ok, clue me in

what am i doing wrong here? i am a long-standing user who politely asked about a hardware issue, only to get attacked by the head mod. then when i tried to clarify, i get a snide reply and the thread locked!

am i being punk'd?

anyway, thanks to the OTHERS who provided some help in the thread. the issue is still unclear, but i'll find somewhere else to ask about it.

 

i am the OP, and no, it was not answered. or rather, the entire answer was "it should be fine", with some nonsequitur about airflow.

puppywunder58 did later address the real issue -- stress/sheer on the mechanics -- so, yeah, thanks to him/her.

FWIW, i asked on another board, and the first reply was from someone who killed his laptop doing exactly what i was proposing! so forgive me for being skeptical of "it should be fine" with no supporting details whatsoever.

AIRFLOW! LOL.

rolleyes

 

Hi CatT,

Did you check to see if you could rotate your display by 90 degrees in the display properties of Control Panel?

Running an HD in the vertical position may actually be better for it. Remember how people used to say that storing your CD's lying flat(horizontal)was bad over time for them because they could droop from the center outwards? So "they" started advising us to store our CD's in a vertical position.

I'm sure someone could McGyverize a stand for you so that your LT doesn't go sliding off the piano while you're doing a crescendo to some piano work by Beethoven or Bach.:-D

 

true that. and in fact my old desktop had vertical floppies.

then again, if they've redesigned things specifically to be horizontal now, who knows.

all i know is that i've never seen a laptop set up on edge in a store, on someone's desk, even among college students screwing around in a coffee shop. if it were SO obvious that it's safe to do so, you'd think you'd see somebody doing it at least every couple of days.

BTW, thanks again for taking the Q seriously. i dunno WHAT i did to tick off the big cheese!

rolleyes

 

ok, y'all have fully convinced me on the HDD. thanks all.

now what about LID SHEER? seems to me that sitting the weight of the lid on its edge could put an unexpected strain on the HINGES. any chance the wires/ribbon cables which pass thru them them could sever?

i must admit, this is more my worry than the HDD. i have seen realworld hinges buckle from kids hanging off open doors.

 

not quite hanging off it, but i figure that if i push hard on the upper right corner in normal (sitting on desk) use, that can't be good for anything. but ok, it seems to be unanimous; i'll rotate away!

and "head mod" wasn't meant as a diss. i'm never sure whether to use "mod", "admin", or in this case "owner". monsieur attitude has helped me much in the past -- i have no complaints except the baffling treatment on this one particular thread.

good nick, tho! :-D