Sneaux next week [Historic snowstorm in southeast Louisiana on January 21, 2025]

TheRealJRad said

If it’s clicking, they have to open it up in a clean room and replace parts. Cost is obviously way up there.

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I'm about 99% sure (but going from memory) that it never made a clicking noise. One day, the computer just wouldn't boot up ... it was essentially inert. Can't recall a noise, a lot like the machine was unplugged, say. Made me think something that was supposed to make the hard drive spin just failed suddenly and that was it.

Might make a new thread about it after the snow stuff.

EDIT: If it makes a difference ... it would be fine with me if they destroyed the hard drive in the process of getting the files off of it. Not sure if that would allow them to skip the clean room or not.