- Joined
- Nov 16, 2007
- Location
- Twin Cities MN
To day while on campus getting ready for the next term to start on Thursday; I was Snooping around the campus technology area. I have often dug through their computer scrap bin. Until to day the most useful (working) things I have found have been case parts and fans and a few pathetic speakers.
Well today they had a complete computer case (still with the security padlock on it). Well knowing that the tech department sells all working computers I figured that this one had to be dead - but figured I could scavenge the heat sinks and fans at worst.
Once I started to remove the very LCD monitors that was on it I realized why this computer was abandoned. the entire case was covered in spilled ink...
I cleaned the ink off the best i could there at school and brought the computer home - where I proceeded to clean the case with copious amounts of Isopropyl Alcohol. Thankfully the insides were untouched by the ink
Well long story short.
The computer works.
What I got was this:
decent Micro ATX case,
CD/RW drive
Sparkle PSU (will replace at first chance)
Seagate 40gb HDD
512MB (2x 256) DDR333 ram
A Shuttle MN31N Micro ATX motherboard. http://eu.shuttle.com/archive/en/mn31n.htm
With an AMD Athlon XP 2500+ CPU
I am decently surprised by what I found. Did I make a good find?
As I am typing this I am installing XP on it .....
Well today they had a complete computer case (still with the security padlock on it). Well knowing that the tech department sells all working computers I figured that this one had to be dead - but figured I could scavenge the heat sinks and fans at worst.
Once I started to remove the very LCD monitors that was on it I realized why this computer was abandoned. the entire case was covered in spilled ink...
I cleaned the ink off the best i could there at school and brought the computer home - where I proceeded to clean the case with copious amounts of Isopropyl Alcohol. Thankfully the insides were untouched by the ink
Well long story short.
The computer works.
What I got was this:
decent Micro ATX case,
CD/RW drive
Sparkle PSU (will replace at first chance)
Seagate 40gb HDD
512MB (2x 256) DDR333 ram
A Shuttle MN31N Micro ATX motherboard. http://eu.shuttle.com/archive/en/mn31n.htm
With an AMD Athlon XP 2500+ CPU
I am decently surprised by what I found. Did I make a good find?
As I am typing this I am installing XP on it .....