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20 Ways to Treat and Extend The Life of a Laptop

Posted by BLOGGER MARS on Friday, November 4, 2011

If you have a laptop you would like your laptop can be used in a long time. Here is how to maintain and extend the age of the laptop :

1. Keep your laptop from strong magnetic field, liquid fuel and heat source/cold or extreme temperature changes.

2. Avoid direct sunlight and make sure the laptop is always placed on a flat surface.

3. According to the survey,the most common laptop damage occurred on the hard drive and LCD display/screen. Hard drive damage caused by collision or fall. LCD damage is usually because exposure to sunlight an physical pressure.

4. Spruse adapter cables or other cables which are connected with laptops,not to make other tripped.

5. In addition to damage the hard drive and LCD,liquid spills is the cause the most common damage to the laptop,or use a sheet of transparent film called keyboard protector.

6. Vibration is the enemy of the other laptop. Keep your laptop from the speaker sound,such as loudspeaker,engine/vehicle weight,and other vibration sources.

7. Do not expose your laptop from x-ray beam at the airport.

8. Keep your laptop clean,wipe with a clean cloth to dust free.

9. protect your laptop modem . use a modem that has a feature-line digital guard. because of this feature will keep the modem from damage if accindentally plugging in the cable modem to a digital phone jack PABX or ISDN lines. and be careful when going plug the telephone cord into metal wire in a laptop because the laptop modem connector very thin and easily crooked.

10. In asia the climate,humid temperatures can be amajor problem for laptop designed in the United States. To reduce the possibility of a problem,make sure rhe laptop is stored in a dry a cool. If the laptop is not used for a long time,keep the laptop in a container the meeting and enter the silica gel. Silica gel is as contained in medicine botles,packaging electronic (small packets marked silica dessicant gel). Or it could be bought in a store chemicals. Silica gel is who are chemicals is hygroscopyc (absorbs moisture/humidity).

11. power outages and voltage disturbances can occur at any time,at home,in hotel rooms or in the office. If possible,use the surge-protector if you are using an AC outlet. And do not forget to make back-up data regurally.

12. always use a laptop bag while traveling.

13. if you want to wrap laptop to be sent or for other purposes,use a strong protective box,and wrap it with foam or sponge that can absorb vibration.

14. Never place heavy objects on top of the laptop.

15. if the laptop is problematic,do not attempt to dissasemble itself. Should submit to a technician or service-center nearby. because maybe the damage will be even heavier. Especially for a laptop that is still under warranty-dissasemble the laptop can damage the sticker warranty (warranty seal) that is still attached to the laptop.

16. When will lift laptops that are currently open. Do not lift while held at the display/screen,lift the bottom/keyboard.

17. Do not includ diskette in the corner. Insert a floppy half-half could damage the disk-the drive. likewise,when open or close the drive tray CD-ROM/DVD-ROM to enter or eject the disc. do not touch the lens on the tray CD-ROM. Hold compact-disc at the edges,not on the surface the disc.

18. do not plug laptop modem cable on the PBX (private branch exchange) or Digital phone lines. Laptop can only use channel PSTN (public-switched telephone network0 the use of phone line other than PSTN can damage laptop modem.

19. Keep your laptop from children small.

20. take care of laptop batteries,not to leak due to can damage the battery slot.

All these article how to care for and prolong the life of the laptop...hopefully useful and thanks for visiting this blog.