Hi everyone I need some help and advice please and any is appreciated!
Myself and my eldest daughter love gaming we have a steam account which we love to use and have a fair few games. She is more Minecraft and also has various online subscriptions for various games and I'm more into the Sims and various indie games.
Anyway trying to cut a really long story short, at the moment my kids and myself are juggling between my phone and the tablet I'm using now to type this, for all our entertainment needs. We have a TV but it's not used as we don't watch the BBC etc and that saves a few pennies! Also willing to use this as my PC monitor if I build a pc.
Due to various reasons we have lost 3 laptops in roughly 2 years and now have nothing.
I thought why not build my own little powerful micro ATX ideally i5 6600 z170. In an ideal world that would be lovely but will take a long time to save and get all the parts one at a time.
I feel confident enough to do this build on my own as I built a PC many years ago when the Sims 2 was released. I had the help and guidance of a good friend who was a professional PC engineer with a great workshop and a business account so it ended up costing peanuts and it flew like nothing I had seen before and lasted YEARS. Sadly my friend passed away a few years ago but he taught me more than I thought so yes I'm definitely willing and confident to build something again.
Whilst browsing all the lovely meaty Intel CPUs I suddenly thought I have a broken laptop in the cupboard from 2011 which is an i7 and all that's wrong with it is a broken screen. Someone had fallen asleep and failed to put my laptop away first and it fell on to the floor hence the screen damage. So I dug it out of the cupboard all excited as I had completely forgot about it only to open it up and found this person without my knowledge or consent had had a good go at screwing it up further as well as breaking the screen! Some people think they know everything and fail to research and dive in heavy handed. Anyway from what I can see I now need a whole new housing case and after trying to discuss what else he had done to it he tells me it needs a new motherboard too. when I opened the lid I found the keyboard missing but found it in another cupboard then i saw he had broken the large ribbon type connection on the motherboard it's still attached at one end and also one off the smaller ribbon cables won't slide in properly without a few teeth popping out I hope you understand what i mean by teeth. I'm no expert. So I'm not too sure which direction to head towards. Also it seems finding parts for an Acer aspire 5942 extremely difficult especially without pictures. I did however find this on eBay
..... Acer Aspire 5942G HD Laptop .....
Received in a job lot the first thing we noticed is that all the base screws have been removed so it was easy to pop apart and test why this unit has no power, from a quick test we can confirm the power is reaching the motherboard but at that point we decided not to go any further with it.
the screen looks intact but not tested.
the back lit keyboard looks intact but not tested
reported to have a ATI Radeon HD5650 1GB graphics card
shipped fast via 24 hour DPD interlink express tracked and insured
Please note this is an insurance write off laptop and we have done our best to test what we can however this is guide only and no further warranty is offered, no returns for spares or repair only.
Mike always warned me about buying anything for PCs of eBay so I have alarm bells ringing the size of buses. The seller want's 120 pounds for it or best offer.
I also forgot to mention that when I was removing the battery I noticed what looks like a slight cigarette burn melt on the outside of the battery and on the side of the battery near that area also looks deformed. The lower part of the case on the back corner by the hinge has been cracked I think by not putting everything back properly. Im willing to try replace the motherboard and put my parts on to it.
After feeling completely deflated over my broken Acer I thought well as a quick fix for something to use for now I could just replace the HD in a Dell laptop that died a few weeks back but then I found the screw holding it in is shredded and I thought well no guessing who did that! When telling him my discovery of the shredded cemented in screw he said yeah I know so obviously he had already got to it first to screw that up too. So as well as needing a hitman (jokes) I really don't know what to do! Would be nice to have something sorted out by Christmas THIS YEAR for my kids and me.
Thanks for reading and sorry this is my first time posting so if I'm in the wrong place apologies.
Myself and my eldest daughter love gaming we have a steam account which we love to use and have a fair few games. She is more Minecraft and also has various online subscriptions for various games and I'm more into the Sims and various indie games.
Anyway trying to cut a really long story short, at the moment my kids and myself are juggling between my phone and the tablet I'm using now to type this, for all our entertainment needs. We have a TV but it's not used as we don't watch the BBC etc and that saves a few pennies! Also willing to use this as my PC monitor if I build a pc.
Due to various reasons we have lost 3 laptops in roughly 2 years and now have nothing.
I thought why not build my own little powerful micro ATX ideally i5 6600 z170. In an ideal world that would be lovely but will take a long time to save and get all the parts one at a time.
I feel confident enough to do this build on my own as I built a PC many years ago when the Sims 2 was released. I had the help and guidance of a good friend who was a professional PC engineer with a great workshop and a business account so it ended up costing peanuts and it flew like nothing I had seen before and lasted YEARS. Sadly my friend passed away a few years ago but he taught me more than I thought so yes I'm definitely willing and confident to build something again.
Whilst browsing all the lovely meaty Intel CPUs I suddenly thought I have a broken laptop in the cupboard from 2011 which is an i7 and all that's wrong with it is a broken screen. Someone had fallen asleep and failed to put my laptop away first and it fell on to the floor hence the screen damage. So I dug it out of the cupboard all excited as I had completely forgot about it only to open it up and found this person without my knowledge or consent had had a good go at screwing it up further as well as breaking the screen! Some people think they know everything and fail to research and dive in heavy handed. Anyway from what I can see I now need a whole new housing case and after trying to discuss what else he had done to it he tells me it needs a new motherboard too. when I opened the lid I found the keyboard missing but found it in another cupboard then i saw he had broken the large ribbon type connection on the motherboard it's still attached at one end and also one off the smaller ribbon cables won't slide in properly without a few teeth popping out I hope you understand what i mean by teeth. I'm no expert. So I'm not too sure which direction to head towards. Also it seems finding parts for an Acer aspire 5942 extremely difficult especially without pictures. I did however find this on eBay
..... Acer Aspire 5942G HD Laptop .....
Received in a job lot the first thing we noticed is that all the base screws have been removed so it was easy to pop apart and test why this unit has no power, from a quick test we can confirm the power is reaching the motherboard but at that point we decided not to go any further with it.
the screen looks intact but not tested.
the back lit keyboard looks intact but not tested
reported to have a ATI Radeon HD5650 1GB graphics card
shipped fast via 24 hour DPD interlink express tracked and insured
Please note this is an insurance write off laptop and we have done our best to test what we can however this is guide only and no further warranty is offered, no returns for spares or repair only.
Mike always warned me about buying anything for PCs of eBay so I have alarm bells ringing the size of buses. The seller want's 120 pounds for it or best offer.
I also forgot to mention that when I was removing the battery I noticed what looks like a slight cigarette burn melt on the outside of the battery and on the side of the battery near that area also looks deformed. The lower part of the case on the back corner by the hinge has been cracked I think by not putting everything back properly. Im willing to try replace the motherboard and put my parts on to it.
After feeling completely deflated over my broken Acer I thought well as a quick fix for something to use for now I could just replace the HD in a Dell laptop that died a few weeks back but then I found the screw holding it in is shredded and I thought well no guessing who did that! When telling him my discovery of the shredded cemented in screw he said yeah I know so obviously he had already got to it first to screw that up too. So as well as needing a hitman (jokes) I really don't know what to do! Would be nice to have something sorted out by Christmas THIS YEAR for my kids and me.
Thanks for reading and sorry this is my first time posting so if I'm in the wrong place apologies.
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