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Should i take it in somewhere? Buy drives to hold the data? How much $ am i gonna be set back?

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[โ€“] courier8377@hexbear.net 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Seems like a battery issue, wasn't charging earlier but reseating the battery it is now posting 255% charge when plugged in. Will look at getting a new battery, recalibrating the one in there now, and getting a new charging board. But fuck this is annoying

[โ€“] JustSo@hexbear.net 1 points 5 hours ago

Yeah that sounds really irritating. At least it's just a power supply issue tho. Your data will be fine and your laptop will live again.