It’s modular now.
I was wondering what was wrong until it hit me. I thought this was one of those laptops where they purposely cut the board into pieces so it’d fit 😬
Got a bit scratched… by The Hulk.
Nothing some ducktape couldn’t fix!
You’d think so, right? But duct tape is conductive, my friend. Use, electrical tape. Non conductive and it even comes in blue! Fix-er-up, like new!
Well, those broken pieces need to get conducted somehow.
When I worked in cell phone repair, someone brought in a cell phone in similar condition and asked a similar question, all while seeming quite sincere.
At least they were honest; they explained it had fallen out of their pocket while mowing and gotten entangled in the mower blades. Not sure how they expected us to affect repairs, though. We declined as politely as we could and directed them to where they could buy a replacement.
A lot of folks think that tech people are wizards, and maybe there was a chance. Source: I work in IT.
If the time was right, I’d be checking for an SD card. There’d be a chance to save some fraction of their data…
Have you tried putting it in a bowl of rice?
It’s dead.
At least for windows, Linux will probably run okayish.
That’ll buff out
Did you try throwing it in the oven at it’s highest possible temperature? Gotta reflow that solder and the board will magically come back together in one piece!
That depends, are you using Windows or Linux? If it’s Linux, you’ll be fine.
Looks like a very odd form factor. What kind of mainboard was that even?
It’s for a laptop from around 2013. The board is obviously model specific, but not super odd shape-wise.
I think that’s actually just dirt. I recommend the sanitize cycle on your dishwasher to make sure it’s clean.
you could make some cool coasters out of it
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
