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#5401 |
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Join Date: Jan 2018
City & State: Kontiolahti
My Country: Finland
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![]() This Asus pc was inside an e-waste container. Don't know why. I transported it 5 miles on a bicycle. 2TB disk with working Windows 10. GPU is a bit slow Radeon R5 310.
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#5402 |
The Boss Stooge
Join Date: Oct 2003
City & State: Salem, MO
My Country: United States
Line Voltage: 240V @ 60Hz
I'm a: Professional Tech
Posts: 15,076
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![]() Not bad for a freebie. A week doesn't go by here when someone drops something off that boggles my mind as to why....but like the old saying goes; "one man's trash is another man's treasure"!!
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#5403 |
SNES-powered
Join Date: Oct 2013
City & State: Bacau
My Country: Romania
Line Voltage: 230VAC 50Hz
I'm a: Hobbyist Tech
Posts: 1,501
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![]() Scored 3 more smartphones:
- Galaxy S6 Edge, G925F - BTU stock ROM, so probably a UK import. Runs fine, has no issues so far. - Galaxy S7 Edge, G935F - originally had a T-Mobile International ROM (as in T-Mobile branded) but I flashed it to standard carrier-free Romanian stock firmware. - Galaxy Note 4 Edge, N915FY - unfortunately couldn't fix this - I orignally had a pretty mangled N915V (Verizon) model but god knows where it got lost. What's wrong with it is the mainboard is dead. No LEDs, only pulls about 0.34 - 0.35 amps when connected to a charger (+ USB detector gizmo that tells you the voltage and amps its pulling.)
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Main rig: Gigabyte B75M-D3H Core i5-3470 3.60GHz Gigabyte Geforce GTX650 1GB GDDR5 16GB DDR3-1600 Samsung SH-224AB DVD-RW FSP Bluestorm II 500W (recapped) 120GB ADATA + 2x Seagate Barracuda ES.2 ST31000340NS 1TB Delux MG760 case |
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#5404 |
The Boss Stooge
Join Date: Oct 2003
City & State: Salem, MO
My Country: United States
Line Voltage: 240V @ 60Hz
I'm a: Professional Tech
Posts: 15,076
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![]() Mega EDU score today. Over 126 custom ITX builds. A shit ton of chromebooks (worthless). Some Ipads....some Asus Win8.1 tablets....the usual breedlot of monitors, printers, keyboards, mice.....but also a ton of SSD's as well. Gonna take me a while to go through all this stuff!
Tons of little ITX systems. Refreshing to see an EDU that actually did custom builds versus the big box stuff. This shelf is stacked 2 deep! Black/monochrome lasers.... I pulled the 2 small brothers off of there, the rest are going straight to the recycler. Asus Win8.1 tablets with removable keyboards. All the PSU's are missing, no way to test them. Some of those ITX cases that have been pilfered. I pulled one and checked it. Had 8gb RAM and a 120gb SSD. I nuked it and installed Mint20.3, runs nice all things considered....but here it is running on Hirens.... Bag-o-ram and pile of SSD's. Most the SSD's are 120gb. There were a few 250's and a few 30 & 60's in there as well. Tons of 2.5" spinners ranging from 250gb to 1tb....spinning HDD's are rapidly becoming night breeders; can't get rid of them fast enough!! 7 3.5" drives... I'm glad this load wasn't in the form of big towers......I wouldn't have had room for all that!! ![]() |
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Black Sheep
Join Date: Nov 2008
City & State: Madison, IN
My Country: USA
Line Voltage: 120VAC 60Hz
I'm a: Professional Tech
Posts: 16,621
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Arguably the best of the Windows 8.1 tablets ever made outside of the MS surface varieties.
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The Boss Stooge
Join Date: Oct 2003
City & State: Salem, MO
My Country: United States
Line Voltage: 240V @ 60Hz
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Black Sheep
Join Date: Nov 2008
City & State: Madison, IN
My Country: USA
Line Voltage: 120VAC 60Hz
I'm a: Professional Tech
Posts: 16,621
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Windows doesn't support mixed UEFI's... which is why they're "x64" with an asterisk. Early "x64" Macbooks had this same issue (early Core 2 CPUs, but Apple didn't bother updating to a x64 EFI). Linux can be made to work in such a way... but the issue there is that bay trail drivers are hard to find. Android is built to run on these, but the drivers don't transfer. The internals are closer to that of a smart phone/tablet... IIRC there's effectivly no internal PCIe bus; everything is SDIO, I2C, or SPI. I ran arch on a near-identical (hardware) insiginia tablet... even with a custom "optimized for bay trail" kernel I couldn't make the touch screen or rotation sensors work. Optimized 8.1/10 runs OK on these... the issue I ran into is all of mine only had 8.1/10 home liscences... and 10 home cannot be opimized/debloated like the pro versions (and 8.1 home) can. Hence why all of mine that I didn't return to the store ended up on Windows 8.1 Home (the "with bing" edition most of these were COA'd for), highly modified. I bet you dimes to donuts these were spares the school never issued. Would explain the lack of wall adapters... they ordered more than they'd need, that way if someone blew/broke one, they could issue a new one quickly and send the broken one out for repair. |
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#5408 |
Comrade Glimmer
Join Date: Aug 2007
City & State: tehas
My Country: US
Line Voltage: 120VAC 60Hz
I'm a: Professional Tech
Posts: 4,843
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![]() I remember years ago I would have killed for as many HDD's as I have now. They pile up especially as I upgrade customers to SSD's
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The Boss Stooge
Join Date: Oct 2003
City & State: Salem, MO
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These are licensed for 8.1 Pro; which I've gotten to work and then up'd to 10 Pro. Tweaked, these are darn nice for what they are. Ebay prices, these are going for 80~100 for ones in fair condition. These are mint.... Chargers are no big deal, just micro SD phone chargers. I counted them, I got 44. I did give a couple of them away. Quote:
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#5410 |
The Boss Stooge
Join Date: Oct 2003
City & State: Salem, MO
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![]() Another interesting day...
First off is a Mac Pro LGA1366 Xeon system with 8gb RAM. System is complete except the mouse. It had 10.11 on it with a password, and I bungled the OS trying to reset it....so I yanked the 2x 1tb drives and stuck SSD in it...and to be obtuse I installed Mint. Has 2x 512mb 9500GT GPU's in it, but no SLI bridge (cards don't look SLI capable)...so not sure what the point of that is other than perhaps more monitors. Apple makes it so damn difficult to get modern (and the right) install media these days; all has to be done through their 'store'....so I didn't bother... If I were feeling really frisky, I'd have put Windows on it!! ![]() The 22" Cinema display that came with it. Another G5 and some older core2 era desktops... The G5 has dual CPU's and some kind of liquid cooling setup and 16gb RAM. I've read of the liquid-cooled G5's, but never seen one; no it's not leaking. CPU's are 2x dual-cores @ 2.5GHz. GPU is a Geforce 6600 256mb. Has OSX 10.5.8 on it already and I got lucky; I put in 'password' at the prompt.....and that was it.... Yea, that has paid off more than a few times! Functions well even as useless as it is. Some "Grandstream" VOIP phones.... No idea who'd provide service for these.....but they look to be of nice quality and feature-rich.... I might tinker with them. HP either 5:4 or 4:3 20" monitor. THose are a little harder to find in this A/R in this size.... ...and last but no least; a 'Dual beam' Tektronics modular oscilloscope from probably the late 40's. The smaller box next to it is the power supply for it. This is all tube-type. No idea if it could work or not....the dongle that connects the PSU to the scope is missing and the PSU cord is rotted to beat hell.....obviously not safe to plug it in....but even this PSU is loaded with tubes...I couldn't find the output specs on it, but I bet it's hefty!! There was of course the pile of usual night breeder stuff (keyboards, mice, cords, etc), it's already been loaded up to be sent to the recycler. |
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#5411 |
Comrade Glimmer
Join Date: Aug 2007
City & State: tehas
My Country: US
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![]() You don't need a bridge for 1366. X58 has 2x16 support. Other chipsets that have less (usually 2x8) will be able to have greater performance if they can share extra data with a bridge to make up for the lack of lanes
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#5412 |
Super Moderator
Join Date: Jul 2005
City & State: ----
My Country: Sweden
Line Voltage: 230v 50Hz
I'm a: Knowledge Seeker
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Might be best to not start this up if the caps have not been reformed for 50 or so years, the series was introduced in 1958 according to TekWiki: https://w140.com/tekwiki/wiki/551 " The external power supply unit produces regulated DC voltages of −150 V, +100 V, +225 V, +350 V, and +500 V."
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The Boss Stooge
Join Date: Oct 2003
City & State: Salem, MO
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#5414 |
Super Moderator
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![]() Yes they do look awesome with all those tubes!
I was near to get one but then got my senses together and realized where the heck was I going to have room for that big thing, it's crowded as it is here! ![]() You seem to have gotten over the first stage of getting one so you got that covered ![]() |
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The Boss Stooge
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FWIW, this came from the same fella that brought in the dual channel high voltage DC power supply from earlier in the thread. |
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#5416 |
SNES-powered
Join Date: Oct 2013
City & State: Bacau
My Country: Romania
Line Voltage: 230VAC 50Hz
I'm a: Hobbyist Tech
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![]() Anyone missed me? Just found an Acer 5542G at the trash. Still has LCD and keyboard so probably fresh drop. No HDD, DVD and RAM sticks tho.
Otherwise, advertised specs are a Turion II "Caspian" M500, 4GB DDR2, a 640GB HDD, 15.6 LED screen (something I can definitely confirm by the pure absence of a inverter altogether.) and an Atheros 5B93 LAN card, as well as a Win7 COA. My biggest suspect would be the CMOS battery preventing it to boot (Wistron based Acers are known to not boot if CMOS battery is not at least 1V, from what I experienced.) but no idea until I plop in some RAM to test. |
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#5417 |
The Boss Stooge
Join Date: Oct 2003
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I was wondering where you've been!! Momaka has been MIA for months as well. |
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#5418 |
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![]() Yes I'm wondering the same as well!
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#5419 |
SNES-powered
Join Date: Oct 2013
City & State: Bacau
My Country: Romania
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![]() Yeah, life had taken a bit of toll on me. I had to do an checkup on my digestive system just recently (I have been diagnosed with Crohn's since 2016) and so far everything is in check. I had mistakenly stopped taking medication on a wrong basis that it caused me nausea during a enterocolitis episode in April this year - about the same period I had bought my ABIT BE6-II (which btw, Topcat would probably love to see it being polymodded now, and if there's enough demand, I might open up a thread for it, with pics.) - the actual cause was some shady soup I had bought, not knowing the conditions in which it was made.
All this interruption had caused some nasty stomach pains during my 2nd year of uni exams (especially when I'm stressed) and often I'd just lay in bed doing nothing. Anyways, everything's better now, and I'm hoping to return home to more restorations and retro stuff. I only have one failed exam which I'll have to retake just in a few days (12th of July, to be exact) and then it's off to the train ride home. So far I've been pretty scarce on scores. I did score another great mid 2000s oldie, which would be a white PSP 1003, but it needs quite some work - the DC jack was pretty rotten and broke (thankfully in the yellow end and not inside!), the right shoulder buttons (triangle, cross, circle and square) need a rubber replacement, it needs a nub stick (which I still think I have, albeit black.), and the whole UMD drive is corroded beyond any salvation (not that I would have any use for it since I'll probably install a Samsung Core Prime or J3 2016 battery in place of the UMD drive). It does power on though and thankfully everything does work. Then there's the Acer 5542 from my previous post. I did manage to cut out a small hole on the fan side, just for it to cool slightly better. It does still need another HDD, DVD drive and RAM sticks (I currently stole both from a working Samsung NP-R610H that needs a new non-yellowed 16inch LCD - I might have one from a discarded Acer 6530 that had a bad mainboard) as well as a DVD drive with the correct bezel. It's been just too much for me and I had to lay low for a while until I got better, but I'm hoping that I can get home safe. Oh, and considering I will also have a trip to Bucharest, who knows? Maybe I'll score some more great stuff! That, and if I can rig myself up a recording setup, I might be starting uploading repairs and all that stuff up to Youtube. Last edited by Dan81; 07-10-2022 at 10:07 AM.. |
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SNES-powered
Join Date: Oct 2013
City & State: Bacau
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![]() Yesterday was a whole lotta wild ride between home and Bucharest, and this behemoth had managed to come with me.
Acer Aspire 8920G. The only issues it has is the battery was the incorrect model (I installed a replacement "chinesium" battery in its place, it's one of the better ones that came with a Packard Bell LJ71) , the CPU had been changed to a Celeron M 575 for whatever reason that is beyond me ![]() |
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