Coke and Computers!!

[joshwa]

Right, someone asked me what would happen if they spilt a can diet coke ALL over there computer the other day - I said it might still work, as I thought that the coke probably would find it difficult getting into the computer as most computers only have air vents at the bottom or sides, so if the coke went on the top it might not have got into the computer...

anyway, I thought it'd be cool to find out what happened! ***warning - do not try this at home kids, this could have been much worse***

so i did!!! I took the lid off because otherwise no coke would have go in!

here's the before pics:



donor pc running - 486sx 33, 8mb ram, no hd, i booted a win98 floppy. (i've made the screen brighter in photoshop so that you can just about read the text!)

here's some during pics:

pouring the coke


the screen went black!

here's the after pic:


Due to the power for the house tripping, I only have one video of the event!! (I was going to webcam video it as well, but the power went and therefore no video!)

you can watch the video (1mb windows media player 9 (mpeg4 compressed) avi) here (please right click and save as...):
http://77.102.196.41/coke_poured_short.AVI - please use a mirror below!!

- when everything goes black in the vid, that's when the power to my house tripped.

If someone is able to make the video brighter (it's a bit dark) and crop the end off where everything is black - that would be great! (as I don't have video editing stuff) For some stupid reason, when the screen went black I just kept the cam pointed at that rather than going back to video the PC!!! DOH!! Also if someone would be able to host the video - that'd be cool, as I only have space left on my own webserver at the moment, which is running through broadband (slow).

It wasn't as dramatic as I thought it would be to be honest! I'm quite glad really - the power going down in the whole house was scary enough !!


Comment By XTR:
Mirrored the Video, since Josh's hosting is probably getting hammered.... (it is!!)

http://www.xtr.nildram.co.uk/coke_poured_shorter.avi - XTR's mirror
http://www.zen16305.zen.co.uk/hexus/...ed_shorter.avi - thanks to our new member FAH_WW
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/wiebo.w...ed_shorter.avi - Also thanks to our new member FAH_WW
http://www.atomicfire.net/~atomicfir...ured_short.AVI - thanks atomicfire
http://www.butuz.net/coke_poured_shorter.avi - thanks butuz!

[streetster]

good effort buddy downloading the video now, shame there was no explosions , well i guess its good that there wasnt for your wellbeing

mark

[unrealrocks]

Hehehz - thats something I've wondered about ... have you tryed it again after drying it out?

Is this vid hosted on your home connection?

[joshwa]

Originally posted by unrealrocks
Hehehz - thats something I've wondered about ... have you tryed it again after drying it out?

Is this vid hosted on your home connection?

i will try it when it's thoroughly dry
yep - you're currently getting about 15kb/sec on average from me

the pics are on my blueyonder webspace, but i don't have enough room to stick the vid there too *sigh*

do you think i can get my pic added here:
http://sct.staghosting.com/

[Steve]

Playing with electricity is well cool!

I think everybody should do it!

[Raz316]

haha nice one! For the cause!!!

[Howard]

Should have tried it with normal Coke

Lol

[Enverex]

Years ago a mate spilled a litre of water into an Amiga 600, and everyone was panicing so much, no-one turned it off for like 10 seconds, thing it, it didn't freeze or stop working, it just carried on, lol.

They dried it out and it still worked fine afterwards, so apparently Amiga 600's are waterproof*....

*(I am not held liable for any damage caused by the addition of water to an Amiga 600 system in any form of hostile or non-hostile environment)

NS

[0iD]

Kewl, still hav mine in the loft at mi mum's, no harm in givin it a go eh, along with the ZX81 & the Comedore Plus4.

Total respect 2 Josh! lmao!

[atomicfire]

Heyo! Love that experiment. You are welcome to host from my site - www.atomicfire.net

Shoot me an e-mail and i'll hook you up for free!

atomicfire@atomicfire.net

-AtomicFire

[stretchboy]

when I was doing tech support for a living I had a lady call in with an interesting parrallel to this thread. She had a dead rat inside a dead computer and puddle of something yellow. our conclusion to the situation was the rat liked the warmth of the computer and pissed there. during the piss it must have been electricuted thru the piss the ground being his feet. I laughed and laughed. The lady at first didnt think this was too funny, but after a few minutes she was laughing too. the computer was dead and never to be revived. This was in the 386 era.

[Butuz]

hey Josh that sounds well funny.

I am trying to download the video now but its going reeealllly slow. I suspect your broadband is getting hammered by hexusians trying to grab it When i have it ill upload it to my webserver so that everyone else can get it nice and fast

Cheers

Butuz

[Butuz]

164 bytes a second!!!

This could take some time!

Butuz

[Platinum]

lol nice one, always something ive wondered , shame there was no flames destroying electrical components is always fun, I remember nearly setting myself on fire after replacing a PSU in a system, turned out the PSU was faulty and soon after boot all the caps on the mobo blew and flames were coming out the top of the PC about a foot high

[XTR]

I'm just busy chuckling at how many views this has recieved. It's posted on http://www.hardocp.com/



Nice story Josh. You need a UPS if your gonna do this in the future


I've posted a mirror to the movie in the first post since Josh's hosting is probably being hammered.

[FAH_WW]

Just created a few more mirrors:

http://www.zen16305.zen.co.uk/hexus/...ed_shorter.avi

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/wiebo.w...ed_shorter.avi

Hope that helps, mods please feel free to drop the links in the starting post of this thread.

Now I wonder what regular Coke would do

Nice one,

WW