I'm really sorry you're going through all this... if you don't mind me asking, how old are you? What's the word from the doctors—what kind of options are they actually laying out for you?
You should probably head over to the PC builds sub—those guys actually live and breathe this stuff, so they'll be way more helpful than I am. They can also point you toward a better motherboard if this one isn't quite cutting it...
It’s probably the power supply. If you can swing buying a new one—or even just borrow one from another rig to test it out—that should be your first move.
I mean, if there’s zero sound, nothing on the screen, and not a single LED is blinking... yeah, you start with the PSU. It’s a safe bet about $50 percent of the time.
Hope you get back on your feet soon You really ought to start getting some exercise in—it does wonders for building up your immune system... keeps things steady.
And you’ve gotta ditch those bad habits—drinking, smoking, constant overeating, all that sugar junk. You don't have to give up sweets entirely, obviously, but maybe just pick better ingredients once in a while.
Also, try eating plenty of fruit every day. When I was a kid, I was constantly dealing with allergies and catching every cold that went around... my dad used to buy me tons of fruit—clementines, bananas, apples, stuff like that. We’d make fruit salads to use instead of candy and things. Honestly, it made a massive difference; I felt way more resilient.
Look, your immune system has taken a hit. You can sit there complaining and just lean on meds and whatever else, or you can actually tackle this the healthy way like I mentioned before... 😉
If a clean OS reinstall doesn't fix the issue—and assuming you're out of warranty at this point
Then you're really looking at two paths... one is hunting down a replacement GPU on eBay, though that’s a gamble since some of these builds are soldered shut, meaning you'd basically have to swap the whole motherboard just to get things running again.
Or, you know, you could just bite the bullet and look into buying a new laptop altogether.
My money is on the inverter—the one tucked under the screen usually—being unstable or just plain dying.
But before we go tearing things apart, check if it's just a driver issue. I’d ask if you notice that flickering happening before the macOS loading screen even pops up...
Look, man, that mouse stuttering? It doesn't sound like a faulty ribbon cable to me—and I'm pretty sure your GPU isn't the culprit either.
Honestly, my gut feeling is that your OS just completely tanked along with the drivers... everything went south at once. If I were you, I’d just wipe the slate clean and do a fresh install of the OS from scratch.
The real headache here is the chipset—your old installation is hardwired to the previous one. You could try running a repair using a USB stick. It shouldn't wipe your data, but honestly... just back everything up first, just in case.
Honestly, I don't think our healthcare system even works halfway yet...
I finally got an appointment at the new hospital out in the suburbs—you know, the one they just opened up. The doctor booked the slot through her computer, though she still handed me a physical referral slip anyway... kind of old school, I guess.
ODT is basically an international standard recognized all over Europe and right here in the States, but honestly... Microsoft doesn't exactly go out of its way to respect it. Sure, they've started playing along a little bit, but they’re still pushing their own proprietary formats—it's just a constant uphill battle trying to get ODT to work smoothly across different office tools, regardless of who actually built them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument
Honestly, you should just go through with a hard reset or hit the recovery option. The whole thing is pretty much automated, and you can usually tell it not to wipe your old files—but for heaven's sake, make a backup first... just to be safe. It’ll save you a massive headache and hopefully finally kill off that bug once and for all.
I just had a sudden realization about how you could make this whole thing even easier... You could just whip up a quick batch file that launches your browser and runs the script at the exact same time 😉. Then, you just name that batch file "Google Chrome" or "Mozilla Firefox" and call it a day.
Honestly, just go ahead and download LibreOffice instead. The crew basically split off from OpenOffice to keep things moving under a new name... much cleaner that way.
It won't actually fix the underlying mess, but it might save you some frustration...
Instead of typing everything out manually every single time, just grab a Notepad window—kind of like how you’d type stuff into the command prompt—and save your command there as a .bat file. Call it something like ipconfig.bat and just double-click that little file whenever things go south again.
Honestly, I haven't got a clue why this started happening in the first place, What version of Windows are you running? And would you be open to just resetting the whole OS? There's an option for that right in your settings. It takes a bit longer than a standard clean install, but you can just let it run overnight while you sleep...
So, how are you actually getting online? Just standard Wi-Fi? Or are you one of those people using one of those little USB mobile hotspots... the ones that look like thumb drives?
Let me know which version of macOS you're running so we can actually figure out a fix for your system
Honestly, it might be worth just nuking the printer software and doing a clean reinstall—resetting all the settings from scratch... might actually solve the headache this time.