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Originally Posted by nutteronthebus
I have been there a PC I rebuilt went "faulty" a week later turns out the mains lead on the screen had come loose ( I only had the base unit in the workshop ) but constant switching off and on via the mains had  the OS on the hard drive and needed a complete reload 
Dave
PS I no longer repair or reload PC for this reason |
It sounds like a friend of mine who used to be clueless about technology & managed to destrory a few laptops over the years.
Pulling out the battery during a big update because she thought it needed a hard reset was probably the daftest thing she did.