okay, i need to make it clear that i am a complete technological troglodyte. i know nothing. please treat me like your grandma and lower the bar even lower than you think you should.

i have an Acer laptop that i got new a few years back, but it seemed to have a structural issue from the start. i should have taken it back but i’m stupid. the charger would beep on and off occasionally, infrequent enough to ignore. now it’s sitting in the closet because it simply will not charge anymore. i took it to get fixed, paid $100, and the man did his best, but it only worked for a while before dying again. i plug it in, and it just won’t connect the charge. he said that he thinks there is current just draining out into the frame of the laptop because when it was made, it was soldered wrong somehow. i don’t know what he did, but it sort of worked for a while if i balanced the charger just right, but it beeped on and off like usual until it just wouldn’t charge at all anymore.

i definitely cannot afford to get a new laptop for a long while and have been borrowing my partner’s. does this sound like something that can be fixed? i really need this laptop back and there’s no way for me to get another.