Its all a matter of how hard they are dropped and onto what.
Dropped laptop on carpet.
If you re like me and haven t the slightest idea where it is carefully flip the laptop over and unscrew one cover at a time until you find it they are generally about 4 inches wide by 3 inches.
If it fell a short way onto the carpet i wouldn t freak too much.
If your dropped computer is a laptop check the display.
The laptop so far as i can tell has suffered no damage.
How do i know for sure that my laptop is fine.
With the computer on slowly open the lid to it s fullest open position and back to nearly closed before the sensor shuts the screen off.
Out of all the computing hassles you can face nothing quite compares to dropping your laptop on a hard floor.
I dropped my laptop about rib height high.
When your mac laptop slips out of your hands or your mac desktop falls off your desk as you re shuffling things around here s what to do once the feeling of dread dissipates.
Just today i watched people knock the same laptop from a desk to the thin carpet ground twice from a distance of nearly 3 feet.
Carpet aint that soft when it made impact the laptop shut off.
If it s been damaged or cracked you ll notice right away as it will display strange lines or figures instead of your preboot sequence.
Yeah i drop a lot of things and these gadgets still work.
It sounds like you may have loosened up the lvds video cable that connects the motherboard to the display panel when it was dropped.
This is coming from someone who has dropped a tower monitar keyboard cell phone to the point that it doesn t look like a phone camera s laptops.