Do you think I could clean my Motherboard for Entertainment?

[TracyBluebird]

My daughter spilled gatorade on my laptop at the beginning of the summer. The sucker lasted up until now, but when I had it checked out for being intermittent on booting up, this was the probable cause. The Geek Squad offered to fix/clean it for $400, but were honest in saying it would be just as likely as not to fix it, and it was not worth it.

I could buy a new one for $400, but I am in graphic design, that is, getting into it, learning it, and the ones that are that cheap are bogged down with the programs. I really need a laptop for when I go out of town to seminars and need my laptop to keep up with my courses. Right now, I am using a netbook and google docs, which is a tad restrictive, and I can't do the dreamweaver, obviously.

Anyway, I was thinking of trying to clean the mother board myself since it's dead anyway, just for entertainment purposes, and learning about how things work. The wonderful PCMech is what gave me this insane idea, because of my experience of upgrading my to PCs When I started my Internet courses in the spring, I was thinking of getting a new desktop because the hard drive crashed and the thing was pretty old anyway, and all the new ones had Vista.

I read up on things at PCMech, and changed out the hard drive and updated the memory on two househould desktops for less than buying a computer. They are fine, and I was proud of myself. One issue is this one lives on the I: drive, a problem which I fixed by the time I got to the second one.

What would be involved in cleaning a fluid damaged laptop?

[EzyStvy]

Cleaning the fluid would probably be easy. UNdoing the electrical shorts the liquid created would be the near impossible part.