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It is meant to prevent shorts with metallic components placed under the board. So no - you should not remove it. Doing so - you may also...
Apr 18, 2024
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It looks like Kapton tape which is a very good electrical insulator. If its there then its probably protecting the board from shorting...
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Hi, I opened up a really old laptop ( Asus X550V ) to clean it and noticed the motherboard has a transparent yellowish thin layer of...
Apr 18, 2024
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I completely disagree. For 40 dollar he basically gets a brand new laptop with a battery/SSD. Reuse before recycle if it is performant...
Apr 17, 2024
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Also - whenever you're considering take a computer in use as a daily driver, I highly recommend testing it using Memtest86+ (normal to...
Apr 16, 2024
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My brother never did any maintenance on it so if the gpu and cpu aren't fried from running too hot over a long period of time i think i...
Apr 16, 2024
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Also have in mind that an old laptop - even if you upgrade with battery+ssd - will cease to work sooner or later. What goes first seems...
Apr 16, 2024
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I finally got the small screwdriver needed to open up the laptop. After opening it up and cleaning out all the gunk, i saw as expected...
Apr 16, 2024
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For what he described needing to do for school it should be plenty. besides like I said 40 dollars to find out is not exactly rolling...
Apr 15, 2024
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Maybe on windows 10 then?
Apr 15, 2024
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Adding to the above, Visual Studio Code experience in that system isn't going to be that great, specially if you're using other...
Apr 15, 2024
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SSDs are cheap these days i can get a 500gb one for 20$. New battery also 20$. A decent new laptop would be about 700$ because if im...
Apr 15, 2024
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Yes I think so as long as it doesn't cost much. Windows 10 would be fine for another couple of years even security...
Apr 15, 2024
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This is where you need to compare the cost of the battery and drive to the cost of a new machine or maybe a newer used machine. Only you...
Apr 15, 2024
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Hi, I need a laptop for University work(small load tasks such as browsing, visual studio code, codeblocks, mathlab). I dont want to...
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