u/Pk_Shayton

Hello, sort-of-newbie here.

I've been thinking on making my own home server for the sake of learning and having a hobbie, but I didn't want to spend what would be to me a lot of money just to try something I don't know if would end up working good. Long story short, I found an old laptop from my brother that's long been abandoned, and it's completely disassembled. I figured out I could use it, but there is a problem: I have no clue how to do this things. I've done mostly software stuff, so messing around with hardware is something kind of unknown to me. For what I can see, it has no RAM, no HDD or SSD, no power cable, no screen... so literally just a PCB with lots of soldered components I don't understand.

I uploaded 2 pics of the mother board and I think the next steps would be:

Get a RAM
Get an HDD
Plug with USB-C
See if charger LED turns on

So why I am making this post? Because, as I already stated,

>I've done mostly software stuff, so messing around with hardware is something kind of unknown to me.

I'd like some tips to test and troubleshoot this, or to know if I'm in the right or wrong direction. My budget atm is as little as it can get (I'll try to find some components in my house, if not I was thinking on buying an old used and probably broken laptop to test it). I don't say any price in US dollars because I'm not from the US and values are incredibly different from place to place, so what you can get for $100 I might get for $500. If this is a problem (I know the rules state I must give a budget) I can give some approximations.

If everything goes well, you can think of this as my first post of multiple on this topic. If this goes wrong, someday I'll come back, but not so soon.

Anyways, thanks for reading and helping. Hope I can get somewhere with this.

Díganme loco si quieren, la verdad que no me importa mucho. No soy muy de postear, y menos estas boludeces, pero tipo 3 menos 20 empiezo a escuchar un ruido raro afuera, como cuando corre zonda, solo que claramente no es zonda. De repente empiezo a sentir maullidos de gatos en la calle, pero pareciera que los gatos GRITAN. Posta que maullaban muy fuerte. Al mismo tiempo o apenas un poco después un par de perros se suman ladrando. Siento como si fuera ruido de motores de avión, ponele, pero se que no son de aviones porque vivo cerca del aeropuerto y estoy acostumbrado (de hecho yo, al principio pensé que era un avión llegando).

No sé, fue una secuencia re loca. Ustedes han sentido algo parecido? O si son de Guaymallén o Las Heras (la zona de la rotonda del avión), lo escucharon al ruido?

Edit: Cabe aclarar que me asomé por un par de ventanas en mi casa y no vi nada.

Test and troubleshoot an old laptop MoBo?

Ruidos raros en la noche?