Oh... fudge... a second chance?

[malada]

The young man who sold me the now ruined computer called me back and said he had a second computer that was older and in much worse shape. I told him I'd give him a ten spot for it sight unseen.

It was... in much worse shape. And dirtier too.

Someone had been there before me and looted the hard drive (good move) and all the RAM. Chancing that the motherboard was still good I put some compatible RAM in it, checked the power supply, switched it on and hoped it would boot.

Er.... nope.

However, I noticed it had a CPU that was compatible to the machine I had previously bought. Could it be that the CPU got ruined when it came out from socket? Several of the pins were damaged... so there was nothing to lost by swapping CPUs.

And..... after swapping the CPU into the first machine it booted back up!

WOOT! It's a little slower and takes more power... but it works!

Did I pay too much for the systems? Probably. I got one working one out of the mix so I'm happy and I'm sure the young man who sold me both system appreciated the extra cash before the holidays. I got a few spare parts out of the second one so... it's all good.

But I'm staying off Craigslist for a while.

-m

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[marahmarie]

I have laptops, if you're interested? (Details/price discussions by PM, if you are).