Can This Dumpster Find Laptop Be Fixed? 

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@@ahoj113 Hello there!

@@psivewri My newest laptop which is the one I am using is a Dell Latitude e6510!

Random question, But what software do you use for your Minecraft server? I'm thinking of taking an old desktop making my own Minecraft server.

@@leerenong0813 will do perfectly, its only a friend server, thanks!

ikr alot of electronics gets thrown out fully functional even sometimes brand new

Unfortunately alot but i do my part of saving them cleaning up interior fans, thermal pasting , replacement ssd and just sale them for the much i spend sometimes for free . Family owned dumpster rental

I actually got my computer out of a dumpster

@@yeminine348 i got my pc case from dumpster

I work at e-waste and its really sad how much working stuff comes in. Sometimes businesses will drop off truckloads of old computers and laptops that have no problems at all. They are just throw out because they are old

can i use rubbing alcohol instead of isopropyl to clean a pc?

@@captainjimo it’s usually the same thing. Sometimes it’s ethanol instead which is also fine. Rarely it’s methanol which is stronger but should also be fine if you use less. They will usually list what the actual chemicals are somewhere on the bottle.

@@kaitlyn__L thanks for the answer. I was starting to wonder if my bottles of ethanol could have been a wrong type of cleaner to use on electronics

@@Shiroi0moi the only thing to be wary of is isopropyl makes clear acrylic cloudy if it’s left to evaporate on it; not sure if ethanol is the same or not. But most computer equipment is made of ABS or PBT. Even the rarer items like Apple’s use of polycarbonate in the 00s is fine. It’s just acrylic (in my experience anyway) which gets discoloured due to some molecular reason. The only time I’ve seen it come up in restoration videos is a tape deck with a rare-ish acrylic window, which got a cloudy patch on it after isopropyl was applied. If you’re ever unsure as to a material, or its response to your alcohol of choice, you can do a little test spot on the device - inside a battery compartment or on a back corner is usually good.

@@captainjimo yes you can. It's the same thing. Just be careful with it. I've used window cleaner to clean displays up, and it's done wonders.

I can't win can I ahaha. People gave me crap for applying paste to those chips when I did my big lot of 11" Macbook airs video.

I had the same cpu in my Dell latitude 3480, and the smaller die had a thermal pad on it and the main die had paste, straight from the manufacturer. So that die definitely needs some thermal interface material, pad or paste.

@@psivewri the comment below with pads might be a better solution although plenty of laptops ran without any contact with the chipset die so I guess it's meh

@@psivewri I see. Not sure why, maybe they are just accustomed to the original factory application. Either way, better to be safe than sorry... speaking from experience here.

T40-T42s usually the Radeon 7500 GPU failed as the all in one package ATI used for the Radeon 7500 (VRAM and die on same substrate chip) was new at the time, combined with the lead free solder and you have a recipe for failures. Some models had Radeon 9000 and 9600, those were better but still failed. Integrated GPU models however, never failed. The cooling was adequate and in the manufacturer's limits for the GPU

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I vividly remember playing destiny 2 at 20 FPS with a 30% res scale on an i3 7100u laptop a couple years ago. Ahhh good times

agreed here too in indonesia also this thing made me want to fix many laptops and sells it

That's why I use Arch btw.

Linux has been the way to go since years. My Acer Aspire is running Ubuntu happily

I typically put fedora on chrome books, it makes them amazing more useful and even easier to use than chromeos, something about the half desktop half mobile style that the default gnome UI has just fits those machines perfectly.

@@clark_johannes Arch is Terrible and unstable, Debian builds are the best

@@PenguinRevolution I use Debian for 9 months. Wine is better there but for the sake of performance, I need to use Arch.

I did almost the same, but "only" threw a big sip of beer on my 3 months old 2017 aspire 7. I had a (not so impressive) aspire one 11 that claimed on a sticker, that it has a spill resistant keyboard. I like the easy access to the guts of an Acer machines.

Yeah, I love my Acer Swift 3, but unfortunately performance is poor with Windows 11, and now it feels like I'm using a laptop from 2010.

@@avillagerplayingminecraft5833 thats weird my i7 3rd gen laptop from 2012 works flawlessly with windows 11

Agreed - it looks like a pretty decent laptop for on the go stuff, and those batteries (although thin) usually seem to hold up OK too. Only thing I don't like is the soldered RAM, but with an SSD, 8GB should be enough. It's not like you're using a mechanical disk for the pagefile...

That 7200U is still plenty powerful enough for general tasks

@@zaamuro8408 For sure! Could very easily see using it for taking notes in class, typing up documents, watching videos...

i dont know if its just my problem, but these cheap acer laptops have awful keyboards. i had one of these too, bought a thinkpad after it, didnt regret it in any way

@@Windows350 and the trackpad is even 10x worse 😭

To be fair, after they spilt water on it they probably thought it was a gonner.

@@psivewri Definitely, I’ve found several computers with simple issues.

@@psivewri Yeah, it might have not been working for a while too until it dried up. We’ve had the same with our family iMac (2009 I think) that got rained on from a window in the roof we left open. After a week of drying, it wouldn’t start, but we randomly tried again a few days later and it actually came to life and is still working to this day as my dads email machine :)

@@EliasSchmid00 unbiliveable that stuff can survive the worst things

​@@psivewri yeah i have spilled water on my keyboard many times. the first time i thought it would have been broken but no it started working again in like day or two.

Their Nitro laptops are also great. Best buy for the price

@@Pinzledick Yeah I agree their Nitro laptop are very light and has some performance packed in those bois.

I've always had a great experience with their products, now customer support... I did have a bad experience with on, but that's just going to be anywhere🤷🏼‍♂️

@@Pinzledick I own an Acer Nitro 5, it was $800 on sale, it's pretty cheap considering it is a gaming laptop, and the performance is really decent and good for the price. My only complaint is the screen is kind of dim, but I really don't care since I don't use it outside but only indoors. Build quality is okay but not the best, I had no issues and have been using it for 4 months now.

maybe except the acer nitro 50....

Maybe the owner thought no body would want a water damaged laptop. Even if he didn't list it as water damaged as it still worked, that'd be a dick move.

Maybe listing it as water damage for a 20 or 25 dollars would have been fine though

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