EPTDear TL,
Last time, I had a minor annoying crisis in regards to screen resolution of my desktop being weird, but I was fixed that problem a day after. However, now, I am suffering under a MAJOR CRISIS that calls for a dire situation that can potentially damage a large portion of my personal life. So please, I request of assistance to fellow members and community of TeamLiquid.
Premises:
Just two days ago, my laptop was fine. I was recently using my laptop intensively for macro purposes of my programs and games until suddenly, it just turned off all by itself! I touched the laptop and it was hot so I figured it force shutdown by overheat, though that does not happen that often due to the use of 2 separate fans, one below the laptop known as the "laptop cooler" and one on the side known as a "mini tower fan" which is a regular fan but faced toward the hard drive. As well as a natural air from windows outside in the mildly spring weather of New York City.
So I turned back on the laptop (which it did) after 5 minutes and restarted my program. After a minute or so, it automatically turn off again but this time, IT WOULDN'T TURN BACK ON. The power button does not work and I do not see any charging signal or anything. I know the AC adapter and the power adapter is fine as the power still lit but since then, I CAN NEVER EVER TURN IT BACK ON!!!!
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Background story:
I do not know if this means my laptop is dead. My laptop was first brought to me custom-made by my bro-in-law cousin to use for my freshman year of my university back in 2006. I got the laptop around late 05 / early 06 (can't remember, too long ago), and I traveled many places high and wide with my laptop. All the way to my new life to college in DC, to Korea for 7 months while teaching English, to back to USA again at home during my new profound dream and life goal and purpose. After all this 5 years my lappy and I have gone through, I am sadden that this has happened. It is the first time this ever happened to me and my laptop and after a long bond of relationship, I JUST CAN'T LET IT GO!!! T_T
I do not know if this means my laptop is dead. My laptop was first brought to me custom-made by my bro-in-law cousin to use for my freshman year of my university back in 2006. I got the laptop around late 05 / early 06 (can't remember, too long ago), and I traveled many places high and wide with my laptop. All the way to my new life to college in DC, to Korea for 7 months while teaching English, to back to USA again at home during my new profound dream and life goal and purpose. After all this 5 years my lappy and I have gone through, I am sadden that this has happened. It is the first time this ever happened to me and my laptop and after a long bond of relationship, I JUST CAN'T LET IT GO!!! T_T
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Obligatory Laptop Specs:
ASUS Laptop
Windows 7 32-bit
Intel Duo Core Celeron
Intel HD Graphics
100 GB Hard Drive
2 GB Ram
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Not sure what else..
ASUS Laptop
Windows 7 32-bit
Intel Duo Core Celeron
Intel HD Graphics
100 GB Hard Drive
2 GB Ram
...
Not sure what else..
Situation:
Now, I do not know if this clearly means my laptop died and if it is possible to bring it BACK TO LIFE. I have so much important files and personal files I have kept in my laptop hard drive as well as my personal travel buddy wherever it went. I know I can just go buy a new laptop or something but that cost mucho money, something a poor college student like me do not have at this moment (partially due to a friend jacking my car, crashing it, and now he owes me 750 dollars which still hasn't paid me back for 4 months now).
So if there is ANY SOLUTION or any possible help you can provide, PLEASE PLEASE, HELP THIS POOR SOUL or something that I can provide a CPR in order to bring my laptop back to life (or least a way to win the lottery so I get money and then buy the laptop).
Thank you..... *sniff sniff*
-QuickStriker
, the unfortunate part is that most of the time they just recommend buying a new one because it costs a ton of money for a 3rd party to open it up. Also on most laptops you can disconnect the HDD(hard drive) really easily and if you can then its just a matter of matching up the right connection type to get your information off of it.
