Things to do with a old computer

Step 9 The case

Previously this page has no ideas except a picture of a posionious BBQ but thanks to MrJentis for sending me his instructable.

Make the case into a safe
Coolest use for a case yet, and somewhere to store valuables.


Add LED'S.
Self explainitory

Any other ideas, comment!

Comments

[techboy411]

Yeah.. But Go Toshiba, ive got the Satellite C650-005, GREAT PC

[memyselfand1]

That poor computer! What did it do to it's owners to deserve that?? Let them RIP, after you have RIPPED out all the componants, naturally.

[prodlad]

freeze, crash, blue sceen

[memyselfand1]

Ah, the good old BSOD. Nothing like a good error message.

[cdousley]

i gt an hp laptop brand new windows 7
Two days later....
BSOD i restarted it it was back to normal

10 minutes later.........

BSOD i restarted it it was back to normal

lol true story

[tlynch1]

HP= horrible product
maybe they forgot to put thermal compound inside

[droyce4596]

That happened to my HP laptop when I got it too!
But, I had Windows Vista.
It scared the the crap out of me because I thought it was a goner and that would have sucked because my cousin told me HP motherboards in laptops overheated easily and I would hate it if he was right :)

But, I think It just got too hot because I was gaming and had my laptop sitting on a blanket.

[TheDutchOwner]

HP overheating, that's nothing special to me. HP is scrap and you shouldn't buy it. Only if you buy a HP Vista/7 laptop and use 98 on it, then it still has a use.

[cdousley]

ive had mine get too hot that way but no blue screen luckily

[uberdum05]

I've had my acer aspire reach 75oC on the ventilation system (I don't exactly know where the temperature sensor is) and it still run fine

[account3r2]

i thought microsoft fixed the bsod to not appear on windows vista + but i guess not

[REA]

i got 5 BSoDs in 10 minutes the first week i got my computer. good ol' Vista!

[alien200049655]

Vista was an abortion from the start. Xp was alright for what it was but, Windows 7 isn't all that bad, even though its a re-tooled Vista.

[Airwolf1]

Got a BSOD during Vista setup on my new HP laptop, BEAT THAT!

[REA]

touché. that takes some skills at failing!

[pichu1994]

Ha! I'm so good, i actually messed up the BSOD. When it came up, all the words were scrambled and cut off and all that good stuff. I now run Linux.

[cdousley]

if i could afford it i would go mac....

[REA]

trust me, you dont want a mac. they do a crap job at making durable hardware, and its tedious working with it. buy a decent PC thats at the most 5 years old and install Linux on it if you dont want Windows.

[alien200049655]

The newer Mac OS(s) Can run in any desktop, including The dell demension 9800. Drivers are tuff to come by though, but if you get them all, this desktop will run Mac. Dell will tell you its incompatable, because they want you to run their software. truth is any computer "can" run run Mac OS(s) with the right know how. And no I don't mean drastic hardware changes. Its all in the software.

[REA]

That's only thanks to iBoot and the OSx86 community. It's all unofficial (and possibly illegal). There's also the thing with some (after-market) mobos don't work too.

[dogboy12457]

i know what you mean by crap hardware. my imac g5 crapped out on me and i took it to get repaired. cost 570$, 500 for new motherboard and 70 for labor. about a year goes by and the same thing happens. what happened is when apple made the motherboard the capacitors on it cant stand the heat of the computer. And instead of the guys fixing the capacitors they just put a new motherboard in it. the problem with that is that it has the same capacitors in it as the ones that broke. however i found an instructable (http://www.instructables.com/id/Imac-G5-DIY-capacitors-repair/) that tells how to replace them. i did that and it has been working fine ever since.

[GENERALCHAOS]

lol i tryd to  get the bsod i cant get it to go on my test pc

[j_wo]

If you really want to crash your computer, just open Notepad and type this

@echo off
:START
start CRASH.bat
GOTO START

save it as "CRASH.bat" and then double click it.
It won't harm your computer, it'll just overwork your RAM and should cause a BSOD.

[account3r2]

try putting in a really low amount of ram in and try opening a bunch of stuff

[zack247]

well it depends how good your pc is.i was trying to biuld one once, and while it was setting up, i got the BSOD because the ram failed halfway through

[GENERALCHAOS]

MoBo intel D865GRH (2004) 1.5GB ddr400 single ch of ram  WD Green 320GB hdd   FX5200  creative labs 24bit

cpu 3.2
ram 4.2
desktop graphics 2.0
gaming 3.0
primHDD 5.9

BTW i got a nice scor on my hardisk
lol this old MoBo is bit strong
if i had the money il get some nice upgrad for see how bad @$$ i can get it
i wanna get the 3.2GHz cpu SSD sapphire HD 4600 agp and ddr400 dual channel kit 2x1gb and 2x512mb

[zack247]

you should get a 750W psu to put on top of that!

[GENERALCHAOS]

yea now is just the money i need lol

[memyselfand1]

welcome to the wonderful world of windows, my friend.
i reinstalled xp on my laptop last week, and discovered the hard way that i had no drivers for most of the internal devices.

my sound still doesn't work.

[alien200049655]

Go to the website of the brand of your laptop, and download all the drivvers for your model, Dell has free driver downloads availible.

[zack247]

this wouldn't be a dell, would it? even if it is, try googling "(insert laptop name here) sound drivers", i got the drivers for mine that way. you might just get lucky

[memyselfand1]

no results for Toshiba Portege M300 Synaptics Audio drivers. I got a driver scanner and installer program, so now it works.
on top of that, I was supplied with a new laptop anyway.

[drresearch]

Windows is not so great in my opinion. If you use Linux you would not have almost any problem with drivers. Just to let you know, if, for example, you buy a printer, you don't need to install it, just about plug it in and it will work!

[TheRealDutchOwner]

Ubuntu already failed on me, it won't boot and it gets stuck on a purple screen. Why? It lacks proper graphics card support. Appereantly 1GB DDR3 DX11 Graphics cards do not work in Ubuntu. I've had boot problems with Windows 7 too, but they are fixable with the Windows disc. Ubuntu? Nope.

[Sky Woulf]

because linux does not use device drivers, it is true plug and play. at least the red hat linux 7 was that way.......

[ivaneduardo747]

Linux is great specially on old hardware, where Windows fails miserably because the lack of drivers on the web.

[pfred2]

Not so great on new hardware though. I never got the on board sound for this system to work. I had to throw an old Sound Blaster into it.

[zack247]

dont forget windows NEEDS RAM. lots of it

[GENERALCHAOS]

that soo tru

[memyselfand1]

I agree. I hate Windows. Most of the time I use Mac, but I sometimes use Linux.