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Cat peed on router...need help asap
How do you open the case of the Nighthawk R8500? I need to try and cover it with rice since my damn cat peed on it. Ive taken the 2 screws out of the back but cant seem to get it open. Thanks
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Cat urine isn't anything like water. The residue from it is nasty, If the router was on then most likely rice or any other trick to remove moisture is a waste of time. The pee more than likely caused a short circuit when it flowed over the motherboard.
I would place it in warm water and move it around to dissolve the pee, then rise with more water, then use a shop VAC to pull as much water as possible from it.
Use one of those storage bags that let you suck the air out with a vaccum filled with rice.
Cat pee depending on how small the circuit board lands are it may be too late but have apart and want to try and save it. Remove the circuit from the router and use moonshine at lease with next to no water in it or 99.9 percent pure circuit boad cleaner and wash the board at lease two or three times. Now dry the circuit board in old oven at no higher then 250 degrees and no longer a 20 minute period. Good like
Ummm...no. Only do that if you want to make sure that the router doesnt work again. Also, who has moonshine laying around? Why does the oven have to be old?
From this past experience....if a cat pees on your router you just have to buy another one.