Ghetto Mods

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

im parked in our sitting room with a roaring coal fire, dust is a nightmare for me at this time of year.

I use cans of compressed air from Poundland and a brush.

 

[PHaS3]

I don't like that ve-e-e-ery small gap between GPU and HDD, but I don't think it will be a problem.

Lol I thought that was "Ghetto-Anti-Sag" (TM) lol

 

[Athlonite]

im parked in our sitting room with a roaring coal fire, dust is a nightmare for me at this time of year.

I use cans of compressed air from Poundland and a brush.

Might be time for some ghetto fan/case filters then steal a pair of the little womans stockings

 

[dorsetknob]

Might be time for some ghetto fan/case filters then steal a pair of the little womans stockings

What Denier do you recomend
the Range is 7 to 200
24 Denier seems to be the most common mesh

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

24 Denier seems to be the most common mesh

they are 2 pairs for a quid in Poundland....... i wish they had changing rooms, i always feel a bit vulnerable when i try them on in the aisle.
https://www.poundland.co.uk/

 

[dorsetknob]

they are 2 pairs for a quid in Poundland....... i wish they had changing rooms, i always feel a bit vulnerable when i try them on in the aisle.

 

[jboydgolfer]

"Networking center"

The unused hook is for my light saber which was on my belt as I took this picture

 

[Jetster]

I have a person I know who has a kid that is extremely hard on electronics. When he breaks them she just gives them to me.

This laptop he broke the hinge and you would have to replace the screen to fix it right. I epoxied the two screws back and it seams to be holding. Also soldered the antenna wire. Forgot to take a pic of the Epoxy job

 

[EntropyZ]

Year 2004 case w/ a window, check. A graphics card with a displaced heatsink (Custom MSI GeForce 8500 GT w/ Asus heatsink from a Radeon GPU + an Intel fan), check. Replaced AM2 motherboard capacitors, check. Overheating chipset and hard drive, fail.

I thought I missed blue screens pre-Windows 8, but when a gaming session is at stake I'm not willing to take any chances, so this another way of me beating around the problem.

So many poor old processor heasink fans from the Celerons and Pentiums of old aren't seeing much conventional use nowadays. Well I am at it again to just stick them into things and pray it helps, and it does! No more blue screens for me, oh yeah.

The system is almost as loud as a server box, but it just works™.

The dust is the icing on the cake so to speak, the leftovers from the previous owners...

What doesn't get old for me are holographic stickers, they look gooood. I wish AMD had prettier products before, the heatsinks were always not as inviting to the eyes as I wanted. Also no cooling for the mosfets, LGA 775 stock fans would blow some air on the sides that provides at least some movement of air around the power delivery area on the motherboard.

 

[micropage7]

need some foam for sound dampening

 

[Jetster]

Believe it or not its actually holding

Epoxy hinge

 

[MIRTAZAPINE]

Finally got some time, mood and ideas to fix up my pc with parts lying around. I got to cable managed an atx non modular power supply in small itx case. Thought of using zipties but it would not work out as I needed something not permanent and can be taken out again. I have to cut zipties to remove them and I would waste them.

After some snacking in the kitchen and tying the packet up with rubberbands. I thought yeah rubberbands can work! They are also cheap and plentiful.

 

[BiggieShady]

Believe it or not its actually holding

Epoxy hinge

Do not think we didn't notice missing X keycap ... makes me wonder how you're going to ghetto that one

 

[dorsetknob]

Rubber Bands age / perish and go twang unexpectly
apart from that no problem ( zip ties are better )

 

[MIRTAZAPINE]

Rubber Bands age / perish and go twang unexpectly
apart from that no problem ( zip ties are better )

That is true rubberbands do get softer and begin breaking apart long term. Agree on zipties being better.

 

[AsRock]

Rubber Bands age / perish and go twang unexpectly
apart from that no problem ( zip ties are better )

True but keep from getting your oily hands on them they will last much longer, but like and foam, rubber even plastic weakens over time.

 

[Jetster]

Do not think we didn't notice missing X keycap ... makes me wonder how you're going to ghetto that one

I don't know what your talking about, it works fine

 

[natr0n]

Fixed a beat up laptop for my Father. Cleaned,repasted and fixed a blown speaker with duck tape.
The charging port broke off had no glue. I had some thin foam.

 

[BiggieShady]

it works fine

I see what you did there

 

[silentbogo]

I don't know what your talking about, it works fine

 

[silentbogo]

One of the reasons I hate to fix laptops after someone else, is because something is always f%^ed up (almost like marrying a twice-divorced woman).

My friend brought a Thinkpad T520 with some serious crap that needed fixin', so the touchpad was on my backburner to the last moment.
Apparently it was in repair several times already, because lots of things were out of place or did not look right...

I will eventually change that connector, but here's how I got it working for now.
There is a piece of thin business card prying on the ribbon cable, while half of the eraser is holding the latch(between WiFi card and ribbon).

 

[Jetster]

One of the reasons I hate to fix laptops after someone else, is because something is always f%^ed up (almost like marrying a twice-divorced woman).
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I hate fixing them the first time. Most are built like crap

 

[silentbogo]

I hate fixing them the first time. Most are built like crap

I can deal with crappy builds, just can't handle our idiot "PC repair technicians".
Every time I get something completely messed up, the story is the same:
- a person brings a laptop/PC/tablet/phone/videocard to the "more affordable" type of the service center
- They briefly inspect the device and tell that his or her CPU/GPU/SoC is broken and needs to be replaced
- Then they charge upwards of $80 for a replacement chip and work upfront, maybe more (depending on the device, not the IC)
- The repair boils down to spilling as much cheap rosin flux as they can and heating everything up with hot air rework station (even if this is not needed). In most cases it's a simple reflow and not a replacement at all
- If they shot the moon, then they charge 50% more on top (for whatever reason, because customer has money), if not - they say the repair was unsuccessful but they won't give the money back (we spent it on parts and labor)
- best case scenario - customer gets 7 day warranty and repeats the process 2-4 weeks later.

At the end of day I get a laptop which needed a power button replaced or a couple of knocked-off capacitors, but it already has an overheated GPU, corroded motherboard and melted connectors. Maybe some damaged USB ports too...

 

[natr0n]

Cleaned PC today.
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Ghetto vrm fan suspended with twine . 2x80mm ghetto fan replacement mod. Also the nail clipper I modded it with heatshrink for grip

I still cant figure out uploading it seems

 

[micropage7]

Cleaned PC today.
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Ghetto vrm fan suspended with twine . 2x80mm ghetto fan replacement mod. Also the nail clipper I modded it with heatshrink for grip

I still cant figure out uploading it seems

yeah deepcool asssasin