Recent content by jombo

I bought an ole Optiplex 360 off Ebay last week for 40.00 it was a pentium dual E5200 with 4 gig ram in it case was nice & clean. I stuck in a c2d E8500 I got for 12.00 off ebay and a 30 gig drive cost me 30.00 and had an old Radeon 5450 laying here. That worked out pretty good and cheap. 3.1ghz...

Well for what it is worth the only thing you are going to hear spinning is either the optical drive or the HDD. And this to me sorta sounds like either you have a cd/dvd in the optical drive that isn't reading correctly (dirty or scratched) a bad drive or the HDD is starting to die. And this...

Boy oh Boy this is an interesting thread. I been building and repairing computers for 20 years here and I never seen ANY prebuilt computer last over a week in my computer room without me redoing parts of it. And I in no way intend to put down any computer brand in my response here. I just simply...

I would say just skip the repair option and do a reinstall. Very seldom do I see a great success in trying an XP repair here. Just my 2 cents. And I seldom use those dang OEM restore disks they put too much crap on during the restore. And 99% of the crap they stick on there is not needed...

Here is the link explaining how to put the data IC from a Dell PSU into the laptop. This would allow you to use any DC input to the power jack. Now this isn't for the model you are concerned with but the fix is most likely the same or very close for your model. I have did this fix a few times...

You know I been searching for weeks for info along this line and I have seen no good clues along the way. My desire is to either build or find an adapter that will plug into the battery slot on old dell 1150's or 5160's any older Dell that uses the same battery as the 1150. I need to use the...