Dumpster Computer

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Take the hard drive out and plug it into your good computer. you may get lucky and stumble onto a bunch of amateur p0rn!

oh crap...where did I throw away my comp





 

[ebfd11]

Thanks INK now I can't get the picture of you and a sheep out of my head. LOL

LawnDart

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Thanks INK now I can't get the picture of you and a sheep out of my head. LOL

LawnDart

you know what they say about sheep right?






 

[guncrasher]

you know what they say about sheep right?






 

get your own?


midway

[chaser]

What parts are in it?

To be specific it has...


Motherboard: Gateway TBGM01-1.0-8EKS3H
Processor: Core i7, Intel i7-920 / 2.66 GHz Turbo Boost 2.93GHz
Video Card: ATI Radeon HD 4850
Ram: 3GB DDR3
CD player: Not sure exactly but is has DVD±RW capabilities.
15 in 1 card reader
500 Watt PSU

[ToeTag]

If you knew that everything else was good then yes it would be worth finding a used MB for it and a better PSU.

[chaser]

One more quick question. Though this actually concernes my computer. It's developed a high pitched whining noise the past couple days. It sounds like it's coming from the video card fan. Tonight I noticed I had horizontal lines that are "falling" down my screen. Is my video card going out or is my moniter going out?

[MrRiplEy[H]]

One more quick question. Though this actually concernes my computer. It's developed a high pitched whining noise the past couple days. It sounds like it's coming from the video card fan. Tonight I noticed I had horizontal lines that are "falling" down my screen. Is my video card going out or is my moniter going out?

Sounds like your card is overheating. Check first that it's not full of dust. If it's clean and the fan still screams prepare to buy a new card.

[Bizman]

Start your computer with the case open. Very carefully stop each fan by depressing the center with your finger to determine the source of the whining. If it's a fan, the first thing is to remove all dust and debris as MrRipley said. The second thing is to detach the fan, remove the sticker from the bottom of it and put one drop of sewing machine oil into the bearing.

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get your own?


midway

 

[chaser]

I've been busy with some stuff lately so I haven't had a chance to get back on here. I blew it out with an air compressor and I tried the pressing down on the fan thing and it's actually the fan on my CPU whining. Although after stopping it and letting it return to spinning, it almost stopped whining now 

[Bizman]

after stopping it and letting it return to spinning, it almost stopped whining now 

IMO that tells that the bearings have loosened a little. I repeat: Detach the fan, remove the sticker from the bottom of it and put one drop of sewing machine oil into the bearing.

[chaser]

Thanks bizman. I'll do that!

[HL117]

If a computer fails to boot the first thing to try is always clear the CMOS. Remove the battery, use the jumper to clear the CMOS, insert the battery back and then try to reboot. More often than not this is all that's needed to restore function.

One must wonder how many working computers have been trashed simply because the CMOS had a corrupt setting. My uncle was ready to trash his after his 'computer expert' friend had rebuilt his computer and figured it was unfixable. One CMOS reset later it was humming like new again...

Too add to that, how many people trash their computers because the hard drive is corrupted or infected? I guess the lack of Tech knowledge of so many is the gain of so many 

HL

[Bizman]

how many people trash their computers because the hard drive is corrupted or infected

It's not one or two customers, all of them elderly blue collar men, who look at me cleaning a polluted rig for an hour or so and start over and over asking if it were time to dump the rig and get a new one. And I always answer, that a new computer doesn't cure the main culprit situated between the back rest and the keyboard.