I Just Fried My Laptop !, Some Heavy Weather Last Night.... |
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Jul 17 2010, 07:55 PM
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As some of You may know (and experienced) we had some VERY hot weeks in Sweden.
So last night Hell broke loose and I have NEVER experienced thunder & lightning so close. First I thought that my house been struck by the lightning, then I thought my laptop was...... But it appears that it just have been drowned in water, since I have it on my porch. Normally, it doesnt rain on my porch, but the wind must have blown in a lot of water on it. So the best I could came up with was to fry it in the oven - and gosh - now it works again, but it took some 15 hours to dry it up..... (at 45 degrees)  So now I just have to dry the other stuff as well - eg. my soundcard & some pedals...... //Staffay --------------------  Guitars: Ibanez AM-200, Ibanez GB-10, Fender Stratocaster Classic Player, Warmouth Custom Built, Suhr Classic Strat, Gibson Les Paul Standard 2003, Ibanez steel-string Amps: Fender Hot Rod Deluxe, Marshall JMP 2103, AER 60 Effects: BOSS DD-20, Danelectro Trans. Overdrive, TC-Electronics G-Major, Dunlop Wah-wah, Original SansAmp, BOSS DD-2 Music by Staffy can be found at: Staffay at MySpace |
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Jul 17 2010, 08:00 PM
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QUOTE (Staffy @ Jul 17 2010, 06:55 PM)  ... So the best I could came up with was to fry it in the oven - and gosh - now it works again, but it took some 15 hours to dry it up..... (at 45 degrees) ... //Staffay Gratz - sometimes gentle ambient heat works well - had to do the same thing once to a mobile phone that went thorough the washing machine. Best of luck with the rest.Deep fat frying doesn't work though  .-------------------- Get your music professionally mastered by anl AES registered Mastering Engineer. Contact me for Audio Mastering Services and Advice and visit our website www.miromastering.com
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Jul 17 2010, 08:20 PM
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woa dude! i'm sorry to hear that.., good luck saving the other things!
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Jul 17 2010, 08:37 PM
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QUOTE (tonymiro @ Jul 17 2010, 09:00 PM) Gratz - sometimes gentle ambient heat works well - had to do the same thing once to a mobile phone that went thorough the washing machine. Best of luck with the rest.Deep fat frying doesn't work though .Deep fat frying only works on women and calamares.........  But I have done this numerous times before, since I always accidentally is pouring coffe over the keyboard, and it works every time! //Staffay QUOTE (Adrian Figallo @ Jul 17 2010, 09:20 PM) woa dude! i'm sorry to hear that.., good luck saving the other things! Oh, I think I'll manage to do that as well, but the computer was the most important since I got bookmarks to all the great lessons here This is just "Studio C", so the soundcard was a quite cheap one, and the pedals will be alright, I think... //Staffay -------------------- Guitars: Ibanez AM-200, Ibanez GB-10, Fender Stratocaster Classic Player, Warmouth Custom Built, Suhr Classic Strat, Gibson Les Paul Standard 2003, Ibanez steel-string Amps: Fender Hot Rod Deluxe, Marshall JMP 2103, AER 60 Effects: BOSS DD-20, Danelectro Trans. Overdrive, TC-Electronics G-Major, Dunlop Wah-wah, Original SansAmp, BOSS DD-2 Music by Staffy can be found at: Staffay at MySpace |
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Jul 17 2010, 10:50 PM
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QUOTE (Staffy @ Jul 17 2010, 08:55 PM) it took some 15 hours to dry it up..... (at 45 degrees) The rain passed by here some hours ago and I could swear I heard and evil laugh with it... Maybe your laptop would have dried a lot quicker in the microwave owen  -------------------- My bands homepage
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Jul 17 2010, 11:40 PM
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Wow. Close call. I don't think I would've put it in the oven.
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Jul 18 2010, 01:13 AM
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Smart thing with the oven, I wouldn't dare to do that, but if it works, great
Glad to hear you solved the problem
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Jul 20 2010, 01:27 PM
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Can't believe what you done!
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Jul 21 2010, 08:20 PM
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Staffay thats a great story man! How come your laptop didn't burn out in the oven? Very cool thing to do (you saved 500$+ investment)
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Jul 21 2010, 11:32 PM
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Yeah, glad to hear it worked
My girlfriend once had her cell phone fall into water, and she googled for a solution which happenned to be letting the phone rest in rice for a night. Worked like a charm!, it seems the rice absorbs humidity pretty weel from electronic devices. Go figure
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Jul 21 2010, 11:40 PM
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QUOTE (Pedja Simovic @ Jul 21 2010, 09:20 PM) Staffay thats a great story man! How come your laptop didn't burn out in the oven? Very cool thing to do (you saved 500$+ investment) 500$ ?? This laptop was like 2500$... I've done this a lot of times with keyboards, the trick is to use 40, max 45 degrees... Unfortunately my E-MU 04/04 and my Logitech wireless keyboard went to the rats....  //Staffay QUOTE (Fran @ Jul 22 2010, 12:32 AM) Yeah, glad to hear it worked My girlfriend once had her cell phone fall into water, and she googled for a solution which happenned to be letting the phone rest in rice for a night. Worked like a charm!, it seems the rice absorbs humidity pretty weel from electronic devices. Go figure Yeah, thats sounds perfectly ok in my ears since rice is absorbing water, but that would have been a LARGE bin of rice for my lap-top. Thx. for the tip though, I will remember this. (since I dropped some mobiles in water as well...  )//Staffay -------------------- Guitars: Ibanez AM-200, Ibanez GB-10, Fender Stratocaster Classic Player, Warmouth Custom Built, Suhr Classic Strat, Gibson Les Paul Standard 2003, Ibanez steel-string Amps: Fender Hot Rod Deluxe, Marshall JMP 2103, AER 60 Effects: BOSS DD-20, Danelectro Trans. Overdrive, TC-Electronics G-Major, Dunlop Wah-wah, Original SansAmp, BOSS DD-2 Music by Staffy can be found at: Staffay at MySpace |
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Jul 22 2010, 05:13 AM
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Great to hear you got it working.. reminds me of doing the same for my first ever walkman that I drowned in water.
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