Your Mac accidents - Page 10

xarcom · #73 May 18th, 2005, 08:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Decado

just put a full glass of Orange juice over my powerbook keyboard

pulled everything out. tilted it to get the most out of the machine (not because i was thirsty, i might add). well i'm writing on it now, but the spacebar is sticky as hell.

Something similar happened to me as well. I spilled Chocolate Milk all over my ibook keyboard a while back... It was interesting to say the least. I removed all the keys and cleaned each one individually. It took 2 hours but it works fine now... no stickiness or anything.. I highly suggest you do the same. Ohh and be warned that if you do, you'll probably be grossed out to see what lives in your keyboard..

for details on how I did this, I followed the steps detailed here: http://mij.oltrelinux.com/ibook/cleaning_keyboard/

arri · #74 May 18th, 2005, 09:08 AM

ok, another one:

i had made my bed about 3 meters up in the air in my room to save space.
one morning me and my girlfriend woke up, and in a goodmorning-hug we accidentally turned to much to the edge.. and fell all the way down, right on top of my desk, which had a beige G3 on it. from there we role off the desk, taking everything on it with us, down to the floor.
the scanner and printer didn't servive. one monitor had collapsed. and the Beige G3 didn't really look as if it were ever to run again: the case was cracked and bended, and opened during the crash. all front-panels had come off.. etc..

but after bending-back pices, reassembling everythjing and pressing the powerbutton: TADAAAAA.. it still works perfect today.

and most important, we didn't get hurt ourselves either.
some angels around i guess

arri

Lt Major Burns · #75 May 18th, 2005, 09:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xarcom

Something similar happened to me as well. I spilled Chocolate Milk all over my ibook keyboard a while back... It was interesting to say the least. I removed all the keys and cleaned each one individually. It took 2 hours but it works fine now... no stickiness or anything.. I highly suggest you do the same. Ohh and be warned that if you do, you'll probably be grossed out to see what lives in your keyboard..

for details on how I did this, I followed the steps detailed here: http://mij.oltrelinux.com/ibook/cleaning_keyboard/

just cleaned my keyboard in a fit of work-avoiding.

small, crap-making little creatures have obviously been very productive in the last six months.... hideous.

Lt Major Burns · #76 May 18th, 2005, 09:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by arri

ok, another one:

i had made my bed about 3 meters up in the air in my room to save space.
one morning me and my girlfriend woke up, and in a goodmorning-hug we accidentally turned to much to the edge.. and fell all the way down, right on top of my desk, which had a beige G3 on it. from there we role off the desk, taking everything on it with us, down to the floor.
the scanner and printer didn't servive. one monitor had collapsed. and the Beige G3 didn't really look as if it were ever to run again: the case was cracked and bended, and opened during the crash. all front-panels had come off.. etc..

but after bending-back pices, reassembling everythjing and pressing the powerbutton: TADAAAAA.. it still works perfect today.

and most important, we didn't get hurt ourselves either.
some angels around i guess

arri

stranger than fiction... couldn't make it up!

nixgeek · #77 May 18th, 2005, 11:09 AM

Well, this is more of an OS 9, older program accident.

I have a Motorola StarMax with both OS 9 and Debian installed. I decided to reboot from Linux to OS 9 so that my son could play "Mixed Up Mother Goose" on it. Well, things went well until the computer COMPLETELY locked up. I actually had to hit the power button on the StarMax and noticed that BootX gave me an error saying it couldn't find the partition with the Linux kernel. So I let it boot into OS 9 and noticed that the partition wasn't there. A quick klaunch of the Disk First Aid brought it back up, but it has errors.

Lesson learned: never again will I play old 68k games on the StarMax, no matter what my son says.

Decado · #78 May 18th, 2005, 03:33 PM

nice, Xarcom!
but the powerbooks keyboard looks quite different, so i wonder if the same instruction applies to it. Anyone?
i will try to keep away from the computer for a few days (Ghhaaaa!) to see if it gets solved by drying the stuck juice to powder.

riccbhard · #79 May 18th, 2005, 11:13 PM

I've seen a Titanium PowerBook tumble down 15 cement steps. No damage. Works perfect, and it was even on sleep

. It didnt even wake up when it hit the bottom.

Well it dosent involve damage, but I accidently deleted the calculator.app on my Mac

. ElDiablo helped me get it back

.

**Giaguara** · #80 May 20th, 2005, 10:18 PM

Powerbook is different, right kallikanzaroi ... it's harder to remove the keyboard. You'd need to lift the keys f2 or f3 and f11 or f12 (around them - I don't remember offhand which) so that you could lift the keyboard .. and in a specific way and specific angle -- as it's not planned to be a user removable part. I think letting the pbook dry a few days to see if it would eliminate the problem might work as well. At least, try that before trying to see what else you can (unless you find the service manual etc).