Re: Your Best Dumpster Finds
Just got a HP 6820s, it's been sitting outside for a while (there were earthworms on it lol), but it's complete and in pretty good condition. I'm cleaning it completely, there is water trapped beneath the BGA chips of the motherboard so I'll let it dry. None of the components seem damage, just dirty, and a tiny bit of rust on some of the steel parts. The worse seem to be the WiFi card but who knows. I have quite a few of those anyway.
Inside is a Core 2 Duo T7500, 2x1Gb of DDR2 and a ATi X1350 with 128Mb of dedicated memory on a 17" screen, and a 160Gb hard drive. I have good hope to get it back to life since it doesn't have the bad GeForce chips from the same era. It could be a pretty good machine. The GPU is old, but at least it can play games like Source engine games (I could play L4D2 with a X600M and a Pentium M 750).
EDIT : the HDD works, that's a good sign ^^
EDIT2 : Yay the motherboard works !!! One more laptop, and a pretty good one. The flat panel has water in it though, I'll try to clean it but I have two spare ones so it's not a big deal.
Just got a HP 6820s, it's been sitting outside for a while (there were earthworms on it lol), but it's complete and in pretty good condition. I'm cleaning it completely, there is water trapped beneath the BGA chips of the motherboard so I'll let it dry. None of the components seem damage, just dirty, and a tiny bit of rust on some of the steel parts. The worse seem to be the WiFi card but who knows. I have quite a few of those anyway.
Inside is a Core 2 Duo T7500, 2x1Gb of DDR2 and a ATi X1350 with 128Mb of dedicated memory on a 17" screen, and a 160Gb hard drive. I have good hope to get it back to life since it doesn't have the bad GeForce chips from the same era. It could be a pretty good machine. The GPU is old, but at least it can play games like Source engine games (I could play L4D2 with a X600M and a Pentium M 750).
EDIT : the HDD works, that's a good sign ^^
EDIT2 : Yay the motherboard works !!! One more laptop, and a pretty good one. The flat panel has water in it though, I'll try to clean it but I have two spare ones so it's not a big deal.
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