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Broken laptop. Help!

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Hey everyone,

I am having a really bad week. My laptop motherboard got fried a bit back. While I am getting it fixed, my friend gave me his old laptop so I can do school work. The only problem is it's an utter piece of crap that doesn't work. Today it started taking literally hours to turn on.Now,it straight up is not working. I attached a pic of what the laptop is showing me.Also, the fan has been revving nonstop at an unbearable noise level. Can anyone help me? The laptop is running Linux mint

Edit, I have to write this on my crappy phone so it may take a long time to respond. Sorry in advance

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What are the specs of it? just wondering

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@Firearm2112

pentium someting. 2gb ram. Yeah. Its bad

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Does he really care what you do with the laptop? Imo you should format it, install windows, and use it like that. If he does care what you do with it clone it to an external, format, install windows, then when he wants it back put linux back on it. It would probably be more stable

 eGPU Setup: Macbook Pro 13" 16GB DDR3 RAM, 512GB SSD, i5 3210M, GTX 980 eGPU

New PC: i7-4790k, Corsair H100iGTX, ASrock Fatal1ty Z97 Killer, 24GB Ram, 850 EVO 256GB SSD, 1TB HDD, GTX 1080 Fractal Design R4, EVGA Supernova G2 650W

 

 

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No one? I am kinda depending on this laptop for everything during the next few weeks

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Well i can't even get to the desktop. And its basically mine, he dosent care

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