Our old friends eventually die
Our old friends eventually die
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HARVEST ITS ORGANS FOR ANOTHER SERVER.
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My 12 years toshiba turned on for the last time approximately a year ago. She waited till i finish the defense of my specialization to depart.
Till we meet again, old friend
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I'm moving soon and was packing up my office closet. Found my old college laptop and figured I better make sure nothing was stored on it before I tossed it. Pulled the removable battery (‼️⁉️) out and plugged in the power adapter. I couldn't believe that it started Windows XP off of spinning rust faster than any modern device I own. They really don't make them like they used to.
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Oh shit does that work? I'm in the exact situation and was trying to figure out how to get this laptop to boot.
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I, too, have been able to resurrect laptops by removing the battery. In theory, the battery should be prepared but bypassed while on charger but in practice a lot of laptops are routed such that battery failure means inoperability.
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Definitely, at least with this Dell laptop circa 2007 - I didn't want to cause a fire and iirc, the battery was already trashed at its EOL. Pulling the battery at least let me power on the laptop without any risk from having the battery inserted.
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God, I've felt such pain letting go of old computers that no longer function; with some, that had been with me for a long time, I went through significant effort to try to resuscitate them. Really makes me think that I'm not prepared for when our pet dogs go...
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You will never experience anything worse than the loss of a dog.
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o7
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Change the BIOS battery. It usually helps a lot
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I've been there. But then I fixed it. Call me a necromancer, because old friends can come back from the dead too.
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F
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me, pouring kool-aid into my laptop’s keyboard a month before the accidental damage warranty expired…
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Nail polish remover here 💅🏻 apart from the track pad not working anymore, it seems to have staved off most expected damage. Well, apart from a giant white stain across the entire keyboard, that is
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I backed up all my stuff, took it outside, and poured extra super sugary kool-aid into it. I was alarmed when it started up and worked fine the first try.
The second try… it hung on the boot screen forever. I loved that laptop, and it cost me about 2kUSD… but free upgrade! I couldn’t pass it up. That was in 2011. I still use the upgrade I got, 14 years later, and it works amazingly (after maxing out its specs)
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This hapoened to me but with a 128 spectrum.
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My 14.5 yo laptop is still working with a new SSD
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