so two jobs ago when i worked at the college, i opened up our fridge/freezer only to find a hard drive in it.

i was like, who the fuck did this, when the part time tech fessed up quite quickly. i asked why and he said the hd was going bad (something i told him to look at) so he was freezing it in the hopes of retrieving information from it that was needed. i shook my head and laughed.

he laughed about 2 hours later when he was able to retrieve all the documents

I've read about that before. I don't remember what it was about the cooling that makes it work, but it's a neat trick.

if the HD is damaged, i think the crystals act as a perfect conduit until it melts

This has been discussed here before, by you in fact, Peeps.

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Senior moment?

no, this is a thread dedicated specifically for weird things you can do to help your computer

thanks

would you like me to link every post you regurgitate in N&D all the time to?

I once performed a BIOS chip hot-swap.

A friend of mine had tried to update his BIOS software, but something went wrong, rendering it impossible to start the PC. Now in order to be able to overwrite the corrupted bios-chip, you have to be able to get past the BIOS screen. Catch-22.

I had the same model mainboard, so I swapped his BIOS chip for mine; booted up his PC and, while it was running, removed my BIOS and replaced the original (corrupted) chip. I rewrote the BIOS software to the chip and voilà: Working PC.

that is actually pretty crazy

I've heard lots of stories about putting the keyboard in the shower or dishwasher to clean it. Anyone try it?

I put my MP3 Walkman through the washing machine. It broke it. Well it won't play music anymore but it still works as a datastick.

This works as long as there is absolutely no water left in it when you run electricity through it again.