my stubborn naive friend

[ratdude747]

my friend josh is being dumb again...

some things to consider:

-he just recently began to consider that A-power does not make the best power supplies (he swore they could not be beat)!
- he gave me a dead dell thinking it had bad caps, no, it had oscons and nichincons (pre hm/hn issue), it was dead because he put too small a cooler on it! a P1 cooler on a p3 CPU! (junk parts, this was the cooler i sent you with the k6-2 board)!

anyway, he emailed me about his dead comaq he got. it had bad caps symptoms, he swore it was the cmos. i had him send me pics, i attached them.

any advice on how to help him/convince him to have me recap it? he does not know how to solder.

oh, by the way, he is head tech at his family's computer repair buissness! YIKES!

[Topcat]

Re: my stubborn naive friend

Tell him to just turn it off, and not extend his computer usage beyond that of a simple pocket calculator. If he's that idiotic, he needs not be working on them, especially for money!

LOL @ family PC repair business!! We have so many of them around here its not even funny. Every billy bob around here has a friend or relation that's a computer expert.......and then seeing what they call 'expert', it makes me so glad I don't have to deal with these kinds of idiots anymore.

[ratdude747]

Re: my stubborn naive friend

DUMBASS! rather than downsizing the pics, he just sent me 3 emails. they were 100mb+ beasts, i have downsized them.

the bad caps are obvious... he thinks someone spilled something in it... nope, bad caps!

[ratdude747]

Re: my stubborn naive friend

trust me, his customers are dumber than he is... he has a LOT of funny stories. if he would swallow his pride for an hour and if he would let me teach him some things, then maybe he would have potential.

i told him that since he is a friend, ill recap it if he pays for caps. from here, of course. i also said not to use it at all and told him to read our burnt mobo thread.

[Topcat]

Re: my stubborn naive friend

^
wow.... I have seen a lot of those boards back in the day, not so much anymore. The only socket A and socket 370 boards I see are the occasional VP6, FV24/25, and KT7/KR7....and thats a rarity. I still see some old pentium classic socket7 boards, but those run CNC machines, which the owners are happy to fix, as they require ISA slots for proprietary hardware.

I've had friends like this in the past........he's either really dumb (my money is on that), or he's just not all that interested.

[Krankshaft]

Re: my stubborn naive friend

That case style looks like a Compaq EVO I used to own what a horrible board it was whenever I tried to upgrade memory from the stock 256MB there were all kinds of crash issues and that's out of a few of the times it decided to even boot with additional ram.

I double checked that I ordered the right ram and tried many different brands no difference. Eventually I sold it on e-bay with the stock ram for 150 bucks and built my own rig . Been doing it ever since.

[ratdude747]

Re: my stubborn naive friend

fyi- its a socket 478, p4-class celeron.

[Topcat]

Re: my stubborn naive friend

fyi- its a socket 478, p4-class celeron.

Yes it is, had I looked closer I'd have seen that. At quick glance it looked like a P3. I was paying attention to the caps, then scrolled down.....lol

[ratdude747]

Re: my stubborn naive friend

his parents told him to trash it... ill have it saturday the 24th.

i will not recap it, that board sucks since it only has 2 ram slots and no agp... i might mod i with my gateway 775 board... all it needs is a cooler...

[c_hegge]

Re: my stubborn naive friend

Looks like an Intel 845GL chipset then. It's the only chipset I know of with no AGP. I recently poly-modded an Intel motherboard (D845G-something) with no AGP, using chemi-con polies I scavenged from a faulty Dell Dimension 3000 motherboard.

[ratdude747]

Re: my stubborn naive friend

no, it could have had an agp slot, but they left that spot blank. thats what i mean by stripped-out.