I need to get 8 for my iBook G4 because it is a 14 inch model, are they compatible before i purchase?
Price is 10 euros cells + 6.13 euros shipping to my country
edit: im taking this to someone professional to recell it, i do not feel confident working with opening battery packs
Need to make 3 rubber feet for my iBook and sugru is extremely overpriced, what else can i try
last November, i got this iBook G4 14 inch (a Late 2004 model) for €100 off of Marketplace, it was kernel panicking and had 3 keys that wouldn’t want to go in and the “N“ key is disintegrated from use. It included the power adapter (which has some damage on the tip but i will do less aggressive insulation and then do white shrink wrap on top of it and it’ll look like and work like its undamaged) and the original installation DVDs
it’s in remarkably good, near-new condition besides the keycaps though, some are also slightly yellowed so it looks irregular (and the three missing rubber feet also put it down but i’ll fix that just like the keycaps), the kernel panic was the wifi card being shorted and putting down the entire system. I removed it and it runs fine without wifi.
It had 768 MB of DDR1 (256 soldered + 512 expansion), but i had a dead, destroyed clevo with a 1 GB DDR1 stick so i put it in and despite the higher frequency, it works stably. Now it has 1.25 GB of DDR1 (maxed out)
I will order a new aftermarket battery if i find one for under 50 euros shipped (because it’s dead), a donor iBook G4 (to steal the keycaps and wifi card from) and if the donor doesn’t have 3 or 4 rubber feet i will order some sugru to form new ones.
I would order an IDE to mSATA adapter to add an SSD and repaste the thing, but it requires a grueling teardown, and on a near-new laptop it’s just not worth the hassle and potential of breaking something, then i’ll replace it when the HDD fails (which it is S.M.A.R.T Verified) and repaste on the way.
Heard its a uniwill from late 2002 but uncertain, battery still holds a charge and from what i know it has a desktop Pentium 4, only 35 euros
I honestly think its very good, the new aero aesthetic Microsoft made is top notch, it is a bit resource intensive though
This laptop is a model Acer Aspire 5670, I really like it. The webcam rotates 225 degrees and unlike the majority of devices i have in my collection, this has a dedicated graphics card (and this is a good one for 2006 too).
I’m running Windows Vista Ultimate (32-bit) Service Pack 2, fully activated and aero is at its full. All drivers are included too. It is a very nice retro computing laptop, will use it to play old games from the 2000’s once i get it a new battery (as this one is currently flat).
Ironically, it is running so good yet it is a “Vista Capable” laptop from Early 2006, those were infamous to be barely capable, full of lag, several minute boot times, and 1 gig (or sometimes half a gig) of RAM. Mine is maxed out with upgrades besides the CPU (i didn’t manage to upgrade it to a Core 2 Duo so i will likely buy a higher spec Core Duo from AliExpress to avoid some architectural shit) and the battery as said, is flat.
Full specs:
Core Duo T2250
ATI Mobility Radeon X1600
4 GB DDR2-667 (underclocked to 533 MHz due to the CPU having a shitty FSB)
250 GB Crucial MX500 SSD
Upgraded WiFi Card (Intel 4965AGN from a wrecked toshiba satellite A200)
I repasted everything too and changed the CMOS battery (well, i didn‘t change it but rather, the legend of a previous owner changed the CMOS battery socket location to the bottom door and replaced it before i traded some junk for this 5670), so the thermals and BIOS settings are both sorted too.
Actually in this case, Windows 7 was the unstable one, as the GPU drivers did not want to install at all, so it was shitty and stretched.
Hello
I have an Acer Aspire 5670 laptop, very good working laptop just the battery is dead, but one issue. When i put in my Core 2 Duo T5600 instead of the original Core Duo T2250, it POSTs boots into the BIOS just fine you can see all the settings and stuff, yet once you try to boot into the OS it just gives me a backlit yet black screen. No Windows logo no nothing.
Specifications:
Intel Core Duo T2250 (trying to upgrade to C2D T5600)
ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 128 MB (this is a rare variant as the normal ones came with an X1400) (if you’re wondering i saw ”X1600” etched onto the chip)
4 GB DDR2-667 SODIMM
240 GB HDD (verified) (will upgrade to Crucial MX500 250 GB SSD soon)
Intel 4965AGN WiFi card (upgraded from 3945ABG)
BIOS v1.323
What do i need to do? Do i need to upgrade BIOS reset CMOS (CMOS battery seems to have been replaced by previous owner) or anything else? Lmk.
I already have a Dell Inspiron 1545 the motherboard works yet the keyboard is broken, and i might be getting a 1750 with a bad motherboard, now the 1545 and 1750 motherboards i heard are the same, just one thing. The keyboard has a numpad on the 1750 but the 1545 keyboard does not.
Now, if i had to do the swap, will the numpad work? Will it not work and will i have to reflash the BIOS? Or will it brick with the 1750 BIOS too?
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Hello, i found a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo L1300 for €20, it has this issue where if i boot it up the fans spin and sometimes it stops after a bit and sometimes it goes indefinitely until i either pull the plug or force shut down.
I know the motherboard is (likely) fine because it POSTed one time when i was with the seller testing it. When it turned on I got greeted with a CMOS Checksum Error (which means the CMOS is dead) then a “no bootable CD found” when pressing the HDD in the menu (likely means OS was erased),
I suspect the CMOS had garbled data, it managed to get fixed then it got severe gibberish data in the temporary CMOS chip and now refuses to boot. Could there be another issue? Thanks
Hello, i found a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo L1300 for €20, it has this issue where if i boot it up the fans spin and sometimes it stops after a bit and sometimes it goes indefinitely until i either pull the plug or force shut down.
I know the motherboard is (likely) fine because it POSTed one time when i was with the seller testing it. When it turned on I got greeted with a CMOS Checksum Error (which means the CMOS is dead) then a “no bootable CD found” when pressing the HDD in the menu (likely means OS was erased),
I suspect the CMOS had garbled data, it managed to get fixed then it got severe gibberish data in the temporary CMOS chip and now refuses to boot. Could there be another issue? Thanks
my macbook air m2 has 8 gb of ram and i wonder how good it runs, do i install it or stay on tahoe?
found this on marketplace for 20 euros as a collector, no battery and whatever this is but the seller said it works, model fujitsu amilo l1400 (around 2004)
it is a laptop from e waste some hp convertible from 2019 that doesn’t work
It literally is the same size as the keyboard of the 17 inch🙏🙏
Sadly the 12 has short to ground on main power rail, will fix but the 17 inch is fully working😀