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alex   11-25-2004 at 11:32:39 PM

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Yesterday I accidentally pushed my HP Pavilion laptop off the table.
It seems to work, but I am wondering what should I watch for ?
Harddrive ? DVD drive ?

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Anonymous   11-26-2004 at 06:54:15 PM
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About six months ago I dropped my HP Pavilion about three feet onto a
ceramic tile floor. As best as I could tell, one corner of the case took the
main blow.

Up to this point, the laptop has shown no adverse effects from the accident.

"Alex" <arazumo@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Yesterday I accidentally pushed my HP Pavilion laptop off the table.
> It seems to work, but I am wondering what should I watch for ?
> Harddrive ? DVD drive ?

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Anonymous   11-26-2004 at 01:12:00 PM
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Alex wrote:
> Yesterday I accidentally pushed my HP Pavilion laptop off the table.
> It seems to work, but I am wondering what should I watch for ?
> Harddrive ? DVD drive ?

The HD would likely be the first place to suffer, although the AC
adapter jack, if AC was connected at the time, is the most fragile part
of many laptops. HDs are not nearly as fragile as they once were; most
are designed to protect from g-shock. Watch for file errors, startup
problems. Download the manufacturer's disk health utility to check the
disk. If the laptop works like it did, there is probability than
nothing was damaged at all.

Q

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Anonymous   11-26-2004 at 09:26:14 PM
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In article <b16adcc4.0411251732.2853597b@posting.google.com>, arazumo@hotmail.com (Alex) wrote:
>Yesterday I accidentally pushed my HP Pavilion laptop off the table.
>It seems to work, but I am wondering what should I watch for ?
>Harddrive ? DVD drive ?

In my experience, often the LCD display breaks: the shock severs some of the
fine connections of the column drivers and you get lines running down the
display. Or you shatter the backlight tube. This has happened at least 4 times
to me, with drops as little as 12 inches. Sounds like you are lucky.

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alex   11-28-2004 at 02:08:04 AM
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> Watch for file errors, startup
> problems. Download the manufacturer's disk health utility to check the
> disk.

My hard drive is Hitachi, they have Drive Fitness Test, but it is
available only as a bootable floppy (I have no floppy drive)

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Anonymous   11-28-2004 at 05:11:48 AM
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"Alex" <arazumo@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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|> Watch for file errors, startup
| > problems. Download the manufacturer's disk health utility to check the
| > disk.
|
| My hard drive is Hitachi, they have Drive Fitness Test, but it is
| available only as a bootable floppy (I have no floppy drive)

Create a bootable CD-Rom with the floppy image

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Anonymous   11-28-2004 at 11:14:57 AM
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You can make a bootable CD that will act exactly like that bootable
floppy; you can do this on another computer (that has a floppy drive).


Alex wrote:

>> Watch for file errors, startup
>>problems. Download the manufacturer's disk health utility to check the
>>disk.
>
>
> My hard drive is Hitachi, they have Drive Fitness Test, but it is
> available only as a bootable floppy (I have no floppy drive)

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ME   11-30-2004 at 06:27:09 PM
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In article <XHFpd.10673$1B2.4602@trnddc02>,
Ray Jenkins <rayj.balt@verizonDELETHIS.net> wrote:
>About six months ago I dropped my HP Pavilion about three feet onto a
>ceramic tile floor. As best as I could tell, one corner of the case took the
>main blow.
>
>Up to this point, the laptop has shown no adverse effects from the accident.

But has your heart recovered yet? :-)

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