As in, the motherboard needs to be replaced. When will I be off of the Chromebook? Why, that is an excellent question. I have to hope that my computer guy isn’t taking tomorrow off. Or, indeed, that his company is still there, post-pandemic.
I’ve had better evenings.
Ooof. Didn’t you just get that thing? Is there a warranty?
Pre-pandemic.
Look on the bright side – you may finally be able to delete that huge chunk of game files from your hard drive…
More seriously – if it’s ~5 years old, you’re probably due for a replacement.
Mew
*starts whistling Always Look On The Bright Side of Life… *
How the heck do you fry a motherboard without first frying the CPU?
Screw the 5 year crap. Most programs can run just fine on a ten-year old i5.
(Not to mention my “work” computer is nearly twenty years old and works just fine running a stripped-down Linux version. I did need to replace the HD one t, though.)
Kinetic damage is one of several ways to kill the motherboard without killing the CPU.
Mew
Broken connector pins. I am working on the assumption that my computer guy takes one look and says, “Yup. Time to replace that.”
You may all also safely assume that I tried to fix that already, and only made things worse.
Aside from its annoying habits of not starting and shutting off randomly, my ten-year-old computer does almost everything I want. It cannot run some newer games (though a dedicated graphics card would help), but I prefer thinky, slowpaced games to action jumpers anyway.