I tried to unsuccessfully restore an IBM Netvista Pentium 4 for a friend.
After manging to juryrig mounting an HDD and adding the missing floppy drive, replacing the DVD-ROM, cleaning it thoroughly, adding new feet to it, replacing the dead memory and the coin cell battery it actually booted.
I got as far as partitioning the HDD when it locked up hard, and refused to turn on again.
Now it just gives me a 3-1-4-3 beep code at POST, signalling a dead component on the motherboard.
Click F to pay respects. Will be shipped back to my friend as I don't have time to troubleshoot a Pentium 4 motherboard and its likely dead shitty capacitors..
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