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  1. Dennis Nicholls

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    The Official HTF Cat Thread

    Time for Aliens 7: The Cats Take Charge.
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    General Weather Thread

    We had a heavy snowfall for about 3 hours around noon. It's all melted now. Temp is 41* F (5* C). Bright sunshine with almost no clouds.
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    Since Switching To A Solid State Drive (SSD), I’ve Discovered That....

    The older SSDs were packaged in a box the size of a 2.5" hard drive, using the same SATA interface as the hard drives. The NVMe SSD is just a circuit card which connects to the motherboard bus.
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    Since Switching To A Solid State Drive (SSD), I’ve Discovered That....

    What kind of disc do you need? NVME?
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    Budget printer with low ink cost

    HP has become more customer unfriendly. A friend has an HP laptop about 5 years old, and needs to repair it - bad fan. HP pulled down the service documents for laptops of that vintage off their website. Thanks a lot. I buy Dell. They keep any support documents at their website basically...
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    An iPhone survives a 16,000 foot fall

    Remember the plane whose door plug blew out? A iPhone was sucked out the opening and fell 16,000 feet to the ground. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/iphone-survives-16000-foot-fall-after-door-plug-blows-off-alaska-air-flight-1282/ It still works.
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    Good experience with refurb Latitude laptop

    All of my crappy parts go into this laptop. The replacement motherboard died, so I found i3 motherboards for the 3500 are now down to the $20 range. So I put a second i3 motherboard into this system, which I now refer to as the "DOG" system.
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    Good experience with refurb Latitude laptop

    Well I broke my promise to myself and won another broke 3500 for $31. Very nice and clean unit, diagnostic leds immediately said bad motherboard. Motherboard prices are going down - I got a replacement i5 one for $39. I'd already bought a 500GB NVMe SSD for another project for $24, which in...
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    DVD Drive On PC Laptop No Longer Opens Without Paperclip Trick!

    I'm shocked that I can't find any good deals on ebay.ca or amazon.ca . The best deals are getting a used PC from a company, which means they pull out the HDD/SSD for security reasons. You can buy a 512 GB NVMe SSD for $30 these days and put it in, and load Win 10 from a USB drive. Basically...
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    DVD Drive On PC Laptop No Longer Opens Without Paperclip Trick!

    OK the basic MS rule is Intel 8th gen or later processors to run Win 11. Or equivalent AMD parts - I worked for Intel so I know their part numbers but not AMD numbers. That system above said i5-3470. The first digit(s) after the hyphen is the Intel generation number: in this case 3rd...
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    DVD Drive On PC Laptop No Longer Opens Without Paperclip Trick!

    That's a very old machine: has PS/2 connectors and no USB 3 connectors. Uses DDR3 memory which is very old. I would not suggest that. You need to look at ads that state the actual processor part number. That seller looks almost like a scammer to me. Dell lists which of their models can...
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    DVD Drive On PC Laptop No Longer Opens Without Paperclip Trick!

    How about this PC for $133? https://www.ebay.com/itm/276168474688? Run it for awhile and then take the free upgrade to Win 11 Pro. As I've mentioned many times, the Optiplex 3060 line with 8th gen Intel processors is the oldest Optiplex that will run Win 11. This one should meet all your...
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    Testy Area 51

    Steve probably won't approve.
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