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Great. Well I opened up a case so let's see how that goes.

Arctic wrote:

Great. Well I opened up a case so let's see how that goes.

Best of all luck from here. 😀

brostenen wrote:

Arctic wrote:

Great. Well I opened up a case so let's see how that goes.

Best of all luck from here. 😀

He doesn't need any. It's 100% that he'll get his money back.

Arctic wrote:

Great. Well I opened up a case so let's see how that goes.

Make sure to attach a photo of the damaged item to the case.

Hope you get that sorted - that's a major, major bummer. Does the system actually run at all? I just received a junk Dell Inspiron 8100, and another Vaio PCG-FX601.

The Inspiron 8100 did initially power off of a battery, but then stopped doing so altogether after that battery flattened itself, even using other batteries. It wouldn't power from the AC, nor would it charge a battery. However, I've pinched the palmrest, keyboard and screen from it for my Inspiron 8000, so it was worth the price I paid for it (I'd have pinched the GPU if it was the ATI Radeon Mobility chip; sadly, it wasn't. No idea about the CPU; when it did power on, the keyboard wasn't connected) I wasn't amused to find it protected by mere newspaper though!

The Vaio PCG-Fx601 is an odd one. As far as I can tell, it works perfectly... apart from the fact that there's a loose connection somewhere in the screen, which causes the backlight to conk out if the screen is nudged. It's not a bad backlight, because the screen will stay on for many minutes if the system isn't knocked, and I did improve it a fair bit by reseating every cable in the screen (including those behind the bezel), but it still hasn't sorted it. A little miffed that the seller didn't mention its lack of a HDD caddy/cable, but it was 99p before P&P, so... The screen, when not glitching out, is actually in very decent shape; the system seems to run fine off of a bootable Linux CD, with a functional trackpad, good speakers and a good DVD drive. It's certainly not overheating either. Battery also charges and holds a charge, but yet to evaluate just how good it is. Not yet sure if I'll keep it as spares for my main Vaio or fix it up and sell it on.

Arctic wrote:

Great. Well I opened up a case so let's see how that goes.

You need to open your case directly through ebay, -NOT- just paypal, it won't go to the same departments. And you can file directly as "Item not as described" and you are fully covered under the buyer protection program, if you bought it on USA EBAY.

Godlike wrote:

Anyone know which one is newer/better and why? Any difference between them two? Both of them are 10Mbps, any difference then? h […]
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Anyone know which one is newer/better and why?
Any difference between them two? Both of them are 10Mbps, any difference then?

The 3C905 is better if you want to use RJ45, otherwise use the 3C905B. Just so you know, you can't use full duplex over coax.

Not really "today", but this past weekend I found this glorious thing at a Goodwill store in Omaha.

You bet your sweet patootie I bought it! I have not yet had an opportunity to really try it out though, primarily because I currently do not have any bootable 5.25 floppies.

kithylin wrote:

Arctic wrote:

Great. Well I opened up a case so let's see how that goes.

You need to open your case directly through ebay, -NOT- just paypal, it won't go to the same departments. And you can file directly as "Item not as described" and you are fully covered under the buyer protection program, if you bought it on USA EBAY.

Only problem is AFAIK you will need to pay return shipping to send the item back to get the refund. I've had a few misdescribed and broken items received but to return it would have wiped out all or most of the refund. Only time it worked in my favour was when a seller voluntarily refunded and let me keep the disintegrated laptop (which still ran). Hope it works out for you though Arctic, it's a horrible feeling when you hear the rattle of plastic containing what should be a new treasure 😢

JidaiGeki wrote:

Only problem is AFAIK you will need to pay return shipping to send the item back to get the refund. I've had a few misdescribed and broken items received but to return it would have wiped out all or most of the refund. Only time it worked in my favour was when a seller voluntarily refunded and let me keep the disintegrated laptop (which still ran). Hope it works out for you though Arctic, it's a horrible feeling when you hear the rattle of plastic containing what should be a new treasure 😢

Sadly yes, you do have to pay return shipping.. but if you paid shipping when you first bought it, they credit you the original shipping charge.

Arctic wrote:

I finally have found another Artist P200 😢
Now that I received it, I wish I hadn't... I even wrote the seller a heads up to ship it well...

http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTIwMFgxNjAw/z/lKoA … tU91XR/$_57.JPG

Damn. Why can't people learn to pack things better when shipping them?

torindkflt wrote:

Not really "today", but this past weekend I found this glorious thing at a Goodwill store in Omaha.

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You bet your sweet patootie I bought it! I have not yet had an opportunity to really try it out though, primarily because I currently do not have any bootable 5.25 floppies.

HOLY COW!!! THAT IS SO COOL! MAN I wish my goodwill would sell computers! 😠

King_Corduroy wrote:

HOLY COW!!! THAT IS SO COOL! MAN I wish my goodwill would sell computers! 😠

The Goodwill stores where I live (Eastern Iowa) are awful for stuff like this as well, VCRs and clock radios at best typically. Goodwill in Omaha has a store specifically for computers and electronics that I periodically visit when in town visiting family. This is actually my third vintage computer find at that store! (First two were an Amstrad PPC640 and a Vtech Laser 128).

Yeah, well, where I am we don't even have anything like Goodwill. The best hope is that you find some Gypsy at the Sunday market who is trying to sell some old hardware along with the pirate software and movies.* It's good when you do because you know you're also helping out an average Joe like yourself instead of a company... Though Goodwill it seems is a non-profit organization so you probably are with that too.

It is also illegal to take rubbish away from the city dump, not that that's ever stopped me and I haven't been in a while, might have to go shopping there when the sun comes up in a few hours.

*As someone descended from travelers, I'd be a hypocrite if I disapproved of such things, so I'm not... Actually, maybe I should get a market stall myself and make a few bucks.

JidaiGeki wrote:

kithylin wrote:

Arctic wrote:

Great. Well I opened up a case so let's see how that goes.

You need to open your case directly through ebay, -NOT- just paypal, it won't go to the same departments. And you can file directly as "Item not as described" and you are fully covered under the buyer protection program, if you bought it on USA EBAY.

Only problem is AFAIK you will need to pay return shipping to send the item back to get the refund. I've had a few misdescribed and broken items received but to return it would have wiped out all or most of the refund. Only time it worked in my favour was when a seller voluntarily refunded and let me keep the disintegrated laptop (which still ran). Hope it works out for you though Arctic, it's a horrible feeling when you hear the rattle of plastic containing what should be a new treasure 😢

Not really, you just don't know how to do it right.

Dreamer_of_the_past wrote:

JidaiGeki wrote:

Only problem is AFAIK you will need to pay return shipping to send the item back to get the refund. I've had a few misdescribed and broken items received but to return it would have wiped out all or most of the refund. Only time it worked in my favour was when a seller voluntarily refunded and let me keep the disintegrated laptop (which still ran). Hope it works out for you though Arctic, it's a horrible feeling when you hear the rattle of plastic containing what should be a new treasure 😢

Not really, you just don't know how to do it right.

Any tips?

torindkflt wrote:

Not really "today", but this past weekend I found this glorious thing at a Goodwill store in Omaha.

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You bet your sweet patootie I bought it! I have not yet had an opportunity to really try it out though, primarily because I currently do not have any bootable 5.25 floppies.

Wait... was that a PowerMac G4 Cube next to it?

@_@

Your thrift store owns.

Anyhow, these aren't retro in-and-of-themselves, but they are for my retro PC setup:

They sound fantastic. Super clear and crisp, but still sufficiently meaty bass. This is the amp I use:

(Forgive the purple tint, it's my phone's camera, and it's stuffed.)

What manufacturer is that stereo amp? It's rather neat looking. 😁

Anonymous Coward wrote:

The 3C905 is better if you want to use RJ45, otherwise use the 3C905B. Just so you know, you can't use full duplex over coax.

Full duplex and coax, can you write some more about it?
i think I will use this one:

RJ45 will be more useful nowadays.
Do you know for what operations will be useful to use aditional ROM?