WTF -- the "broken" logic board just fixed itself

[kanzeon_2040]

All the broken laptop's logic board temperature sensors are back online, and now the CPU is running at full blast!!

I'm glad I held off on ordering a new logic board.  Now I have two very similar laptops, LOL.  Mine has twice the RAM (16GB) and twice the hard drive storage (1TB), but T's old laptop is perfectly fine (with 8GB and 500GB).  Otherwise

Comments

[matrixmann]

Put it on "Let's watch!".
If it was only clear water that was spilled over the the laptop, there is a chance that by getting the interior completely dried again that it may work accordingly again. (Because other substances usually ruin the device by leaving visible and noticeable material traces behind.)
Still there is the possibility left that the electronics have caught a lasting damage through the shower and that, when running longer hours, they behave unstable.
So this is a thing that has to be observed carefully how the device behaves in the long term run (and when being confronted with a demanding task, so that heat is generated).

[ahunter3]

a) My wonderful WallStreet PowerBook with the G4/500 Sonnet Crescendo upgrade and the 512 MB RAM upgrade is misbehaving. It's my favorite computer of all time and I am very distressed to have it doing a faceplant 20 minutes after boot. Hoping it's the circuits in the laptop itself and not the far-more-difficult-to-replace accelerator (or yecch the RAM) that is dying.

b) Even more traumatic my SE, with Applied Engineering 030/40MHz accelerator card, won't boot any more. It booted fine in the previous SE (which had been shipped to me with significandt structural damage, case fracture all along the front); booted fine in the new SE for a little while then would fail if the accelerator card was installed. I am thinking I need to acquire another SE and move the card + ram + HD to it and see if all is fine. I'd hate it if it were the accelerator dying, scarcely any hope of acquiring a new one.

These are the computers as of the time I moved on from them. It's my computer museum. It's important, dammit!

[kanzeon_2040]

I've always liked keeping old computers and software running also.

I could use the spare now-working-fine laptop to experiment with a Linux installation.