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<li style="box-sizing: inherit; padding-bottom: 0.2em;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;">Replacing the Hard Drive:</span> The original hard drive was making these awful clicking noises, like a tiny old man trying to tap dance. I figured that was a goner. I had an old, smaller Solid State Drive (SSD) lying around from a failed project years ago. Pulled the old one out, slotted the SSD in. It clicked into place nice and easy. That was a small win, a tiny slice of good fortune right there.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; padding-top: 0.2em; padding-bottom: 0.2em;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;">RAM Upgrade:</span> Next, the memory. It had barely any. I remembered I had taken out a stick from another old laptop that croaked permanently. Dug through a drawer full of cables and random parts. Found it! A matching stick. Snapped it into the empty slot. Felt pretty smart at that moment.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; padding-top: 0.2em;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;">Software Nightmares:</span> This is where things really started getting interesting. Installing the operating system was supposed to be straightforward. I downloaded a fresh version of Windows, put it on a USB stick. Booted up the laptop, tried to install. Error. Just a vague &ldquo;something went wrong.&rdquo; Tried again. Same thing. Hours passed. I drank way too much coffee.</li>
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<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; color: #404040; font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">I swear, there was one night, maybe a Wednesday, when I was absolutely ready to chuck the whole thing out the window. Nothing worked. It kept telling me it couldn&rsquo;t find drivers, or that the installation was corrupt, or some other nonsense. I was looking up obscure forum posts from like, 2012. People were talking about BIOS settings I didn&rsquo;t even know existed. My brain was a puddle. I just threw my hands up and walked away. Sometimes you just gotta take a break before you smash something.

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