A Tale of broken laptops, trades, and epic wins :D

[Ferrum Master]

I clicked... and I really expected Mussels again causing me being jealous...

 

[Mussels]

hilariously enough the PCI SATA cards i intend to use to fit more hard drives on that motherboard are the exact same ones from page 1, post 25 i used to test that first lucky SSD - assuming they work in windows 10

 

[Ferrum Master]

hilariously enough the PCI SATA cards i intend to use to fit more hard drives on that motherboard are the exact same ones from page 1, post 25 i used to test that first lucky SSD - assuming they work in windows 10

I actually have a struggle... I have a abit i815 board with Pentium III-S 1.4GHz... that b*tch doesn't install XP using silicon image sata PCI controllers and VIA ones fail to work at all... the silicon image ones freeze after first reboot to XP... such a pain

I just wan't to show off in CPU-Z benchmark thread, the darn CPU clocks really good @1.7GHz... if I only still had my 694D dualie... it would kick the socks of all Pentium 4 lol... Also I need to repair one X-Fi Elite Pro without fear frying the whole PCI bus off

 

[Mussels]

I need to post in this thread again.

Got a dell E6500 laptop for free (core 2 duo 2.5GHz, 4GB DDR2 800MHz, 120GB HDD, Geforce 9300) - $18 on ebay for a charger and i already had the $100+ expensive docking station for it in the shed. No idea what to do with it yet, but it runs W7 really well.

Also my brother managed to have his PC fail in a spectacular fashion (old BIOS issue cropped up regarding his RAM making it hard to post without generic ram he didn't have on hand, dirt in PCI-E slot 2 causing all slots to refuse to work, dead PSU)

I was given permission to keep whatever parts i fixed.

So far that includes: i7 3770k, 16GB 1866Mhz ram, asrock Z77 Extreme 4 mobo. PSU had burnt coils however.

 

[dorsetknob]

I Swear you just get Dumped Bargains ( lucky Sod ) just so you can Bump this 30 month old Thread

I was given permission to keep whatever parts i fixed.

That's Only Fair
If you did'nt "fix Them"..... then they are recycle/landfill

 

[Mussels]

this thread will live on forever, as long as i keep finding cool stuff

 

[Caring1]

Nice motherboard too, I've got 3 of them, one is ATX like that, the other two are m-ATX.

 

[D007]

I need to post in this thread again.

Got a dell E6500 laptop for free (core 2 duo 2.5GHz, 4GB DDR2 800MHz, 120GB HDD, Geforce 9300) - $18 on ebay for a charger and i already had the $100+ expensive docking station for it in the shed. No idea what to do with it yet, but it runs W7 really well.

Also my brother managed to have his PC fail in a spectacular fashion (old BIOS issue cropped up regarding his RAM making it hard to post without generic ram he didn't have on hand, dirt in PCI-E slot 2 causing all slots to refuse to work, dead PSU)

I was given permission to keep whatever parts i fixed.

So far that includes: i7 3770k, 16GB 1866Mhz ram, asrock Z77 Extreme 4 mobo. PSU had burnt coils however.

How in the sam hell did he get dirt in his memory slots? lmao.. I'm dyin here...

 

[Mussels]

How in the sam hell did he get dirt in his memory slots? lmao.. I'm dyin here...

humid area (right by the beach) means dust bunnies get pretty solid + potentially moist.

looked like dust + carpet fluff inside the PSU, i'm assuming the same stuff got into the PCI-E slot. Problems started removing and re-inserting the second GPU in a crossfire setup, so its possible that physical movement knocked dust off the top GPU, into the second slot and down further into the PSU in the one convenient 'fuck you' of bad luck.

 

[AsRock]

I need to post in this thread again.

Got a dell E6500 laptop for free (core 2 duo 2.5GHz, 4GB DDR2 800MHz, 120GB HDD, Geforce 9300) - $18 on ebay for a charger and i already had the $100+ expensive docking station for it in the shed. No idea what to do with it yet, but it runs W7 really well.

Also my brother managed to have his PC fail in a spectacular fashion (old BIOS issue cropped up regarding his RAM making it hard to post without generic ram he didn't have on hand, dirt in PCI-E slot 2 causing all slots to refuse to work, dead PSU)

I was given permission to keep whatever parts i fixed.

So far that includes: i7 3770k, 16GB 1866Mhz ram, asrock Z77 Extreme 4 mobo. PSU had burnt coils however.

What PSU was he running before it blow up ?,

Been meaning to post here my self as my neighbor gave me a Dell XPS 8500 which all so she gave me the Dell 4550 which i gave them some 5-6 years ago lol.

Sadly her husband died a few months ago due to cancer who were married some 45 years.

 

[Mussels]

What PSU was he running before it blow up ?,

Been meaning to post here my self as my neighbor gave me a Dell XPS 8500 which all so she gave me the Dell 4550 which i gave them some 5-6 years ago lol.

Sadly her husband died a few months ago due to cancer who were married some 45 years.

corsair HX750, it's under warranty still.

the dell laptop i got is surprisingly fast - it can play old games like CoD4 on low settings fairly well. 1080p H265 media playback only uses 30% or so of the GPU, so its a great HTPC/student laptop i guess.

 

[silentbogo]

And I'm sitting here like an idiot, fixing a stupid fake-of-a-ripoff Android TV box for my neighbor...
I should go buy some stuff.

In line with bragging about deals:
1) Let me present you a perfectly working GTX750 (1GB, non-Ti) for a low price of $20! Bought it last Saturday from a previous owner.
It was diagnosed as "faulty GPU, cheaper to buy a new one, sucka-a-a" by a legit tech at one of the local ASUS service centers.
Observed rippling on the monitor was actually from a dirty VGA port


2) Secon score of the week is a $5 Acer D1800B-ITX
Also diagnosed "dead", but it just had a few kinks on the infamous VGA port (image is perfect on HDMI out).

 

[D007]

humid area (right by the beach) means dust bunnies get pretty solid + potentially moist.

looked like dust + carpet fluff inside the PSU, i'm assuming the same stuff got into the PCI-E slot. Problems started removing and re-inserting the second GPU in a crossfire setup, so its possible that physical movement knocked dust off the top GPU, into the second slot and down further into the PSU in the one convenient 'fuck you' of bad luck.

Well there's something I should watch for too then.. In Florida, by the beach.. I could see how that might happen..
Oops..lol

 

[Iceni]

I had a fanless PC dropped off for spares a few weeks ago.

i5 2400s
z77 motherboard.
Ram was shot.
PSU was shot (small form factor power brick type)
120gb ssd
2tb spinner
TVS TV card.

All for free. I have spare ram already, And it runs fine with a regular PSU, So All I need to pick up is the mini PSU.

Case is 100% passive.

No idea what I'm going to do with it yet.

 

[Mussels]

damn that thing is sexy, i want one

 

[Jetster]

Why stock photos? Let see it

 

[Iceni]

I have a funeral today, but will post pics when I get chance tomorrow.

 

[dorsetknob]

Ram was shot.
PSU was shot (small form factor power brick type)

I have a funeral today, but will post pics when I get chance tomorrow.

That's mighty Decent of you
to give the Ram and power brick a Funeral

 

[Iceni]

It's h67 not z77. Just noticed on actually looking. The rest of it has been dropped in another rig for testing.

Unfortunately it's the wifes fathers funeral. PC wasn't his tho, He was a film camera man, and we seem to have a pair of his leicas in the house from him.

 

[Mussels]

i've got a few half height GPU's here, so one of those would be amazeballs for a HTPC/steam streamer.

 

[Iceni]

I was actually thinking about using it for home security with a few cameras. I can stick it in the roof space and remote desktop it. Been intel I can use real temp to monitor it, and there are no fans to suck in dirt.

 

[Mussels]

I was actually thinking about using it for home security with a few cameras. I can stick it in the roof space and remote desktop it. Been intel I can use real temp to monitor it, and there are no fans to suck in dirt.

sounds like an awesome use for it, stick an SSD in and no moving parts to fail

 

[dorsetknob]

when i was working we used to call those things

 

[Mussels]

uh oh, mussels is posting again - what did he get this time

Sold an i7 system to some randoms on facebook, and they mentioned they hated going to IT stores who had no skills and couldnt fix the actual problems.

Mcgyvered some solutions up in front of their eyes and recovered 700GB of data from all their 'broken' systems (read: plugged the hard drives into the new desktop) and they donated the old systems whole, as well as paying me for the work.

1. Core 2 duo 2.2GHz laptop w/ Geforce 7400 graphics - only needs new charger + battery (scored them free from a friend who had a similar laptop die)

2. HP touchscreen AIO desktop - 2.2Ghz AM3 Athlon II x4, 4GB ram, 1TB hard drive. Nothing wrong at all, the previous 'technicians' merely hosed the OS.

 

[Mussels]

Edit: i got a second one of the AMD AIO pictured above, the screens died in both in the summer heat. No video outputs, so they're officially toast.


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Ahem.

This time around i scored three dell i5 half height desktops

i5 2400s (matx) (Gutting this to put in a full ATX case w/ a 670 and sell it)
i5 3470 (matx) (no plans... yet.)
i5 3550 (mitx?) (shotgunned as my new server, 25W idle with the intel IGP)
2x 24" LCD monitors (1x samsung, 1x vivo) and a TP link archer D7 router with no power brick or aerials (but it works fine using the ones from my WDR-3600)