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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)

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Post by rokizero »

umarniz wrote: post #67

I grew up in a city with temp reaching 48 Celsius in the summer Of course this wasn’t very good for electronic devices and hence every console I bought died with a year of over heating. For my PS2 I managed to extend the lifetime by placing big blocks of ice in a tray underneath it and the console sitting on top on a rack to avoid contact. I had to replace the ice every hour but the system worked well enough till the…

When I was a kid I had an laptop that would overheat when playing age of empires. So I had a bicycle pump setup under my desk so I could quickly blow in some air every 3-4 minutes... If I was to late or forgot the whole thing would just die and all game progress was lost. I remember laughing at the whole situation whenever I had to pump in air. At some point I bought one of those laptop stand with built-in fans.

Thanks for reminding me of those good old days :-)

Re: Adam? ... is there a reason your laptop is in the fridge? (2006)

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Post by ahoka »

PeterStuer wrote: post #41

I have done this. Many years ago I was forced to work with a terrible laptop. It was one of those Dell 5cm thick things that were basically cramming a desktop cpu and gpu into someting that looked like someone had bolted a second box undeneeth a standard laptop. Fans ofc screeming loudly all day. So I had the brilliant idea to just run everyting of an external drive so that when I could work from home, I could seamle…

Replacing the thermal paste usually helps.

Re: Adam? ... is there a reason your laptop is in the fridge? (2006)

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Post by jensgk »

RugnirViking wrote: post #99

We had a problem with a robot overheating here in denmark and we had a fridge in the office. We tried to make a copper heatsink but it was still struggling, and so to keep it working so we could develop on other issues, we had a cycle of putting leverpostej from the fridge on it for 30 minutes before replacing it with another. It had the bonus of heating the leverpostej for a nice lunch lol.

Leverpostej FTW :-)

Re: Adam? ... is there a reason your laptop is in the fridge? (2006)

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Post by KineticLensman »

I worked at a place (early '90s) where the server room was full of (some sort of) Sun machines and a legacy Symbolics Lisp machine. One day the server room's aircon failed and the Sun machines started to die for no obvious reason. The Symbolics was the only thing with a thermometer and its console error messages (complaining about the heat) were the clue that revealed what was going on.

Although it was the size of a fridge itself.

Re: Adam? ... is there a reason your laptop is in the fridge? (2006)

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Post by sparrowInHand »

ayx wrote: post #91
permo-w wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

where were you working that had a marble floor?

Marble flooring in homes is quite common in India.

Its very common in loads of countrys - or at least terra-cotta tiles: Spain, Mexico, Italy, Greece. Its a good way to keep a house cool in summer.

Re: Adam? ... is there a reason your laptop is in the fridge? (2006)

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Post by Aachen »

jensgk wrote: post #104
RugnirViking wrote: post #99

We had a problem with a robot overheating here in denmark and we had a fridge in the office. We tried to make a copper heatsink but it was still struggling, and so to keep it working so we could develop on other issues, we had a cycle of putting leverpostej from the fridge on it for 30 minutes before replacing it with another. It had the bonus of heating the leverpostej for a nice lunch lol.

Leverpostej FTW :-)

Liver pâté that is in English apparently. I recognised it as leverpastei in Dutch :)

Re: Adam? ... is there a reason your laptop is in the fridge? (2006)

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Post by p2detar »

Had a Quantum Fireball hard drive as a kid.

I was playing HoMM2 one day, saved a game and try to reload only to find out the my save file was nowhere to be found. It all went downhill from there: Files reported saved, but no longer there after reboot, other data inconsistencies. Norton Utilities for DOS didn't do anything to help and at the end my PC did not boot anymore.

It seemed like a problem with the spindles or the head. I wasn't quite sure as a kid. Desperate, I tried the only other option I could think of - dismounted the hdd and dropped it from several inches high. To my astonishment that did work and by repeating that procedure now and then, I was able to squeeze at least a month or two out of my Quantum before it finally gave up.

Re: Adam? ... is there a reason your laptop is in the fridge? (2006)

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Post by aizyuval »

tforcram wrote: post #50

This reminds me of a time I tried to install Ubuntu on an old thick Dell laptop many years ago. Each time I would try the system would overheat and then crash. The existing (windows) system still appeared to work fine with light loads so I was pretty sure I just needed to get past the install and decided to try one more time. It was winter at the time, I can't remember if it had snowed recently, but I think it was pr…

Download with some help from god. Haha
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