O2 Joggler Forum

gegs wrote:

Leonardo wrote:MAMMAMIA!!!

A great Italian exclamation that needs no translation

Used by the great Freddy Mercury too in the wonderful Bohemian Rhapsody, a masterpiece!!!
I think that helps a lot the diffusion of the exclamation around the world!

I removed the HD to see if it has survived. Well, it wasn't as bad as I thought it might be, but still rather burnt. here is a photo of the underside of the machine.

BuZz wrote:I removed the HD to see if it has survived. Well, it wasn't as bad as I thought it might be

Are you saying you could access the info on the hard drive?

No - it's still too damaged for me to want to try,. There is nothing on the HD I need to access either as I have a backup.

Leonardo wrote:

gegs wrote:

Leonardo wrote:MAMMAMIA!!!

A great Italian exclamation that needs no translation

Used by the great Freddy Mercury too in the wonderful Bohemian Rhapsody, a masterpiece!!!
I think that helps a lot the diffusion of the exclamation around the world!

I see you've carefully sidestepped ABBA

Thank you for sharing buzz.

What model laptop / battery was it again?

Lately over the last year I've been buying whatever batteries I can find for my laptops on Amazon. I've had OK luck but noticed the last one I purchased for the HP laptop is starting to go. The current battery is about 2 years old and did give me something like 4 hours of battery time for a long time.

gegs wrote: I see you've carefully sidestepped ABBA

Uh yes I forgot Abba, but... let me say... two different worlds, Abba are good, ok, but Queen... another italian way of saying: "non c'e' confronto", literally: "There isn't any way to compare" (don't know if I can explain), the meaning is, one is good, but the other is thousands times better! Always personal idea, of course!!!

BuZz wrote:I removed the HD to see if it has survived. Well, it wasn't as bad as I thought it might be, but still rather burnt. here is a photo of the underside of the machine.

Ooh, look at the line the heat sink has melted into the plastic. At least your COA survived though, BuZz!

Ha ha, yes. I just saw the Windows licence sticker..... But I'm gonna guess the laptop was running Linux.

yeh. it ran linux

BuZz wrote:yeh. it ran linux

whatever?!?!?
No windows in my house, and neither in my office!!!

Leonardo wrote:

BuZz wrote:yeh. it ran linux

whatever?!?!?
No windows in my house, and neither in my office!!!

Isn't it a bit dark

You need to watch your vitamin D!

Amusingly, a friend recently got a job where his office is without windows. For the first time in 2 years, his daylight-powered watch died last week. He's now waiting for the vitamin deficiency to kick in. Supplement time!

@ Spoyser and Roobarb: LOL

Yoiks! Just this weekend I had to dig out my old (c2004) Acer laptop (in order to use the only available tools (windows!) to re-flash my new Android tablet, but that's another story! >.<), 'luckily', only the hard drive failed on me! /me removes battery from laptop...

Good think the Joggler doesn't have a battery!

Worryingly our office is full of old laptops and betteries!

Were you doing anything that was especially power demanding at the time of the fault?

acesabe wrote:
Were you doing anything that was especially power demanding at the time of the fault?

nope. machine was idle

Hmm. My UPS would make a mess if that went up.

roobarb! wrote:Hmm. My UPS would make a mess if that went up.

UPS batteries tend to be lead acid and as such are designed to be kept constantly on charge.
They sure make a mess if you drop one and break the casing though...

QuackingPlums wrote:

roobarb! wrote:Hmm. My UPS would make a mess if that went up.

UPS batteries tend to be lead acid and as such are designed to be kept constantly on charge.
They sure make a mess if you drop one and break the casing though...

We had some rack mount UPS units at a place I used to work. After a year or so they started beeping with a 'replace battery' warning. We had to dismantle the entire rack because the cells inside the units had swelled, making it impossible to slide the whole thing out. I left shortly after that, so never knew what happened to them.

I'm wondering now if its the QA stuff going on with these batteries.

I don't think much has changed in the development or methodologies of the charging circuits. I have looked over my older APC UPS's and they just have exhausted batteries. None of them leaked though.

Seems a bit like the exploding capacitors thing that was happening on the motherboards a while back. I had a brand new Intel motherboard do this to me about 2 years ago. Not too long ago I switched out my carpc's Via motherboard for same said reason.

It could be just the tolerances of manufacturing these laptop batteries that isn't being paid attention to?