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I think but I'm not 100% sure that my onboard power supply ate itself. It doesn't turn on and if I can get it to anything the power button just blinks slowly green, one blink per second. I've had the thing 13 years and it might be the computer gods saying it's time to retire your laptop. It's a Lenovo t420. My question is this I'm looking to get a new laptop. I don't need anything super fancy I was actually thinking about something with a 512 SSD hard drive and an SD expandable port for up to a tb. I obviously want to put Linux on it (Linux mint actually) and I would like to purchase it from either Costco, Veterans Advantage, or Amazon. I don't think I can get it without an OS and my concern is the way Windows fucks with everything would I brick the laptop if I use my own OS. My old company password locked the BIOS because of theft so this gets me wondering if Windows would do something to the BIOS so I was stuck with Windows and if I tried to load my own software on there I just now created a door stop and lost a couple hundred dollars. Also I remember running into wireless issues with Dell. What do you guys and gals think the direction I should go should be. All I really do on the laptop is watch jooTube, type emails, play music, maybe dick around with audacity.

I think but I'm not 100% sure that my onboard power supply ate itself. It doesn't turn on and if I can get it to anything the power button just blinks slowly green, one blink per second. I've had the thing 13 years and it might be the computer gods saying it's time to retire your laptop. It's a Lenovo t420. My question is this I'm looking to get a new laptop. I don't need anything super fancy I was actually thinking about something with a 512 SSD hard drive and an SD expandable port for up to a tb. I obviously want to put Linux on it (Linux mint actually) and I would like to purchase it from either Costco, Veterans Advantage, or Amazon. I don't think I can get it without an OS and my concern is the way Windows fucks with everything would I brick the laptop if I use my own OS. My old company password locked the BIOS because of theft so this gets me wondering if Windows would do something to the BIOS so I was stuck with Windows and if I tried to load my own software on there I just now created a door stop and lost a couple hundred dollars. Also I remember running into wireless issues with Dell. What do you guys and gals think the direction I should go should be. All I really do on the laptop is watch jooTube, type emails, play music, maybe dick around with audacity.

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It is not a bad idea to invest in a cheap multimeter and learn how to use it. You might not need it often but it's always useful when you do. They can easily be had for 20$ or less. If you can't figure it out I'm sure some of us here would help you with it.