ok, so my 7yr old Dell Inspiron N5010 has expired.
have been advised it'll need new CPU & HDD (+Win7).
anyone fancy having a go at Lazarus-ing it?
will cover parts & beer tokens.
must come in at under £500.
Under 500 beans would buy you a far superior machine than fixing it at that money!
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(03-08-2017, 12:20 PM)Magenta Sunset Wrote: [ -> ]ok, so my 7yr old Dell Inspiron N5010 has expired.
have been advised it'll need new CPU & HDD (+Win7).
anyone fancy having a go at Lazarus-ing it?
will cover parts & beer tokens.
must come in at under £500.
Stopped turning on and/or crashing all the time?
Probably lead-free solder issues as usual - all laptops of that era have the same issues. Needs mainboard taking out and banging in oven I suspect - by the time you've done that, put it back together, you'd be best just buying a new machine.
How has it expired? Just wont start up? Id be surprised if the CPU needed replacing.
Tbh being 7 years old I would spend the money on something new. Ive been impressed with the lenovo stuff recently. As per usualy youre looking for at least two cores 4GB memory and a 500GB disk. Solid state... mmm... its fast but make sure you back up your stuff. In my experience they fail after a few years and then youre screwed.
this is a cheap good to go one with a 128GB SSD - youd probably need more space than the 60GB youd end up with after a windows install.
http://www.ebuyer.com/754038-lenovo-v110...80tl0010uk
This is the exact same but with a 500GB hard drive.
http://www.ebuyer.com/767998-lenovo-v110...80tl000puk
(03-08-2017, 12:48 PM)Eeyore Wrote: [ -> ]How has it expired? Just wont start up? Id be surprised if the CPU needed replacing.
Tbh being 7 years old I would spend the money on something new. Ive been impressed with the lenovo stuff recently. As per usualy youre looking for at least two cores 4GB memory and a 500GB disk. Solid state... mmm... its fast but make sure you back up your stuff. In my experience they fail after a few years and then youre screwed.
this is a cheap good to go one with a 128GB SSD - youd probably need more space than the 60GB youd end up with after a windows install.
http://www.ebuyer.com/754038-lenovo-v110...80tl0010uk
This is the exact same but with a 500GB hard drive.
http://www.ebuyer.com/767998-lenovo-v110...80tl000puk
not sure exactly. did get ransomed a while back. (didn't pay)
repairman said it beeped 7x (CPU fail code?) maybe solder/heatsink glue fail.
have seen a decent one from IJT, but no stock at present.
won't buy Lenovo, got one for work. how I've not flung it I don't know.
You get a 120 gb ssd for like £ 50
And a i5 2 series(2500k) for 25 second hand from cex and that what i run on my gamming pc,which can run most stuff on high
it came with an i5 + 500Gb ?sata? originally
Lenovo is really good. One brand can make shit stuff. Their current line up is great.
My misso just got one of them HP Specre X360 things, I think its the mutts nutts, but it was also the only thing we could legitimately get in Australia. The markets not that great here because everyone is outsite punching kangaroos
(03-08-2017, 12:48 PM)Eeyore Wrote: [ -> ]Solid state... mmm... its fast but make sure you back up your stuff. In my experience they fail after a few years and then youre screwed.
I've not had one fail in any of my machines, I've been running two SSD's in Raid stripe 0 for six years now and it's been faultless.
(23-08-2017, 08:58 AM)r3k1355 Wrote: [ -> ] (03-08-2017, 12:48 PM)Eeyore Wrote: [ -> ]Solid state... mmm... its fast but make sure you back up your stuff. In my experience they fail after a few years and then youre screwed.
I've not had one fail in any of my machines, I've been running two SSD's in Raid stripe 0 for six years now and it's been faultless.
are you using them for OS? What brand etc? Mine have probably been more budget ones. 250GB corsairs etc
Yea OS and programs only, keep all the data on a large 3.5" HDD.
They are two 120GB Corsair drives from what I remember, but I run Samsung drives in laptops as they (used) to be the best.