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Got my laptop wet ETC. HELP

Catavenger

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I am back practicing Lubuntu on my old desktop because I got my Lenovo laptop wet.
I was getting a drink of water and it was running on battery power. After that it still was working fine. I thought it was just a bit damp so I didn't blow it off with a hair dryer or anything. I just set it aside to dry out. A few hours later I tried it and I kept getting the message that my password was wrong. I checked that the cap locks were off off. I used the on screen keyboard Then I tried to reset the password after that now when it boots up it asks for that password. When I put that in it justs takes me to the start screen and as before got the message that my password was wrong. I used the hair dryer.
I let it dry out for a few days and tried it with a spare battery. I get the same thing.
Why - what did I fry or whatever - do to it. It boots but won't accept my password.

I was trying my other laptop (Acer Aspire) but no matter what I do the screen is to bright. Even using my TV set with it instead of thee screen doesn't help. This desk top's screen is also bright but I should be able to fix that externally. Any suggestions there would also be helpful.
 

Doc

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Utt Oh. Never had that issue but drying it out seems like the best thing to do. Wait and let it dry. Otherwise I do not know what to tell you. Good luck.
 

Catavenger

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Thank you for the information Jimbo. I haven't tried it yet because my brain has seemed to be more scrambled than usual (seriously) today.

Hopefully I will be feeling more in gear tomorrow. Thanks again.
 

Catavenger

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I gave it a try (more than once) but I get the message:
Error Unlocking the hard disk failed!
Below that it says
When I try anything else it says:
Error HDD security failure counts have exceeded limits!
I might try a new hard drive but I think I will look for a computer repair shop in Phoenix.
 

Doc

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I tried the burying a iphone in a bag of rice after I accidentally went swimming with it. Rice could not save it. I read later that dry heat has a better chance at drying out a phone, so I suppose that would work with a puter also.
 

Catavenger

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A friend of mine who is much smarter than me fixed it. He replaced the hard drive. The message that it gave when I tried to boot it up is a basic "Bios" message. This is from the mother board. Since he replaced the hard drive it works.
I don't have info that I need to reinstall Windows. Basically they make you prove with some kind of code that it was installed on a computer, so you have the right to reinstall it.
He installed the latest version of Ubuntu instead.
Looks like I am going to need to learn more about that.
I will keep you informed about that on the Linux sub-forum
 
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