Dropped my damn laptop!!

SpookyPistolero

SpookyPistolero

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I was studying outside and my new laptop fell off a table and onto concrete. Works OK after a reboot, but was acting weird before that. External damage is just scuffed and scraped the corners, but also a small crack near the hinge at the bottom corner of the screen. It's the sort of 'edge' of the screen. Would anyone anticipate that to become a huge problem in some amount of time? Or just cosmetic?
 
Hard to tell. Dropped my Dell on the pavement in the rain.:eek: The hard drive went flying and everything. I put hard drive back in and booted up in the truck right then assuming it was fried. But everything was ok:thumbup: That was about 3 months ago. So hopefully it will be the same for you.
 
My girl dropped her new laptop the third day she had it, the thing landed in it`s corner from about 25 to 30 inches into a tile floor it broke the little plastic "welds" and now has a opening wide enough for a stack of 4 credit cards to slip in in one corner between the top and bottom halves of the bottom and the little status lights are really bright from out of the crack but it works fine and seems none the worse for wear .Good luck man I hope yours is ok too.
 
Thanks guys. I'm going to put a couple of thin coats of epoxy on the crack, just to try and keep things together and from spreading/widening. Hopefully that helps...
 
I bought an older Toughbook on Ebay to use outside and in the shop. The thing is awesome, and it's only the semi-rugged model. HDD encased in a foam shell, splash proof keyboard and chassis, and it's actually spec'd to take a drop off a desk onto concrete and laugh it off!:thumbup: They're about 50-80% more than similar non-rugged notebooks of the same speed though. I think I paid $300 for a 1.8ghz P4/1GB/40GB/wifi unit with a DVD burner. Basic, but gets the job done, and built like a brick sh1thouse. ;)
 
Just in case you're not in sync with all the potential problems, go to Cnet and download HDTune and run it to see if you have any hard drive errors. If you do, things only get worse with time. Buy yourself an external hard drive and transfer everything. Depending on your computer (and this is assuming HD damage) you can potentially transfer everything including your operating system to the external drive, then replace the internal hard drive and transfer everything back. Incidentally, SSD HD's (flash memory essentially, no moving parts) are coming way down in price.

Many external drives can be hooked up to your network and set to automatically backup all files over wifi.
 
I dropped my ASUS laptop about a couple days after I bought it, 3 years ago or so.
Has a crack on the backside of the screen in the plastic but works fine.

I'm using it now and everyday so I was lucky. Good luck with yours. The good thing is that it works, but you really need to do as bobofish said and transfer everything over to an external harddrive. I do the same thing regularly. You NEVER know when a computer will just die for no reason.

My mother's laptop died a few weeks ago completely out of the blue. Everything is fried and unusable.

Save everything while you still can.
 
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