"Curbled" Dell Dimension B110
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- Опубліковано 9 лип 2013
- I found something set out for the trash collection that I really did not expect to see since the state of Illinois introduced a ban on placing electronics in the trash. (More accurately, the ban is supposed to stop trash collection services from picking such things up. I don't imagine this has been the slam-dunk solution to keeping broken electronics out of the trash that some people think it has. Some things are too small to stand out and others can be reduced in size until they are.)
All that's wrong with this computer is a bad memory module. - Наука та технологія
yessss, it took me a year to find this channel again. I am so happy that i found it.
"C'mon, shut down."
*computer shuts down*
There may have been video editing involved in hastening the shut down.
2am in the morning.. its the best time for me to go Dumpster diving :D Especially on a Sunday night behind some thrift stores! All that yard sale stuff that didn't sell!
Great use for a Apple Keyboard.. makes that case look 100 times larger!
I just inherited a Dell Dimension 3000 with what appears to be the same motherboard as your B110. It is in excellent shape, all caps look perfect, and it runs XP just fine.
Bill, your the only person I know at present that can have Microsoft and Apple equipment working in harmony with each other here and I salute you in doing so in this video.
Out here in a rural-turned-suburban town in NJ, the county's recycling pickup is only for cans, bottles, paper, etc., and there is no municipal garbage collection, so you have to hire a private company -- which means they'll take just about anything, but will charge you extra if it doesn't fit in a regular trash can. The county used to take electronics for recycling one Saturday a month, but they've moved that to a private company, so now you have to drop it off during business hours Mon-Fri.
I rescued a similar machine recently. A Dimension 2350 with a 2.4GHz P4, 1GB of memory, and surprisingly enough, a 256MB Radeon 9250 in one of the PCI slots.
Runs well enough, although the PCI bus definitely hurts screen redraw speed, especially at 1920x1200.
The old Dells are nice and quiet!
LOL :p Keep make great vids man, You and Vwest are showing the younger people how it used to be and how great stuff was like an old radio made in 81 is still kicking but a radio made now last for 1 to 2 years
Also one night going thru the trash. I found a newer emachine in the trash with a Win 7 COA. AMD Athlon II dual core, 4 gb ram, 750gb 7200.12 Seagate hdd, DVD burner, card reader. Loaded windows 7 on it (deleted their load) and it worked great for a music pc. nothing was wrong with it that I know of.
I had no idea you were a fellow Illinoisan. Love the videos
“I’ll have extra lolcats with that please!” ~Uxwbill July-2013 14:31,
Fantastic video, Bill. Reminds me of the video you posted about a year ago of the two Dells you acquired (at least one was a Dell...the other may have been an HP. I forget.) and how you were horrified upon discovering that one of them had Windows ME installed!
They were both Dell. A Dimension 2300 and 4100.
I'm with you, Bill. I like randomness, and I love playing with various software for the sheer heck of it.
Great vid once again...Thnx Bill!
Interesting fix. I guess a cracked solder joint would have similar symptoms as bad contacts.
The BIOS test is so short that I tend to think it's too simple to detect anything more subtle than a dead data line or maybe an address line. It's probably similar to the first 1 or 2 most trivial tests in memtest86.
True. I was thinking more of having one for less hassle, not having to worry about a computer & all the other hookups just for testing memory. Especially for on the go.
love the comentry very witty hope there some more like this
Does anyone know if this computer can get windows 7 installed on it and if it has all the drivers for it? I have an old dimension 1100 and trying to install it but I can't get the sound to work... Im giving this to a friend but would like it to work properly. Managed to change the resolution without a problem, but no luck with sound.
I had a dell dimension 4600i... getting the case open on that thing was definitely something of a challenge.
Thanks for all the info! And I appreciate that...don't see that often on the internet :P
So which p4 should I throw in my old Dell B110? There are so many at varying Hz levels... I've had my system for 8 years now and it's still alive (Somewhat...) Had to delete a buttload of malware (MANUALLY). To this day I have no idea which svchost.exe process does what. I Can't remove the mirascan driver or AOL toolbar from the software listing but that's beside the point. Looking for a great p4 and RAM combination...Any suggestions???
I used to have a dimension that wouldn't recognize ANY if the internals. Think it was a mboard issue, so I couldn't do anything about it
Im glad you dont look through look through the computers you find outside its a very nice way to keep peoples privacy :D
Don't you just love when you find stuff like this? Although I have not found a free computer in years...
had little trouble with usb keyboard and mouse on dell optiplex 330 when first got it ther eis no ps/2 but there there is a place to plug expansion thing in if had one. after changing something in bios the wireless works no trouble. had to turn off keyboard errors off on the dell dimension 8200 and maybe turn on something for it to work.
I've got a 4600i and I know what you mean when you said you had to kick it around the block to get the cover off. I found that the case around the cover is actually held together by little clips rather than riveted together and those clips tend to pry themselves out as you take the cover off and put it on over and over or as you move it. Try looking for this by looking for raised edges and fixing them by pressing the pieces back together. Mine had a clip come completely out and it was a pain to put back into place.
I'm currently watching this video on a dell dimension 3000 and yes it does have basically the same motherboard except for the ram slots are different, It has solder pads for 4 ram slots instead of only 2 however only 2 of them are populated with sockets
Rebuilt a trash picked dimension 3000 a few years ago, system ran great when I was done putting the full 2gb ram, changing a bad ide wire and installing Windows 7 and ordering possibly the world's last and very hard to find PCI bus Zotac geforce 610 graphics card from amazon. The system had the 3ghz pentium 4 processor and I'm glad to report my friend I sold it to is still using it to this day and satisfied.
Great find. I noticed the large gray area in Internet Explorer, I assume that is where several of the add-on bars go?
i found one of these i nthe trash (dim. 3000) that just needed wiped and reloaded. It had a few bad caps but still worked great. Btw, these are socket 478, so they are just p4 and celeron (socket 478). These will not take a dual core because they started in 775 socket.
did that memory stick work after cleaning the contacts or did you have to find a different stick for it to work??????????
I have one of those aluminum apple keyboards also. I really like it a lot. Pain in the keister though to keep those nice white keys white :)
I end up with a those Dells Inspirons as "please dispose for me" machines quite a bit from my clients. Most of the time, I'll clean them up, put in more RAM, reload them and give them away to somebody. They've gone to all manner of people ranging from my wife's 4th grade students, to a small business as a backup machine. Right now, I have 2 similar Acers in the garage that I don't like as well, which need a new home as well!
Nice carpet on the heatsink!
@ 9:01 The hard drive made a weird noise and you mentioned that didn't sound too good. I have a Dell Dimension 4700 that sometimes when it wakes up from stand by or something the hard drive makes a loud snap similar to the one in this video. Is that snap sound a bad thing like maybe the hard drive is failing?
thats an odd head parking thing my Samsung on my laptop does that ive zeroed it and reinitialized smart and it passes and it still does that the occasional click is fine its when it does it in repetition then you gotta worry
I like the Dimension and the Optiplex famly,
I have the Optiplex GX270, but the only thing wrong is, I put a floppy drive in, and it won't detect it.
I wonder if there is a drive I have to install?
I haven't used a CRT in years, but I see what you're saying.
Any moisture enter the interior of the monitors?
Every time I feel strongly about something, computers are there to tell me I was wrong.
Pretty much!
why would a dell dimension 3000 with a celeron 2.4 ghz slow down when i put a Pentium D 2.4 ghz in?
are school still has one of theese with a crt TV....
My gateway computer has the same thing that the dell d110 had when u first booted up but it doesn't say the rams bad or anything like tht I wonder what's wrong with it?
My vaio pcg-z600re has a fresh install of windows 2000, detects the processor as 4mhz (intel p3 500mhz actually) and does not display it in device manager.
What is it about Windows XP and USB mice & keyboards!?
When I tried to use a Logitech USB mouse with my Windows XP Professional it just plain refused to realise it was there.
I had to dig out a cheap store brand mouse with a PS/2 connection to get it to work.
It's odd, as when it had TWO copies of XP Home on it, and once even Windows 98 (I was testing it out with 98, came with the two XPs) it detected it properly. It's quite odd. There is a thing about processor serial No. or something like that in the BIOS that is disabled however.
It only appears to show up as 4MHz in System Configuration. As far as I know, the BIOS detects it properly.
can i use the drive again after that because i want to wipe the drive i have in my pc atm then put the os on an ssd with some games that i play alot and have my 1 TB drive as mass storage
What handycam is that in the background at 7:10? Looks like a CCD-TRV16.
i used a apple keyboard with my pc for about 3 years now, their just so great to type on!
I'm preparing an overview of a Dimension 3000, and it has indeed the B110 motherboard. It also has an intriguing issue, but this might be fixed after all...maybe
I have a dimension 3000 that I made a video on and it has the same mobo. That mobo has issues with certain types of ram with celeron cpus but when I switched it to a p4 it seems to accept more...
Uniblue "closed its doors" the note on the site i read also said "would bully or scare the user into thinking their system had some serious issues that needed resolving." So it's likely not so legit.
I think thats the first time ive seen memory fail in post. is memory failure a common problem found when repairing pc's?
That computer looks like those generic ones used as props in Counter Strike.
Uxwbill, I have always wondered something about the "Artifacts" on motherboards. It came to one day when I was installing a mini-ATX Pentium 4 (Socket 478) motherboard back into its case. Since I had took it out to do some capacitor repairs, I was wondering if I could just take a component off a dead motherboard (Like an AGP slot) and solder it on to this one. Would it be able to function at all? If it were to work, could I do that with other components as well? Thanks :)
Thanks :)
UnKnownSoldier41 And you might need to flash the BIOS to whatever motherboard model is the same, but with those functions, in order to get the BIOS to use it.
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I picked up a Dimension B110 for $10 last summer. Mine has the Dimension 3000 motherboard in it though. Minus the AGP and SATA connections of course.
i bet that bad ram stick was the reason why they threw it out. upgrade that wimpy celeron to a P4. that should kick with a P4 and 2gb ram
Uxwbill what would be a okay/cheap graphics card for the dell dimension 1100?
GeForce Titan
I got some gateway branded "Diamond Audio" computer speakers off the side of the road, they are pretty good.
Yea I just stuck an ATI X1900 XTX PCI Express card in it. It works stellar now, I ended up chucking out the hard disk and adding a solid state. Thing is a speedy little guy. I also went to the electronic recycle place and found a Dell Dimension XPS D266, and when you start it up it says EVALUATION BIOS- NOT FOR RESALE. Works fine otherwise, the dxdiag info for the bios description has a bunch of square and weird characters.
I have an old dell computer that needs a new DVD drive and a memory upgrade, and a compaq that does not seem to want to be fixed, as it is too slow to do anything.
Malwarebytes Anti Malware?
Uxwbill could you tell me something. I have a Dell dimension e310/3100 and I have put 4GB of ram in it. The BIOS show all 4GB's but when windows loads it says that only 2.99GB is useable but I have a video card so about 2.74GB I think. Could you tell me why this is happening?
well before i got this video card it showed that only 2.99 is useable and even running a 64 bit of windows it says the same thing. is it a limitation of my processor?
well for the time it is running very well and it suites my needs and wants for a old PC. i would like to put the ssd from my net book into it but i don't have a drive that i can put back into me net book cause i lend it to someone in my family so i could get there laptop back up and running from a dead HDD.
According to the startup sound at 6:28 it can only be a Seagate hard drive, possibly a Barracuda model. Anyway, I would boot linux from a USB device and launch a dd process in order to scramble the entire drive data. It's the only safest way to REALLY get rid of any malware - even ROOTKIT - located in some hidden folders. It's worth the running time for a safe network neighborhood in the near & far future!
i have that same PC still works fine
would like to get a little faster processor for it
i think the most you can put in it is a P4 3.00 GHZ
What is the jury duty quote from?
don't know. somewhere online. only seen it on a comptuer at a flea market one time. there is a youtube video showing it. it is basically winxp with a theme that looks like a cross between winxp and win7 i think.
what fo you clean the ram contacts with
I wonder if that would run a Pentium D CPU? The case reminds me of a Dimension 2400.
LOL, I have a bird's nest on my outdoor light exactly like you do. It's also in the center light socket, so we haven't risked turning it on until the nest is cleared.
Oh wow, never knew that! (Don't blame me, I'm 15, I haven't used a CRT since I was a young'n :P)
have you tried the windows 7 royal xp or whatever it is called?
my mom used to have a Dell Dimension from late 2002 that used all the way up to 2011! I remember when i first used it,it was the like the fastest thing ever then towards the end it was sooo clunky slow and laggy. Ofcourse now my mom replaced it and has a much faster and newer computer. The old Dell is still sitting next to her desk though
I got a Dell Dimension whatever-the-model-is setup as the family computer, I still got Windows XP running on it, only problem is I can't find a web browser that doesn't have security certificate issues.
There is a great variety of hard disk software out there, DBAN does just fine and there is also a DOS-based bootable software from the manufacturer's website called SEATOOLS.
I use that apple keyboard with my laptop almost exclusively and love it.
Aerosmith and The Black Crowes! At least the former owner had good taste in music.
I remember the time when 256MB of RAM was actually quite reasonable before about 2004/5 before SP2 came out and anti-virus software and other stuff like high-end games actually starting requireing atleast 512MB for decent performance.
Win XP ran quite well on even 128MB in the early days before additional software demanded more my laptop had that and ran fine even in 2005, heck my Windows 2000 machines ran very well back in 2003 with 96MB and IE6 (Yes that was the days before Firefox existed though obviously Netscape Navigator might've still been there before Mozilla got hold of the codbase I think the only other decent browser kicking about in those days was Opera if I'm getting that right).
I can well remember my own computer I upgraded from 256 to 2GB back in 2006, and oh boy yes I was playing The Sims 2 at the time aswell as alot of other higher end stuff, and I can well remember the loading times being almost cut about 10x shorter which back then 2GB was quite unusual but for games like Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion ye didn't feel sorry for having plenty of additional system resources.
Haha good times those were the days.
hey uxwbill I have a Pentium 4 with motherboard from Dell that has a agp slot and sata, do you know anyone that would want to buy it?
Put it on eBay with a low opening bid and find out!
14:56 take a moment and look where the side panel is on top, see it? Ok, well look to the right and slightly up. Do you see the evil machine try to escape and destroy the world?? Lol I'm not sure what that is but thats interesting!
why am I getting a windows protection error on windows m.e. it says I have to restart computer
Perhaps you have some faulty computer hardware. However, Windows Millennium was for most people a tremendously buggy and unreliable experience. Switch back to Windows 98 if you can.
I have Dell 4700 that looks like that is it tricked out?
I have the Dell Dim 1100/B110.
Came with XP & 512mb.
I bought 4g (2gx2) and popped them in.
No such luck.
The computer beeped, the ABCD lights in the back went all "runway 23" on me and the monitor said OH HELL NO, WE AIN'T SEEING NO SIGNAL.
Did I put in TOO MUCH memory?
Do I need to update the XP to Win7 (32bit) for the memory to be recognized?
I was told a 32bit DD1100/B110 could run 3.5g RAM so I got these 2x2g chips - mistake?
To quote A Few Good Men..."What did we do wrong, Hal?"
+uxwbill
so the beep beep beep noises preceding the wonky diagnostic lights and the inability of the monitor to sense a signal from the CPU because it won't boot up is ALL DUE to my attempt to jam 2x the recommended daily allowance of RAM into the "Dell from Hell"?
cuz it runs, slow as a dead turtle covered in molasses during a snowstorm, when I put the 512 back into the slots.
*****
I like to resurrect the old school dinosaurs for dirt.
$20 purchase. $14 for the memory.
The $34 is nearing my budget cap of $50, and that includes the Reece's PB cups and ginger beer.
It's the same in Illinois (or at least Chicago where I live close to a recycling center). There is also one a day a year when you can put out all your electronics for free pick up. Even so, I suspect uxwbill is correct. I may even be guilty...
That would be a sad day for me, if ct passed a law like that. My last pc (before my current one) was recovered from the front a dorm at the college in town. I kept an eye out while helping a friend move out, and once I had realized no one was coming back for it, took it home. Only problems were a bad xp install, and the PCI e slot was flaky. It was AMD 64 dual core, so not that old, and I paid it forward and gave it to my father for a desktop when i got my quad core.
Where do i get it
I agree with that, unless the Linux version on the USB flash drive is the target operating system I want to install and run on this machine.
By the way, DBAN is a good point here, especially concerning the threat levels of today's malware & stuff like that!
If you see a shady figure walking in your yard in the middle of the night... we now know who it is :)
Oh, and funny thing. I had an error occur on this video (had to go to work, so I let it load the rest of the day - UA-cam was not responding right this morning) and when it stopped, it was at 7:11, on 7/11. :))
Are u going to do more videos on this computer? P.S great episode :)
there are programs that read IE's index.dat file even when the history is set to delete after it closes. I've used it at work and it works well.
.. how do grow the carpets lol got me ....lololol
is it lga775?
I bought some Dell Dimension 3000 ram and the screen did the same thing could you send me a link to some good worrking memory?
+Jackson Tucker Any name brand PC3200 DDR memory ought to do, and there's a lot of it floating around secondhand on eBay. Stick with a name brand (Crucial, Micron, Samsung, Hynix, LGS, Elpida, Nanya, etc.) and it should be fine.
The stick I had said Hynix on it the seller said it was refurbished I think I will just stay to new products only from now on, and thanks for the help.
+Jackson Tucker In that case the module may have been bad. Maybe it got zapped, or it just died from old age. Such failures really aren't common, and I wouldn't let one put you off of upgrading your computer.
i was going to leave the mass storage one un plugged untill i have the other driv with th os on then plug in the other mass storage one and change the boot order in the bios
Don't you have a memory tester, Bill? They can be pretty pricey, but well worth it & fun to play with.
I have an old IBM click click keyboard I cant seem to fix care to try to repair? I would send it to you for repair if your interested.
Hey Bill, what is your daily driver? (Computer)
There are several, it depends upon the task I'm doing.
You really live in IL?
10:35 under linux, attached usb things are recognized almost immediately
William, you certainly are a night owl...probably not an early riser on a day off.