I have a Dell Latitude D600. The daughter board is bad making the power button inoperable. I re-soldered it but the junction is so small it was a real pain and the joint broke again after a while of repair. I got some new precision tips. Have to tin them, do a job on my guitar and then fix that Dell Latitude D600 daughter board again. Your post is what inspired me.
What PC do you use for Windows XP?
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I have a Dell Latitude D600. The daughter board is bad making the power button inoperable. I re-soldered it but the junction is so small it was a real pain and the joint broke again after a while of repair. I got some new precision tips. Have to tin them, do a job on my guitar and then fix that Dell Latitude D600 daughter board again. Your post is what inspired me.
Glad I inspired you to fix it up, I'd say go for it, the D600 is a great Windows XP Laptop.
How's the Latitude D600 Repair?
Nice job making custom XP builds. Also, once you get your D600 working, the HDD is ok for now, but the RAM should be upgraded to 2GB. It makes a great XP laptop.Man I've been swamped. In the middle of doing a custom XP for a friend. Thanks fro the reminder.
I have a Toshiba Satellite P-25 which was out 2002-3 pretty much mint except for blown deck speakers... 3 fans with a heavy power supply & thick cord not made like that anymore, yup, single-core but speedy 2.85 GHZ which was insane for the time, 11-12 pounds you could easily kill someone if used as a weapon... Only 32 MB video RAM though with one of those nVidia 5200 GO graphics so poor for 3D but great for audio creation big 17 inch screen...
Finding a place where I can use it regular, I'd like to see how long it will last... Probably will last longer than a new machine somebody buys TODAY as new crap is throw-away... Maybe it might last 30-40 years...
That D600 for 10 bucks was a sweet deal... I have a D820 & a D830 & a D400... I got the D400 in 2013 for 20 bucks, still works great just has an arrow key missing...
Finding a place where I can use it regular, I'd like to see how long it will last... Probably will last longer than a new machine somebody buys TODAY as new crap is throw-away... Maybe it might last 30-40 years...
That D600 for 10 bucks was a sweet deal... I have a D820 & a D830 & a D400... I got the D400 in 2013 for 20 bucks, still works great just has an arrow key missing...
Nice laptops! The D600 also has 32MB of VRAM
I did it again! I got an HP Compaq D530 SFF for $15 at the thrift store, everything was there but an hdd, so I put one in and used the "HP Restore Plus!" Images for this PC on the archive to get OEM Windows XP.
Specs:
CPU - Intel Pentium 4 (3GHz) Socket 478
RAM - 512MB (Dual Channel) DDR1
HDD - 1TB Seagate SATA HDD I had sitting around
OS - Windows XP Professional (HP OEM)
Specs:
CPU - Intel Pentium 4 (3GHz) Socket 478
RAM - 512MB (Dual Channel) DDR1
HDD - 1TB Seagate SATA HDD I had sitting around
OS - Windows XP Professional (HP OEM)
Just come across images for when I rendered out a terragen scene in old D400... It was faster than I had thought at 5 hours 59 minutes & 9 seconds in the D400 using terragen 3.4.0.0 32bits of course... Goes to show that terragen don't give a damn about GPU as D400 only got 64 MB vid RAM & this terragen build is from like 2015 or so-
The render-
'Extreme Graphics' yea...SURE!
Here's shot from inside D400 in terragen-
The render-
'Extreme Graphics' yea...SURE!
Here's shot from inside D400 in terragen-
Update: My HP Compaq D530 has bad caps now, I need to get a soldering iron or maybe a repair shop can do it, but I will get this PC fixed.