Recent content by Mohonri

Oh, goodness, thanks for bringing up those painful memories. Of course, nowadays it's still not completely smooth--I still have to reboot the cable modem if I switch out the router.

I have a pair of 4GB DDR3 sticks, if that'd be sufficient.

Yes, it does, and for an extra few bucks (because it'll take a bigger box), I can include the PSU that came with the computer. These parts are from the wonderful times when all the big PC manufacturers used standardized parts!

Fair enough. I have a CPU/Mobo/RAM combo up for grabs. It's a working pull from an old HP tower (I wanted the case). i3-3240, 8GB RAM, rear I/O plate included. $15 shipped

Any chance you could clean up that area with a q-tip dipped in alcohol and post another pic? How big are those traces? I could make an attempt at repairing those--I do a fair amount of smallish SMD soldering at work, so I might stand a chance.

Yes, standard ATX power

I have a Dell Optiplex 790 motherboard with an i3-2105 and 6GB of RAM that I'm trying to get rid of. Anyone want it for the price of shipping? The front panel and fan headers are non-standard, but I'll include adapters for them. EDIT: Claimed!

Fortunately, the games played most in our house are Starcraft 2, Minecraft, TF2, and Kerbal Space Program, so I haven't been suffering terribly. Amazingly, the Windows 7 installation on that computer is probably 7-8 years old by now.

Man, I've fallen behind the times--my rig at home is running an i5-3570. Next year, though, I'll finally get around to building a new one!

LOL I just decommissioned our old HTPC, and all it has is a i3-2105, so I'm not much help, sorry :D

I totally get the reason for the plastic. I just think it's silly that the industry has standardized on something that is mostly useless.

The case is amenable to that idea--it has a pair of 80mm intake fans, and I can blank off other areas to steer airflow where I need it. I took a closer look at the 120mm intake fan on the current PSU, and was a bit annoyed to find that over 50% of it is blocked by a plastic sheet, so that the...

I suppose I could stick a server PSU in there, but the chassis is designed for an ATX PSU.

The title just about says it. I need a PSU that has an 80mm fan in the front or the back, like in ye olden days, rather than on the large side. It's going in a 2U chassis, and I don't know yet whether it'll have space on top for an intake, so I'm trying to moot that question entirely. The...

Are you sure the windings are burned out, or could it be a thermal fuse blowing? I ask, because I've repaired multiple fans with burned thermal fuses, it's a fairly straightforward repair (and you can replace the one-shot fuse with a resettable fuse), and you are clearly somewhat handy...