Best overheating accident ever.

[Snowbow]

I live in a house with crappy insulation. It gets pretty cold in Halifax. (And then, seemingly, this winter, it gets cyclically warm.

So to save on heating my roomie and I eschew expensive oil furnace heat for electric space heaters.

My space heater is on the fritz. The fan speed doesn't scale anymore with the element level so when I turn it to the setting where it can heat my room, it overheats and shuts down. So I have to use it on medium, which doesn't heat anything at all. Except under my desk.

So I stash the thing under my desk. Which is made of plastic. Which conducts heat much better than my usual wooden desk.

So guess what happens when I stash a heater underneath an excellent heat conductor which my laptop is sitting on?

Fucksake. NOW I figure out why my laptop has been rebooting every time I play TF2.

--edit

Although this is an interesting theory, this has only happened in the last two days and now my laptop is certifiably stone cold except for normal op temps. And still crashing. My only other suspect is my mic, which I have also recently modified.

[aSydiK]

LOL... sorry dude but that's kinda funny.

[cujo]

My sister had the same issue with her laptop... turns out it was because it was a Sony :P

[Snowbow]

LOL... sorry dude but that's kinda funny.

No need for apolgies, it's funny. But now i must choose whether to play TF2 or keep warm. Man should not have to make such decisions.

(Ok, or I could buy a new space heater. But it's more philosophical the other way.)

[ORION]

Or put something along the lines of 2 pieces of wood under the laptop.

[Snowbow]

Or put something along the lines of 2 pieces of wood under the laptop.

Wood. Wood... this is something rustic suburban-dwellers have in high supply. As opposed to me -- I could requisition four Gundam models to hoist my laptop over their heads.

That might be stylish overkill though.

[SKULLCRUSHER]

Holy Snowbow, tell me where you live and I will see about shipping you out a new space heater. Im cringing at the thought of your local newspaper headlines:

" Fill in appropriate headline here "

[Zero Hero]

I bought a space heater which also overheated and now doesn't even turn on. Talking about planned obselence.

[aSydiK]

Snow, did you end up buying that fan you were gonna place under your comp before you found this out?

[Calamity Gundam]

[QUOTE=Snowbow;34313]Wood. Wood... this is something rustic suburban-dwellers have in high supply. As opposed to me -- I could requisition four Gundam models to hoist my laptop over their heads.
[QUOTE]

I SAY DO IT!

[ArchAngel2]

"Avid TF2 Fan Found Frozen to Death, Working Space Heater Found at the Scene"
(Turn to page A12 for the in-depth analysis)

[Snowbow]

Snow, did you end up buying that fan you were gonna place under your comp before you found this out?

No. What's happened now is that attempted to disassemble the laptop in order to clear out the fans.

What actually happened was:

I took out all the bottom screws.

Nothing apparently came loose.

I put all the screws back in.

Now the damned thing won't boot. I don't even get a BIOS screen.

I've never seen this before, merely removing and replacing all the bottom screws without actually accomplishing anything except getting a sore wrist, resulting in a dead laptop.

It's very depressing. I think I may safely blame snowballing hardware failure. I could try taking out all the screws again and see if it boots, but it's too late and I have too much alcohol in me to attempt such a precision operation.

[aSydiK]

WOW... just buy a new computer...

[Snowbow]

WOW... just buy a new computer...

It's a laptop. Two months old. I've probably voided the warranty by removing the screws. I'll still pay repair fees, tho, cos it's a nice laptop, and because the payment plan is such a pittance as to be negligible.

I hate downtime though.

[ArchAngel2]

Is there any way they can tell that you have undone the screws? Did you have to break a seal or anything?