How much do you know about computers?

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Can you run an OS on a PC with no hardrive?

Does an SD card or thumb drive count as a harddrive? If not, I got this

A 100uf capacitor has blown on your motherboard, but you only have a 20 pack of 10uf capacitors on hand. What do you do?

EDIT: I think I got this. You either have to connect them in series or parallel

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Ya got it. You can boot from a live usb/cd, and you can also load an OS into your RAM over the net, via Pre execution environment or an equivalent.
You'll need to run 10 10uf capacitors in parallel to replicate a 100uf cap. In series, the total capacitance will be less than the sum of the smaller caps together; in parallel they effectively become one big 100uf cap.

Good OP man, this has been kinda fun.

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Good OP man, this has been kinda fun.

Good response man, this was totally fun ahaha