I am ditching a couple of boxen around your specs, mostly stripped, but the motherboards and cpu are good, you can pick them up if you like, and rebuild your system. Cheers Szemir
Ps.: reply quickly, cause i am taking them out like tomorrow ... On December 27, 2009 09:32:25 pm Ralph Boland wrote: > > When shutting down my computer last night I forgot to close the CD door. > > The computer shutdown but left the door open. When I tried to reboot > > it wouldn't start up. By pushing the door I managed to get the door > > closed. > > At this point (or before when the computer shut down) there was a > > sound like a motor, likely the CD drive motor. This sound wouldn't > > stop even though the computer was shutdown. The computer would not > > turn on at this point so I unplugged it. I tried several times to > > reboot after plugging in the computer but without success. The motor > > sound restarted but the computer otherwise remained completely off. > > After several tries the motor sound stopped. > > The only thing I see now is to bring it to a repair shop. > > Can anyone suggest where I should get it repaired that I can reach by > > C-train and if necessary bus? > > My computer is over 5 years old (2.7G celeron, 768M memory, cost > > 600$ in 2004) > > but is fast enough for me for the moment. At what repair cost point > > does it make sense to just buy a new computer? > > ... > > Henrick kindly came by and looked at my computer and determined that > the problem was very likely the motherboard. He suggested I buy a used > bare bones system cheap from Vfxweb.com and port my components across. > Unfortunately they didn't have any system matching mine. > So in the end I bought a new system; much faster but not money > I wanted to spend right now. C'est la vie. > > Anyway, though I backed up most of my stuff, > there are some things I still would like to get off my old system. > Hopefully Vfxweb will eventually get a matching bare bones system > that I can buy and install my hard drive onto. Meanwhile if anybody > has an old system that I > can plug my hard drive into and unload the data I want that would be a > great help. > My old system has a IDE Parallel ATA hard drive and DVD burner with > 512M of PC3330 memory + 256M PC2700 memory. I am hoping to get the old > system running so that I can learn how to get the two boxes talking to each > other. But if Clug has a good use for it I would be prepared to surrender > it. > > Regards, > > Ralph (Rocky) Boland > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
