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| 250608 | 2004-07-10 12:05:00 | A whole 2 day guarantee? :^O Sounds about par for the course. | kiki (762) | ||
| 250609 | 2004-07-10 12:58:00 | > I have a theory that those particularly dinky hp > cases are assembled around a stick of ram. Much the > same way as many japanese cars are around assembled > around the stereo. Thats what I thought - until I discovered many of the small HP cases actually allow the backplane complete with motherboard and all connections to swing out the side, by removing some less than obvious screws. It makes access better than many full size cases once the discovery is made, but its not even obvious that it can be done. Screws are under the side panel and on the rear, the entire PCI card cage swings as well. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 250610 | 2004-07-10 13:21:00 | Breaking a tiny case into 3 items and removing the panel the motherboard and pci cards are atteched to gives easier accesss then many full size cases? Bullocks to that,you just had to disasemble the entire case/computer to get that acces,I have never yet seen a full size case that requires such work,Perhaps one should time themselves doing the job,No full size case takes more then a few seconds to add a stick of ram. |
metla (154) | ||
| 250611 | 2004-07-10 22:00:00 | I found the greatest case ever made yesterday (if you could call it a case) how many of you remember the Gateway Neo? (or Astro as it was known in America). For all those who try to block out bad memories i'll refresh your memory, it was Gateway's blatant rip off of the original iMac. It had the monitor and the pc integrated into one tacky beige shell. My girlfriend was given one of these by her grandmother for her university studies. Being the ubber beast that it was (400MHz celeron, 64Mb SD-RAM) i decided it could do with a lil more ram so i grabbed my handy dandy screw driver and took to the beast. After half an hour of studying it and trying to find the screws i finally had the shell loose. Unsure what to expect i slowly lifted the top off, quickly realizing the entire monitor was coming free. To cut a long story short the motherboard only had one DIMM, im glad it only had one DIMM because it would have been a huge mission trying to add another stick of ram. Everything was bolted in and neatly tucked into the corners. There was just no free space at all im surprised the CPU wasn't overheating. Then there can my most nerve racking experience ever when working on PC's, even more nerve racking than mounting my first CPU. The motherboard was connected to the monitor by a small PCB board that stuck up off the motherboard and slid into a slot on the monitor. Move the monitor too far to the right snap goes the card and no more Neo. All you tech out there, if anybody comes into your store wanting you to upgrade their Neo just run for the hills. But then again what do you expect from a PC that only has USB ports, no audio, no video no parallel or serial ports, oh but it does have a built in modem. P.S if theres anyone out there with a socket 370 mobo they would like to sell for a fair price send me a email |
Pete O'Neil (250) | ||
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