I have a very similar Inspiron machine to the one featured here, but with a red faceplate and an HDMI port. It actually served as my media server for a while, but I ended up finding a better (and less powerful) machine for that job, so I wasn’t wasting resources on nothing. Its day will eventually come, and I’ll find a use for it somewhere else again.
@ I failed to put this in the original comment, but, as is with most computers, this one has a story behind it. I got it from an administrator at a school I’d gone to, since I was a bit of a computer geek (ok, understatement), and he didn’t have a use for it, I ended up with it. Somehow, he’d had the foresight to take the hard drive out of it, so I swapped in an SSD I had on hand. That was actually my first experience with an SSD! He ended up getting terminated for changing some student grades he wasn’t authorized to, so the machine ended up with the loving name of ‘GRADECHANGER’.
An old HP from about 2006 or 2007 was pretty high end at that time, it took a crap in December. The fans go to instant full blast, won't turn on screen no hard drive activity. I haven't looked inside yet. I could change out the board with new cpu and memory and the rest of the components are reusable.
Some of those HPs, or the cases anyway, were slightly proprietary in some ways, not allowing for board replacements unless with the original. Or at least that was the going consensus. I never tried because we had to replace with OEM parts. Could be as simple as reseating the processor and/or RAM if it were working fine. If on the original power supply, that may bu a culprit as well, if you have another one to test with--it may not be getting proper voltage on all of the rails. Not to mention, that was right in the thick of capacitor plague, so it's also possible there are copious amounts of blown caps.
I have a very similar Inspiron machine to the one featured here, but with a red faceplate and an HDMI port. It actually served as my media server for a while, but I ended up finding a better (and less powerful) machine for that job, so I wasn’t wasting resources on nothing. Its day will eventually come, and I’ll find a use for it somewhere else again.
Nice. Would have been nice if this had HDMI, but oh well. I will most definitely find a use for this as the series progresses.
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I failed to put this in the original comment, but, as is with most computers, this one has a story behind it. I got it from an administrator at a school I’d gone to, since I was a bit of a computer geek (ok, understatement), and he didn’t have a use for it, I ended up with it. Somehow, he’d had the foresight to take the hard drive out of it, so I swapped in an SSD I had on hand. That was actually my first experience with an SSD! He ended up getting terminated for changing some student grades he wasn’t authorized to, so the machine ended up with the loving name of ‘GRADECHANGER’.
@@niks_crazy_world That's a great story and a very fitting name!
An old HP from about 2006 or 2007 was pretty high end at that time, it took a crap in December. The fans go to instant full blast, won't turn on screen no hard drive activity.
I haven't looked inside yet. I could change out the board with new cpu and memory and the rest of the components are reusable.
Some of those HPs, or the cases anyway, were slightly proprietary in some ways, not allowing for board replacements unless with the original. Or at least that was the going consensus. I never tried because we had to replace with OEM parts.
Could be as simple as reseating the processor and/or RAM if it were working fine. If on the original power supply, that may bu a culprit as well, if you have another one to test with--it may not be getting proper voltage on all of the rails. Not to mention, that was right in the thick of capacitor plague, so it's also possible there are copious amounts of blown caps.