Half a year since my computer busted and I finally, FINALLY got around to getting the problem checked out.
The diagnostic is that the motherboard, capacitor, and hard drive all simultaneously fried from old age alone (this is an Intel desktop from 2008 and I've had it for 5 years).
The guy servicing it should get back to me Monday about-
A) How difficult it would be to find/get replacement hardware for such a dated system.
B) If my files and data are even salvageable from the frizzled hard drive and can be transferred to the proposed new one.
Edit: Don't know why the PS4 library auto-filled the year to 2008 and not 2017.