Re: Your Best Dumpster Finds

I find a ton of socket 478 P4 machines, usually real easy to fix.

I hang on to the ones that need something or other eventually I find another I can combine with, then its Craigslist time.

Found a Luxo Lamp Imac G4 working just needed a hard drive. I threw a hard drive in it and replaced the base fan with a blue LED fan, looked real nice, kept it for awhile and traded it for an Xbox360.

I keep toying with the Idea of putting up a listing asking for broken computers and TVs. I think I could make out pretty...

Re: Vista or Vistrash?

Vista was a resource hog yes. But if you had a system that was strong enough to run it, it was not a bad OS at all.

I actually enjoyed using it, Yes I am easily impressed with unnecessary eye candy.
I got a kick out of dreamscene, the looped video wallpaper.

I think it got a bad rap out of the gate, because MS specs were too low, and manufacturers ran with them. In the initial sales you saw many Vista basic laptops being sold with 512 mb of RAM. No small wonder people hated it.

Re: Dell Latitude D830 - No power

on the top right side of the laptop near the hinge, there is an indent, this is a panel that needs to be pried off. under this panel you will find some screws that will release the keyboard, and often times the sneaky buggars hide more screws under the keyboard that attach top and bottom cases, Note I learned this the hard way years ago, never did get that ol compaq to run again.

also be carefull with the ribbon cables and attachments to the board they are very delicate, the retaining clips either usually gently pry upward in a hinge...

Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

Hello, I stumbled on to this site during a google search for a MLT168A power supply. I could tell right away this site is filled with a wealth of info. I am in upstate NY. I am a hobbyist, as well as an ENG/TECH/IT for a local television station. I am still working on that supply I think I have a shorted zener or something, it did have four bulging caps that I replaced, there are likely more bad, but I fall short on time. Just a little 27" LCD TV that I would rather not be landfill food. Thats about it, thanks for having...