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re: Dad asked me to repair brother's computer, "It doesn't work."
Posted on 10/4/14 at 1:39 pm to TigerMyth36
Posted on 10/4/14 at 1:39 pm to TigerMyth36
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Would it boot in safe mode?
Maybe, but I'd have to find a VGA cable to connect to a spare monitor to navigate around since the panel is destroyed.
I looked at some of the internals today, and I'm guessing this laptop is about 10-11 years old. 512MB DDR 333MHz, IDE hard drive, legacy serial and parallel ports, single core Celeron M... My dad I could try to sell the parts, but this shite is so worthless that I've practically lost money just by taking a few minutes to look inside of the laptop. The memory is expandable to a gig, but what's the point? I'm guessing that my brother was so desperate to make this thing go faster that he googled "speed up my PC" and just downloaded everything.
I'll probably recommend that my dad get a 256gb SSD and a $299 cheapo notebook from best buy, and then I'll lock UAC down as much as possible.
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I would actually have fun seeing if I could get all of that crap off.
There's no way I'd have the patience to perform any scans or uninstallations on that hard drive.
This post was edited on 10/4/14 at 1:42 pm
Posted on 10/4/14 at 3:43 pm to ILikeLSUToo
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There's no way I'd have the patience to perform any scans or uninstallations on that hard drive.
Well, since the system is so old there wouldn't be a point to it.
I don't need much patience. I just set it up near my tri-monitor setup and just look over every couple of hours to see if it is done.
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One thing I love about SSDs is that virus and malware scans are so damn fast now.
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