[NTLK] OT: Dust bunnies in my MBP

Dale A. Raby daleraby at gmail.com
Tue Sep 21 07:28:02 EDT 2010


Two weeks ago I was called upon to "repair" a friend's computer that had been struck by lightning.  I told him that there was little hope, but I'd come and have a look.

Arrived and found my friend and his wife milking the cows, so I went into their house and located the alledged crispy critter.  Opened the case and found it almost completely filled with dust and cobwebs.  Located their vaccuum cleaner and removed the debris so I could at least look at the motherboard.

I hoped that once clean the machine would boot up and all would be well, but alas, no such luck.  Fried capacitors on the motherboard and a dead power supply.  Surprised the lightning did not ignite the whole dust cloud and make it explode.

Now I got a dead machine to resurrect.  Maybe next month.

Dale
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