Grrr… Dead cable modem – mostly…
It looks like I’m gonna be mostly offline, at home, until Thursday that’s the soonest RR will be able to come out to diagnose why the internet connection is soooo bad…
In the meantime, sticking the cable modem in the freezer for a time works to get me on line for a bit. I’ve also McGyvered* a cooling fan, from an old dead Pentium 1 computer, onto the side of the cable modem… That seems to help too.
The important thing is that I had enough online time to download last night’s Doctor Who. Anyone else watch it yet? I had to pry my wife’s hands off of the chair… And the kids were yelling, “I’m scared of …” well, you’ll find out what…
(*McGyver was a TV hero in the US that could fix anything with some gum, a toothpick, and a 3 inch piece of string.)
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In the freezer? Rofl, it seems freezing can help all sorts of devices work again 🙂
http://geeksaresexy.blogspot.com/2006/01/freeze-your-hard-drive-to-recover-data.html
Cheers,
Kiltak
Yep! Electronics just work better when cold. One word of warning though – this should only really be done in a humidity controlled environment or the component should be immediately wrapped in something. Otherwise, condensation occurs and electronics do not work better when wet. In fact they will often suffer from BSS (Blue Smoke Syndrome),
And that guy that commented about baking the HD was legit too. Techs I trust, OLD school techs with 25 years more experience than I have, tell me that in situations where freezing fails, the oven’s ambient heating of the unit will allow the components to work.