This is the short story: got a 'new' computer a few years ago. Turned it on, installed Linux, made all the updates, ready to go.
Monsoon storm zapped the ethernet on the motherboard. Couldn't get a USB ethernet adapter to work.
Few months later, tried another ethernet adapter and that worked. Finished all the updates and was ready to go. Oh, one last thing -- updated the operating system from Fedora 26 to Fedora 28. Did this, and then saw that the ethernet adapter wasn't working again. Threw in the towel -- put the machine in storage where it was for a couple years.
Got ANOTHER ethernet adapter. Pulled the machine out of storage and tried it. It worked right away. Updated python, got all the astronomical python libraries installed, etc, etc, etc. Upgraded from 2 to 8 GB of memory. Now I'm really rip-roaring ready to go!
Last weekend I planned on moving from my current 'work' computer to this 'new' one. Went to turn it on and ----- nothing. It won't turn on! Fans spin for about 1 second and then stop. From what I can tell, this means that something happened to the motherboard.
So now the machine is sitting on the floor giving me the finger (again!!) and I'm just staring at it.
Frustrating....
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