I wanted to report again about my 9600 that does not like to pass away! 
When I did the last "operation" and everything worked fine again, I had the 9600 for several weeks lying on the desk without any housing. Than one day in late May I put an entire cup of coffee over the uncased electronics, ...
What a pity after I solved most problems!
I had 200ml of milkcoffe at my motherboard the sonnet, my HD (the backside with PCB!) and the RAM, ...
Gladly I could immediatly unplug the PSU and put out the battery, ... I tryed to clean it with towels as far as possible. Than I did nothing the last months. But I saw, that the coffee is at the SMDs and like a 2nd surface. Of course the computer didn´t boot up, it was dead. Late August I thought to give it another try and started to read how people washed their motherboards.
So I went out to get cheap 5 liters of distilled water. I simply heated that distilled water in the microwave up to about 50° Celsius. Than I took my 9600 Motherboard, put it to the washbasin an started to completely wash it with my antistatic brush and the destilled water (nothing else).
An totally strange feeling to wash a PCB, ...
Subsequently I used the hair-dryer (with cold air!) for more than an hour asnd tried to get all the water out of the RAM and PCI slots as out from between the SMDs and PCB surface. Than I put it away for 4 weeks to be absolutely sure that there is no more water anywhere.
And: It worked! My 9600 is back again, and kickin!
After I put back the battery and pushed the CUDA (I still do not exactly know how it should be used) it booted up.
Totally crazy story!
I never thought it will work, but gave it a try as it was already "dead". 1 € for the destilled water, and nothing else. I am totally happy now! Great computer, and even if there are some minor problems due to the age (15 years this summer!), it seems to be unbreakable.
When I did the last "operation" and everything worked fine again, I had the 9600 for several weeks lying on the desk without any housing. Than one day in late May I put an entire cup of coffee over the uncased electronics, ...
What a pity after I solved most problems!
I had 200ml of milkcoffe at my motherboard the sonnet, my HD (the backside with PCB!) and the RAM, ...
Gladly I could immediatly unplug the PSU and put out the battery, ... I tryed to clean it with towels as far as possible. Than I did nothing the last months. But I saw, that the coffee is at the SMDs and like a 2nd surface. Of course the computer didn´t boot up, it was dead. Late August I thought to give it another try and started to read how people washed their motherboards.
So I went out to get cheap 5 liters of distilled water. I simply heated that distilled water in the microwave up to about 50° Celsius. Than I took my 9600 Motherboard, put it to the washbasin an started to completely wash it with my antistatic brush and the destilled water (nothing else).
An totally strange feeling to wash a PCB, ...
Subsequently I used the hair-dryer (with cold air!) for more than an hour asnd tried to get all the water out of the RAM and PCI slots as out from between the SMDs and PCB surface. Than I put it away for 4 weeks to be absolutely sure that there is no more water anywhere.
And: It worked! My 9600 is back again, and kickin!
After I put back the battery and pushed the CUDA (I still do not exactly know how it should be used) it booted up.
Totally crazy story!
I never thought it will work, but gave it a try as it was already "dead". 1 € for the destilled water, and nothing else. I am totally happy now! Great computer, and even if there are some minor problems due to the age (15 years this summer!), it seems to be unbreakable.