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PC died?
5 years ago
at first: sorry if there are really bad typo, using my mom's old laptop which has a bricked keyboard.
So it happened first a lil while ago, pc wouldnt turn on. I assumed it was humidity and dust causing psu not to run, because it started working again after some time.
Few days passed and here i am, sitting and waiting hopelessly for it to work again. Now i'm certain it could be the age at fault (almost 6 years for this buddy), before anyone mentions: this psu is only a year old. I'd rather have diagnostics done on this one before changing it to a new one. and the clownery of living in a small town far away from capital city, cant take it to a random shop and have it done. I'm trying to find my previous psu tho, just in case its actually the one at fault. plus i located corrossion in the case which may have traveled to psu but theres no signs of that having happened
anyways seems like i would have to make an emergency purchase of a new pc without a gpu and hard drive.. at the worst posssible timing, when theres a zine deadline 3 weeks away... I'd do emergency comms separate from my current list becaue this laptop has pretty bad specs for work of that size, but idk if it would be able to handle anything. one way to find out, eh? if anyones up for ordering something in the means of helping me if my work pc doesnt turn on. if there was no time limit for me, i wouldnt be as desparate.
I will make an update post if nothing changes and i have to make an emergency comms
thank you for reading
So it happened first a lil while ago, pc wouldnt turn on. I assumed it was humidity and dust causing psu not to run, because it started working again after some time.
Few days passed and here i am, sitting and waiting hopelessly for it to work again. Now i'm certain it could be the age at fault (almost 6 years for this buddy), before anyone mentions: this psu is only a year old. I'd rather have diagnostics done on this one before changing it to a new one. and the clownery of living in a small town far away from capital city, cant take it to a random shop and have it done. I'm trying to find my previous psu tho, just in case its actually the one at fault. plus i located corrossion in the case which may have traveled to psu but theres no signs of that having happened
anyways seems like i would have to make an emergency purchase of a new pc without a gpu and hard drive.. at the worst posssible timing, when theres a zine deadline 3 weeks away... I'd do emergency comms separate from my current list becaue this laptop has pretty bad specs for work of that size, but idk if it would be able to handle anything. one way to find out, eh? if anyones up for ordering something in the means of helping me if my work pc doesnt turn on. if there was no time limit for me, i wouldnt be as desparate.
I will make an update post if nothing changes and i have to make an emergency comms
thank you for reading
If the hard drive has no issues, you can put it in your new machine as a secondary drive. It's a luxury to have more than one HHD in a single tower. Speaking of, SSD drives are at a more reasonable price. Consider getting one of those at least 1 TB big.