Sep 22, 2007
Guess what, I got the computer from the dude for like 100$ with 15 inchie CRT , and it’s a Emachine T5016 . I get home, open it up and guess what ? Its filled with dust and what not, took me 3 hrs to clean the computer, actually washed it !!! Now I know that sounds stupid, but washed only the heatink it had on cpu. And another thing that was missing was a Thermal Paste from the CPU, damnit never run a PC without the PASTE !! Anyways first time around I booted after cleaning it did not boot so I was like omg I killed it !! So opened it up again and it is this time I noticed that cpu had no paste on it, and was running hot as probably heatsink was not doing what its supposed to do. So, applied Artic Silver 5 , which I had bought 8 months back while assembling my Core2 Duo PC in winter.
So, got everything cleaned and booted the machine. Had some pirated version of Windows XP which is a NO-NO in my book, cause never mess with Bill Gates !!. So, I loaded my copy of XP on it, Validated it online and installed IE 7 , which I am not going to use anyways, as I like Firefox.. Also loaded Office on it validated it too just in case billy hacks my pc to see if I got original stuff loaded…!!!
Sunday I went to pick a 17 inch crt from some guy, for free of course, as I did not want to spend money on a Screen !!! It was raining all day long so was a pretty bad day !!. But anyways I managed to get a 21 inch CRT from my neighbors’ and now took it along with the loaded PC to my office/desk where I am sitting now and writing about it all !! Its so much better to work in the quite room than downstairs in LAB filled with hot chicks which are a big distraction when trying to study or concentrate.
So the total cost or bill was $100 to setup the computer at my desk. If only some rich guy would have read this blog might , I might have ended up with a donated computer for my desk !! But still I am looking for the following to upgrade this pc as its slow cause of low amount of ram (hmm 512mb) and old hdd which makes weird sounds all the time and is really load .
- HDD (SaTa or IDE whichever makes no weird sound)
- RAM (PC2700 or PC3200 , 256 Mb stick or higher, got 4 mem slots on the motherboard)
- LCD screen (CRT is old and really bright )
So, if you live in and around Saskatoon , do contact me , or if you own some online store etc and got some coupon etc. etc. or want to ship it (I can bear shipping costs) do use the contact form (I will make one soon). Now, time to write more about the webmastering and latest stuff from college itself !!
