Items I have found at car boot sales and thrift (charity) shops
So a while ago at a carboot sale, I picked up 2 Dell Optiplex Micros The first was an i3 3020m with a 4th gen i3 CPU in and 4GB Ram, the other was a G4400T 3040 with 4GB Ram. Its the latter I have been working on with this project. As I am on … Read more
I woke to a fantastically sunny day, It was a little chilly at 0700 but was nice and bright. Being a Sunday, it was also time to get dressed and be on my way to the local car boot As it was such a nice day, the carboot sale was huge, I was eager to … Read more
This weekend weather has been a bit of a poor show, So no visits to a carboot. I realised however that last weekend or two I did not post about my finds, so today we are travelling back in time a week by way of a picture to the 1st of September . In the … Read more
So I arrived back home from the carboot sales and some shopping, after carrying out some household chores I decided to see what the condition of the T440s was in internally. I had expectations that it had already been stripped of anything good, when removed the external battery, it was dirty but in good order, … Read more
One day I will start adding blog entries about things other than Thinkpads and carboot sales, but not today. I went to 2 carboot sales this morning, my budget was lower than normal, which was a shame as the carboot I attended was HUGE. I arrived shortly before 0745 hours there were many, may interesting … Read more
So as the day started out pretty nice, I decided to venture out to the Saturday carboot sale. It took about 50 minutes to drive there, but its quite a scenic route for the most part. The there were plenty of sellers with a myriad of different items, as always I was on the look … Read more
Now my WordPress instance seems to be behaving I thought I would post about the 2 power supplies I purchased at a carboot sale this morning. A few months ago I was able to purchase a power supply tester from ‘new life’ a local charity shop that sells Amazon returns and overstocks. You may have … Read more
Ok I have mostly gutted the case and cleaned it up.
I actually really like the case and my repurposed it for myself.
I am nor sure if I will rebuild it at this time, I may rehouse the parts in another case.
Pictures provided of the cleaned or rather cleaner case
Mmm just tested the power supply.
It was not good, the 12v rail gets 10.5v so not using that
The motherboard in this thing is an AsRock ‘P4I65G Prescott 800 Rev G/A 1.01’
The damage to the CPU fan is from my finger, my finger did not fair as well.
Ok there is a DVB-T TV card that has very little identifying features, dunno what this thing is…. beyond the obvious of course.
The graphics card card appears to be an AGP ATI a4-9200DDR-B2-ZH
Less exciting than the soundcard but still interesting
Ooohh, a nice find inside this thing
A soundblaster Audigy2 zs (pictured)
Ok, I managed to get to a Thursday Carboot sale as I am off until Monday.
Today’s find cost me £5
It is a multimedia machine branded “Carrera” its in a large desktop format Aluminium case by Coolermaster .
It was very dirty and while I was cleaning it with my air duster I managed to injure my finger and shatter a couple of fins of the CPU fan.. so that will need to be replaced.
The CPU appears to be a Pentium 4
Pre clean pictures attached, I will take more pictures as I clean it.
