This past weekend, my laptop decided it’s had enough and has given me the blue screen of death. I’ve put it in recovery mode, tried to reinstall windows, the works, and it refuses. I have no idea why. I was logged on, looking something up, and it went kaput. I wasn’t downloading anything, the computer was in it’s sleeve prior, not too wet, cold, hot, etc. Battery is fine, the laptop it’s self is maybe two years old.

My understanding is that Linux is a kind of system that you download the components to a USB or what not and then install it on your machine. Is that something I could do in this case? Or do I need to take it somewhere?

Edit: it seems I may have to check if it’s a hardware problem. The error code is Bad_system_config_info, but it changed to something else at one point but I didn’t write that one down. :(

  • rudyharrelson@lemmy.radio
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    16 hours ago

    Could Linux save my laptop?

    Depends on the root cause of the BSoD. If it’s a hardware issue, then no, installing Linux won’t fix an underlying hardware issue. What does the BSoD screen actually say? Any specific error code?

    My understanding is that Linux is a kind of system that you download the components to a USB or what not and then install it on your machine. Is that something I could do in this case?

    Yep, you could do that, but you’ll need a functioning PC to create a USB installer for the Linux OS of your choice. You’ll need a blank USB drive and some software to “flash” the Linux OS installer to the USB drive. e.g.: https://linuxmint-installation-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/burn.html