Rolled my laptop down the stairs :'(

Hi, apologies if this is in the wrong section... didn't really know where to put it.

Just 30mins ago I acidentally rolled my laptop down the stairs (in a thin laptop bag). I've given it a good inspection and other than the CD tray being popped out, there doesn't seem to be any damages... it seems to be running fine. There isn't any marks or dead pixels on the display, and there isn't any lumps or bumps sticking around...

But I'm still worried since I've only had this laptop for about a month. cost me £1k...

Is there anything I should be worried about?
and Is there any tests that I could run to make sure that the internal hardware is fine?

hope to hear form you guys soon,
Cheers

 

First thing to check is the HDD for errors.

 

^^ at Soviet Sunrise.

Back to topic. Run a check disk utility. Check the performance with benchmarking tools. Perhaps opening it?

 

what brand is your laptop? if its a dell run the dell diagnostics at startup.

 

If the notebook was powered off (which I assume in this case) and inside a case, I wouldn't be too worried. If it was running, that's another story.

I once threw hard, (by accident - tripped), an external HD across my office (20 feet) and that drive is still working today (5 years later)!

Including running the check disk utility (make sure to check both boxes and reboot when asked), the only other thing I might check is that the RAM is still correctly seated.

Other than that, enjoy! (You still have warranty, right?)

But be more careful next time.

 

Run Checkdisk first and use your laptop... and then if probelms come up we can help... BTW HOW THE HELL CAN YOU ROLL A NEW 1K POUNDS LAPTOP DOWN THE STAIRS???????????????????? MAY LIGHTNING STRIKE YOU FOR DOING THAT! Lol....

 

thanks for the replies.

checked the hard drive and everything seems fine... I'm still a bit shaken though, I could still picture the laptop rolling down the stairs quite vividly in my head lols...

 

Did you heart stop when it was happening ?

In all likelyhood, your laptop will be none the worse for the roll...the bag saved it probably. Were the floors carpeted ?

 

Stay on-topic in this thread - thank you. I had to delete a few posts.

 

I will second tilleroftheearth's suggestion to make sure the memory chips are still seated. I bought a non-working 12" Aluminum G4 once at a flea market for $100, it had obviously been dropped but the screen was good so I gambled on it. Figured worst case I could buy another with a bad screen and swap it out. But I wanted to see if this one could run so I bought an AC adapter for it, a fresh battery, and it wouldn't do anything. So I started checking out battery contacts and nothing. The power plug wasn't broken loose. There were no cracks on the mainboard or the daughtercards, but I removed and installed the memory while I checked all this. It booted fine after that and I had no trouble getting $450 for it on CL. Awesome. If your laptop is working fine, I say keep using it, but if it gets flaky, check that memory and run CHKDSK or something equivalent.

 

I'm curious how long of a staircase it was. I once dropped a book on a staircase. It hit the step started rolling and picked up momentum. Finally it made a leap that cleared the last 6 steps. It was quite the sight. I've never seen a book jump that high. If that was my laptop, it would of definitely cracked the screen.

Lucky you.

 

LOL.... Nice tale... definetly going to try this as a physics experiment in school... anyway my school laptop are old celeron M laptops... worthless....

 

As Charles P. Jefferies said above. Stay on topic.

To MrDerek, any luck? Can you update us? Thanks

 

It's probably just fine.