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[NightrainSrt4]

Fiance came home from her nanny job with a bag with two laptops and chargers in it.


1 - 700Mhz 256Mb 30GB G3 iBook
~Video Problems

2 - Win 98 Dell Laptop
~Supposedly doesn't turn on, haven't checked anything on it.
My eyes lit up when I saw the iBook, lol.


Turned the iBook on and within minutes the screen went all scrambly and it finally shut itself down. Tore it down, put 4 thin aluminum shims between the gpu and the metal shield, then 4 between the shield and the plastic casing. Turned on and ran fine. Ran itunes visualizer for 2 hours fullscreen without any issues. =) Yay.

-probably should do a reflow-

[mDust]

Fiance came home from her nanny job with a bag with two laptops and chargers in it. That line just sounds funny to me...not calling your fiance a thief, but it just doesn't sound legit. :)
"where did you get these?"
"i found them in their house"
lol
I think it's because you didn't specify that they were given to her or scavenged.

Awesome job with the shims though!
I wish my GF would bring over bags of electronic goodies. :(

[SXRguyinMA]

:stupid: nice score :up:

[NightrainSrt4]

LMFAO, yes, I guess it does sound like that. No, the dad is a really nice guy and is constantly trying to give her things to give to me to see if I could use it. They gave her a usb mouse/keyboard to give to me a few months ago too.

They were broken and in storage since like 2004, so when they found them and they didn't work they asked her if I could use them for something, and she brought them home to me.

The ibook shims seems to have worked okay for now. I really need to get a heatgun and attempt a reflow. If you move the laptop around it starts artifacting, or if you put too much pressure on the wrist rest, it does it a bit too. But not moving/putting pressure on it, it seems to work fine. USB keyboard/mouse would solve these issues, at least on a temporary basis.

Edit: Reinstalled OS 10.3, and updating now.

[NightrainSrt4]

Here is a quick pic for those who need visual stimulation, albeit horrible lighting and such. Too late in the day to change that. 8)

http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/5908/img2058b.jpg

The other laptop is a Dell Latitude CPx. I don't know what was wrong with it. She told me he said a whole bunch of things were wrong with it, but a clean install of windows 2000, and everything seems great. I really like this one. It feels like I could really beat on it, not that I would, I just like the feel of it.

P3 650Mhz 256MB 10GB. Has Dual batteries, which I haven't been able to check if they hold any amount of charge, but in setup they were in fact charging. Has a floppy and a cd drive that can be swapped in place of one of the batteries. Pretty nice little machine, and so far I've found nothing wrong with it. woot!

[mDust]

That's awesome! Congrats on the working goods.

[apbrit2009]

my school is getting rid of a lot of old dells, mostly p3's and p4's
i might be able to score a few, depending on what the district decides to do with them

[NightrainSrt4]

Nice! And Thanks!

Posting on the CPx now. Works well. Installed Windows 2000, and had to install a wpa supplicant to access my wifi. Nice little laptop, if a bit slow. It has quite a noisy little hard drive. You can just hear the whine of the drive spinning constantly. If only there were ssd's for whatever old interface this drive is (haven't checked).

[Liquid_Scope_99]

cool deal on the lappys man