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6th July 2012

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I’m so about to cry…

Basically all I do is things that are on a computer.  My computer.  So when it was overheating last week, I knew it was due to my fans all dying which I knew had been a thing that had been going on for some time.

But when it shut off on it’s own a LOT, I looked inside and noticed my heatsink wasn’t turning either.  So that had to be at least part of why.

I ordered parts because my mom managed to sell something on eBay and we scraped up the $50 for a new heatsink and 3 fans.  And they finally got here today.  (The 5 days I have gone without a computer has been TORTURE. You don’t understand how much of my life is just computer-run.  All my work.  All my friends.  All my connection to the outside world.)

I opened it up immediately and started replacing parts.  But then…

I pulled the heatsink out and saw…  2 capacitors are leaking.  I don’t know what to do.  Do I install the heatsink, let it run and hope the problem is solved and it wasn’t the capacitors? Hope they don’t die, ruin more parts, or explode?

If I need to replace the motherboard, I don’t know what I’ll do.  I have NO money.  I can’t even afford to buy food and prescriptions most of the time.  And if I have to replace a motherboard of a 5 year old computer…  I know that means a lot of other stuff follows.  Could I even reuse the CPU?  (It’s been 5 years, and in between building computers I usually forget everything about building them)  Would I have to buy a new CPU?  New memory?  The motherboard was specially made to go with the video card…  at the time it was supposed to be awesome and special, but 5 years is eons in computer-land.

This thing was $2000 five years ago…  I could NEVER afford that now…  I don’t know what to do.  I am in total panic mode.

If you’re one of my friends, please, message me or email or something, because I haven’t been able to talk to you in like, a week, and I am so sorry.  If ANYONE has advice, please, send it my way!

Tagged: computersmotherboardscapacitorshelp

  1. dyslexxicon reblogged this from bluandorange
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  3. elysianorchid said: Check out the buildapc (all one word) thread on Reddit, I know a couple people who posted there and got full builds and part specs. If anything they can give you the low down on the parts and pieces and what you can switch out as well as price.
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  6. sinvraal said: Replacing an old MB with a similar model should be dirt cheap five years later- the falloff is steep! Try looking around places like eBay or PC parts stores for the same model. Also- back up everything important ASAP!
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  10. bluandorange reblogged this from mariahgem and added:
    I don’t know anything about computers BUT IF YOU DO, send help?
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