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Robot is just fine, but 3rd Q-Match before the picking begins Saturday morning....FRC Driver station up loaded on the Laptop LCD and ready to play, robot already placed on the field and the drivers station panel is placed on the shelf, our drivers are ready to battle.....A cable from the drivers station gets caught on top of a jeans belt loop (my son's), while walking away heading back to get behind the line and wham.....The whole panel flops off the shelf upside down and all the weight lands on the edge of the display lid top edge. The display plastics of that Dell 1502 Laptop is fine, but the LCD is cracked (shattered), internally, the screen is rainbowed pretty colors in the shattered corner and just white everywhere else (they cannot see a thing on the screen), and they went on and played the match w/ it like that, and won. (The FMS is absolutely great!)

Luckily that added Dell accelerometer program came on that unit, and the HD must have parked momentarily during the fall, as the HD checked out just fine.....They borrowed a classmate from FIRST AZ, and a monitor to see by, while they copied off the programming and loaded it up for the last 2 Q's and elimination rounds.

Sure enough both BU Laptops were left at the shop 3 hrs. away (First time in years). New LCD will arrive tomorrow, $59.00 and they are back in business again.
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Things could be much worse for sure after looking at ALL the pics in this thread...Ouch on the laptop above...Snipped...."Of course, the laptop screen decided that this would be a great time to go belly up." Decided to? OK..Lol.

Something tells me that laptop screen didn't have any choice whatsoever, in that situation at all! That is much worse damage, and looks like it was run over by the loaded robot cart too!...Though if hooked up to an external monitor and that drive is still OK (Disk Check and a defrag w/ Defraggler (Piriform.com), use the Health Monitor bad sector check), all the rest looks quite fixable. Doesn't sound like the unit was on, so the HD should be absolutely fine.

E-Bay is your friend for new & used puter parts. Our drive was powered up and spinning when it flopped to the carpeted floor from the shelf. Luckily the G-Force had to be just enough to park it first before the hit. (Not a bad sector found).

And that Gummed Up Wheel and the bearing...Whoa, took some real force to break that bearing like that. I see a lot of added "character" in the pics, as they call it in NASCAR.