Adam? ... is there a reason your laptop is in the fridge? (2006)
Never seen this done to a whole laptop, but it wasn't an uncommon last ditch method for pulling files off a dying HDD back in the days of spinning platters.<p>Preferably in a zip lock vacuum bag and left over night.<p>This is a 17 year old article, but I'm a little skeptical that 10 minutes in the fridge whilst still in the laptop would have made much difference. Probably the forced reboot did just as much.<p>On the other end of the heat spectrum, there's baking a motherboard to reflow the solder:
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