I got a can of compressed air this morning and wanted to clean the dust out of my computer. I’ve done this a hundred times before with no problems but this time I got the bright idea to get closer to the fan by taking off this plastic cover thing. I didn’t realize that it was attached to a part that had these metal fins which had a plug thing with a ton of tiny wires on the bottom that fit into another plug on the motherboard. Well.. you guessed it.. some of the pins got bent and when I put it back together and turned on the computer I blew the motherboard.
The monitor wouldn’t work and neither would the keyboard or anything else plugged into the tower. But the fan was blowing air like crazy
So Andi, my daughter, had another laptop that wasn’t working right and she reformatted it and now it’s working and I’m using that for now.
A new motherboard for my computer will cost at least $100 and I don’t know if I want to spend that much (which I can’t afford right now) or save up for a new computer (which I can’t afford right now either).
I wanted to get my pictures and other stuff (like my resume) off my computer and was trying to get a usb drive but I wasn’t able to get one quick enough before totaling my computer. I wonder if there is a way, when I do finally get another computer, to get the files off of the hard drive?
UPDATE: I might be lucky… I googled my problem and found someone who had the same problem. Then I searched for a heatsink for my computer and found one for about $20. As soon as I have that in my account I’ll order it and if it doesn’t work then I’m only out $20.
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