ants in laptop

[taper]

Please explain this to my MX440, my laptop HDD and my soundblaster sound card.

You've tested 3 units. My department has done hundreds, if not thousands in the last year alone. Very few have been badly damaged, but it does happen. I would not risk it on my equipment.

 

[Souron]

Also a sound card probably has less space for water to collect then a laptop.

Let them be. They are cleaning it for you!


*Insert anthill inside joke here*

Ants have been known to cause damage to electronic devices. Most likely they're after food, but they have been known to be attracted to electronics. And if they're in a laptop, I'd get them out soon, before they find a random current pulse that feels like something else.

 

[Formaldehyde]

That is different than deliberately freezing your computer. Stick a laptop in the freezer overnight and let us know what happens.

 

[Maniacal]

Fifty you have a strange run of computer problems...

 

[Mise]

Freezers are -20 degrees C btw (-4 F).