Complete home PC failure :(

Today I spilled some soup on my previous lappy. It wasn't much, I shook the water off, turned off the PC, used a paper towel to get all the water off. Turned upside down, shook some more, try to turn on: nothing!!! I took it all apart, no sign of water inside of it. Seems I shook it a bit too hard, and something inside it broke . CPU still works (tested), memory should work, so it's prolly the power adapter. The lappy powers up for 3-4 seconds with CPU HSF spinning, sometimes I hear HDD starting to spin and then it all dies. No display to screen.

So I ran to my big main PC to google for fixes. I turn on the PC and..."GRUB ERROR 17". I pop in a WIN XP CD, "Hard drive cannot be identified". BIOS sees it,MHDD sees it. Win also sees the drive, but no partitions on it. It is as if all my partition data just died. I am downloading a linux live CD to see if it can see the partitions on my 320GB HDD.

Now I am typing this on a backup 1.2GHz PC. Anyone have any idea on fixes?

EDIT: Big PC is UP. I fixed it with a boot program restorer

ShadowPho said:

Today I spilled some soup on my previous lappy. It wasn't much, I shook the water off, turned off the PC, used a paper towel to get all the water off. Turned upside down, shook some more, try to turn on: nothing!!! I took it all apart, no sign of water inside of it. Seems I shook it a bit too hard, and something inside it broke . CPU still works (tested), memory should work, so it's prolly the power adapter. The lappy powers up for 3-4 seconds with CPU HSF spinning, sometimes I hear HDD starting to spin and then it all dies. No display to screen.

So I ran to my big main PC to google for fixes. I turn on the PC and..."GRUB ERROR 17". I pop in a WIN XP CD, "Hard drive cannot be identified". BIOS sees it,MHDD sees it. Win also sees the drive, but no partitions on it. It is as if all my partition data just died. I am downloading a linux live CD to see if it can see the partitions on my 320GB HDD.

Now I am typing this on a backup 1.2GHz PC. Anyone have any idea on fixes?

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HAHA NICE

Sounds like you short circuited the motherboard. soup=salt. did you try plugging in the HDD on another pc/ext device?

Nope, not yet. I kinda assumed that the HDD was okay...

i think it is and that the board is fried, but i thought i'd ask just to be sure.