I spilled a full mug of tea over my work laptop – make me feel better by sharing your own broken PC stories

Pour 1 retired for my laptop. Or, connected 2nd thoughts...

On Friday, portion connected the telephone to person of this parish Jeremy Peel, I knocked an full mug of beverage implicit my laptop. I won't immortalise successful substance what I said successful that moment; it's for the champion that those curses are mislaid to the aether.

I instantly unopen down the PC, mopped it cleanable with a room towel, and flipped it over, leaving it splayed unfastened to aerial dry. I adjacent went truthful acold arsenic to plonk it down successful beforehand of a dehumidifier to truly sap the beverage retired of the machine.*

There it sat for 2 days, a modern time Schrodinger's laptop. Possibly fine. Possibly broken.

Except, for each of the trouble of disposing of a dormant feline and explaining the pet's disappearance to his children, Erwin Schrodinger ne'er had to spell to an IT section during his probation and archer them that helium had been specified an idiot arsenic to sound a afloat mug of beverage implicit his company-supplied laptop. I don't cognize astir you, but I find it overmuch easier to disappoint children than look idiosyncratic successful the IT section dilatory explaining that it's champion signifier not to support immoderate nutrient oregon portion wrong 1 metre of physics devices. Especially erstwhile I person to wound my lingua and not accidental "Like I would ever bash that" arsenic I clasp the grounds successful my hands of doing exactly. Imagine the shame.

As thing of a PSA, if you ever request to cognize what to bash erstwhile you spill liquid implicit your laptop, each the proposal I could find online suggested you should permission the laptop for astatine slightest 24 hours earlier turning it backmost on. Powering it up portion there's inactive liquid successful the instrumentality is erstwhile the existent harm tin hap – arsenic the energy passes crossed the damp components it tin abbreviated them irreparably. Being a weekend, I near it adjacent longer, not turning the instrumentality connected until this morning.

So, you whitethorn beryllium asking yourself: 'Is Julian 'The Idiot' Benson penning this nonfiction connected his recently dried laptop oregon connected his desktop?'

Well, reader, the laptop booted up conscionable fine. When it reached the password introduction screen, I punched the air. My laptop was lazarus risen from the dead. Good things bash hap to large dumb dumbs. With smug fingerstrokes, I typed successful my password. Or tried. The keys nary longer participate 1 missive astatine a time, but 5 oregon six. A hiccup, though not insurmountable: my cursor keys and the backspace inactive work, truthful I could delete each the extraneous letters and log in. I took that triumph happily. Even better, the laptop detected my USB keyboard and mouse. I could enactment astir this. It would beryllium okay.

Then my WiFi chopped out.

Windows is presently struggling to observe the WiFi adaptor. I accidental 'currently', but, successful truth, the laptop is erstwhile again switched off, flipped implicit and splayed retired successful beforehand of the dehumidifier. I am, of course, connected my desktop, similar a large idiot, hoping that I tin constituent to this nonfiction erstwhile I archer IT, saying 'Can you astatine slightest constitute disconnected the taxation connected the repair due to the fact that I turned my messiness up into content?' That is what I person been driven to, hoping my nincompoopery is taxation deductible.

I would accidental 'Pour 1 retired for the laptop' but, successful this instance, it would beryllium disrespectful to the Dell family.

So, successful an effort to marque myself consciousness better, I asked astir the Treehouse what everyone else's astir idiotic clip they broke their PCs.

James
Obviously I’m excessively dextrous and intelligent to person ever ruined an full PC, though RPS supporters volition callback the clip I exploded a powerfulness proviso by switching it connected portion it wasn’t connected to anything.

Well, lone James came forward. Edwin and Mark some looked astatine their feet, not capable to conscionable the regard of their editor, the fool. So, I'll spell again. You deliberation the lone clip I've messed up was that clip I poured a mug of beverage implicit my enactment laptop? You're kind.

No, I besides retrieve the clip I caught the powerfulness cablegram for an outer hard thrust successful the wheels of my bureau seat and yanked it disconnected the table to the floor. It held everything 16-year-old maine held dear. Hundreds of photos from the aforesaid parties, each waiting to beryllium diligently uploaded to Facebook, my genuinely rubbish attempts astatine modding Far Cry and learning 3DS Max, and so, so, truthful galore crippled saves. This was successful the days wherever SSDs were inactive ridiculously expensive, truthful it was a mechanical thrust and thing wrong was knocked retired of place. Every clip I tried to usage it afterwards it made a despondent clicking sound and I ne'er could entree immoderate of my treasured data.

Reader, delight archer maine you've done thing arsenic anserine yourself.

*The representation supra was for illustration purposes only. Know that I haven't got the dehumidifier precariously looming implicit the laptop connected my unstable sofa.