Ok managed to fire the little beasts up last night. The 160 boots but the screen is screwed - it starts off OK and then either goes white (to the point of not being able to see anything) or decides to go totally yellow. Could just be a cabling issue, could be something nastier but a complete strip down is probably the order of the day.
The 150, despite having a totally destroyed pair of screen hinges and screen bezel, is working perfectly...except for the hard drive having a nice 'whirr-click, whirr-click' soundtrack and refusing to boot (hardly surprising given a trashed HD). Screen looks bright and crisp so when I take the 160 apart, I'll swap the HD over and see what's what.
Should have enough to get one machine out of these two (don't worry, I'll resist the urge to swap motherboards or anything that could result in the 'smell of death'
)
The 150, despite having a totally destroyed pair of screen hinges and screen bezel, is working perfectly...except for the hard drive having a nice 'whirr-click, whirr-click' soundtrack and refusing to boot (hardly surprising given a trashed HD). Screen looks bright and crisp so when I take the 160 apart, I'll swap the HD over and see what's what.
Should have enough to get one machine out of these two (don't worry, I'll resist the urge to swap motherboards or anything that could result in the 'smell of death'
)