old laptops

[neilcooper]

does anybody have an old laptop p2 or more that they want to sell for cheep or trade for? if so what do you want and what is it?

thank you

[devicenull]

Check out ebay, thats where I got my laptop.

[neilcooper]

yeah but they could be bad my friend got cheated on a paintball gun really bad plus i dont have a credit card and my mom wont let me use hers

Originally Posted by devicenull

Check out ebay, thats where I got my laptop.

[killerofkiller]

SIMON GIFT CARDS!! those things pwn, bascily they are pre paid visa cards that work anywhere, they have them at our mall u should check urs

[Michael Hill]

I have two old HP laptops. I can't remember their model number. The bad thing is is that for some reason, when you connect the power cord, the computer won't pick up on it and not charge unless you get the cord at the "perfect" angle. It's so annoying. That happened on both laptops...come to think of it, it happened to my cousin's as well...engineering flaw anyone? ROFLCOPTER

[neilcooper]

lol that happens to the bestof them xbox's too there is a power coard recall on xbox's tell me more and i might buy i could fix the cord

[Rombus]

Originally Posted by Michael Hill

I have two old HP laptops. I can't remember their model number. The bad thing is is that for some reason, when you connect the power cord, the computer won't pick up on it and not charge unless you get the cord at the "perfect" angle. It's so annoying. That happened on both laptops...come to think of it, it happened to my cousin's as well...engineering flaw anyone? ROFLCOPTER

Happend to an IBM i owned too, personally, i think the barrel connector is the worst design ever. I really wish more pc manufactures would do something simmilar to the mac connector or dells old squre connector.

[Billfred]

My Dell had the same problem with the LAN port. Sent it in over winter break, got it back, went on with it.

Then the AC adapter brick mysteriously died.

Nothing like having fun with a sub-one-year-old laptop, eh?

[Andy A.]

I own a HP that I picked up 2 years ago.

The power jack started being very picky about working at only certain angles. I knew it was starting to separate from the PCB, but I just ignored it hoping it would go away.

It didn't. It was just getting worse, since to get it to connect I had to strain the jack more and more. Eventually, I felt it getting hot, and knew it was time to do something. Since I was a college student with no money and no way or working with out my computer, I couldn't send it off to HP to be repaired. Either I was going to fix it, or start a fire trying.

I took it down to one of the schools electronics labs after hours, let my self in (I was a work study for the lab tech), and spent the next 4 hours very carefully taking my precious laptop apart. It litterly took me that long to figure out how to get her apart with out ripping up a ribbon cable or something. Once I had her disassembled, I saw the problem. The AC power jack was only soldered onto the PCB and had no sort of strain relief. Any time the cord was moved while in the jack, all that side motion went right into the little solder pegs. They were just about to break off.

I managed to resolder the pegs on the AC jack, and then used some hotglue to firmly attach it to the PCB and provide some strain relief. I checked the rest of the jacks, and noticed a few were starting to come loose, so I glued those down to. I haven't had a problem since.

As nerve racking as soldering on my laptops mainboard with a gunky old iron was, it was kind of fun to take a look at how it was put together. Laptops are really very clever examples of heatmanagment. The CPU was right in the center of the body, but the heatsink had to be right on the edge. So it has a big copper bar running from the CPU to the heatsink as a heat path.

My point? uh... Don't try this at home? I got lucky. A single mistake soldering on that board and my laptop would be beyond repair. It was a pretty stupid tihng to try. Avoid the problem entierly, and pay attention to the AC plug, and insert it straight and don't let it get sideloaded.

-Andy A.

[neilcooper]

is there anybody that wants to get rid of an old laptop that i could buy?

p2 or better