Re: Your Best Dumpster Finds
back again with more crap ive found for free in the rubbish.
hp proliant dl380 g5 rack server complete with all ram and 2 HHD .works fine.
1150 socket i5 just missing HHD ,had blown power supply.works fine now
onkyo tx ds575 amp ,has a fault but still fixable
old ibm 5291 2 terminal .powers on still .
IBM personal computer 330-100dx4 complete with original IBM mouse and keyboard which ive bumped up the memory and using for old school games machine.
onex
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Last Activity: 10-18-2017, 11:15 PM
Joined: 12-13-2013
Location: melbourne
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Re: best cheap/free scores 1.1
scored this HP phoenix for free .was thrown out.
i7
10 gig ram
nvidia gtx 560 graphics card
blue ray burner
1155 socket
thats my wifes
for me a 1156 socket i7
16 gig ram
asus extreme pro motherboard
cooler master 650 watt power supply
cooler master water cooler .
this was all in the rubbish as well .
oh and the lg 22 inch led monitor and phillips 22 inch led monitor on mine and wife has a 19 inch dell led monitor .
people are very wasteful...Leave a comment:
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Re: best cheap/free scores 1.1
picked up this oldie ,powers up and goes through the motions .cant see yet ,have 2 cga/ega monitors both with the video cords cut which is frustrating but im working on that.
in the shed have picked up about 28 computers ,10 or so are P3,P2,P1 ....Leave a comment:
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Re: old capacitor
legend
thats perfect thanks...Leave a comment:
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Re: old capacitor
yeh the numbers are,
top row MFD VW VP
lower---32 300 350
and TYPE ET5BLeave a comment:
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old capacitor
trying to identify this old thing from the 50s to replace with a new one .i dont know how to read the values to match with a new one and the local shops have no idea. not much info on the web either .... -
Re: Your Best Dumpster Finds
i just scored a 2008 mini HP pc with a flash hard drive so might try it out when its fixed....Leave a comment:
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Re: Your Best Dumpster Finds
well it partially fires up got some lights ,fans and the battery holds a charge but thats it right now,it looks like it has 2 power supplies inside and one has had something spilled on it so will have to replace that first but will have to wait because i scored another laptop,2004 acer which had a broken pin in the charging port and is now all working fine....Leave a comment:
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Re: Your Best Dumpster Finds
found this 1992 laptop,it needs a 20v power source i have a 19.5v from universal laptop charger ,would that charger handle running that laptop....Leave a comment:
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Re: List of Bad Cap Manufacturers
ive heard the same thing before didnt think much of it but maybe theres something to it after all.Leave a comment:
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Re: List of Bad Cap Manufacturers
[QUOTE=ben7;400274]When was the monitor manufactured? Haven't seen many LED based TVs/monitors with bad caps so far!
Interesting it says 2009 but he bought it last year brand new ,out of waranty now ,well its been going for 2 days and no problems ,i did some googling on this monitor and it had a few complaints,love this site as well getting back into all this after 15 years ,Re: List of Bad Cap Manufacturers
[QUOTE=ben7;400274]When was the monitor manufactured? Haven't seen many LED based TVs/monitors with badLeave a comment:
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Re: Mom got me a new laptop for xmas, it is infected with Windows 8
Really MS should have built a version for the PC market and another for touch devices,win 8 or 8.1 failed twice on me so badly i had no choice but to wipe the drive so im on win 7 again ,Leave a comment:
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Re: Post your system.......
Main PC
intel core 2 duo 8400 3ghz OC to 3.4
8gb corsair 1600 ram
240 gb SSD ,2x 1TB seagate HD ,1x 2TB WD HD
ATI 5800 radeon HD
ANTEC earthwatts 650 watt PS
noctua cpu cooler.
cooler master case
second and third pc
one pentium 2 some old dell thing running win 98
one pentium 1 some generic thing running win 95
both work for old school games.Leave a comment:
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Re: Who Uses What OS in her/his Box?
Was using win 7 then thought i give win 8 a go and that crashed so gave it a chance then upgraded to win 8.1 and that crashed so bad was not recoverable even by disk so back to win 7 .tried ubuntu and mint .liked mint and still have that running as well.Leave a comment:
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Re: List of Bad Cap Manufacturers
i got given a LG flatron led 24 inch pc monitor not working opened it up and full of bulging Su'scon caps ,replaced all of them and its working perfectly again,Leave a comment:
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