This isn't Ten Cents, this is just something that happened that I thought was interesting.
Yesterday, I had my old 2011 Dell clunker laptop start smoldering on my lap. It had shutoff randomly, and I made the mistake of turming it back on...
Smoke began to come out of the battery area. I freaked out, ejected the battery, then frantically ran for the fire extinguisher. It had stopped smoking, but it smelled terrible.
This must be Dell's way of making you buy new products.
I ran up to the dining room to tell my parents...
Me: "Hey...um... the laptop nearly caught fire on my lap. It started smoking. A lot.... thought you may wanna know."
Father: "...Okay."
My mother looked at me like I was nuts. My father just sort of accepted it.
I ran upstairs to get my screwdriver to see what had happened, and then they tell me to throw the laptop away.
I took out the hard drive, RAM cards, and wireless cards (there are two for some reason), then tossed the rest of thw laptop into a bag.
The insides of the laptop smelled bad, and I was faced with a single half-charred ribbon cable among otherwise intact... everything else?
I originally thought the battery was venting or something, but it was intact? No weird smells or dings on it, anywhere.
Now it's today, and my father found a used laptop at the office and is bringing it home for me.
But, I've had... ifffy experiences with past laptops from there.
My first laptop ever was a gateway 450sx4, powered by a pentium M (or pentium 2, I forget). It was old, and it ran XP.
That one I dropped one day, and it stopped working.
Then I got a gateway 450ROG. It was powered by a pentium 2 (or M, whatever the first one didn't have).
That one just lost the ability to hold a charge, so we pitched it.
Then we have my Dell, which as I already stated started smoldering. It didn't catch fire, but it was pretty close.
I hope the used one I'm getting isn't a downgrade from what I had, the office hand-me-downs are kinda random.
Have any stories about computer-related mishaps you'd like to share? Fires? Derps? Strange noises? Random part falling off?
Yesterday, I had my old 2011 Dell clunker laptop start smoldering on my lap. It had shutoff randomly, and I made the mistake of turming it back on...
Smoke began to come out of the battery area. I freaked out, ejected the battery, then frantically ran for the fire extinguisher. It had stopped smoking, but it smelled terrible.
This must be Dell's way of making you buy new products.
I ran up to the dining room to tell my parents...
Me: "Hey...um... the laptop nearly caught fire on my lap. It started smoking. A lot.... thought you may wanna know."
Father: "...Okay."
My mother looked at me like I was nuts. My father just sort of accepted it.
I ran upstairs to get my screwdriver to see what had happened, and then they tell me to throw the laptop away.
I took out the hard drive, RAM cards, and wireless cards (there are two for some reason), then tossed the rest of thw laptop into a bag.
The insides of the laptop smelled bad, and I was faced with a single half-charred ribbon cable among otherwise intact... everything else?
I originally thought the battery was venting or something, but it was intact? No weird smells or dings on it, anywhere.
Now it's today, and my father found a used laptop at the office and is bringing it home for me.
But, I've had... ifffy experiences with past laptops from there.
My first laptop ever was a gateway 450sx4, powered by a pentium M (or pentium 2, I forget). It was old, and it ran XP.
That one I dropped one day, and it stopped working.
Then I got a gateway 450ROG. It was powered by a pentium 2 (or M, whatever the first one didn't have).
That one just lost the ability to hold a charge, so we pitched it.
Then we have my Dell, which as I already stated started smoldering. It didn't catch fire, but it was pretty close.
I hope the used one I'm getting isn't a downgrade from what I had, the office hand-me-downs are kinda random.
Have any stories about computer-related mishaps you'd like to share? Fires? Derps? Strange noises? Random part falling off?
