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Glad this wasnt my Laptop

post #1 of 89
1/5/04 at 6:13pm
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Taken from hard ocp(http://www.hardocp.com/) all credit ect goes to them-

"Laptop Explodes:
I work as a pc technician for America's largest electronics retailer. Today a customer brought his laptop in for repair and stated that it "exploded". After five years as a tech I thought I had seen it all and was wondering about his perception of "explosion". As I cracked open the box of a five month old Compaq Presario I was hit with a foul stench and immediately knew the chosen words of "explosion" were appropriate. Somehow, someway....this laptops battery totally exploded causing a large fireball and partial disintegration of the computer. The battery caught fire sending a fireball through the front of the laptop blowing a three inch hole through what used to be the floppy on the opposite side of the case. I know that any battery has the potential for danger given the correct circumstances, however this battery met a truly violent end under normal operating conditions. The customer stated that his entire table was burnt to a crisp and would of been true of the whole house if a fire extinguisher was not as handy as it was."





OUCHY
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post #2 of 89
1/5/04 at 6:20pm
Damn...

Looks like it got hit by an RPG...
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post #3 of 89
1/5/04 at 6:21pm
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hehehehe sure does
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post #4 of 89
1/5/04 at 6:25pm
You bet. Its why I don't leave my machines on when I am not around.
Ever!

This is one of those freak incidents, the 1 in 10,000 or 100,000 or 1,000,000 or whatever large number you want to use. Same sort of thing happens with tempered glass, like in showers, skylights, doors and next to doors, etc. Sometimes, for no reason whatsoever, except maybe some extraordinary coincidence of conditions, right temperature, falling or rising at the right rate, the right indoor and outdoor pressure, the right in plane stress, the right neutrino flux from the right direction, whatevah, the dang sheet of safety glass just explodes. Sometimes it takes a slight bump, sometimes not. Sometimes its just the light hits it a certain way. The rate is about 1 in 100 or so. The most likely cause is Nickle Sulfide inclusions, but that's not the only cause. Tempered glass has stressed built up within it, that's why it explodes rather than simply cracks.
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post #5 of 89
1/5/04 at 6:27pm
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or was the batt just made wrong from the factory ... cause thats what started the whole bloody thing
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post #6 of 89
1/5/04 at 6:27pm
heh...you said neutrino flux

reminds me of the old days when Apple PowerBook 5300's were bursting into flame.
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post #7 of 89
1/5/04 at 6:42pm
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heheeheheh
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post #8 of 89
1/5/04 at 11:15pm
Wow....even worse, imagine if the person had been sitting there when it happened.
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post #9 of 89
1/5/04 at 11:19pm
WOW, thanks for the pics.
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post #10 of 89
1/5/04 at 11:33pm
Damn RIAA and their new anti-P2P software!

But I digress, It really happened while wardriving:
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post #11 of 89
6/18/05 at 1:16am
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BUMP this is worth seeing again
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post #12 of 89
6/18/05 at 1:22am
i see compaq. me stay away from compaq. me stay away from ppl with compaq
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post #13 of 89
6/18/05 at 1:26am
thanks for the bump +rep to you
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post #14 of 89
6/18/05 at 1:27am
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Np, was just curious of all the threads i made so i searched and came across this relic, worth takin another look @
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post #15 of 89
6/18/05 at 1:30am
wow...
i was lookin at the topic and the picture before i read..
did you know what i was thinking? i was thinking a laptop shipped and arrived at this "mint" condition lol..
i wonder wut your face is like if 1 day u ordered a laptop and it arrived.. once u open the box.. it looks like that.. ahha
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post #16 of 89
6/18/05 at 1:34am
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LOL, that would be great..
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post #17 of 89
6/18/05 at 1:49am
HAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!! THATs so funny...

edit: is your company going to replace his computer? or are they gonna repair it...lol

edit again: nvm its not you...lol
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post #18 of 89
6/18/05 at 2:06am
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Am the noob of the week now for bring up old threads that i myself made? Is that a crime.. how many of you guys send this thread before raise your hands?


I BUMPed because i thought the new wave of Notebook forums users would get a kick out of it. If thats a crime shot me.
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post #19 of 89
6/18/05 at 2:09am
is someone giving you -rep? because I don't really see anyone complaining..
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post #20 of 89
6/18/05 at 2:10am
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Not here, in Off Topic

You guys r kewl up here

See up here this is heaven

Down there it is hell where off topic Lives

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