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He hovered the mouse over the button.
Fatal error. System board mismatch.
The high-velocity fans of the IT repair lab screamed like jet engines, but Elias barely heard them. His attention was locked on the "Patient" sitting on the anti-static mat.
The cursor froze. The lab went silent, save for the hum of the drives. A progress bar appeared: Erasing Sector... Writing Data... Verifying...
It was a sleek, midnight-blue HP Z4 G4 Workstation—a beast of a machine that should have been rendering 4K video or crunching cryptographic algorithms. Instead, it was behaving like a brick. It powered on, beeped a sorrowful four-note dirge, and flashed a red LED on the motherboard.
"If this goes wrong, the computer turns into a very expensive doorstop," Elias corrected her. He took a breath and clicked.