What to do with an old PC

Jdubb

the drives are usually 1" high, and 3.5"ish wide, they have 10 screw holes in them 3 on each side, and 4 on the bottom. most pc's will use 2 of the holes on each side, some will use the 4 on the bottom. lazy PC builders will only put 2 screws on the easy accessible side and leave the other side.
there are also 2 cables, 1 IDE/sata or scsi and the other is the power connector.

Keeping old drives also come in useful you can use them for extra storeage as 2nd drives. I jsut have way to many drives in my PC's 5x250GB's a 120GB and 2 73GB scsi drives ohh and a couple of 250GB external drives.[/QUOTE]

Much appreciated tks, I will try this and BTW, I don't see looking after any information you have about yourself or others as paranoia - just wen u think the antics of people can't stoop any lower they always find a way! :T

superscaper

Heidy wrote: »

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You should use your Old computer as a Telephone Recording Unit it will have massive capacity and be immune from Viruses and C Formats and therefore be
data safe brilliant for keeping a record of what you said when dealing with Customer Services departments for Bad Products all you need is a lead and some specialist software from Retell.

Heidy

I really like that idea. Not sure on the legalities, I think you have to tell them you're recording at the beginning of any conversation but I don't see why not, they usually have some kind of "recording for training purposes" message.

jasmin10

Thank you for all your posts but I am definitely gonna scrap it. I read with interest how I can take lots of parts out that don't store info. Which bits are these, what do they look like and how much would I sell them for.

I'm sorry to ask as this is probably very basic info to you guys. Is there a website with idiot pictures on it so I can recognise it - I can't find one.

superscaper

jasmin10 wrote: »

Thank you for all your posts but I am definitely gonna scrap it. I read with interest how I can take lots of parts out that don't store info. Which bits are these, what do they look like and how much would I sell them for.

I'm sorry to ask as this is probably very basic info to you guys. Is there a website with idiot pictures on it so I can recognise it - I can't find one.

Little John's post earlier in the thread had some photos of hard drives. Your pc will have one or maybe two of those. The hard drive is the only thing that stores information. Absolutely everything else you can sell and doesn't have any info on it.

jasmin10

DO you know of a website with pictures that will tell me what each bit is as I would need to describe it on Ebay.

You much be sick to death of me by now Superscaper, tou seem to have come to my aid on everything :beer:

superscaper

This seems to have some simple to follow photos http://www.primerpc.com/hardware/hardware.htm

For the specifics of your hardware, you might try Everest. I use the ultimate edition but you should be able to download and use their free/lite/trial version. Very good at giving the details of your hardware inside the pc.

opportunity_cost

More component pictures here. Clicking on the headings under 'Sections' brings up more pictures of the individual component.