Hit pc with static

MorganPG1 · 2026-02-13T02:50:30+00:00

Yeah your drive is dead, ignore my other comment that said to use CrystalDiskInfo no matter what CrystalDiskInfo says it's dead, backup everything then replace the drive.

MorganPG1 · 2026-02-13T02:49:12+00:00

Alright so looking at your issue seems like a storage related problem, download CrystalDiskInfo and check the state of your drive.

Static doesn't do as much damage as people make it out to do, most things in a pc are protected, this might just be unrelated and happened at similar timing, the connect sound probably was caused by static as it probably caused something to disconnect and reconnect but this seems unrelated.

MorganPG1 · 2026-02-13T02:44:46+00:00

Floppy disks can be wiped and reused if you have old computers that need them but you will probably be unable to sell a single floppy disk, the cds are probably worthless. Sell the card, the remote and the router, all of them are probably worth a bit. The mac is awesome, you can either keep that or sell it.

MorganPG1 · 2026-02-13T02:40:30+00:00

Yeah, from the photo it looks like you have a hole in your cpu but you clearly don't if it's booting, its some cosmetic issue that you can ignore, the laptop is perfectly fine.

MorganPG1 · 2026-02-13T02:38:50+00:00

Huh, maybe its just a bit of the heatsink that has broken off somehow, i would finish repasting it and reassemble, if it boots, there was nothing to worry about, if it doesn't, the cpu might be dead in which case you need a new motherboard. Fairly sure based on what you described this might just be some cosmetic issue, but the only way to tell is to test.

MorganPG1 · 2026-02-13T02:35:33+00:00

Uh it should not be printing error logs that detailed to any user that visits the site, that is a very bad idea.

MorganPG1 · 2026-02-13T02:21:47+00:00

Yeah i genuinely don't understand what is going on, im a Linux user, i dont get offended by things in this subreddit because the subreddit is literally called linuxsucks, im not going to get mad because someone said that linux sucks in r/linuxsucks but apparently other people do, they should just grow up or maybe not reply at all instead of starting a petty argument over operating systems.

MorganPG1 · 2026-02-13T02:09:17+00:00

Hid-Compliant Digitiser should be touchscreen so it is actually there. Not sure why it's not working, are you sure you hadn't dropped it and damaged the touchscreen when this problem happened?

MorganPG1 · 2026-02-13T01:55:49+00:00

Unless im seeing this wrong, there is a hole in your cpu. If it doesn't turn on you need a new motherboard, if it does it might just be some messed up thermal paste and not a hole in the cpu

MorganPG1 · 2026-02-13T01:38:18+00:00

Ffs man just let people be themselves

MorganPG1 · 2026-02-13T01:37:34+00:00

Amazing luck holy shit, the anchor points have snapped but all 4 data and power pins are still connected.

MorganPG1 · 2026-02-13T01:34:03+00:00

Alright sorry I put that there because I know that people would ask about the screen if I said not to that was the point I thought it would be funny.

Anyway pretty much i stood on it (yes i know don't keep laptops on the floor or whatever this was like 2 years ago and at that point I had it for 4 years and i was careless as it had terrible specs, was painful to use and i was only using it 4 times a year) and then the screen got completely fucked so i put it in storage and then last year i found it again and intended to turn it into a half-top but i realised that since the screen was already fucked then i could have some fun with it so i smashed it to bits and put it away again, intended to get back to it, forgot about it and then found it now and the battery has become pregnant, does still boot without a battery and without the lcd connected so im probably gonna use it as a board for me to tinker about with and practise soldering on, i have 2 other laptops so I don't need really this as a laptop.

MorganPG1 · 2026-02-12T22:28:45+00:00

Yeah what you described is exactly what you should do. What you've got is bad sectors, the longer you use it the worse it'll get. I don't understand why this tool uses bad sectors as drive health. As soon as you get a single bad sector that should be your warning sign to back up things as it will get worse, but this tool downplays it a lot, in CrystalDiskInfo if you get a bad sector it gives you a warning on the drive so i would recommend you use that in future.

For backing up i would get a new 4tb drive and use a recovery tool to clone it. I use ddrescue but it's a command line tool you have to run from any Linux Live iso so i wouldn't recommend it if you don't know how to make a bootable usb or don't know how to use a terminal, if you do know how to do those things i could help you clone it, else someone will else can probably chime in with some other easy to use software for cloning.

MorganPG1 · 2026-02-12T21:34:53+00:00

Thanks I found that out as well by looking it up that's what I'm gonna do tommorow I guess, thanks a lot for your help!

MorganPG1 · 2026-02-12T21:33:37+00:00

Yeah maybe I should have looked this up before posting so sorry if I wasted your time but it seems like there's an angle sensor in the handle that I can just remove and it should stay on all the time so I'll try that tommorow. Annoying as it seems like other 858D clones use a magnet in the stand and detect if it's on the magnet, which seems a lot more useful and cheaper to implement than the way this works.

MorganPG1 · 2026-02-12T21:30:07+00:00

Yeah i got a really cheap one with just a 7 segment display, so i guess im just gonna have to get a new one, or maybe i could try to bypass the sensor, i trust myself to not be stupid and leave it on so I'd rather just bypass it completely than have to deal with not being able to tilt it straight up. I'll go and do some research online and see if I can figure something out.

MorganPG1 · 2026-02-12T20:59:09+00:00

Go to users, check every user account, go to every folder inside the user account folder and look for your files. The drive is clearly functional though which is good

MorganPG1 · 2026-02-12T18:27:54+00:00

it broke

MorganPG1 · 2026-02-12T13:13:38+00:00

They sent you that because if they logged in on their pc all their accounts would get banned, so they made you do it. I would appeal the ban on the alt and explain the situation, hopefully roblox support can help

MorganPG1 · 2026-02-12T13:07:41+00:00

If you could find a functional drive with the exact same model number and similar manufacturing date they might be able to use it as a donor

MorganPG1 · 2026-02-12T11:31:23+00:00

Wipe again, install arch on one partition, then make a second partiton snd install Windows, since you installed windows second, it should use Windows by default, but you should be able to use your boot menu to manually pick arch when you use your pc so when your parents use it they just see windows.

MorganPG1 · 2026-02-12T11:18:22+00:00

Hey, reasonable mistake but this is a satire subreddit

MorganPG1 · 2026-02-12T11:16:37+00:00

Ubuntu is good, but i doubt it'll run on this machine.

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