I'm trying to fix 2 computers. One is a e-machine T6212 AMD 64 w/blown mother board capacitors.

The other is an older DELL w/bad hardrive. The Dell has hope. Welding in new capacitors for the AMD, doubt that work, - I'll see I guess lol.

Did I say welding ?

 

Did you hit glc's link ? lol

 

... yes

 

Don't even bother trying to fix the eMachine unless you want to try to find an exact replacement motherboard on Ebay. The power supplies in those things are garbage too.

Dell hard drive replacement is straightforward.

 

Yea , I thru a Rosewill 350W ATX2.2, - Replaced 3 50v 470uf capacitors = No joy, what a waste. Well, that's all the effort it's worth. I promised to give it a shot, I know I'll never own an AMD board. I've heard nothing but bad about those. Now I know first hand.

You remember when I did that Acronis ? You were right, I should have purchased the CD, I remember you telling me that. - Kinduh kicking myself about that right now. I did save that download to a CD somewhere.

I'm pretty sure I can ISO or Image the Dell drive from this one if I have to. I use those newertech drive adapters, -mine are old tho lol, they did come with ATAPI/IDE and SATA ( : . Anyway, the Dell drive (Maxtor) is funny, -shop computer, sometimes it boots, - it just hasn't latley and it's noisy. I have a new drive for that one, that's where I'm at now.

Guess I should PM yuh, ehh.

 

I have an older Dell 4300, and replaced the original hard drive a few months back "just in case". All I did was clone the old disc onto the new disc with Acronis and then put the old disc on the shelf. Acronis is pretty slick to use in creating a clone disc.

I've run this Dell 4300, purchased in 2001, almost 24/7 since I bought it.