How to avoid problems with your laptop in a cold winter

Winter is coming and with the crazy weather we have where temperatures have varied due to climate change, we don’t know when we can have a dangerous cold wave . If you are one of those who go with your laptop on your back to work and you find yourself in one of these situations, you have to take into account a series of measures so that lower than normal temperatures do not make a dent in the health of your laptop and the cold ends up breaking it.

We tend to worry a lot about our PC overheating, for more than obvious reasons, however, temperatures below the usual ones can also negatively affect the operation of our computer. Especially from our laptop. Since things like the speed of battery charging are decreased and in cases of very cold we can find that the LCD screen of our laptop simply stops working or starts to do it incorrectly. And we never know when the next wave of extreme cold may come and it is better to be prepared for it.

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How to protect your laptop from a cold snap

One of the generalized problems that we have in Spain every winter is that most houses are not well built to insulate the cold, which leads us to spend huge amounts of money on heating and look for blankets to stay warm. However, these situations are not harmful to our computers, but the problem comes when in a cold wave we have to go out to work with our laptop under temperatures that leave us shivering.

It is important to keep your laptop at a suitable temperature, the specifications themselves say that they are designed to work in a temperature range any lower than this means problems. So the first thing you should consider is a suitcase or backpack that serves to protect your laptop from inclement weather and isolate it completely. The same backpacks that are used to protect you from the elements of the rain are also designed to protect your laptop from extreme cold.

It’s not really the low temperatures that are dangerous, but the fact that changes in temperature can end up with moisture deposited in certain parts of the laptop’s circuitry, which can lead to short circuits . Many people think that keeping the computer on during a cold snap is best. This is a very serious error that could lead to small short circuits. So it is important to carry your laptop well insulated.

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Be careful when you get home or to the office

After transporting the laptop in extreme cold and arriving at your workplace or leisure, simply take it out of the bag, leave it on the table, and relax without turning on the computer. If you do not have a bag with the ability to insulate from the cold, then you will have to wait for the temperature of your laptop to return to normal levels by thermodynamics. That is, you have to let it acclimatize before using it.

One of the most common problems in extreme cold is the cables that connect the screen to the laptop’s motherboard. If the temperature is too low , these become rigid and just by lifting the lid they could break completely . The consequences? Well, the image does not reach the screen and you have to take it to the technical service. A similar problem can occur if you use a hard drive and it is that these climatic conditions do not get along with the mechanical parts of it. It would not be the first time that a laptop stops working due to low temperatures that have destroyed the hard drive.

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