Re: mirror, mirror on the wall- which OS is the best of all

I'm waiting on Win 7 with bated breath, until then I use Windows XP and for testing computers I use Damn Small Linux (DSL) on a 128mb usb stick.

Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

Hey,

I'm a 16 year old guy with a keen interest in computers and electronics. Ever since I was a kid, I took apart electronics and fiddled with circuit bending to see how everything worked.

Even today, I still have an interest in all kinds of geeky things, from circuit design to programming (Python and C#). I have developed/co-developed various applications including games for the Microsoft Zune. One time, in order to get quotes from a wholesale system-on-a-chip manufacturer, I had to pose as an...

Re: Your Best Dumpster Finds

This past weekend my friend gave me his family's "old" Dell Inspiron 530S, because it was sketchily working. I suspect it was merely a bad SATA HDD, and now I have a great media center PC running hulu to my projector. It has 1GB DDR2 ram, a 1.8ghz pentium dual core processor, integrated Intel GMA 3100 (I'm considering upgrading to a dedicated video card), and it's running linux off a USB drive until I can find a cheap SATA HDD replacement.

Earlier this week, my school happened to be throwing out two cosmetically immaculate dell...

Re: Dell E151FPp

Alright, well I finally found my multimeter and every fuse on the board is fine except that pesky smd-type "F1" fuse. Looks like I know what I need to replace.

I recently rescued a Dell E151FPp on it's way to the dumpster. Upon plugging it in, it appears that the backlight on this unit is non-functional. I was reading these two posts:

[url]https://www.badcaps.net/forum/printthread.php?t=5430[/url]
[url]https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showthread.php?p=55886[/url]

And it appears that the problem is likely just a blown fuse. Unfortunately, I have no idea which one is the problem. I can see that right next to the power socket on the power supply board there is a 2A 250v slow-blow ceramic fuse, but then there is the infamous...