Laptop is dead!!

[Leablahblah]

I’m so freaking sad!! My parents arrived from France 2 days ago and I was so happy but I knew my dad would finally be able to fix my keyboard which some of the keys had stopped working a few weeks back. My dad can fix anything… usually… except he freaking broke it. It won’t even turn on anymore. He took the case off, looked if there was anything that looked loose or amiss. And tried to turn it on and it didn’t even start. He started taking it apart layer by layer (keyboard is one of the last layers in my Lenovo laptop), didn’t see anything, put it back together and it was dead.
He thinks he fried it with static electricity! What the!!!!! I’m so beyond sad and frustrated that I’ve probably lost a whole bunch of stuff, programs, games etc…

[SweetChar]

Oh, gosh Lea. That's soooo sad and frustrating. I feel your pain. Maybe a computer repair shop can access your files?

[lorigaud]

Oh no.... I'm so sorry!

[AmieN1]

Oh no! So sorry!

[LynnZant]

I'm so sorry that happen to your laptop! Tonight, I just finished scrapping three pages that I started almost a month ago. It was a nightmare getting a new computer. My cloud still won't sync, but I don't care at this point. It just feels good to scrap again. I hope you can get your Lenovo fixed soon! Maybe it's something simple. Keeping my fingers crossed for you.

[rach3975]

Oh, no! I'm so sorry!

[nietis]

OH noooooo. So sorry

[Robin Carlton]

Oh NO Lea! That seriously sucks!! OMG I'd be so heartbroken and stressed! Will you be able to get a replacement anytime soon?

[Willemijne DSI]

Oh no that is devastating! Problems with electronics are so hard


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[bienejen]

Oh no! That's such a bummer!

[Saar]

I'm so sorry to read this Lea.

[Kimberly27]

Oh no! I am so sorry! I would pull the hard drive to see if you can recover anything.

[allyanne]

I'm sorry--this is so devastating! Hoping that you can get it fixed and recover your data.

[HeatherB]

Oh no! That's awful! I hope you are able to recover your data.

[tjscraps]

Oh no, I'm sorry Lea

[bcgal00]

That is awful. I sure hope that you can get it repaired at a decent cost or that you replace it with something you'll really love. I am going to have to replace my PC and my laptop in the next year and I am just dreading it.

It sucks to lose everything on it.

[Leablahblah]

I dropped it off at a repair shop in the city. I hope they can fix it. Both my dad and the guy think it's the motherboard and the guy said they have a way to clean it after a power surge (which we had within the past few days).

At least I have Backblaze so not everything would be lost... but still! starting from fresh sucks! I'd rather keep my old computer!

I was able to put back together my old PC but it didn't have any wifi connection so I had to order a wifi adapter last night and it arrived today at lunch so I'm all set to scrap I think. I have an older version of Photoshop. I hope I have my styles saved up on my EHD. We will see...

Just hoping I hear back from the guy at the beginning of the week with some good news.

Thanks for the kind words everyone.

[LJSDesigns]

Hope it can be fixed, Lea. Good luck.

[Leablahblah]

My husband called yesterday for an update. They only just got done with doing a motherboard cleaning/recovery thing and are giving the computer some rest time before attempting to turn it on again... the wait is killing me!

Good thing I can still scrap in the meantime on my old desktop computer though.

[nietis]

Fingers-crossing for you, Lea! I really hope they can recover it

[Leablahblah]

Well the report came back and I need a new motherboard. While the first guy we got on the phone didn't seem to think it could recover all my data and programs, the lady we gave the ok to do the work today said it is possible that it could just start up as normal. But we will just have to wait for the part (maybe 2 weeks) and see once swapped.

[Tracie Stroud]

Originally Posted by Leablahblah

Well the report came back and I need a new motherboard. While the first guy we got on the phone didn't seem to think it could recover all my data and programs, the lady we gave the ok to do the work today said it is possible that it could just start up as normal. But we will just have to wait for the part (maybe 2 weeks) and see once swapped.

When my husband has had to replace the motherboard in my pc, everything started up completely normally and all my stuff was still there. We back up regularly of course just in case, but thankfully I didn't have to deal with restoring anything. I hope that's the case with yours!

[Leablahblah]

Originally Posted by Tracie Stroud

When my husband has had to replace the motherboard in my pc, everything started up completely normally and all my stuff was still there. We back up regularly of course just in case, but thankfully I didn't have to deal with restoring anything. I hope that's the case with yours!

Thank you for the positive feedback! I hope it's the case here too!