Ancient PC needs a few upgrades but I'm broke sooo.... - Hardware & Software

Don't even bother taking it to the shop. the thing is so old and shops charge out of the ass. Replace the internals. [editline]4th December 2011[/editline] You can get second hand stuff on ebay too.

I. don't. have. the. money. to. upgrade. the. whole. thing. My friend works at the shop so he's going to check it out for free.

[QUOTE=The_Marine;33568817]I. don't. have. the. money. to. upgrade. the. whole. thing. My friend works at the shop so he's going to check it out for free.[/QUOTE] second hand motherboard, cpu and ram on ebay at least have a look

[QUOTE='[EG] Pepper;33568879']second hand motherboard, cpu and ram on ebay at least have a look[/QUOTE] I don't recommend buying ANY type of hardware from Ebay. I've bought 4 motherboards from various sellers and all 4 were 100% bricked (despite being "guaranteed" working). I've also bought lots of RAM that was also "guaranteed working", but some of the sticks were so bad that the machine refused to boot or had massive errors in memtest. The only luck I've had with computer parts on Ebay were CPUs, and even those are dicey. You never know if the seller packs them properly and the pins get fucked, or if they were fucked/broken beforehand. Video cards are probably the worst buy, you don't know if the previous owner overclocked them to hell and are lying about their condition (along with other items). [QUOTE=The_Marine;33568817]I. don't. have. the. money. to. upgrade. the. whole. thing. My friend works at the shop so he's going to check it out for free.[/QUOTE] I have an overabundance of spare machines, if it didn't cost like $50, I'd ship you one. Unless you live somewhere in Texas.

I live in Texas! [editline]4th December 2011[/editline] That's my way of asking sincerely for a computer or anything really

[QUOTE=bohb;33576540]I don't recommend buying ANY type of hardware from Ebay. I've bought 4 motherboards from various sellers and all 4 were 100% bricked (despite being "guaranteed" working). I've also bought lots of RAM that was also "guaranteed working", but some of the sticks were so bad that the machine refused to boot or had massive errors in memtest. The only luck I've had with computer parts on Ebay were CPUs, and even those are dicey. You never know if the seller packs them properly and the pins get fucked, or if they were fucked/broken beforehand. Video cards are probably the worst buy, you don't know if the previous owner overclocked them to hell and are lying about their condition (along with other items). I have an overabundance of spare machines, if it didn't cost like $50, I'd ship you one. Unless you live somewhere in Texas.[/QUOTE] Yeah, I really don't know why he was telling me to look for parts on ebay. Those are the exact problems I'd be afraid of... especially when I just can't afford to throw money away like that. Going to the shop today, hoping the problem is fixable with what I have. There's a slight chance that it may also be the CPU itself but it's an old CPU so if it is, I'm sure it's fairly cheap to replace.

Why are you bringing an ancient computer to a repair shop? You are wasting money on a machine that is worth basically nothing. Save up your money and get new parts. Putting any money into a computer that will only accept old costly parts is insanely stupid, and even $20 just to have someone take a look at the system can get you halfway to buying a new power supply or ram for the upgrade.

Because I'm a retard who just wasted $160.

[QUOTE=The_Marine;33581919]Yeah, I really don't know why he was telling me to look for parts on ebay. Those are the exact problems I'd be afraid of... especially when I just can't afford to throw money away like that. Going to the shop today, hoping the problem is fixable with what I have. There's a slight chance that it may also be the CPU itself but it's an old CPU so if it is, I'm sure it's fairly cheap to replace.[/QUOTE] I have several Athlon XP CPUs that I bought new years ago, and they all still work. Unless you overheated the CPU, it's not going to be dead. But seriously, cut your losses and stop spending money on that crap PC. You're going to end up throwing more untold amounts of money away on it that could build you several new PCs.