Oh no...... all of a sudden my computer just shut down... out of the blue !
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I press the Power button... nithin happens. Press again... powers up, HHD spins up.... but nothing more, blakc screen, frozen...
Press the Reset button... starts up.... but BVIOS freezes midway. Press Reset button again.... phew, it boots properly.
Did the same thing a week or two ago.... for the past few years it did similar stuff but only after a grid power cut, not on its own....
Computer is 15+ years old now, planned on replacing it within 6 months at best, 9 or 12 maybe.
Now wondering if it will get that far..crossing fingers.
Why it it decides to worsen just when I am jobless with zero money to put into a new computer ?
Maybe I could replace the PSU but... that would be wasted money since I will replace the computer so soon and would not be able to reuse the PSU on a modern machine. Plus PSU so probably obsolete and I can't even buy a new on anyway....
Plus, who said it's the PSU ? Maybe it's the mother board... can't replace that, obsolete too.
I am screwed. Will just have to cross fingers that it holds up a few more months.
Might start doing regular backups... have two identical HDD on the machine, 500GB spinning Samsung drives. Using only one, other is for backup...
Can't use external backup as machine has no fast I/O ports, just old USB.
If I disappear all of a sudden you will know what happened... please send your donations to Iamscrewed@TEA.fr so I can buy a new computer.
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