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Poofy emachines
One of my wife's friends gave me this one. It's almost like my birthday all over again. 
It was a T2341 that decided to go up in smoke. The power supply is dead and several capacitors on the motherboard are bulging.
I managed to salvage a few things from it that I will try later this evening:
- 640MB of DDR memory (too bad my PCs are currently SDRAM)
- Athlon 2300 processor
- HP DVD+RW burner
- fan from the power supply
- WinTV tuner card
- 56k modem
- XP Home COA
A bag of parts came with it with the following:
- 4 sticks of RIMM memory (2x64MB, 2x128MB)
- USB2 PCCard for laptops
- GeForce2MX AGP video card with 32MB memory
- GE Wireless keyboard with receiver (wireless mouse is missing, corroded batteries)
- Emachines scroll mouse
- microphone
It was a T2341 that decided to go up in smoke. The power supply is dead and several capacitors on the motherboard are bulging.
I managed to salvage a few things from it that I will try later this evening:
- 640MB of DDR memory (too bad my PCs are currently SDRAM)
- Athlon 2300 processor
- HP DVD+RW burner
- fan from the power supply
- WinTV tuner card
- 56k modem
- XP Home COA
A bag of parts came with it with the following:
- 4 sticks of RIMM memory (2x64MB, 2x128MB)
- USB2 PCCard for laptops
- GeForce2MX AGP video card with 32MB memory
- GE Wireless keyboard with receiver (wireless mouse is missing, corroded batteries)
- Emachines scroll mouse
- microphone
Processor works - it was an AthlonXP 2400+
good stuff, it's always nice to have extra parts around.
Sounds like a good load.
The processor gave me a nice speed boost over the Duron 1300 that was in my PC.
The DVD burner from that stash of parts does not burn DVDs. Rats.
EDIT - it burns CDs at a blazing 12x and will read DVDs. A little better...
The DVD burner from that stash of parts does not burn DVDs. Rats.
EDIT - it burns CDs at a blazing 12x and will read DVDs. A little better...
Ah I know what "poofy" means now. I had a PSU go poof, not fun. It was a bang, little shrapnel came out the fan exhaust, and there was a BSOD for one second before power went out.
It has quite a different meaning here...
I think I know your meaning from all of the Monty Python I used to watch.
And I have no clue.