I saw Best Buy's listing for it and it's sold out, I'll have to do some more research (which I may do at my local Micro Center, my mother's been egging me on getting my dead RTX 3050-powered ASUS laptop repaired so that she could give it to a relative's kid as a "cheap" Christmas gift despite me telling her that it's probably beyond saving) on which CPU I should go for.
I had it saved on amazon and it said the seller (amazon) had no more instock. Had to re-add it.
Too many cum tributes.
I honestly don't know, it was working fine out of the box but after a month of not using it I tried to start it up and ended up with a black screen with the LEDs on the keyboard still functioning. As to what may have killed it, I took it to a third-party repair shop and they couldn't identify the issue but they said it might be a motherboard issue (hence why I said to my mother it's not worth saving).
Did they open it up and attempted to do something? A cmos-reset (unplugging the battery and the tiny cr battery) might help, that's the 5 minute 0 dollar fix I would try at least.
AMD has had flops before, people are just happy this wasn't one.
It wasn't going to be one. Only over emotional youtubers declaring zen 5 a disaster thought it might be.
They unplugged the battery but the CMOS battery is a pain in the ass to access in the 2021 model, it’s on the opposite side of the motherboard.
The weird thing is that I can boot it up but it takes multiple shut downs and booting into BIOS to do so.
May be a bad drive or memory too. Those ones are cheap to replace. Battery still alive? Tried with another power brick?
I have a feeling if it's not the motherboard itself might be the RAM, the repair folks tested the drive and it booted up fine in another machine.
It still held a charge last time I tried to boot it up.
I have the power brick for my current laptop and the dead one although they are different voltages (one is 180 watts and the other is 240 watts).
From what I understand it’s still a thing but it’s largely moved away from GPU mining and is expensive, nowadays professional miners use ASIC mining rigs.
