I began today attempting to revise for COMP118- Logic in computer science… I completed some practice questions and then got bored and started to organise my files on my laptop.
Then my brother and I began discussing my old laptop and wondering whether the RAM could be salvaged from it- it hasn’t worked at all since I took it apart to try to fix it back in 2013. We got a couple of screwdrivers and set to dismantling the laptop.
Soon we’d taken it all apart and I began to ‘bag and tag’ all of the parts and looking online to see what they might sell for.
But then we wondered… could we reattach the power cable and the power button and still make it light up?
Lights on and a VGA attached, we also addded a little bit of RAM back in, and then added the HDD and the fan.
Suddenly, there was a response on the screen we’d attached so we reinserted the USB ports and attached a keyboard and mouse.
Windows had a bit of fixing to do…
And then it returned! I barely remembered the password but when I did…
we were away!
The computer had Microsoft Office 2007 on it…
And I played a game of chess…
And then I wondered: yeah, but can I run the Sims on it…?
Yep, kinda.
The computer did crash after a while but I can’t believe that it went from not even switching on to running the Sims 2 in just 3 hours! I don’t think that I’ll be giving up on a laptop so easily in the future!