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swoll1980
February 27th, 2009, 05:43 AM
My friend dropped his laptop, breaking the hard drive, and the screen, so he gave it to me. I already had a hard drive(fronm my 100l) that fit it by some miricle, and the screen is only $70. It's a hp pravilion zv5000 with a p4 3.0 1gib RAM and a ati mobility 9100. I've got it hooked up to my monitor now, and it's way faster than my latitude 100l with 2.4 celeron.

HammerOfDoubt
February 27th, 2009, 05:47 AM
Where can you get the screen fixed?

swoll1980
February 27th, 2009, 05:50 AM
Where can you get the screen fixed?

Just buy a 15.4" xvga screen and install it my self

Dekkon
February 27th, 2009, 05:51 AM
Where can you get the screen fixed?

You can hire someone to do it, or like most of us geeks on this forum, we will just do it ourselves.

mpsii
February 27th, 2009, 06:35 AM
eBay replacement parts rock!

RichardLinx
February 27th, 2009, 06:40 AM
Free laptop = Win

swoll1980
February 27th, 2009, 06:46 AM
Free laptop = Win

Yeah, now I'm waiting for him to knock his big screen TV over :twisted:

booshire
February 27th, 2009, 06:59 AM
mmmm...."free" beer

Dragonbite
February 27th, 2009, 02:39 PM
Except for the fact it is faster than your current machine you could set it up as a headless server (with built in battery backup)!

issih
February 27th, 2009, 02:42 PM
Whoop.. free stuff rocks!

Giant Speck
February 27th, 2009, 03:23 PM
Yeah, now I'm waiting for him to knock his big screen TV over :twisted:

Now that is funny!

Stan_1936
February 27th, 2009, 05:00 PM
My friend dropped his laptop...so he gave it to me.....

:(%^%&T##@###@!!!:(:(:(:mad:

Why you..............:mad::mad::mad:

Maheriano
February 27th, 2009, 05:19 PM
haha ya, my roommate cracked the hinge on her screen so the only thing hold it on was the wire. She gave it to me, I got another case for the same laptop off another guy for free, put the 2 together and gave the perfectly working Dell D600 to my brother for his birthday! Free laptops are the best laptops!

Dragonbite
February 27th, 2009, 05:35 PM
haha ya, my roommate cracked the hinge on her screen so the only thing hold it on was the wire. She gave it to me, i got another case for the same laptop off another guy for free, put the 2 together and gave the perfectly working dell d600 to my brother for his birthday! Free laptops are the best laptops!

+1

Telekinesis
February 27th, 2009, 05:37 PM
Freeze the hard drive! Maybe you can get it back, too.

aaaantoine
February 27th, 2009, 05:45 PM
Freeze the hard drive! Maybe you can get it back, too.

I've heard of this trick.

Don't leave it in too long or it'll get freezer burn. :lolflag: