Should i take my PC to a repair shop? (Help please)

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Gluegun420

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So about a month ago I fell asleep with my laptop on sitting on my bed. Which of course overheated it at some point. And I was obviously embarrassed with the idea of bringing a laptop with porn games to a repair shop. But after a while I realized I had a lot of important and sentimental things saved on it. So I figured maybe I was just being paranoid and thought about just stomaching the embarrassment...

but after reading some opinions, people seem to go both ways on the legality of what's here. And I'm unsure if I am being paranoid. Will Mr. FBI come knocking just for self reporting I have these pirated games? Are they mostly fine besides the more edgy ones? What if one of my games literally has the word "rape" in the title or file name?

Should I just get a new PC?
 
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I think you're giving yourself too much credit if you think that gov forces can be bothered with you... over some porn. :ROFLMAO::coffee:
 
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Gluegun420 said:
Not to be rude... I just wanted to clarify your response. But are you saying I'm overreacting? Or just that you're speaking from the camp that says this is all legal?
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Overreacting. Unless it's CP, there's a very low risk they'll care.
 
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♍VoidTraveler said:
I think you're giving yourself too much credit if you think that gov forces can be bothered with you... over some porn. :ROFLMAO::coffee:
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I'm obviously exaggerating when I say "Mr. FBI" I know this place isn't Jared Fogle's Bat cave. but I still want to make sure. I live in a very religious community. I don't know what can get blown out of proportion here, that may just fly where you live.
 
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Overheating doesnt destroy a pc, it'd just shut itself off. If its dusty and its blocking fan or something you can open it up and remove the dust.

Unless its soldered in its possible to remove the SSD to ensure data safety prior to bringing it to a shop.
Its easy for repair shops to violate privacy since if they get your password and they get to the desktop the data is just couple clicks away, some will copy your image folders for later masturbation sessions, despite the shop policy usually being they're not allowed to or they get fired. T
 
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Gluegun420 said:
I live in a very religious community. I don't know what can get blown out of proportion here, that may just fly where you live.
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Just be open with the repair shop clerk. Say "I have porn games on there, is that a problem with you or this shop?"
 
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  1. Is it actually broken and not working or are you just wanting to bring it in to have it checked?
  2. Is it under warranty?
  3. If taking out the hard drive/SSD has no impact on the warranty or no warranty exists, just remove the hard drive/SSD. They can make sure it boots to BIOS and that's good enough unless you ruined the hard drive/SSD.
 
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F4C430 said:
  1. Is it actually broken and not working or are you just wanting to bring it in to have it checked?
  2. Is it under warranty?
  3. If taking out the hard drive/SSD has no impact on the warranty or no warranty exists, just remove the hard drive/SSD. They can make sure it boots to BIOS and that's good enough unless you ruined the hard drive/SSD.
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1. It can turn on but after a black screen it says logging in and sits there without changing no matter how many hours I let it sit and think.
2. No
3. It went out while I was asleep, so I don't know if it just shut off or worse, so I can't say for sure if it's damaged or not, but it's at least booting up, so I assumed it's not destroyed. But is removing an SSD from a laptop really that easy? Even for someone who has never done that kind of thing?
 
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That sounds like what happened to my laptop when I had an early version of Windows 10 on it. I didn't have it set to update automatically but somehow it updated itself when I had to leave the room for a few hours. When I got back, it notified me I needed to restart to install updates. I checked the log and somehow the box to automatically install updates was checked. I didn't have it checked earlier and it was supposed to notify me first. It looked like a minor update so followed the instructions to restart it. Then it got stuck at "installing updates" so I restarted it and made it to "logging in" then got stuck in another loop. So I tried to reboot it and it would get stuck at "installing updates" or "logging in" and would never finish that. I tried to boot into safe mode and it wouldn't even complete that boot either. That update bricked itself so I had no functioning OS thanks to Microsoft. An hour later, it was running Linux Mint flawlessly and is still running perfectly today.

I think the most likely scenario is this:
- Most of the time, windows will automatically update itself whenever you're inactive. So I think it started to update itself.
- Then it's possible that while sleeping, you could have moved or caused it to restart or shut off during that process and it literally shat itself at that point.

If you can boot into safe mode, back up any data off your hard drive. Then try to recover the OS or re-install it. There's another option if you can have 2 hard drives. You can add another hard drive in that one's place and put an operating system on it then plug the older one into the second bay and you should be able to see all the contents then save what you want and either reformat it or leave it alone. I've done both and it's worked.
 
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whippetmaster said:
That sounds like what happened to my laptop when I had an early version of Windows 10 on it. I didn't have it set to update automatically but somehow it updated itself when I had to leave the room for a few hours. When I got back, it notified me I needed to restart to install updates. I checked the log and somehow the box to automatically install updates was checked. I didn't have it checked earlier and it was supposed to notify me first. It looked like a minor update so followed the instructions to restart it. Then it got stuck at "installing updates" so I restarted it and made it to "logging in" then got stuck in another loop. So I tried to reboot it and it would get stuck at "installing updates" or "logging in" and would never finish that. I tried to boot into safe mode and it wouldn't even complete that boot either. That update bricked itself so I had no functioning OS thanks to Microsoft. An hour later, it was running Linux Mint flawlessly and is still running perfectly today.

I think the most likely scenario is this:
- Most of the time, windows will automatically update itself whenever you're inactive. So I think it started to update itself.
- Then it's possible that while sleeping, you could have moved or caused it to restart or shut off during that process and it literally shat itself at that point.

If you can boot into safe mode, back up any data off your hard drive. Then try to recover the OS or re-install it. There's another option if you can have 2 hard drives. You can add another hard drive in that one's place and put an operating system on it then plug the older one into the second bay and you should be able to see all the contents then save what you want and either reformat it or leave it alone. I've done both and it's worked.
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I don't know about that last part, sounds like a lot but I haven't tried that. I did spend quite a while seeing if I could get pass the logging in screen, including entering safe mode. So far I've tried basically all the advice I can that doesn't require a screwdriver
 
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You are not overreacting at all. Computer repair shops are legally required to go over your hard drive with a fine-tooth comb and report everything they find to the NSA, FBI, and ATF.

Which doesn’t really matter since F95 already informs all those organizations of every game you download. Still, it would be polite of you to give them confirmation.
 
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Gluegun420 said:
So about a month ago I fell asleep with my laptop on sitting on my bed. Which of course overheated it at some point. And I was obviously embarrassed with the idea of bringing a laptop with porn games to a repair shop. But after a while I realized I had a lot of important and sentimental things saved on it. So I figured maybe I was just being paranoid and thought about just stomaching the embarrassment...

but after reading some opinions, people seem to go both ways on the legality of what's here. And I'm unsure if I am being paranoid. Will Mr. FBI come knocking just for self reporting I have these pirated games? Are they mostly fine besides the more edgy ones? What if one of my games literally has the word "rape" in the title or file name?

Should I just get a new PC?
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In my experience, usually the fan inside is the first thing to go.
So if that is the case, you may can replace it yourself.
If it overheads it will shut down itself. It may still work fine though.
Check it first before spending money for some service.
It helps to check for checking the internet how to do it as each laptop is different.
I have an old Lenovo and its quite easy to replace keyboard and other parts. But i only know that after i read some how-to's.
 
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why would the repair shop go through your files to see what you have there? that's not helping them fix your comp.
unless you have a folder INCEST PORN GAMES on the desktop i wouldn't worry
 
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I got a laptop from a friend who said it would work fine for 5-30 minutes then it would shut down. He'd restart it and it would work fine for a few more minutes then shut down again. I'm saying shut down like someone unplugged a desktop. It wouldn't even shut down using windows. It would just turn off. That's what happens with most older laptops when it overheats. It'll load and run fine until it's too hot then it'll just turn itself off.
It was a dell latitude so I flipped it upside down, took about 5-6 screws off the bottom and looked. The fan outlet was completely clogged with dust and dirt. I put a static strap on, put my finger on the middle of the cpu fan to make sure it won't move or spin then used a duster can and sprayed towards the outlets to clear all dust from the ports. Once it was clean of dust, I put the cover back on and ran it until the battery was out and it never overheated again.
That's why I don't think it's overheating but it could have had a blocked port, overheated and shut itself down while being updated. That could explain the OP's issue. I've been told some newer laptops will give you a warning symbol somewhere then begin an unprompted shut down. But most of the ones I've had to work on would just turn off. But having a boot loop or a loop while loading windows is almost always a problem with windows. There's been one time it was a corrupted sector on a hard drive but that was about 15 years ago. But all the other times it was stuck in a boot loop or login loop, it was a windows problem.
 
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