technical.angel
08-21-2006, 04:40 PM
I walk into work this morning, and before I even was able to sit my stuff down, Bossman needs me to go nab a computer. Apparently there was water damage, and he wants me to call Dell and see if we have any kind of protection plan that would cover it.
"What happened??" I asked, since it was a staff computer, and staff computers and water damage doesn't quite compute.
Apparently, one of the frats had an initiation thing in the meeting room above the staff members desk. They had turned the AC down to 50F and forgot to turn it back up. The unit froze, fried and died, and then thawed. All the water went cascading down onto the staff member's desk. The drop celing panels above her desk crashed and died, and brown murky water was everywhere.
I nabbed her computer, and brought it over.
The only fatality was the keyboard. Not a drop of water had made it into the case or into the monitor (TGF flat screens!)
My guess is that a cabinet above her computer deflected the worst of the water. The top of her case was covered with dried water stains, but nothing made it into the case.
I'm shocked.
Jenni :angel:
"What happened??" I asked, since it was a staff computer, and staff computers and water damage doesn't quite compute.
Apparently, one of the frats had an initiation thing in the meeting room above the staff members desk. They had turned the AC down to 50F and forgot to turn it back up. The unit froze, fried and died, and then thawed. All the water went cascading down onto the staff member's desk. The drop celing panels above her desk crashed and died, and brown murky water was everywhere.
I nabbed her computer, and brought it over.
The only fatality was the keyboard. Not a drop of water had made it into the case or into the monitor (TGF flat screens!)
My guess is that a cabinet above her computer deflected the worst of the water. The top of her case was covered with dried water stains, but nothing made it into the case.
I'm shocked.
Jenni :angel: