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[turbostd]

So my friend kyle got a dell lappy from work. Its nothing special p4m 1.7 dell. Anyhow it was having issues with random lockups and bsods so he gave it to me for parts. After some research and trial and error I found out if it had a stick of ram in slot A it would act up. Since it only had 2x256s just running one was painful. I come to find out that the plastic clips that hold the ram in get weak so I stuck a pice of cardboard from a beer case between the cover and the ram stick lol. I have been using it all morning and it works fine. I figure it would make a nice tuning lappy as it has a real serial port and a good battery. Or i could always sell it if i get short on cash.

Has anyone else ever gotten something for cheep or free and did some cheep/ghetto fixes to get it going?

[Doug]

I bought a Xbox 360 on eBay with the "ring of death". I got it and everything except the power brick and console were still in the sealed packages. Turns out they didn't plug the AV cable in so they thought it was broke. Worked fine.

Bought a PS3 on eBay for fairly cheap. Said that it wouldn't boot up it just beeped and shut down. Again got it and it looked new. I held down the power button for 10sec to do a reset and it booted up and ran perfectly.

[Jorsher]

Bought a quad core q6600, buncha ram, hddvd drive, dvd burner, media center remote, tv tuner, nvidia 8800 gts, wireless keyboard/mouse, and he threw in a lot of HD-DVDs.

Originally he said it wouldn't boot up most of the time.  Told him to try updating the BIOS and he didn't do it.

I figured I don't shut my PCs down anyway, so if I got it to boot once I'd just leave it on and be happy.  Paid $150 for it shipped.  Updated BIOS.  Never had that problem.

[turbostd]

Ya I love it when i get newer pcs from people that are "broke" and all they need is windows re-installed. Most of the people i deal with are stupid and just buy a new one.

[Joseph Davis]

Has anyone else ever gotten something for cheep or free and did some cheep/ghetto fixes to get it going?

It occurs to me that my ECU pile is quite large, and scattered in three different places?  80+, at least 6-7 of them are good and another 20 fixable but it's time spent diagnosing and repairing.  I'm lazy, fuck that.