hubbabubba
Charter Member
Hi everyone
Sick and tired of waiting for an "on the curb" PC, I bought one on eBay.
To be more precise, my wife bought it for me. It was 60$, she made an offer at 40$, it was accepted. Total cost (shipping and taxes included) ±110$ cnd.
It came home yesterday afternoon after a south-eastern tour of USA (the tracking was a nomenclature of famous civil war sites!). The face plate was half-ajar and the DVD-ROM drive was loose in its rails. The side access panel was also ajar. After a bit of thumping and whacking (as gently as possible though...
), I was able to put everything, more or less, in place.
I waited this morning to try it out by unplugging the W7 and putting this new/old PC in its place. It is a XP family edition SP3 btw... (no recovery disk). It worked from the start, but what a racket it makes! I have a coffee grinder that is, by comparison, purring like a kitten. I don't know if it is crunching data or stainless steel cutlery set. The HD, the DVD-ROM and the CD-ROM are all participating in that concert. Only the RAM and motherboard are quiet, for now.
I wish I could tell you more but, first, I will have to sift through all the contradictory informations I have. For example, the HD speed is listed differently on the original front plate sticker, the property window, the sale specs and the eBay specs! And not two are alike!
It is supposed to be a COMPAQ Presario S5100CL, but some parts are probably cannibalized from other less fortunate PC.
It is for now disconnected and awaiting its own set of ancillaries. My intention is, of course, of making it my main "working station" for CFS1 and a few other games that are incompatible with W7 64 bits... but compatible with my own taste.
Wish me luck and leave here any comments you may have concerning the noise and addition I may want to install on that dinosaur. When I have time to spare, I will post a few pictures.
P.S.- What the heck is wrong with the "edit" function? When I try to use it, I get a blank panel! To type this post-scriptum, I had to go back on my own post (was not even aware it could be done)!
Sick and tired of waiting for an "on the curb" PC, I bought one on eBay.
To be more precise, my wife bought it for me. It was 60$, she made an offer at 40$, it was accepted. Total cost (shipping and taxes included) ±110$ cnd.
It came home yesterday afternoon after a south-eastern tour of USA (the tracking was a nomenclature of famous civil war sites!). The face plate was half-ajar and the DVD-ROM drive was loose in its rails. The side access panel was also ajar. After a bit of thumping and whacking (as gently as possible though...
), I was able to put everything, more or less, in place.I waited this morning to try it out by unplugging the W7 and putting this new/old PC in its place. It is a XP family edition SP3 btw... (no recovery disk). It worked from the start, but what a racket it makes! I have a coffee grinder that is, by comparison, purring like a kitten. I don't know if it is crunching data or stainless steel cutlery set. The HD, the DVD-ROM and the CD-ROM are all participating in that concert. Only the RAM and motherboard are quiet, for now.
I wish I could tell you more but, first, I will have to sift through all the contradictory informations I have. For example, the HD speed is listed differently on the original front plate sticker, the property window, the sale specs and the eBay specs! And not two are alike!
It is supposed to be a COMPAQ Presario S5100CL, but some parts are probably cannibalized from other less fortunate PC.
It is for now disconnected and awaiting its own set of ancillaries. My intention is, of course, of making it my main "working station" for CFS1 and a few other games that are incompatible with W7 64 bits... but compatible with my own taste.
Wish me luck and leave here any comments you may have concerning the noise and addition I may want to install on that dinosaur. When I have time to spare, I will post a few pictures.
P.S.- What the heck is wrong with the "edit" function? When I try to use it, I get a blank panel! To type this post-scriptum, I had to go back on my own post (was not even aware it could be done)!
mistake was my second...