Dropped my laptop

I woke up in the morning and life my V6J laptop screen. Somehow i mistaken the base of the laptop for the table and the laptop fell. I checked for anything broken and nothing seems to be broken. Is there anything that could be broken from the inside or what is the worst case that could happen?

 

Listen for clicking sounds when you turn it on. If it was off, you're mostly safe. If it was on and you were loading a huge map in some game, listen for clicking sounds from the hard drive area.

The other parts are all screwed down tight and should be fine. I'm guessing your LCD did not hit first from the way you described it. If your LCD shows any signs it's bleeding, send it to the dealer. Same with the hard drive: if you hear anything out of the ordinary (hearing is very important), back up everything and send it to the dealer.

 

If it still works - that's great, but just to be on the safe side, do a full backup incase something did happen to the hard drive and it starts to go. As said above, if it physicall works... listen for clicking sounds unlike anything you've heard on it to date and if you do, I'd suggest replacing the hard drive. consider yourself lucky though! I've seen hard drives die when a notebook is off and drops only 4" onto a carpet...... and then I've seen a notebook that was powered up that dropped from arms length onto concrete - and the notebook didn't even turn off (aside from some cosmetic frame damage, it was ok)..... so, I think there's serious luck (or bad luck) involved.

If it still works - just back up as a precaution.

 

While i wont go out and drop my V6j just to prove it, my bet is that you are fine. Check you hard drive for errors with disk check other wise remember how glad you re you bought Asus, my brothers hp fell half the height this weekend and now it wont charge.

 

used HDTune to check for bad sectors and there we none. No clicking sounds on the HD and everything works to far.

Thanks for all the help guys.

 

Sounds like your baby will be ok. How's the battery doing?

 

Try chkdsk from run as well. Lucky you

Aside from spending some serious cash on one of Panasonic's Toughbooks, I don't think there's much you can do to prevent a situation like this aside from having recent backups.

~ Brett

 

... replacing a hard drive once in a blue moon, along with a couple case parts is certainly cheaper than a toughbook...... along with that, everything in the world would be sexier looking as well as thinner and lighter...

 

:SS I've never dropped a laptop, I hope I never will...\

As to chkdsk: running

chkdsk X:/f/x/r

on every partition X will make sure you're okay (/f = fix, /r = physical, bad sectors check).

Backing up all your data is always a good idea, I do it once every few months, I use rewriteable DVDs for that purpose.

Hope you're ok, Gotei, next time be more careful, and don't handle your notebook while you're sleepy! (I do that sometimes, too...)

 

Believe it or not, the most common cause of dropping a laptop that we've seen or heard of..... falling asleep! People in a chair or bed simply falling asleep while using their notebook and it slipping or getting kicked off the bed... That's one reason I suggest never a notebook in bed.

 

If I am tired and I have mine in bed than I make sure its sitting in the middle of the bed, so i will bump it and wake up before I kick it out of bed, that would be a terrible way to wake up.

 

right.. well... you can imagine though... People go to bed with books all the time... where are they when you wake up?

 

That would be no fun. Glad i haven't done that (knock on wood).