First post, by Rodoko
- Rank
- Newbie
Since it passed a long time when I posted here @ Vogons I decided to return and show you guys something
On the last Thusday I was talking with the owner of a computer parts store to see if they had an AT case or a parts computer and he told me that had 3 machines that were HP Vectras and they were stored in a closet and they were dirty as hell, so of the 3 I picked up the most complete one that came with a bonus, a 3com NIC!!
I tested it with the owner friends at the store, he configured the date for me and the original Sony battery amazingly has charge in it to keep up the date correctly x3
Has the original floppy and Noisegate 8.4 GB hard drive but sadly the processor was downgraded from the 450 MHz PIII to a 350 MHz SECC2 (Rare variant) PII, it had some PC133 RAM that the chipset didn't support so it took half of the RAM that was in the modules
When I took it to home it wasnt turning on or showing an image so instead of going with diagnostics and giggles I decided to spend the whole afternoon cleaning it the best I could using these stuff
- Paint brush
Garden hose & water
Q-tips & alcohol
Me acting as a compressor blowing some air with a transparent tube
And last and least, a kitchen cleaner and a cloth
So as of now the system recieved some surprises during the days I worked on it that I will show later to you people at the end of this post, for now, some pics I took (Rotate your heads or click on them to see on normal position, they were took vertically, I feel sorry for your neck pain)
After cleaning the PSU and the board using myself as a compressor with the tube and blowing and the paint brush it became nice and clean (PSU is a 90W LiteON BTW)
It continues in the next post :3
