NecroJoe
Stool Chef
- Joined
- Apr 12, 2005
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- San Francisco area, CA, USA
- Car(s)
- 2015 Mazda 3 S GT, 2015 VW e-Golf
So, I just bought a new laptop...what do I do with my old one?
I was originally planning on selling/donating it, but herein lies problems:
I don't want to do that until I have at least gone one step beyond deleting files and emptying the trash. I can't seem to find a system recovery CD...don't even remember if it had one...but in any event, the DVD-ROM drive has stopped showing up anywhere...(My Computer, System/Hardware/Device Manager, etc) so even if I found the recovery disc, it would do me no good.
Add to that, the fact that the battery gets 20 minutes of life on Powersave mode with the screen turned all the way down and wireless turned off, extra touchpad function buttons not working since the first week after I bought it...
It's only got 512mb ram and a 40gb drive (in two 20gb partitions) and a Celeron M 1.6gHz. it's got g wireless and a DVD-Reader/CD-RW combo drive that does spin-up at boot and responds when you put a disc in it...it just doesn't come up at all in the OS.
I know it's not worth much, but it'd be worth even less if I just pulled the hard drive or used one of those clean-wipe programs and tried to get rid of it with no OS disc.
Oh yeah...and one of the fans stopped working about 2 years ago, and it's cooked itself to a blue screen about 2 dozen times in the last couple of years.
Is it worth trying to to anything with it?
Any other ideas?
I was originally planning on selling/donating it, but herein lies problems:
I don't want to do that until I have at least gone one step beyond deleting files and emptying the trash. I can't seem to find a system recovery CD...don't even remember if it had one...but in any event, the DVD-ROM drive has stopped showing up anywhere...(My Computer, System/Hardware/Device Manager, etc) so even if I found the recovery disc, it would do me no good.
Add to that, the fact that the battery gets 20 minutes of life on Powersave mode with the screen turned all the way down and wireless turned off, extra touchpad function buttons not working since the first week after I bought it...
It's only got 512mb ram and a 40gb drive (in two 20gb partitions) and a Celeron M 1.6gHz. it's got g wireless and a DVD-Reader/CD-RW combo drive that does spin-up at boot and responds when you put a disc in it...it just doesn't come up at all in the OS.
I know it's not worth much, but it'd be worth even less if I just pulled the hard drive or used one of those clean-wipe programs and tried to get rid of it with no OS disc.
Oh yeah...and one of the fans stopped working about 2 years ago, and it's cooked itself to a blue screen about 2 dozen times in the last couple of years.
Is it worth trying to to anything with it?
Any other ideas?