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I found a satellite dish yesterday by the side of the road, Got a Sanyo Ku-band LNB on it too.
Doesn't look like there's anything wrong with it (though I am far from being an expert) - maybe it'll be useful when my country switches to digital TV soon."Tantalum for the brave, Solid Aluminium for the wise, Wet Electrolytic for the adventurous"
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got a dv9000 at a yardsale today.$10.
750 gb hdd and 4gb ram.
oh and a ton of mp3's and porn.belonged to a collage kid.several years of mischief stored on the hdd and dumped at the sale unseen.i am sure if mommy and daddy would have even turned it on they would have seen the wallpaper they would have dug deeper and hit the motherload.time to reflow the nvidia and reload.Comment
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Nice... For $10 I got an 133Mhz IBM 380ED"Tantalum for the brave, Solid Aluminium for the wise, Wet Electrolytic for the adventurous"
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20, 8 cell Dell packs (160 batteries of which so far 2 in 8 are bad and which makes the pack fail the check) But the rest are good and hold a charge fine so Im still looking for someone that has forked out the $150+ for the software to reprogram a couple of packs for me and keep all the rest for themself.Comment
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Got an Asus Eee PC "4G Surf" today.... (and no that has nothing to do with 4G internet data connection unfortuntely)...used but working, got it for $10!!
700MHz Celeron M, 512MB RAM, some weird Linux thing, 4GB SSD... 7"screen
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find a better linux disro for it... the stock distro did the linux community more harm than good (it is possibly the world's worst example of linux).
for $10, not bad... but if i were to invest in one for serious use, i would go for an eee 900... virtually the same footprint with a 9"screen (no black border) and better storage (larger ssd, some had SATA 2.5" hdds)sigpic
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do they have HT cpus?
recap them (the two caps by the memory slots will bloat in the worst way).
full size or small?
I have one of the convertible minitower units... if I ever get a decent (nicer than 5200fx) agp 8x card, it will not be a bad basement box. the PSUs are delta, too.sigpic
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Think I should use Damn Small Linux? or would Lubuntu fit?Comment
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Don't know if this is still being worked on, but I like Puppy Linux it has a variation called Puppeee
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Helpful: (sarcasm intended)
http://puppeee.com/
Seems there's no place to download Puppeee...Damn!
And this Xandros shit doesn't even work with Pandora.com - FF2 crashes...Last edited by shovenose; 10-15-2011, 11:36 PM.Comment
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We have 2 or 3 of these at work. They are almost identical to the DC5000, except the DC5000 doesn't have an AGP slot and a floppy drive. Apart from that, I didn't notice any other difference.
Nice little machines with HT, but both the motherboard (Asus P4SD I think) and the PSU are a mixed bag of good and bad caps (mostly bad, actually).
If you recap them, make sure to do the PSU as well - I saw quite a few with bulging OST and Samxon GF caps inside. A full recap of the motherboard is also recommended as I've seen nearly every brand of cap bulge in these, regardless of where it was located. The only exception were Pannies.
By the way, the computer I got 2 weeks ago with the ECS P4IBMS motherboard is dead. Voltage in the VRM low-side is always seems to be about 0.2v less than what it should be - probably because of those 2 missing caps. The CPU is nice, though - 2 GHz P4 Northwood.Last edited by momaka; 10-16-2011, 12:05 AM.Comment
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These are the d530 ultra-slims. They have an oddball shaped motherboard, doesnt appear to be an asus OEM, completely proprietary, and doesn't have the typical Asus characteristics....thats not to say Asus didn't make it....but it's sure not looking like one. Yes they do have Delta PSU's. I've only worked on one. PSU was full of teapo caps, none were bad and the PSU was working....but I recapped it anyway. I polymodded the board, just for shits and grins. CPU is a 2.6/800FSB w/ HT. Will make a decent little internet browser/emailer for someone. Lab rat 1 is downloading updates as we speak.<--- Badcaps.net Founder
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Recently I've gotten into EC flashing due to my broken laptop(s) and started frantically searching methods for flashing the IT5571E-128 chip on the cheap(due to me beaing a student and not having a job) and noticed that ITE newer chips can be flashed via ISP (In-System Programming) either via SMBus or the KBC (EPP - Enhanced Parallel Port) interface. While these can be achieved with programmers like SVOD4/3 or the RT809H/F those options are WAYYY out of my budget so I was horrified. But recently I stumbled uppon some programmers on aliexpress that claim they can program a variety of ITE chips...06-17-2025, 07:17 AM
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My Mom bought some cheap motion sensor lights on wish... then complains about about batteries and this thing chews though them, well it uses 4 AAA batteries and a pack of rechargeable ones is about 13 USD
well since it uses 4 AAA and rechargeable are 1.2v and non-recharge at 1.5 this thing must work with 4.8-6v, I'll shove a USB cable on it, infant i will use a broken phone charge cable... dam this thing uses 430 mA and they made it battery powered...
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Hi all,
I was looking to upgrade my main multimeter (Asita MD591) with something that has more features. I'll use it mostly for board diagnostic and diy repairs. I've been eyeing out many of those multi-function ones from Aliexpress but can't seem to make my mind up. Here are the features that I'm looking after:
- Autorange
- DC volts up to 30V
- Accurate Resistance
- Diode test (Beep mode)
- Frequency up to 200MHz
- Capacitanze up to 5000uF
- as cheap as possible
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Just as the title states. Two cheap SiS machines, surprisingly stable.
What I will tackle in the near future (the build will be slightly postponed due to slight stomach issues - am still recovering and my physical power (sorry if it sounds weird,English isn't quite my primary language) isn't the best at the moment. Especially with the diet I have to take at the moment.) are two SiS based machines.
The first one is a IPC rebranded Mitac 7521T. Why did I feel the need to tackle this machine? Well, just look at the specs:
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"Caseless Cheap Chinese electronic tools" I mean things you get from banggood, ali, fleabay, Am-Zon, etc. like AVR-Transistortester, miscellaneous signal generators, frequency counters, (variable) power supplies, oscilloscopes, low resistance meters, etc., etc. that comes optionally with a case, or comes only with a cheap piece of plastic that barely provides protection to the PCB.
Just wondering what of these (generally flimsy) tools you actually find use (almost) everyday and find indispensable for the price, compared to buying a Fluke or whatnot, if there is an expensive...
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