I'm excited to finish a PC repair that I started 16 1/2 years ago. I thought it would never happen.
It wouldn't have taken so long or been so worth it today if it wasn't my first laptop or one that runs Windows *without* Internet Explorer. (Yes, IE was actually optional back when I first got it.)
And repaired! (I made it mine in 1998; don't judge.)
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I had to spend the evening digging through everything again to convince myself that a hard drive problem isn't why I stopped the repair 16 years ago. (It went through an earthquake, & even though it was barely felt where I was, about 100 miles away, the utility power was messed up enough to kill the DC power-in module.)
Fun fact: When laptops were thick-as-textbooks monsters, some manufacturers broke up the motherboard into a mainboard with modules sandwiched above. Toshiba did that to my laptop: 3 layers of 4 or 5 modules stacked behind all the peripherals & keyboard.
