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This doesn't involve woodworking tools but is the weirdest fix I've ever done. I had a Surface Pro 3 that was working fine and then suddenly died and would not
by pseudosavant 3y ago
This doesn't involve woodworking tools but is the weirdest fix I've ever done. I had a Surface Pro 3 that was working fine and then suddenly died and would not power on. I couldn't figure out anything to fix it.
Eventually I read a random post on Reddit[0] how a guy tried putting it his SP3 in the freezer (in a sealed freezer bag) and it eventually came back to life.
I skeptically tried it. I thought freezing was more likely to destroy something else on it, but what did I have to lose? It was already dead.
I put it in a sealed freezer bag with as much air removed as possible, and then put it in the freezer for a couple of hours. I took it out, plugged power in, and I was able to turn it on!
The first time I did it, it only worked for a few days. I tried freezing it again, and that worked. It still works to this day, many years later. My theory is that it seemed like a power problem, and that freezing the battery put the chemistry through some kind of cycle that repaired it.
I did keep the Surface wrapped in layers of towel to warm it back up slowly. Mostly to help prevent any moisture from building up somewhere before it got to temperature.
[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/Surface/comments/5tficj/how_i_revived_my_dead_surface_pro_3_has_been/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Surface/comments/5tficj/how_i_reviv...
- ngrilly 3y ago> freezing the battery put the chemistry through some kind of cycle that repaired it Do you think that replacing the battery would have fixed it?
- pseudosavant 3y agoPerhaps. But freezing it twice also seemed to fix it. I used it as my primary machine for years after this fix.
- archerx 3y agoI remember back in the day when I had one of the original Gameboys that needed 4AA batteries, I would put the batteries in the freezer for a while when they died and I could get few extra minutes out the batteries. Maybe your battery theory is right.