Re: Benchtop Power Supply Question
Ah yes.
Well, TBH, they were probably doing you a favor by not having anything nVidia inside.
nVidia = noVideo![Biggrin](https://cdn.badcaps-static.com/images/smilies/biggrin.png)
... not that AMD/ATI is that much better off (though certain AMD stuff can be.)
I have an old HP DV6000 laptop with Intel onboard graphics. Many of these laptops were sold with "better" nVidia GPUs and/or chipsets. And ironically, all of those are either dead or almost dead now (have a Presario V6000 in that boat.) Meanwhile, my integrated Intel is still chugging along (slowly) just fine.![Compy](https://cdn.badcaps-static.com/images/smilies/compy.gif)
I don't blame you for doing that. I myself usually try to avoid anything HP as well - at least anything made by them in the last 10 years. Every once in a while, they do have some decent offerings / designs, but rarely. And modern Dells have become just another equivalent to HP, IMO - i.e. not that great.
Some (many?) old Toshiba laptops were really good (OK, excluding the one that had the failing Nec/TOKIN caps, but that's understandable.)
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Don't know where/who I saw giving him that short name first, but it was some years back. And since then, it stuck in my mind. I hope Sam doesn't mind me using it.
Yup.
In case of my uncle's E6400, it did both - no battery charging and CPU (high-end C2D) stuck at 600 MHz. LOL! The 9-cell battery was already quite worn when I got him that laptop, but he didn't use it with the battery much. Anyways, at some point the ID wire on the adapter failed some years back, making the battery not charge. With the battery dead and my uncle regularly forgetting to plug-in the laptop in the wall, eventually the CMOS battery died too. This then lead to all kinds of weird behavior. The final straw was that the HDD SATA settings in CMOS (RAID/ACHI/IDE mode) got messed up, sending the laptop in a boot loop. He brought it to one of those local "big" / known laptop repair shops, and they told him he needed a new motherboard for the equivalent of about $150 without labor.
I said, no way! Got the laptop, and after some head-butting, found the issues. Replaced (jury-rigged) the CMOS battery and patched the broken wire in the adapter (ghettomod / worthless repair thread material coming some day soon
). Surprise, surprise, the laptop sprung back to life again and fully working like it should be. Gave him a spare charger to keep, in case the one I fixed goes bad again (probably will at some point, given how my nephews sometimes tangle/play with the cord.) And told him to forget about that shop
Originally posted by jiroy
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Well, TBH, they were probably doing you a favor by not having anything nVidia inside.
nVidia = noVideo
![Biggrin](https://cdn.badcaps-static.com/images/smilies/biggrin.png)
... not that AMD/ATI is that much better off (though certain AMD stuff can be.)
I have an old HP DV6000 laptop with Intel onboard graphics. Many of these laptops were sold with "better" nVidia GPUs and/or chipsets. And ironically, all of those are either dead or almost dead now (have a Presario V6000 in that boat.) Meanwhile, my integrated Intel is still chugging along (slowly) just fine.
![Compy](https://cdn.badcaps-static.com/images/smilies/compy.gif)
Originally posted by jiroy
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Originally posted by jiroy
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Originally posted by jiroy
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Don't know where/who I saw giving him that short name first, but it was some years back. And since then, it stuck in my mind. I hope Sam doesn't mind me using it.
Originally posted by shovenose
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In case of my uncle's E6400, it did both - no battery charging and CPU (high-end C2D) stuck at 600 MHz. LOL! The 9-cell battery was already quite worn when I got him that laptop, but he didn't use it with the battery much. Anyways, at some point the ID wire on the adapter failed some years back, making the battery not charge. With the battery dead and my uncle regularly forgetting to plug-in the laptop in the wall, eventually the CMOS battery died too. This then lead to all kinds of weird behavior. The final straw was that the HDD SATA settings in CMOS (RAID/ACHI/IDE mode) got messed up, sending the laptop in a boot loop. He brought it to one of those local "big" / known laptop repair shops, and they told him he needed a new motherboard for the equivalent of about $150 without labor.
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