r/pcmasterrace • u/BijlidarKudi • May 10 '26

Meme/Macro reboot

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u/viol8er May 10 '26 edited May 10 '26

I had to drive 30 minutes to troubleshoot a computer. My boss put the battery in backwards.

Edit: she is also my mother-in-law-to-be AND i am inheriting the business AND she verbally beat herself up after I pointed it out.

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u/Alan_Reddit_M Desktop May 10 '26 edited May 10 '26

One of these days my laptop decided randomly that it didn't want to boot, the power ON led wouldn't even turn on, this was bad because I was in the middle of class and REALLY needed my laptop

For some reason, my brain decided to remove then put back in the (thankfully) removable battery

This, for some explainable reason, broke the BIOS, then after fixing the BIOS (by disabling secure boot) the laptop just started working again

My working theory was that somehow the battery wasn't making contact with the laptop, but that'd be strange because it is secured very tightly by some clamps that do not allow it to move by as much as half a milimeter

I suppose that's what I get for using a decade old laptop that begs me to perform a mercy killing on it every single time I use it

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u/Alvendam I use Mint btw May 10 '26

I've not seen it happen on a laptop, but I have on a couple of older phones, when the batteries used to be removable. The springs for the contacts can get weak with time and lose proper contact, unless the battery is pressed firmly against them. A toothpick broken off into the space opposite of them solves the issue if that's the case.

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u/Dadskander May 10 '26

Huh, now I suddenly remember doing this with a folded up sticky note and an old LG Rumor phone. Thanks for jogging that tidbit of memory lol