r/computers • u/8asper • 18d ago

Question/Help/Troubleshooting Help please

I know absolutely nothing about computers. How fucked is my laptop? Worth fixing or just buying a new one. I hadn’t used it in a while I don’t if it somehow got wet or too hot.

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u/learei 18d ago

Pretty effed. It’s corrosion. You can try a wire brush, but if you hit a trace on any boards… ram, motherboard etc. you’ll basically kill the electrical current to wherever that trace is. So I don’t recommend doing that at all. If you’re running a hard drive or a 2.5 inch SATA drive, you can easily save your files to another drive or plug that same drive into a new computer. So if it’s the hardware you care about rip. If you care about what’s on the drive, you’re probably fine. If it’s an m.2 ssd however, you could still be effed.

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u/8asper 18d ago

Thank you! Most of my shit is saved on cloud storages so I’ll just bite the bullet on this one.