- Apr 7, 2018
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Hello! I'm a bit new to this site, so, go easy on me
4/7/18 8:12 PM
Recently, I dug up my one year old or so, HP Stream notebook. i had plans for turning it into a NAS, as, it's quite under powered, and can't really run anything except internet browsing, and video playback. It's running windows 10, by the way. A few months ago, maybe in January or so, i cracked it open to look around at the parts, as i really didn't know much about laptops. i'm more of a desktop kind of guy. The problem was, is that whenever i tried to boot up the machine, it would get stuck in an endless cycle of the loading ring, or, whenever i attempted to hard reset it, it simply got stuck at 70%, every single time. and, i decided that i didn't feel like putting any more cash into it, i got my fair share of use out of it, and i would open it up, maybe gut it (which, i didn't) and put it away. Until now, when, i found an old external hard drive that my parents didn't want anymore, i wiped it clean on a new machine, and downloaded, uh, a lot of anime onto. And i figured, since my router doesn't have any USB ports, and i didn't feel like getting an adapter, i could use my old HP. (bare in mind, i hadn't remembered that it was relatively broken) and pressed the power button. No dice. i figured that i should just plug it in, charge it for a bit, and then use it. once the light finally turned solid white, i clicked the button. No dice. The power button doesn't show any light, at all, so i figured that maybe, just maybe, when i opened up the machine a few months ago, i left out a ribbon cable or something. i open it up, and everything is plugged in, and no, i wasn't gentle the first time, i was ignorant. and the second time, i forgot to undo a few screws, so now, the keyboard piece doesn't fit on nicely, whatever, though. So, i kept it plugged in, and assumed the screen was broken, and so was the power button LED. I plugged it in to a TV with an HDMI cable, flicked thru ALL of the inputs, and nothing happened. So, quite honestly, i don't know what to do. And whilst i could spend like, 13 dollars, and just hook up my external HDD to my router, the only thing i could find was 13.69 USD. Which, is approximately 1 volume of manga, or maybe 2 books from Barnes and noble. And, i could get that today, simply buy picking it up at my local wal-mart. Though, there was a 3.69$ adapter, but that's 2 week shipping. And it isn't available on amazon, so, i can't abuse my 2 day shipping. And with it directly corresponding to my laptop, i can download more anime and movies on it in minutes, (and wait forever to download). If you guys need pictures, HMU. Model numbers, etc, i got it. Any help is appreciated. I'm lost here. So, i look forward to figuring this out.
_- Grandeur Trash -_
4/7/18 8:12 PM
Recently, I dug up my one year old or so, HP Stream notebook. i had plans for turning it into a NAS, as, it's quite under powered, and can't really run anything except internet browsing, and video playback. It's running windows 10, by the way. A few months ago, maybe in January or so, i cracked it open to look around at the parts, as i really didn't know much about laptops. i'm more of a desktop kind of guy. The problem was, is that whenever i tried to boot up the machine, it would get stuck in an endless cycle of the loading ring, or, whenever i attempted to hard reset it, it simply got stuck at 70%, every single time. and, i decided that i didn't feel like putting any more cash into it, i got my fair share of use out of it, and i would open it up, maybe gut it (which, i didn't) and put it away. Until now, when, i found an old external hard drive that my parents didn't want anymore, i wiped it clean on a new machine, and downloaded, uh, a lot of anime onto. And i figured, since my router doesn't have any USB ports, and i didn't feel like getting an adapter, i could use my old HP. (bare in mind, i hadn't remembered that it was relatively broken) and pressed the power button. No dice. i figured that i should just plug it in, charge it for a bit, and then use it. once the light finally turned solid white, i clicked the button. No dice. The power button doesn't show any light, at all, so i figured that maybe, just maybe, when i opened up the machine a few months ago, i left out a ribbon cable or something. i open it up, and everything is plugged in, and no, i wasn't gentle the first time, i was ignorant. and the second time, i forgot to undo a few screws, so now, the keyboard piece doesn't fit on nicely, whatever, though. So, i kept it plugged in, and assumed the screen was broken, and so was the power button LED. I plugged it in to a TV with an HDMI cable, flicked thru ALL of the inputs, and nothing happened. So, quite honestly, i don't know what to do. And whilst i could spend like, 13 dollars, and just hook up my external HDD to my router, the only thing i could find was 13.69 USD. Which, is approximately 1 volume of manga, or maybe 2 books from Barnes and noble. And, i could get that today, simply buy picking it up at my local wal-mart. Though, there was a 3.69$ adapter, but that's 2 week shipping. And it isn't available on amazon, so, i can't abuse my 2 day shipping. And with it directly corresponding to my laptop, i can download more anime and movies on it in minutes, (and wait forever to download). If you guys need pictures, HMU. Model numbers, etc, i got it. Any help is appreciated. I'm lost here. So, i look forward to figuring this out.
_- Grandeur Trash -_
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