Yikes, i droped my laptop

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Yikes, i droped my laptop

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As the name say, i dropped my laptop (really really hard, it was on, then it turned off from the impact), now its running slower than normal times, and freezes sometimes, any recomendations. thanks in advance.
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:O


its most likely damaged. You may want to open it up and see.
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501st_commander wrote::O


its most likely damaged. You may want to have a professional or someone with experience open it up and see.
If you, yourself, have experience in this field, then by all means consider yourself qualified for the red description. I, however, do not, so that is my suggestion.
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Not majorly open it, just the memory prosessor and harddrive covers.
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Be careful about poking around in it. I heard from my computer teacher that there's a part in computers that is so full of power that, even if it's left sitting in a dump for 2 years, touching it will kill you.

Though I'm probably just sounding like an idiot here.
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Re: Yikes, i droped my laptop

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Yeah, thats usually just the power supply. That and the monitor are probably the most dangerous. Never open up the power supply, it usually has a lot of volts left in it.
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Well, i thank everone, for there suggestions.
Update.
It Died :cpu: :faint:
I took it to a cpu repair shop, hope they can help.
They will call on saturnday. cross your fingers :|
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THEWULFMAN wrote:cross your fingers :|
I will, even my toes and hair XD
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OK, so i got my laptop back, it works, they had to rep[lace the HDD, so i lost a lot, and now there is something loose that sifts slightly inside :runaway:
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