This past weekend, my laptop decided it’s had enough and has given me the blue screen of death. I’ve put it in recovery mode, tried to reinstall windows, the works, and it refuses. I have no idea why. I was logged on, looking something up, and it went kaput. I wasn’t downloading anything, the computer was in it’s sleeve prior, not too wet, cold, hot, etc. Battery is fine, the laptop it’s self is maybe two years old.
My understanding is that Linux is a kind of system that you download the components to a USB or what not and then install it on your machine. Is that something I could do in this case? Or do I need to take it somewhere?
Edit: it seems I may have to check if it’s a hardware problem. The error code is Bad_system_config_info, but it changed to something else at one point but I didn’t write that one down. :(
Sounds like HDD failure if its less than 2 years old it should all covered under warranty.
Agreed. SSD is dead, or less likely, the RAM.
Could even be a loose stick of ram.
If the RAM isn’t soldered in, this would be the first thing I check. I’ve saved countless laptops for family and friends in mere seconds by simply reseating the RAM.