• Computer revival success [PT-BR] PC revivido com sucesso

    João Augusto Isabella • 11/07/2023 at 11:04 • 0 comments

    Last night i made some pretty good advancements, replaced the thermal paste, reassembled everything, except the turn on switch and tried turning the machine on with a screwdriver. And it worked!

    I reinstalled the latest windows version, only to have some canvas to work on, but i'm thinking a lot about switching to linux NAS. My only fear is that i go to deep for a first time project and end up screwing everything.

    Hopefully tonight i'll be able to control the server from my main computer and start working on the first steps.

    Ontem a noite eu consegui uns avanços muito bons, troquei a pasta térmica, remontei todas as peças, exceto o botão de ligar e tentei ligar com uma chave de fenda. E funcionou!

    Reinstalei a última versão do windows, só pra ter um sistema operacional, já que o pc veio sem nenhum sistema, mas eu ando pensando seriamente em trocar para linux NAS, mas meu medo é ir de cabeça em algo que eu n estou preparado e acabar exterminando o projeto pela inviabilidade.

    Hoje eu vou tentar controlar remotamente o servidor com o meu pc e começar a trabalhar nas primeiras etapas do servidor.

  • "New" computer inspection

    João Augusto Isabella • 11/06/2023 at 14:19 • 0 comments

    As soon as i got my hands on the "new" computer, that would be the server i got some bad news. It was diagnosed dead (by a crappy technician that only wanted to sell a new one to my girlfriend's mother)

    So i opened it up to have a better look and impressively it was pretty clean for a 13 year old computer. However there are some issues.

    • All fans were dirty, not blocked by dust, but in very poor condition
    • Thermal paste was lacking
    • Some of the cables were disconected (probably the reason why the computer didn't run anymore)

    So as the next step i'm aiming on cleaning the computer, replacing the thermal paste. I do own a graphics card suitable for the machine, but in order to save some money in energy i'm probably only going to upgrade the RAM 

  • Acquiring hardware

    João Augusto Isabella • 11/06/2023 at 12:44 • 0 comments

    This project is not a recent one, i've been thinking a lot of it in the past year, and the kick off would be finding an old PC and getting it running, this should be an easy one, however, living in Brazil, old computers could come to arround R$900,00, what would be arround 183,99 dolars (for an 10 year old machine).

    So i postergated the project, a lot.

    Luckily, my girlfriend's mother recently changed computers and gave away her old one to me. 

    So now i'm one step closer, even though the computer still needs some new hard drives.