Reply 16940 of 27595, by aha2940
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aha2940 wrote on 2020-10-17, 13:08:Yesterday I kind of restored an old laptop that was given to me for free several years ago. It's a 2007 HP (so it has heating issues) with AMD Turion X2 @2GHz, 3GB RAM, 15.4" screen and an ATI mobility HD3XXX video card. Had to disassemble it completely to replace the thermal paste on the CPU and reconnect the CPU fan (it was unplugged, no idea why or how). After doing that, the laptop can at least stay on and do several memtest passes (previously it would last a couple minutes tops, before overheating). Now I have to find a SATA HDD for it. I tried a 500GB one, but it does not seem to like it, it says there's no HDD (disk is tested OK).
Well, I managed to find an HDD for this laptop. I set it up and it works fine, even though it has no battery and there are a lot (15!) missing screws under it. It's currently held together by just 6 screws. No idea if I got the laptop like that or if i took the screws and battery away and put them somewhere else, since I can't remember anything about when I got this machine. Anyway, after installing an HDD, I did what I had never done in my life: Installed Windows Vista. Why? well, first of all, curiosity. I never used it, went straight from XP to 7 back in the day. Also, originally the laptop came with Vista preinstalled. Finally, there are no drivers for other OS available for this model. Anyway, after installing all drivers, the thing works fine, except for the missing battery.