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Termyn8or -> RE: Laptop + iced tea...HELP!!! (6/28/2010 4:01:36 AM)
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"his new wife put...a quart of oil in the radiator of her car."
Actually that shouldn't hurt it. In fact some cars do use oil for coolant. It will look nasty but it should not be harmful in any way.
When I have my druthers - which means the money, I use straight antifreeze with no water. They say not to do that, to not go beyond 70% antifreeze but I have thought it out.
They are depending on evaporative cooling withing the systen as the mixture boils off the outside of the cylinder walls. I contend that with the higher boiling point of pure ethylene glycol more of it stays in contact with those surfaces which need to be cooled, resulting an at least equal, if not more effective cooling.
What's more with all this boiling going on, the presence of water makes acids and all kinds of nasty shit. In the absence of water, the coolant will remain clean for up to ten years. That's why my 1973 Electra 225 could run in a traffic jam for like eight hours with the AC on in 107F weather, moving at an average of 2 MPH before even thinking of overheating, and that was with a 7 PSI radiator cap.
My family is full of car people. We know how to fix them, build them, and even create what I call abortionmobiles. That's when you take a four cylider out of a shitcan and put in a good V8. Talk about speed. Also I think my family is the only one that ever had a problem with the front seat bolts ripping out of the floor because the car was that fast.
But now this laptop, the main point is whether or not the substance got under the keyboard. Most PCs won't boot without a keyboard, although you could tell them to if you had a keyboard :-) I don't consider replacing the motherboard an option here, but if it's just the keyboard that's another story. They are not that expensive.
But as another poster put it, every time you try to boot and it doesn't, something bad could happen. It may not be so much a matter of frying out components, it might be a matter of causing software or firmware problems, some of which may be unrecoverable. Windows is not the only program running on a PC. The motherboard has it's own software, and if it gets corrupted in certain ways there may be no way to restore it, and I mean even if you have full support from the manufacturer. Ever do a BIOS update ? Read the warnings. I would rather not do it without an uninterruptable power supply. If that power goes out at the wrong time, you need a new motherboard, that simple.
And while you can throw some oil in the radiator, NEVER EVER put antifreeze in the oil.
T
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