I had a total blast testing my newly-acquired fleet of LTE 5000 series systems! Over the past four days, I was able to make 20 working systems from my haul of (I believe) 26 systems. Let's have a BRIEF outbrief in a 🧵 here!
First, just LOOK at everything!! Everything you see here either will go in a system (HDD, FDD, CD-ROMs, battery shells), is a spare part, or a conversation piece (PCMCIA cards without dongles 😂). And, oh, for the six systems that contributed to parts, look at all of the screws!
Here are the "failed" parts. Several failed or flaky mobos. Two bad processor cards. Several bad DC to DC cards. Only one bad FDD, which is miraculous. And of course, that one keyboard that took a lot of abuse, too much to repair.
In the end, as noted, I was able to assemble 20 systems. Not all of them are perfect. Here's my list and my testing steps. Some spare parts I have are better than what is currently installed in the systems. And some need swapped. That'll be the next phase of this 😂
As for testing, I just have these few memory chips left. And I bet some HDDs are bad, I'll just swap in CF cards when I use them. I'm just using one laptop to wrap testing, I'm not in a hurry! But this has been fun, thx for following along!!
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