Wet Laptop Recovery AGAIN - Dell XPS 13
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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1,789 words · ~8 min read
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is it raining finally all right
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let's go get the xps 13. what why well
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we're gonna soak it why didn't you already soak that one no
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that's my xps 12. this is the this is their newer laptop
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no it rained last night so
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this is the state of it this water is actually dripping out from
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inside the notebook yeah this is going to be awesome so we're going to find out
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if the xps 13 can survive being out in the rain just like its predecessor which
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also isn't waterproof so it sat here for about a week the thing i don't know yet
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because the thing that's most like look at that right where i left it what oh my god
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i'm not supposed to do stupid things minus what is it that was an accident
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the first time and this time it's also an accident
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click my shoulder to learn more we're going to mix things up a bit
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now technically the xps 13 which i've been carrying
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around in my backpack with my xps 12 which survived being left
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out in the rain overnight you can check out that video here
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now i've been carrying this around in my backpack because i've been waiting all
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this time for an opportunity to find out if the xps 13 could also survive a
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similar encounter with the elements so
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the first thing i'm going to do is fire this bad boy up gorgeous laptop by the
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way you guys can check out my review of it here um so i'm going to fire it up to
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show you guys that it is indeed still working perfectly and even though this
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is something that i did promise to return to dell
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i never said that it wouldn't have been rained on in the meantime so uh you know
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i figure we might as well uh put it through its paces and
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see how this baby does now i'm not going to have it turned on in
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the rain because that would probably kill it but what i'm going to do is i'm
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going to allow it to go into sleep that's exactly the state that the other
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laptop was in when it was left out by accident before so if it's in sleep so
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so we know this because once we got it fired up it actually
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worked and resumed exactly where it was
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so my battery life is sitting at about 62 percent
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and we are going to go ahead and do that Windows 8 swipey doop-de-doop sleep
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thing sleeps extremely quickly we're going to
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take it outside and in order to make this as similar to
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last time as possible
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it is sleeping we are going to leave it
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on this railing no i think it was on this table
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on this table right here
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so i wish the xps 13 the best
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today we find out if the xps 12 survival
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was a total fluke or if dell computers are made of magic i
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suspect it was a fluke but only one way to find out
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is it the stupidest thing i've ever done yes really no
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did you tell dell that you're gonna be doing this
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no oh my god
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this is like i can't even look away
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yeah they won't be able to look away either yup
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i suspect they won't be too impressed with this particular idea of mine but
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hey they were all over promoting the last one on social media hey look how
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great this video is so surely if you know yeah but that one was an accident
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that one was an accident maybe you were an accident all right well let's just
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leave this here we gotta go so i actually meant to rescue this thing
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right in the morning but uh i was actually out of the office all day so
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it's been out there for 24 hours
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which actually um i don't know might be an advantage
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because it kind of dried out out here so let's go ahead and bring this baby
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inside and have okay well it didn't completely dry out
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the bad news for the xps 13
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is that with the 12 i was able to
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you know open it up and start drying it out right away but i actually have an
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engagement tonight and i am not gonna have time to do that
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right now so tomorrow not in the morning but after i go to
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ncix to film there i will come back and uh
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take this baby apart i'm gonna leave it here for now though
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we'll put it like that this is still a bad idea
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oh i never thought it was a good idea
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so it's been a couple days since i've even touched this thing it's just been
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sitting there kind of sogging in the meantime but
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i've just been busy so this is not what i would normally
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recommend if something gets wet you want to crack it open and start airing it out
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right away here we go
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all right looking not too bad inside actually oh
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there's some noticeable discoloration of that screw
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bottom panel flap
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oh boy it's also a good idea to take pictures
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as you go
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okay batteries out some definite water
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seepage down to the housing for it
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so if i pick at this right here you can see
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very bad news oh boy
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yeah i was a lot more confident that this was a good well i was i never
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thought it was a good idea but i was a lot more confident that it was less of a
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terrible idea when i started really tiny stuff in here
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that is about as disassembled as i think we're gonna get her
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on this side let's have a look at that display that i
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really wish i had done first all right so the ifixit tear down
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actually has a pretty good look at the adhesive that dell is using
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for their infinity display glass here
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without better tools on hand we may just
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be sol all right i'm defeated for now so
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i'm going to reach out to our friends at ifixit
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looks like we need some eye openers some
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kind of prying pics of some sort and i'm just going to tuck this baby
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away i mean it's other than the display
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everything else is opened up and airing out right now
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boy i sure hope i can put this thing back together
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and go get to it later all right so today's moment of truth
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time let's uh take this baby out of the
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air flow later and find out if she works
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even breaking the fan that i'm trying to use to heal the laptop that i probably
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broke so i fix it clarified a very important
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distinction between their tear downs and
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their repair guides for me um i was following an xps 13 tear down
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which is not necessarily designed to allow you to put all those
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different things back together so they actually informed me that they
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don't necessarily have a clear-cut procedure for putting
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this display the display elements back together if i
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take them apart which means
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i'm going to kind of go for gold here and hope
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that the rain did not penetrate this seam
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why would i not label these
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oh no this is not going to be a good day
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oh that's interesting yeah it does come down this way
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okay maybe i could actually look at some of the pictures that i took
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oh i get so like sweaty when i work on stuff like
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this well oh you know what i'll put the speakers back first
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mind you at this point we are ready to find out if there's even a point in
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putting the speakers and screen the speakers back in because
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we are about to find out if this bad boy works
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this is it moment of truth time
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we have a light we have a keyboard backlight
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no way
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wow
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oh okay
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picks up right where it left off we have
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done it again folks whether by luck or by skill
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or by the marvelous engineering of the products that we uh that we decide to do
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this to uh we have resurrected another wet
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laptop let's just make sure uh the screen screen works
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touch screen works um
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let's go ahead and just like find something we can like yeah multi-touch
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still works uh we'll do a quick keyboard test
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make sure that still works touchpad touchpad still works this is a test
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whoops a test i think we're good to go
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wow i can't believe this thing is
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functioning holy cow
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well you guys uh you guys saw it here first the xps 13 is officially
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waterproof it's not waterproof uh thank you thank
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you for i'm at a bit of a loss i'm really
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