years ago a friend of my told me that if u put a magnet infront of a laptop screen the magnet will absorb the data or w/e u call em, and it would go in to a blue screen showing problems(break it). is that true?
2007-01-03 21:51:44 · 10 answers · asked by burning ice 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Monitors
A very powerful magnet (say out of radar system) can do big damage to any electronics.
Don't try this at home.
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2007-01-03 22:27:31 · answer #1 · answered by jan 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
As the data is stored on the hard drive, and not the screen, you could not wipe data by putting a magnet on the screen. BUT you can - and most likely would - do serious damage to the electronic components behind the screen and damage it. While it is possible that the damage could "blue screen" the laptop, it is more likely that the display would just stop working and you would be unable to use it any more. The magnet would not "absorb the data", but it could damage the electronic components.
2007-01-03 23:57:13 · answer #2 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are some electronics that are influenced by magnets, but most of them are not. Moving a magnet over a very sensitive electronics might damage them due induced currents.
A laptop screen is LCD so will not be affected in anyway by a magnet.
A harddrive use magnetic field to write/read data so a strong enough magnet might damage it.
A 4 kGauss magnet had no effect on laptop, PC, harddrive, digital watch and some other electronics. But it closed my cell phone and reseted the data/time and stopped for approx 1 day a watch (electronic, but not digital).
2007-01-03 23:55:45 · answer #3 · answered by bily7001 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no and yes
laptop screens are LCD, not CRT like PC monitors
if you put a magnet in front of a CRT screen, it will get that strange color effect, but LCDs screens will not be affected
hard drives though (same as floppy disks....if kids these days even know what those are), are magnetic devices and can be damaged by magnets, most are shielded, but a strong enough magnet put close to the hard drive could damage it (it would have to be one really strong magnet though)
2007-01-03 21:54:30 · answer #4 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The screen itself wont break, it's LCD. If you do that to a CRT (the big tubes) then yes you can damage it but most have deguass function nowadays to "undo" most problems caused by magnets.
The rest of the computer, well don't use a super powerful magnet next to the HD or you may loose some information.
2007-01-03 21:55:06 · answer #5 · answered by Andre 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is definitely possible! Disk drives can be erased if you put a magnet near them (because the process of "demagnetization" causes the data to be lost). So the magnet could have been the cause of the problem, depending on how strong it is and how close it got to the computer's disk drive.
2016-05-23 02:01:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Magnets damage anything electronic, see for yourself. Putting it up to the screen will probably damage the screen only, but putting it around the internals will definitely break it!
2007-01-03 21:53:15 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Why are all the answers so dull and short these days?
2016-08-14 07:38:08 · answer #8 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nothing........ and i mean nothing on your hard drive
2007-01-03 21:53:45 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
dunno. never did that b4
2007-01-03 21:53:12 · answer #10 · answered by monochrome 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋