Jacques Siboni
25th August 2007, 09:51 AM
Hi all
I am pretty happy as I put to work again a Universal having been drowned
in a pond!
This is how I did it. It can help some other ones.
After this unfortunate fall it did not work. Each time I plugged it on the USB, red led was on for exactly 30 minutes then went off.
PC did not see it.
I found the Service Manual on xda site, and I went on disassembling the device following the images from the document. It is perfect and you
can't imagine to do this without the manual.
Important note: What's not in the manual is the need to remove the metal radio
protections installed on groups of components. There are maybe ten of these.
You want to remove them before cleaning the board. It is fairly easy to do it with the
blade of a knife.
It does not take more than an hour to do the job.
Then I soaked the MB and each electronic component and connector with an
electronic cleaning sprayer. This spray is dedicated to clean electronic contacts and it dries very fast. It does not harm varnish or plastic.
The brand name in France is "Sitosec".
I really soaked the boards, namely let the liquid pour on the ground.
Don't hesitate to WASH the boards with the liquid.
BUT then something unwanted happened: The MB gets very cold due to the
spray. It was totally covered with mist, so WATER AGAIN!!!
I lightly warmed the board with a hair dryer, minimum speed, more than one foot away, just enough to let the mist evaporate.
Then I followed the rebuild instructions.
Soft reset and there it was, it started again.
Perfect condition, and all of the data preserved.
That's all folks
Jacques
I am pretty happy as I put to work again a Universal having been drowned
in a pond!
This is how I did it. It can help some other ones.
After this unfortunate fall it did not work. Each time I plugged it on the USB, red led was on for exactly 30 minutes then went off.
PC did not see it.
I found the Service Manual on xda site, and I went on disassembling the device following the images from the document. It is perfect and you
can't imagine to do this without the manual.
Important note: What's not in the manual is the need to remove the metal radio
protections installed on groups of components. There are maybe ten of these.
You want to remove them before cleaning the board. It is fairly easy to do it with the
blade of a knife.
It does not take more than an hour to do the job.
Then I soaked the MB and each electronic component and connector with an
electronic cleaning sprayer. This spray is dedicated to clean electronic contacts and it dries very fast. It does not harm varnish or plastic.
The brand name in France is "Sitosec".
I really soaked the boards, namely let the liquid pour on the ground.
Don't hesitate to WASH the boards with the liquid.
BUT then something unwanted happened: The MB gets very cold due to the
spray. It was totally covered with mist, so WATER AGAIN!!!
I lightly warmed the board with a hair dryer, minimum speed, more than one foot away, just enough to let the mist evaporate.
Then I followed the rebuild instructions.
Soft reset and there it was, it started again.
Perfect condition, and all of the data preserved.
That's all folks
Jacques