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Broken computers what do you have?
« on: July 03, 2007, 03:04:24 PM »
How many of you are like me with a ton of broken and unused parts,  so far the tally is 3 broken laptops, 3 broken computers.  Now the laptops are assorted busted like a screen on two of them and a videocard out on a decent alienware laptop, the desktops that are broken my media center is b0rked vista died on it so time for a reinstall already My linux box keeps getting parts stolen from it so its not really broken just not assembled and then my main system with its random BSOD's in vista I consider that broken also.

For parts I have a closet full of parts spare hd's a bag full of ram old motherboards processors that i don't use anymore i have at least 6 cases between the garage my closet and the basement

So how much junk do you have laying around either waiting to get fixed or just saving for a later project?

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Re: Broken computers what do you have?
« Reply #1 on: July 03, 2007, 09:25:22 PM »
I cant say that I really keep a bunch of broken junk, but I do sit and collect my computers... even when 4MHz is more outdated than imagined...

I have 13 computers...

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Re: Broken computers what do you have?
« Reply #2 on: July 05, 2007, 08:18:50 AM »
I probably have 5 computers including the old compaq EN

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Re: Broken computers what do you have?
« Reply #3 on: July 05, 2007, 08:28:16 AM »
i remade the frankenstein story with parts from my old atari 7600 (something like that) , mega drive, ps1, and xbox. unfortunately, it didn't work until i took the xbox parts out... *censored* microsoft copyright nazis >.< 
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Re: Broken computers what do you have?
« Reply #4 on: July 09, 2007, 07:21:05 AM »
I have no broken PCs, unless you count my laptop which is in the process of being fixed.
I am looking into acquiring several other PCs, which will soon be broken (lots of tinkering - that's what a cheap one's for)

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Re: Broken computers what do you have?
« Reply #5 on: July 09, 2007, 07:25:45 AM »
 :o you butcher!!! :P
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    Re: Broken computers what do you have?
    « Reply #6 on: July 09, 2007, 07:56:59 AM »
    I have an old Tochiba Tecra notebook and the only part I use is the DVD-reader.
    But it the BIOS of my sisters Dell won't accept it  :'(. But it works if you put it in after the BIOS is loaded.

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    Re: Broken computers what do you have?
    « Reply #7 on: July 09, 2007, 12:14:47 PM »
    maybe you need to use a hammer? that usually makes things like that work for me...
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    Re: Broken computers what do you have?
    « Reply #8 on: July 09, 2007, 01:08:28 PM »
    Don't have any broken computers, although the oldest one, a 200MHz Pentium, rarely gets used anymore.  Now, parts, yes, I have some parts here and there, including two CRT monitors not being used and a non-working Canon BJC-2000 printer.  I got rid of some stuff during a local computer recycling drive in May of this year. 

    I'm thinking about offering some money to someone for a computer that's not working.  It has an AMD Athlon XP 2200 CPU and an 80 GB HD and Windows XP Home.  I know the history behind it and I'm fairly sure it just needs a power supply. 

    By the way, perhaps this topic could have been posted in the Other forum; seems to me it's not really Off-Topic.

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      Re: Broken computers what do you have?
      « Reply #9 on: July 09, 2007, 04:28:56 PM »
      No broken computers, per se, but I have an E-Machine. It's not dead yet, but it's dying a long, slow death. You all know what all I've replaced on it by now, and... add a monitor to the list. >:(
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      Re: Broken computers what do you have?
      « Reply #10 on: July 12, 2007, 05:14:35 PM »
      4-5 broken / inoperable computers. Sometimes I need to sacrifice computers for computers I need with failed parts or to temporarily upgrade a computer (e.g. swapping out memory).
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