I have several old desktop computers that do not work and i dont have the parts to fix, one i am certain the motherboard doesnt work and the other i am fairly certain it has something to do with motherboard issues, and i dont have the parts to try rebuilding it anyway, these are both 1998-2001 computers and i am getting rid of them (after i wip ethe hard drives with heavy duty magnets to erase any data), they dont work anyway, two have issues with the OS and i dont have the disks so i cant fix or the need to fix if i could. but i dont want to throw them away because they were buisness computers for a real estate company and it isnt good if the data on them gets stolen, maybe by someone with more computer experience than me.
Anyway, i have these two old motherboards, one has an old pentium II and the other is an original AMD Athlon, not sure if either is very collectable yet or not, but i like having them. So, i wanted to keep the boards as decorations, maybe hang them on my bedroom wall, since one is all gold and the other a deep purple, not to mention i think motherboards just look neat in general. My mother (these were from her old real estate buisness, as i said before) wanted to know if they had murcury in them, if they do, i cant use them, if they do, im hanging them up.
Do Motherboards from that era have any murcury in them? or any other chemicals/materials that can be harmful out in the open? i will also be removing the cmos batteries and disposing of them. Oh, and do old Memory chips have anything bad in them as well?
Thanks.
Anyway, i have these two old motherboards, one has an old pentium II and the other is an original AMD Athlon, not sure if either is very collectable yet or not, but i like having them. So, i wanted to keep the boards as decorations, maybe hang them on my bedroom wall, since one is all gold and the other a deep purple, not to mention i think motherboards just look neat in general. My mother (these were from her old real estate buisness, as i said before) wanted to know if they had murcury in them, if they do, i cant use them, if they do, im hanging them up.
Do Motherboards from that era have any murcury in them? or any other chemicals/materials that can be harmful out in the open? i will also be removing the cmos batteries and disposing of them. Oh, and do old Memory chips have anything bad in them as well?
Thanks.