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OK, built my Dad a nice computer for Christmas (far better than his Phenom II x4 Dell). Specs -- i3-3220 skt1155 + ASUS Maximus V Gene 12gb RAM 2tb HDD Quadro FX570 Win7 I threw the Quadro in there for a few reasons -- (1) it was cheap and I needed something I could pay for (2) I've...

DID IT MYSELF :D (see last post for details) I have a friend who is rather poor. (Like me.) Their computer is a 775 P4 Dell and its functionality would best be described as 'barely limping along'. It's not /quite/ dead but it's pretty damned close... I want to put together a system for her...

This thread is both a regular FS thread and a sort of feeler. Mom and I have a TON of books, mostly her old legal thrillers. I'd like to see how well [H] likes hardcopy novels before heading to that famous online bookstore named after everyone's favorite rainforest :p If these few books that...

I'm planning out an SFF mod using a Pico-ITX board a friend got me for Christmas a year or two ago. Whoo. (In related news, I hate Poulsbo. I'm a Linux guy, so it's warranted...) I want to, as part of the mod, paint some of the light-grey cables for the mobo to be flat black. I can afford and...

I have a Pitney Bowes G799 scale. It looks just like this -- [image liberally stolen from fleaBay, re-upped elsewhere] Unfortunately my scale is broken inside. I know what's wrong but I need help fixing it. That's where you come in, [H]! The guts consist largely of two circuit boards...

Hello... I have a Fujitsu Siemens Futro S400 thin client. Got it off a fellow [H]ere, don't remember who (no offense meant -- my brain needs a RAM upgrade, lol!). I'm trying to reform it into being a proper, if somewhat low-power, desktop system. I've got a hard drive in it (running XP...

Info on Clothesline Racers --> http://www.richardvannoy.info/clothesline-racers.php I found out about it from Make: Mag. Very cool stuff... a lot more potential for fun times in a good way, IMO, than you'll ever get from eg NASCAR. Besides, you get to build the racers here, rather than just...

Making an electronic puzzle as a birthday present for a friend who is not on [H] ;) I have a "reed switch" (I use that term loosely, it's not even encapsulated) from a Dollar Tree window alarm. I can trigger it if I get a hard drive voice-coil magnet real real close -- but I need to trigger...

FOUND!! Thanks, [H]! I need either 12gb or 16gb DDR3. It's for a build for my father for Christmas (he's not on here)... he's a graphic artist and not a gamer, so KVR type stuff is fine here. Basically if Memtest likes it, I like it. I can pay $60 Paypal, or I can trade the laptop that's...

My father gave me a Viewsonic TV -- it's an N2630w, aka VS11749-1M; it's from 2007 -- to try and fix a few months ago. Some capacitors in the PSU went splat. Replaced them and got a blinking red light, so I just ignored it for a while, figuring it was over my head. Pulled it back out earlier...

SOLD on another forum. Per thread title, I have an upgraded Acer Aspire 5532 laptop for sale. I'm asking $85 + shipping. (I think that's reasonable, but if you disagree, shoot me an offer.) I take Paypal or (please PM me first!) USPS Money Orders, and I ship to the Continental US. My...

BOTH SOLD, THANKS [H]!! I have two iPod Shuffles. 1gb capacity, 2nd generation. *shrugs* I like the look and don't need to carry my entire music collection with me everywhere I go. Both of these iPods work AFAIK -- but I can't use them because my OS (Puppy Linux) has a driver conflict between...

Got a battery this morning, for something I'm doing. (It arrived from eBay.) It's a 12v 4.5aH SLA. Not to big, although it's heavier than I'd like. (That one's my fault, so oh well.) I don't deal with these types of batteries much, but the last one I bought (which was for a UPS) came with...

NOTHING SOLD AT ALL. My birthday did not go as well as I'd hoped -- thanks, in part, to everyone [H]ere who looked and didn't even make an offer. I had some good stuff here. One person asked about one thing, and that was it. Off it goes to the local thrift stores and eWaste bins. I'm sad now :(...

...for soldering practice and for fun (I'm weird). It works OK. It's loud and it's a little buzzy (boo) but it does make noise so I did *something* right :p Based on an insanely simple LM386-and-a-single-big-cap circuit I found on Google somewhere. Only real mod I made was to add a 100nF...

I am the recent recipient of a PicoPSU-120, courtesy of a VERY generous fellow [H]er. I have a compatible power brick, but it is only rated 12v 8a (~96w). I would derate that somewhat, because it is from eBay and does not have a manufacturer's name spelled out on it that I can find... (it was...

Bought this recently --> http://www.ebay.com/itm/201004070756 It has a built in speaker. That's the main reason I bought it -- I wanted to see how they did that, along with how it's controlled (etc). The sound is tinny and a bit buzzy. Probably can't do much for the buzz (internal amp chip is...

A local friend of mine (who runs the tech shop in town) recently gave me a used ASUS Essentio CS5111. It had been determined that the system's board was toast, although I want to give it a second chance before I use the case for something else. It's a 775 box and from what I gather it can do...

So recently I was given a used San Ace 120 fan, model 9GH1212M405. I'm told it came out of a VAIO desktop... I saw the heatsink it was previously attached to, a monster in my eyes (a quite large --to me-- tower sort of thing, with four heatpipes coming out of a -\_/- shaped aluminum block, with...

So I have a small hanging fixture in my front hall; Mom and I call it "the chandelier" which is a bit grand, but whatever. It's about seven or eight feet off the ground and it likes to kill a bulb about once a month (or so), which is ridiculous IMO. Probably has to do with the fact that the...

So I have a random 92mm fan that someone gave me, hooked up to a random wall wart from god-only-knows-where as a sort of a desk fan. Power switch is from an AT system. LOL. Wall wart is a "Hon Kwang" DC12-50, rated 12v 500mA output. Fan is a SproFan SJ-92X12A, rated 12v 150mA input. After...

NO LONGER AVAILABLE [H]ERE. [READ ME FIRST] This is the important stuff! Paypal strongly preferred; USPS MO under special circumstances (PM me!) Please do not send PP Gift (now "to friends or family") to me. This is against Forum Rules as well as Paypal's TOS, for good reasons. I can eat...

I have a tested, working 1156 i3-530. I also have an 1156 i5-750 CPU but I'm not sure it works (I sent it to a fellow on [H]ere -- then they sent it back -- we are both not sure whether it was a bad CPU or a compatibility issue). I also have $45.00 in Paypal. The i3 is in a system that I'm...

Recently did a rebuild of a system -- mostly the case, guts are largely the same -- because of, oddly enough, hard drive failure. Of course it's my mother's setup... she's not exactly a tech genius (well, neither am I :p but I'm well ahead of her, by mutual agreement) so I want to make sure that...

I've got this neat idea for a project that needs a quartet of 8ohm coils within it -- not as part of speakers, though. Since 8ohm coils on eBay are ridiculously large and expensive compared to what I'm looking for, I had the idea to buy this lot of four mylar speakers and get the coils out...

Thinking about building something again... as with most of my ideas this will probably go absolutely nowhere at all :rolleyes: I have a drill that I want to rig up as a combination handheld router/mill device and a drill press. It's a cheapish Black&Decker job with a wall cord. I'm picturing...

Put my other FS thread on hold to comply with the rules. This is more important. Heat: laserhawk64 Really old Heat: starhawk ...a note about that -- the second account is actually an accident. PM me if you want the details, but basically I left [H] for a while, awhile back, for personal...

Hey folks -- having a problem with my heat pump. I'll get into what I've done and what it's doing (that my meddling hasn't solved) if necessary, but I'm pretty sure I know what the problem is at this point -- a thing called the "blower interlock relay". (FWIW, it's all wires and spade connectors...

TAKING DOWN FOR NOW, SEE LAST POST IN THREAD. I have a very strange motherboard that's also a bit old... but it works if you don't mind it being somewhat underpowered. Maybe good for a low-end Linux router or something? I dunno. It's a little anemic for me to find it useful as a general...

SOLD Got this awhile back, from a fellow [H]er who I believe never touched it, to make a super-energy-efficient Linux box... only to find out that it had no MicroSD slot :( and I pretty much stopped there. It's been largely unused since (though I did turn it on once to verify that it...

SOLD --PENDING PAYMENT-- TO STINGER608. Got this like YEARS ago for a project that got abandoned shortly thereafter. WinXP Home Edition Service Pack 2 (not SP3) Upgrade (only from Win98, Win98SE, or WinME) This is the retail version, box and all. It's been opened but I don't think...

So I go to https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmAction!input.action and input a tracking number... and I consistently get It's been like that since at least halfway through last week. Is anyone else having this issue, or is it time for me to clean out Chrome's cookie jar again...?

Bought a switch at Radio Shack. RS Cat # 275-0015 on the bag. Switch is actually a Shin Chin R13-268, "datasheet" page here --> http://www.sci.com.tw/PRODUCTS/switch/(R13)%20ROCKER%20SWITCH/R13-268.htm Rating, per page above and markings on the switch, is 16a 125vac / 10a 250vac. I'll...

Someone on eBay "liberated" an ASUS M2N61-AR board out of something small and HP. That board is now on its way to me. (I'm aware of the funky power supply connector -- my adapter cable has already arrived.) Here's HP's essentially vestigial specs page for that board -->...

This isn't a question so much as an answer (for once). I've known for a long time that Dell fans had an internal speed control, based primarily off a green or blue blob (almost certainly a cheap thermistor) that's in the airflow of every single Dell fan since basically Day One. I've never...

Just threw together a quick custom build for a friend. It's a basic email setup, please don't tell me to upgrade everything... they don't need it and I'm trying to use up spare parts. Specs -- Antec 380w PSU (known good) ASUS (by which I mean HP ;) ) A8AE-LE motherboard skt939 Athlon 64...

Paypal and USPS Money Orders only. Prices (and combo savings percentages) do NOT include shipping. I ship USPS only, to US and Canada (WARNING: Canada, you are expensive to ship to!) Heat is under laserhawk64. PM me with questions, photo requests, and offers, or to arrange local pickup. My ZIP...

Just building my first close-to-modern system (well, it's modern for me ;) skt1156)... I have two chips I can use, and two coolers. One chip is an i3-530, currently in the system. The other is an i5-750. One cooler is the stock for the i3-530 and is currently in the system. The...

So I've got a thin client I'm modding into a desktop. The only showy bits are some new paint and a decal. I know how I want to do the decal (it's a little ghetto but it'll work) -- but the paint job is a fiasco (and I'm being very kind). I need to turn this from debacle to delightful, and...

Yep. Starhawk's got another goofy project in his head. This time I'd like to make a doorbell. I've got an old telephone bell (from a rotary phone, specifically an ITT clone of the Western Bell Model 500). I'd like the mailman (or whomever happens to wander by) to be able to push a button and...