My wife killed my PowerBook

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podmatepodmate
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in General Discussion edited January 2014


My wife spilled coffee all over and into my Ti500!!!

Naturally, this happened when she was surfing with it.

This thing is friggin dead. I let it dry out for 2 days and tried starting it up this morning, it starts up and then shuts itself off after 30-90 seconds.



Fortunately its my works laptop and I have a new 1.33 12" coming (shipping date is on or before 5/20) but I'm still pissed. Looks like the new laptop will be off limits to the wife.



Sorry, had to vent.
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  • Reply 1 of 27
    scottscott Posts: 7,431member
    Buy your wife her own computer.
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  • Reply 2 of 27
    kraig911kraig911 Posts: 912member
    and sometimes I ask myself why I'm not married yet...
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  • Reply 3 of 27
    baxterg4baxterg4 Posts: 6member
    I've had good luck with taking out all the batteries/disconnecting all power/etc then pouring water (filtered, I think... don't do any of this without confirmation from others!) over the problem parts a few times and then putting a fan on it for a few hours.



    I dunno if that's good to do in general, but it saved my Wallstreet from a whole can of Coke back in the day.
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  • Reply 4 of 27
    billybobskybillybobsky Posts: 1,914member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Scott

    Buy your wife her own computer.



    yeah.
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  • Reply 5 of 27
    scottscott Posts: 7,431member
    I think I would just pull mine apart and clean the parts individually.
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  • Reply 6 of 27
    alcimedesalcimedes Posts: 5,486member
    or if that's too much work, i'll pay for you to ship it to me. i love taking these things apart, see if i can get them working again.



    of course, i'd keep it, so that might not be what you want to do.
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  • Reply 7 of 27
    murbotmurbot Posts: 5,262member
    That's definitely worth nightly hummer for the next month.
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  • Reply 8 of 27
    noleli2noleli2 Posts: 129member
    Can you still boot it into target disk mode? 'Cause then you could at least get your stuff off it when the new 'Book comes.
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  • Reply 9 of 27
    splinemodelsplinemodel Posts: 7,311member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by murbot

    That's definitely worth nightly hummer for the next month.



    The philosopher-poet speaks again.
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  • Reply 10 of 27
    podmatepodmate Posts: 183member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by murbot

    That's definitely worth nightly hummer for the next month.



    Sounds good to me
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  • Reply 11 of 27
    podmatepodmate Posts: 183member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Noleli2

    Can you still boot it into target disk mode? 'Cause then you could at least get your stuff off it when the new 'Book comes.



    Nope, I'm going to pull the HD and put into an enclosure. That way I'll have my data, if that doesn't work then I still have my backups from last week.
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  • Reply 12 of 27
    ipodandimacipodandimac Posts: 3,273member
    This calls for a divorce! j/k
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  • Reply 13 of 27
    scottscott Posts: 7,431member
    I just stilled a little bit of beer on my powerbook
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  • Reply 14 of 27
    tekmatetekmate Posts: 134member
    It's time for a new wife :-)
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  • Reply 15 of 27
    zodiaczodiac Posts: 138member
    Thank god this wasn't going to happen to your new PB. Now you know it won't.
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  • Reply 16 of 27
    >_>>_> Posts: 336member
    Kill your wife. >_>



    - Xidius
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  • Reply 17 of 27
    defiantdefiant Posts: 4,876member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by >_>

    Kill your wife.



    This needs exactly one answer:



    podmate: get your wife a powerbook too, that way when she kills it she killed her own... and hey, maybe it was her 'subtle' way of telling you that you should spend more time with her, who knows.
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  • Reply 18 of 27
    kennethkenneth Posts: 832member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by >_>

    Kill your wife. >_>



    - Xidius



    A wife is a life-time thing. what a comment from Ms. xidius.
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  • Reply 19 of 27
    pantherpanther Posts: 64member
    Tea is supposedly better for hard drives.

    At least I've seen a Powerbook working after it had been spilled some hot tea over it.



    Are you getting divorced?
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  • Reply 20 of 27
    a_greera_greer Posts: 4,594member
    Woman kills mans laptop: Man kills woman...
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