Mind Like A Sieve
I can’t believe that I left out Scaramouche spilling a glass of wine into his keyboard and Michael at Musing’s musings returning to find the blue screen of death on his office machine.
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The office cat, Buffy, recently cooked part of my flatscreen monitor. Not having been spayed (and before anyone goes off on me-she has a heart condition which precludes this operation-the anaethestic would kill her) she goes into heat on occasion. About two months ago as I was working one night very late, she backed up against the monitor and let loose a stream of urine against the monitor. It went black. Took me a moment or two realize what happened…grabbed some paper towels, but it was already inside. I ran the SigOt’s hairdryer and proceeded to blast the monitor with 1200watts of heat. It came back to life, but all the control buttons are fried (no response). I doubt Dell wants to repair it as I believe cat urine is not covered by the warranty.
I remember you talking about Buffy before, and that is a major problem. Most people are unaware that female cats also “mark”.
It’s not just urine, it’s a concentrate that really stinks. You may want to start saving for a new one, because when it gets hot, the odor is going to come back.
I’ve had a certain amount of success with pulling things apart and rinsing them in distilled water, but it’s a roll of the dice.
Update:she’s back in heat.
Actually the oder has been non-existent.
I’d love to see if I could open the monitor up and perhaps examine the controls to see if they just needed to re-soldered or replaced, but I sure as hell can’t find any way into this flatscreen.
It seems to be sealed shut with no way to enter it.
The case probably just snaps together. If you knew exactly where the tabs were, you could take it apart, but there is a better chance of just breaking it. Very little is designed to be fixed any more.