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Gasper Torner

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so i found a pc theother day thrown out i brought it in and soon realised the whole insides were replaced so i cleand it up tested it and put it in my old case couse the psu was way too heavy for the case and was vlocking the cpu fan but than i had an idea to throw on a linux os so first i tried lubuntu after some messing arround i got it to install but the problem was it was freezing and chrashing so i tried to put an older version and that frooze during installatiopn and i tryed ubuntu and xbuntu everything was freezing on it i used 32 bit versions lubuntu 17.07,16.10 ubuntu 16.04,14.04 and xubuntu 16.04 so i said id try and put on windows 7 couse the instalation of the old win xp was too broken to work but that frooze too

specs:
intel pentium d dual core 3ghz
3gb ram ddr2
300gb hdd
80gb hdd
gpu amd radeon hd 4350 the 512mb version planning on putting in my old hd 7777
motherboard foxconn 945G7MA-8KS2H
 
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You are trying to bring to life a PC you found on the side of a road, in a dumpster, next to a building, whatever. It could be any of the components. Or, all of them. Probably be a good idea to put it back where you found it, before you decide to throw money at it. Do you have any other parts to swap out and test in this system?
 
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Well hi!

1st of all, i guess there was a reason they threw it out, more than the fact that it is dated. (Whoever has ddr2 in 2017 must be hell bent on squeezing every minute of life out of their machine and performance is no issue).

Check the following:
1. Try swapping the hdd with one u know it's working ( i had similar issues with a laptop, turned out the hdd was half dead)
2. Check for overheating cpu (by hand). It should shutdown all together if it gets too hot but it doesn't hurt if you put your hand on the radiators (if they are cold u got a problem, if they are too hot to keep your hand on you have another problem)
3. Given the provenance of the machine, any number of things can be out. If you got the parts, try swapping part by part untill it works and you pinpoint the broken components.
4. Visual inspection: on a machine that old i would expect some swollen capacitors (the most common reason i can think of for the failure of an old warrior like yours) look for other faults as well of course.
 
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5. This one is most important!!!
It's a pice of junk. Do not! I repeat DO NOT spend a single dime on bringing it back to life, unless this is your hobby or something. If u want an antique to play old games on, you can buy some ancient Windows xp era gaming rig for peanuts.
 
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Gasper Torner

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it was thrown out by a school couse they got a new budget so they could buy new pcs for everyone and this one was just the choosen one to go and i just wanna see if i can bring it back to life im gonna try to replace the motherboard couse there are blown capacitors on it and it started bending in the cpu area
 
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Gasper Torner

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And a big middle finger to all who said it was not worth it I replaced all the caps and the motherboard is now working flawlessly after 7.70€ and a bios update I'm not gonna waste money on new stuff if this dual core works
 
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Gasper Torner

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why not i have the time and this is my first dualcore find everythin else is either my personal pc or single core shit
 
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