Talk about preoccupied.
I was baking the Q8 this afternoon when a storm broke
Hail and thunder
So I get outside to protect a very small olive tree and when I came back in it was raining inside.
A tile or probably even a few must have been broken by the hail.
And a beam guided water Creating a nice waterfall
And below that beam, my notebook, soldering iron, box with Q8 parts.
Dang dang dang.
Quickly to the shop to get rice and roof tiles
Notebook in a bag with a kilo of rice.
And a sloppy fast assembly ⌠Oh will it work, yes light!
So rest asure the Q8 lives!
(Not able to upload pics or edit OPs till my notebook is dry )
Somebody call a digital doctor!
Anyone know how to do CPR on a computer?
Or, anyone know who to call for a little techno-necromancy?
I hope the ghost will stay in the machine.
Heheh notebook not clear, I let it sit in the bag.
It is a 17â that is easy to take apart so Iâm sure itâll work or I get it going again if not.
Q8 is fine that is good!
And well did do a leak in a lower placed roof a while back, this shows its time to check all.
Also that ugly satellite dish on thw high roof needs to go, it messes up the beamshots
Sort off, have been building my own computers, and overclocking them since a 700 MHZ cpu was like â OMG who need so much calculating powerâ
But i have never worked on a laptop, in my small circle we tend to agree laptops are for students and kids.
Still have my dualcore AMD machine as it was one of the Opteron CPUs named Denmark, and the 1700 MHZ coy did / do 2500 MHZ with ease.
Always nice to have a fallback, computer
Also have parts to build a 3.0 GHZ Northwood quadcore machine, just to be on the safe side of things.
Okay i have not done overclocking for a while now, dont seem to be needed and i have other things to use my past time on.
Yes I did not like notebooks too but with the regular power drops and the need to be able to move to another room (we live in different areas in winter then in summer) so a notebook made sense , though I have a big one with room for a fee hard drives so it comes close to a desktop experience
And well it worked when I pressed it off and then dried it and placed it up side down on a fee towels, I kind of expecf it to boot up and work normal tomorrow.
It is not steep.
I needed 220 new tiles on a low part a while back.
It is all done 30 years ago and then old tikes were reused.
So winds and age make then slowly glide down and some crack.
Reason I needed 220 was that it was my first time on a roof and I had no idea how to move and I wanted to freshen the look up a bit so evenly but randomly I changed some top tiles too,
Now I know how to get up there amd over without breaking tiles and I plan on leave the old ones as is so not fleshen the looks, it looks good. All I need is to change the shifted, cracked and probably hail-smashes tiles.
70 new tiles ready
Actually it is not the best method to use rice. The problem is not the water. the problem is the salt and minerals in the water. and if u let it dry (using rice or a fan . . . ) the salt and minerals can still short things out. and it will still corrode further. (Should you put your phone in rice? Only if you want to buy a new phone - YouTube) a good inside look what happend if u use any simple dry method (jump to 36:40 to see a rice dryed pcb). Or check Louis comment and pics (How to use rice to repair water damage on iPhones and Macbooks - YouTube).
If your device gets wet first thing to do is get the battery out if possible. and then get the device to someone that can dissasemble it to get it cleaned. I did some of this repairs myself. using destilled water and isopropanol to clean the parts. some are still working.