Damaged Latop Stories

godtabh

Was just talking to a friend who's sitters spilt orange juice on her laptop. He got the motherboard replaced only for him to leave it outside while he got a drink to return to find a squirrel had just pissed on it.


Any one else got any stories of how they ruined their laptops?

cpu-dude

Someone tried blow bubbles at me using one of those plastic toy guns - not knowing my laptop was directly below it - I now have no use on my Down Arrow or Page Up keys... which really sucks.

Voodu Child

I was plugging in a USB CD-drive to my laptop, the kind powered by a 5v adaptor. In a hurry I plugged in the wrong adaptor (9v) which I guess sent a current back through my laptop or something, and blew all the USB ports. It was a major 'doh!' moment cause I knew straight away what i'd done...

Didn't tell Dell though, got it fixed under warranty :pac:

Alanstrainor

Decided to take apart my Dell 6400 to use it as a desktop replacement, removed the screen, keyboard and other bits to help with cooling...i reently bought a new desktop...now my Dell won't go back together properly! Well i have it most of the way there, the keyboard is a bit messed up, the screen doesn't really close properly and the antenna for the wireless is completely botched. She still works though! Window 7 ftw!

majiktripp

Not a laptop per say but we had a customer drop in an old pc, complaining of it making a funny noise. I thought grand , probably a ticking hard drive or what ever. Turned it on, watched the Windows 98 booting logo appear and seemed to be working fine.
Next thing a high pitched whine....turned into a shriek...then POOF! Billowing smoke out into the room had to kill power to the power block it was plugged into.
Turns out a capacitor in the power supply had failed dramatically and burnt itself out. The place stank for days.


Another one, while building my first home pc ages ago, had got special molex connectors for power (UV ones you wire yourself), though I had wired it right...plug into DVD drive and pressed the on button only to see the wires leading to the drive catch on fire! Yanked the power straight away, was my own fault for not double checking! Cost me a DVD-R/W drive though

AlmightyCushion

Seen someone who had spent about 1500 on a pretty sweet high end acer laptop. He had it about three months and cracked the screen on it. Needless to say he was not happy. He ended up buying a hdmi cable and wireless keyboard and was just gonna use it hooked up to his TV.

I'm actually quite lucky with my netbook. I've dropped it a lot and never damaged it.

godtabh

Just heard another one.

The GF brother was in a rush to work. Left the laptop bag on top of the car. Drove off only to realize he had just run over his laptop. It worked perfectly but the bag was ruined

Alanstrainor

kearnsr wrote: »

Just heard another one.

The GF brother was in a rush to work. Left the laptop bag on top of the car. Drove off only to realize he had just run over his laptop. It worked perfectly but the bag was ruined

Remember being in UCD seeing a car driving past with a laptop on the roof...it was heading for the Stillorgan dual carriageway...i doubt it ended well!

kikel

I've heard stories of people boxing their laptops when things go wrong in poker.

ttm

I saw a laptop that was in for repair recently with a damaged power lead connector (broken off in side laptop) damaged hinge and badly cracked case on one side. User had fallen asleep with the laptop on his lap while watching a DVD.

January

Boyfriend bought a new laptop and Wii for himself. He was playing the boxing game on the Wii, while downloading something on the laptop and had a pint of Guinness beside him...

Guess how that one ended?

JBUCD

I am lucky with my laptop. Had it for 3 years. My laptop bag strap snapped and laptop went down bus stairs and it fell of a chair also. Still works perfect. Although my laptop wouldn't recharge before and it was out of warrenty so I decided to try and repair it myself and look for the problem of a lose wire or something. So I went and opened it all up. Removed screen/HDD/DVD and all that. I couldn't see a problem with it, so I decided to leave it and put it back together again. When I put it back together again. I noticed I could twist off this knob near the recharging point and I found a wire had broke, so I soldered it back again and it worked. I was sort of pissed that I wasted time opening it up, but it was recharging again so I was a happy camper. SO I went to turn on my laptop and my screen wasn't working so I tested the screen by hooking it up to my monitor and laptop seemed in working condition bar the monitor so I opened the laptop up again and just plugged the monitor connections again and it worked. Was fustrating to say the least.