Comments on: Grrr… Dead cable modem - mostly… http://www.thecodecave.com/article194 Cold storage before my best ideas melt away... Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:37:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Brian http://www.thecodecave.com/article194#comment-442 Brian Tue, 11 Jul 2006 18:00:13 +0000 http://www.thecodecave.com/article194#comment-442 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. 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.

]]> By: [GEEKS ARE SEXY] Tech. News http://www.thecodecave.com/article194#comment-431 [GEEKS ARE SEXY] Tech. News Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:09:31 +0000 http://www.thecodecave.com/article194#comment-431 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 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

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