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  1. Voodoo computer repair
  2. Yesterday, my new Thinkpad T500 managed to get water spilled on it. It promptly powered down and steadfastly refused to power up. I dried it off, inside and out, then tented it in front of a box fan for a few hours, but it still refused to turn on.
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  4. I pulled the hard drive out and slapped it in my old T60, and it worked fine, so I used that for the rest of the day, then called Lenovo this morning, fully expecting that the mainboard would need to be replaced.
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  6. When I spoke to a Lenovo technician, she asked if I had dried it off, put it under a fan, and I replied that I had. Then, she asked me to do the following:
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  8. * Disconnect the power cord and remove the battery
  9. * Press the power button ten times, and on the last one, hold it for 30 seconds.
  10. * Reconnect the power cord and battery
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  12. When I did this, my system came back to life. That is officially the strangest repair I have ever seen, even stranger than the time I kicked a PC and brought it back to life.
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  14. Kudos to Lenovo, and whatever animal they sacrificed to accomplish this feat. :)
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