so, my dad plopped a laptop on my desk today that has been dead for 3-4 years. Now, i've pulled many a Ghost Rider before and captured the souls of ex-consumer electronic products (the 9 yr old dell i'm typing on is an example with a duct taped wi-fi finder, ghettoblaster soundsystem and no battery
), but this case hurts my head.the AC jack is broken, we've put up posters for power cord, it's missing it's hard drive (which i'll discuss later), and my dad got it from his retired boss in a box(containing my mom's current similarly once dead lappy after being fixed with the vaio's HD, my current lappy and our current wireless home phone system), which mean's we've never seen it working, so there may be more issues. The hard drive contained the bios and all that jazz(more of a hardware guy than a software guy) and i can't retrieve it from my mom's compy
.now, i could make it a picture frame or a tesla turbine, but since it would be a major improvement over this computer, i'm ohwoah! livin' on a prayer *cough* that it could be built better, faster, and stronger. Anyone? bueler? Bueler?
Turns out we chucked the cord a while back. Good news is that we have another ancient power supply with the same voltage. If i can find a donor, i think it will fly.
