Within minutes, the replies flooded in.

He pressed the power button.

Marcos stared at his monitor. It was black. Not the deep, sleek black of a powered-off OLED, but the ominous, lifeless black of a PC that refused to even acknowledge its own existence.

The forum loaded. Its early-2000s design, complete with a banner of a poorly photoshopped screwdriver stabbing a motherboard, felt like home.

The framerate was terrible. The temperatures were worrying. But it was his .

With a trembling hand, he opened his laptop and typed the only URL that had ever saved him: elchapuzasinformatico.net/foro

The thread exploded.

"Classic elchapuzas move. Next time, use compressed air and a brush. But for now: remove the CMOS battery, wait 10 mins, and pray to Saint Linus of Tech Tips."

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