Help Mahmoud . He helps Gaza students with the Gaza-education group. Isnad, allowing them online course
He only Needs $39 more
(By I think 4:00pm cst April 19, or perhaps before midnight, unsure of timezones)
to repair his computer to keep his job and continue to help people!
🔗Gofundme || 🔗PayPal || 🔗Vetting , my last post
39,461$ / 39,500$ on gofundme raised. Gofundme could also
see more about isnad here thte @/isnadfoundation
backup vetting link .1 El Shab Hussein is a vetter from Gaza Evacuation Funds which was trusted because they are Palestinian run/managed. by Nabulsi, El Shab Hussein, and Mo Ayesh.
This account (@/ma7moudgaza2), was vetted by @/el-shab-hussein here: https://www.tumblr.com/el-shab-hussein/752924881023352832/bilal-salah0-is-the-new-account-of-the-individual A post with the campaign was reblogged by @/el-shab-hussein here: https://www.tumblr.com/el-shab-hussein/778664052985643008 And a post with the campaign was created by @/nabulsi here: https://www.tumblr.com/nabulsi/790808075191910401/donate-to-support-mahmoud-for-a-better-life
I have become the kind of Old where I now need help with my computer.
So, I bought an HP Elitebook 840 secondhand; it came with a new charger and a new internal battery. It has been the best laptop I've ever owned for the last year and a half, performing with no problems. When I was home two weeks ago, I was trying to cast from the laptop to my parents' TV, which we'd done before, when it suddenly started signaling that it was on low battery despite being plugged in. The power cord had come loose, so that was legit, but as I was trying to re-seat the power cord, the battery dropped from 19% to 0% in the course of seconds, and the laptop shut down completely.
I haven't been able to power it up since. I'm going to list off what I've tried below the cut, but I'm looking less for hardware solutions than for advice on who to consult next about this.
I've tried letting it charge overnight with the old cord, which might not work (it doesn't have any LED power lights to tell me). I've tried letting it charge overnight with a new cord that I know works, on a different port (a USB-C charger instead of the normal round-port charger; this is a cord I use on my work laptop). I've taken the back off, removed the battery, and tried powering it up with both cords with the battery out; I've inspected and re-seated the battery and tried again with both cords. Nothing.
The laptop has never had LED power indicator lights of any kind (no light-up keyboard, no LED indicator at the power port) so I can't tell if power is getting in but the hard drive is baked, or if the problem is that no power is getting to the battery, or if the problem is that no power is getting through the battery to the hard drive.
The problem is that I don't know what the next step is. Do people take computers to repair shops anymore? Is data recovery still a thing people can pay to have done? Asking HP to have a look at it is not ideal because I don't have any protection plan with them, but I can take a swing at it. I don't know if there's a way to hook up another laptop to the hard drive -- the drive isn't easily removable, and while I have other laptops I could try to connect to it, I don't have that kind of mechanical knowledge, at least not anymore.
I can afford another laptop; in fact when work upgraded my old laptop they let me buy it from them. And I have a somewhat recent backup of the busted one, but it's not complete -- it's missing about a month, and there were some old video files stored on it that aren't backed up anywhere. It will be insanely inconvenient if I have to just write it off, but it won't be tragic. I just would really like to at least pull the data off.
I'm open to suggestions. There are one or two mechanical fixes I've found on various websites that I can still try, but I'm not an electrician or an engineer.
With all my husband's medical woes, pain, and setbacks this year, I want to balance the scales... Help me replace his dying computer, and get him the workhorse machine he deserves for his birthday!
(If anyone has any tips on how to save a laptop from water damage, hypothetically, please lmk) (the hypothetical laptop is powered off, with battery removed, upside down to drain, but it was showing some pretty scary glitch squares before it was, hypothetically, shut off)
JUST SAW THE MOST GORGEOUS CUSTOM SALVAGE-STATE ORIGINAL XBOX RHIS IS THE WOEST FUCKING DAY OF MY LIFE TO BE FLAT BROKE ITS LITERALLY LESS THAN 100 DOLLARDS LOOK AT HER. LOOK AT IT.!!!!! I M GONNA CRY
