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With the rainy season approaching, the heavy rainfall increases the risk of damage to your electronic devices, especially laptops.
1. Tips to Protect Your Laptop from Water Damage, Especially During the Rainy Season
With the rainy season approaching, the heavy rainfall increases the risk of damage to your electronic devices, especially laptops.
In Vietnam's tropical climate, aside from hot and humid summer days, there's also widespread rainfall throughout the year. Recent days have seen large amounts of rain, increasing the risk to electronic devices, especially laptops.
To avoid potential mishaps with your laptops during this continuous rainy season, the following article shares tips for safe laptop usage.
1. Even on regular days, keep your laptop away from areas prone to water splashes, such as windows, balconies... Sudden rain showers at night or when you're away could splash water onto your beloved laptop, causing damage.
2. Another important point is to avoid placing the laptop on the floor for extended periods, even just for a few hours, to prevent risks of moisture, mold, impact, breakage, or water spills damaging the device.
3. During use, keep the laptop away from water-containing items like water, coffee, tea to prevent accidental spills onto the laptop. Many people have a habit of working with laptops and often place drinks right next to these laptops.
4. Limit LAN cable connections during rainy weather, especially during thunderstorms, as rainwater can flow along the LAN cable into the machine, causing short circuits, network card damage, and thunderstorms can easily spread through the network cable causing IC, laptop network card, computer malfunction even when not in use.
5. Like other electrical devices, do not plug the laptop into power when not in use, especially during rainy weather, to prevent lightning strikes or power supply malfunction due to wet rainy weather. Moreover, during rainy weather, the power supply for the laptop tends to be unstable.
6. When moving around, it's best to completely shut down your laptop before stowing it in your bag. If you don't shut down the laptop entirely, the hard drive continues to work. In that case, the hard drive spins at a very high speed, and moving around during that time can easily cause shocks or, worse, hard drive failure.
Especially, in case of encountering rainy weather, before putting the laptop in your bag, it's best to wrap the machine in a plastic bag to prevent water from seeping in. This prevents circuit leaks, component shorts such as the keyboard, motherboard... in case your bag isn't completely sealed.
8. It's crucial not to let water drop onto the keyboard, even just a drop, because typically, keyboards are constructed from layers of pressed nylon. Among them are conductive circuits, just a drop of water seeping into the laptop will cause these nylon layers to swell, leading to circuit exposure, making keys easily malfunction or stop working.
9. In the worst case scenario, when water spills onto the laptop, immediately remove the battery and take it to reputable laptop repair centers to be dried and cleaned. Avoid attempting to dry it at home with personal hair dryers, as self-drying cannot completely dry the internal components, gradually causing component oxidation and machine damage.
