HELP: Computer dropped on floor, what got damaged?

Sovereign · Post by **Sovereign** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 6:29 pm

My roommate's computer (his secondary) just took a tumble off the top of my Thermaltake Armor case. The acrylic plastic making up the case cracked. The computer was powered on at the time. Only random crap on the screen now. I know the HDD is gone (probably a head crash), what about the videocard/CPU? Data was backed up, only a little bit of music etc and a clean install of Windows XP Pro SP2.

Post by **Apoptosis** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 6:41 pm

more than likely it's just a hdd if anything... I've knocked hard drives off the test bench onto a carpeted floor and they worked fine... you might get lucky.

Sovereign · Post by **Sovereign** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 7:01 pm

The screen only displays a jumbled mess, and I can't test the videocard because it's AGP. However, it fell onto a HARD dorm floor...

The Black Pumpkin · Post by **The Black Pumpkin** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 9:02 pm

Just out of curiosity, what was it doing on top of your computer?

If it fell onto a hard floor, a capacitor or seven might have broken off of something. I'd say take everything apart and inspect for visible damage, if nothing looks bad, put just the basics back and see. Only that's a lot of work.

Sovereign · Post by **Sovereign** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 9:04 pm

Videocard died, no visible damage....so we buy a new one.

pcrobot · Post by **pcrobot** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 7:54 pm

Yeah, why would you put a PC on top of another?

Kerii · Post by **Kerii** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 9:13 pm

It's a dorm.

And if it's anything like the dorms I stayed in at university, the two single beds probably already take up half the floor space.

bigblockmatt · Post by **bigblockmatt** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 11:20 pm

it could be simple as something got unseeded. its open the case, umplug and replug everything back into the slot. check the cpu, if it look like the heatsink stuff is where it should be, i wouldnt worry about it.

Tim Burton · Post by **Tim Burton** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 10:15 pm

HELP: Computer dropped on floor, what got damaged?

Your wallet....

Post by **Apoptosis** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 10:57 pm

i still wanna see pictures of this ;)

Sovereign · Post by **Sovereign** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 11:58 am

If we can find a digital camera (yes I'm aware of using friends for this) I'll upload a pic or two.

Cannyone · Post by **Cannyone** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 10:47 am

If you dropped a computer onto the floor while it was running

and all that got messed up was the video card... YOU ARE EXTREMELY LUCKY!!

halutz_kudos · Post by **halutz_kudos** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 10:40 pm

you'll flat broke man...

your HDD will definitly dead by now... i dont know about the videocard... yeah you better post a pix...

cyberneticimplant · Post by **cyberneticimplant** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 4:37 pm

When I was doing an upgrade I put my hard drive on top of my case, then I tipped the case, and the hard drive fell on the floor. It happened 4 years ago, and the hard drive still works now. It was a Fujitsu drive.

Zelig · Post by **Zelig** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 8:21 pm

cyberneticimplant wrote:When I was doing an upgrade I put my hard drive on top of my case, then I tipped the case, and the hard drive fell on the floor. It happened 4 years ago, and the hard drive still works now. It was a Fujitsu drive.

Fujitsu drives are awesome. I've got a 13GB Fujitsu left from my first computer build ever, probably the only part that didn't suck. (It was a celeron machine)