Adam? ... is there a reason your laptop is in the fridge? (2006)
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Re: Adam? ... is there a reason your laptop is in the fridge? (2006)
#2Why does this happen?
Re: Adam? ... is there a reason your laptop is in the fridge? (2006)
#3Why does this happen?
Maybe metal contracts at lower temperatures and thus the drive head is able to move with less friction.
I will be trying this if I ever experience it. I don't have computer hardware fail that often.
Re: Adam? ... is there a reason your laptop is in the fridge? (2006)
#4Hrrm. I've had a similar experience but with opposite outcome.
Edit: There's also the trick about reseating chips by warming the motherboard in the oven, or something along those lines. Never could get my parents to let me try that one out.
Re: Adam? ... is there a reason your laptop is in the fridge? (2006)
#5Why does this happen?
Shrinkage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_height
Re: Adam? ... is there a reason your laptop is in the fridge? (2006)
#6my wife had lg g4 that develop overheat boot problem: by the time it booted it was overheated enough to reboot itself.
in order to get everything off the phone i froze it in freezer. it gave me enough time to boot it and copy everything via usb
Re: Adam? ... is there a reason your laptop is in the fridge? (2006)
#7Never seen this done to a whole laptop, but it wasn't an uncommon last ditch method for pulling files off a dying HDD back in the days of spinning platters.
Preferably in a zip lock vacuum bag and left over night.
This is a 17 year old article, but I'm a little skeptical that 10 minutes in the fridge whilst still in the laptop would have made much difference. Probably the forced reboot did just as much.
On the other end of the heat spectrum, there's baking a motherboard to reflow the solder: https://www.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/6dygu...
Re: Adam? ... is there a reason your laptop is in the fridge? (2006)
#8Never seen this done to a whole laptop, but it wasn't an uncommon last ditch method for pulling files off a dying HDD back in the days of spinning platters. Preferably in a zip lock vacuum bag and left over night. This is a 17 year old article, but I'm a little skeptical that 10 minutes in the fridge whilst still in the laptop would have made much difference. Probably the forced reboot did just as much. On the other…
Reminds me of a time that a friend of a friend had me attempt to reflow an old laptop with a $20 heat gun. HP DV6000 or a 9000, if anybody remembers those failure rates. He had two.
I'd worked in a warranty depot and had some experience with the tear down by then.
The reflow didn't work for us, but we did manage to make one of the two functional again.
Re: Adam? ... is there a reason your laptop is in the fridge? (2006)
#9Back in the day, our IT guy in his 70’s pulled this trick on someone’s hard drive to recover a critical last minute presentation. The story became a staple of office parties. See you on the other side John.
Re: Adam? ... is there a reason your laptop is in the fridge? (2006)
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