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hi guys im new to this site,hope ive opened a new post here ? and am not posting out of place. having read a few related posts here ,i have tried out a few of the answers provided on this subject here and still no go . have got an acer 5720e belonging to a friend whos ,"new" laptop she had used less than a week had a light wine spill 1/2 glass on the keyboard area , it was quickly dried out . it was immediately ,switched off and unplugged etc, it had a couple of days on the boiler open and drying out . i had the back off etc and took out the ram and what i could . it reboots as a brick ...black screen, there is ,some fan movement .one hard drive light flash and it remains powered on till you kill it by holding down the start key . ive swapped cd rom drive ,{green light stays on all the time }, removing cd rom drives , whilst attempting to boot from usb and even ,removed the hdd hoping to use usb . still no bios screen ive tried bios flash options via usb and cd rom i tried using fn+esc method : plug power in and hold down fn esc keys method on formatted fat usb drive . also tried bootable cd rom copying the fd file supplied by acer bios update 45 as described on this subject by others ,nothing . i can only assume it must be bios chip or worse . should i try and get a new bios chip off ebay ive seen them for sale?,about £15 or am i wasting money and effort ,if you think of anything else i should look at please let me know . is ther generally another weak component with water in the curcuit to cause this , i tested the ext vga socket shows nothing also i can solder etc and probably do the fix myself .having seen the size of the bios chip on ebay. ive checked hdd on my other pc alls good . ram also ,and no probs. any advice help would be great. she cant afford another laptop . thanks in advance for any thoughts on the problem . if it needs a new mobo ,is it worth fixing . cheers ! .

hi guys im new to this site,hope ive opened a new post here ? and am not posting out of place. having read a few related posts here ,i have tried out a few of the answers provided on this subject here and still no go . have got an acer 5720e which had a light wine spill on the keyboard ,and was quickly dried out it was immediately ,switched off and unplugged etc, it had a couple of days on the boiler open and drying out . had the back off etc and took out the ram and what i could . it reboots as a brick ...black screen ,some fan movement one hard drive flash and remains powered on till you kill it by holding down the start key .ive swapped cd rom drive ,{green light stays on all the time },removed cd rom drives whilst attempting to boot from usb and even removed the hdd hoping to use usb .still no show . ive tried using fn+esc method : plug power in and hold down fn esc keys method on formatted fat usb drive . also bootable cd rom copying the fd file supplied by acer bios update 45 as described on this blog ,nothing . should i try and get a new bios chip off ebay ive seen them for sale?,or am i wasting money and effort , i can solder etc and do the fix myself . ive checked hdd on my other pc alls good . i can only assume it must be bios or worse . any advice help would be great. if it needs a new mobo ,is it worth fixing . cheers !