Desktop computer just died on me tonight with no warning, just bip, off, won’t turn back on at all
Asked a friend for a ride to micro center tomorrow. Picking up a new PSU. If you’ve got good vibes, send them my way: I’m hoping that this is a “$100 and an afternoon” quick fix problem, and trying not to succumb to panic attacks.
Update: new PSU has been purchased. Hanging out while waiting for other things to click into place; haven’t gotten home to install yet. Gonna eat some thai food. Emotions are a MESS but soon enough we will see if it’s the first order problem or if there’s something else at work.
Worst case, my data is all on SSD’s, if I HAVE TO I can crowdfund a new machine and just drop in the old drives, or ask around for help with individual parts. But I’m hopeful.
Update to the update: yeah no dice, I get a very brief flash of lights which is better than last night and then nothing. I am exhausted. I don’t know if I have it in me to disassemble and try to troubleshoot piece by piece. Trying not to cry.
After coming face to face with the specter of my own disability (taking 8+ hours to replace a PSU, not having the cognitive function to run through tests for other components, shaking hands and hurting myself in the process) I got the machine taken into a local service shop. Made the call that getting help was the best thing to do; I could have asked friends for help but I’d still be on the hook to get them the parts and impinging on their schedules and so paying someone professional to take a look was roughly equivalent without adding stress to already-stressed friends.
Turns out that most of the computer is fine, probably, it’s the GPU that needs replacing. Found out today. So good news, just one part, bad news it’s the most expensive single part of the machine, yaaaay
I’m still crowdfunding for help with post-move expenses, but now I’m adding the immediate need of “replacing this part IS going to cause me instability immediately” to the list. So if you can, please help, I don’t know what the damages are for sure yet but it’s coming out of the same fund that rent and food and meds are, and I could really truly use a hand if you’ve the ability.
We are now at the “waiting for a phone call to confirm permission to repair and select GPU” step. Overall experience has been mostly fine; frustrated by multiple “are you SURE you don’t want to just come in” and “are you SURE you don’t want to install yourself” confirmation texts. I think the technician honestly believes they’re doing me a favor and trying to save me time and/or money but we are past the “I can safely do it myself” stage, and I need to arrange a ride to go in and pick something out, and disability is legitimately frustrating.
Thanks to all who have chipped in to help. I should easily be able to replace the GPU at this point, though I’m still open to accepting living expense help. Y’all are grand.

at least all your data is fine?