Not mine... my daughter's laptop.

I got the panic phone call..."Daddy, my laptop won't start and I need it for school"

I suggested checking the power supply voltage, disconnect the battery and let it set, reconnect everything and try it again.... and she said, they had already done that. She lives a few hours away so I couldn't get there to help.

I suggested carrying it to Staples or Best Buy since they fix computers. She was talking how she "needed" a new computer. I reminded her I wasn't buying her anymore computers so she needed to look into getting that one fixed and pronto if she needs it for school.

Best Buy was the closest at a 30 minute drive. She goes and calls me on the ride home. The kid there pushed the button and it started right up. He refused to check the power supply stating that the computer would tell her if the PS was bad.

Any ideas as to what would cause this? Just looking for some brain picking input. She's afraid it will do it again when she's working on a paper or assignment and miss the date which in her curriculum is apparently, super critical. There's only 2 months of school left until she graduates and gets a job so she can buy her own new computer. But knowing her.... those will be 8 weeks of terror every time she needs to turn on the laptop.

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