:02.160 --> 00:06:09.600 epic setup with, uh, got a 3-speed fan 00:06:06.800 --> 00:06:15.360 running here, and then I've got all of my, uh, all my parts in my handy dandy 00:06:12.240 --> 00:06:18.039 little Please focus. Really? Wow. You're 00:06:15.360 --> 00:06:23.600 going to be like that. Okay. Um, in my parts tray. And then I've got 00:06:20.639 --> 00:06:30.800 the disassembled notebook taken apart and opened up as much as possible for 00:06:28.120 --> 00:06:36.400 optimal sort of airing outness. I suspect that I actually won't need the 00:06:33.840 --> 00:06:41.360 uh the rice bag. Going to leave this here for about a week and then we'll see 00:06:38.720 --> 00:06:46.240 how it goes. I got things kind of lifted up 00:06:42.120 --> 00:06:48.800 there. Yeah. So, funny story. I started 00:06:46.240 --> 00:06:55.520 by putting the screws in around the outside of the monitor and I was like, 00:06:51.639 --> 00:06:57.759 "No, I need to put the heat sink on. I 00:06:55.520 --> 00:07:01.599 need to uh put the battery back in. Let's find out if this bad boy fires up 00:06:59.599 --> 00:07:05.599 and then let's go ahead and invest in all the finishing touches there. So, I'm 00:07:04.080 --> 00:07:11.120 actually at the point now where the fan and heat sink are back on. I put the SSD 00:07:08.080 --> 00:07:13.520 back in for good measure. And it's time 00:07:11.120 --> 00:07:18.160 to put the battery on. Actually, I got to put this 00:07:15.680 --> 00:07:21.680 connector back on first. Okay, so moment of truth time. I went and got everyone 00:07:20.160 --> 00:07:25.840 and I did all the stuff I can do by myself. So, I'm going to plug the 00:07:23.919 --> 00:07:31.120 battery in. Not going to bother screwing it in just because who knows if this is 00:07:28.319 --> 00:07:35.840 all just a total waste of time. Going to plug this bad boy in here. 00:07:34.000 --> 00:07:38.840 Oh my god. No, just kidding. Jesus Christ. 00:07:38.880 --> 00:07:46.479 You got You actually did scare me there. Okay. Should it be making noise? Here we 00:07:48.360 --> 00:07:54.360 go. Oh. Oh, 00:07:52.240 --> 00:08:00.560 that looks like an activity LED. Warning, battery is critically low. 00:07:57.840 --> 00:08:07.080 Huh. Wa. Here, if you can come have a look at the screen here. Oh, 00:08:04.960 --> 00:08:13.759 so it powers on. The keyboard LEDs are illuminated. 00:08:10.960 --> 00:08:19.360 The activity LED on the SSD is going. So, that means it's not just completely 00:08:15.440 --> 00:08:21.919 dumb in there. Let's uh Okay, I'm going 00:08:19.360 --> 00:08:25.360 to turn it off for now and grab a power adapter and find out if she boots into 00:08:23.440 --> 00:08:29.280 an OS. Wow, that's unbelievable. I'm impressed 00:08:27.759 --> 00:08:33.479 something actually happened. I was expecting nothing at all. Yeah, I was 00:08:31.120 --> 00:08:38.719 expecting complete dead, but like damn, that's actually pretty 00:08:35.919 --> 00:08:42.080 amazing. Yeah, if this thing works, you're never allowed to get another 00:08:40.240 --> 00:08:48.920 laptop. You have to continue to upgrade this laptop forever. 00:08:44.480 --> 00:08:48.920 Okay. Oops. Other side. 00:08:48.959 --> 00:08:52.320 Oh, yeah. Sure. Be gentle with 00:08:55.480 --> 00:09:03.600 it. Okay, let's try her up again. 00:09:00.560 --> 00:09:06.320 So, I actually I for forewent is that 00:09:03.600 --> 00:09:11.440 the past tense of forego? I forewent the uh the rice treatment because I was 00:09:08.800 --> 00:09:16.240 impatient. So, it sat here for about a week though. I mean, which evidently was 00:09:14.560 --> 00:09:20.640 enough. The thing I don't know yet because the thing that's most like Look 00:09:17.920 --> 00:09:24.360 at that. Right where I left it. What? Oh my god. 00:09:23.200 --> 00:09:30.560 There's my AX500i unboxing review thing. 00:09:27.920 --> 00:09:36.880 Unbelievable. Look at that. It did not even miss a beat. Unbelievable. 00:09:33.600 --> 00:09:40.880 completely unplugged. Wow. For a week 00:09:36.880 --> 00:09:43.680 and having been soaked. 00:09:40.880 --> 00:09:49.360 That is That's unreal. That is something else. Look at that. So, it remains to be 00:09:46.959 --> 00:09:53.279 seen how well the battery held up because that was the big thing that 00:09:51.120 --> 00:09:57.519 could have been damaged and could have lit on fire. Like, it's a lithium based 00:09:56.080 --> 00:10:01.760 battery. Like, it could have been a big problem. But it turns out that it was 00:09:59.519 --> 00:10:04.800 well enough sealed and the screen was well enough sealed that we didn't get 00:10:03.200 --> 00:10:09.200 much water in there that the notebook actually worked. 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