Category: Do It Yourself

I picked this up at an auction somewhat cheap, when I plug it in and press Start I can hear the game but there is no picture. This is a terrible curse, I have to get rid of it or fix it if I can’t see the game! It’s completely original, no internal modifications, original key for the back and manual in excellent condition. I’ve listed it online high but in the meantime look into fixing the CRT without electrocuting myself. Lots of articles online. I’ve ordered a video converter so I can hook it up to an LCD and…

TLDR; Scrapping electronics isn’t a very lucrative hobby, but when you have a giant pile of hardware you need to get rid of it may be more cost effective than paying someone to take it away. When I decided to buy a large lot of surplus computers online I had one part of my plan in place, as a small number of them were worth Crazy Xserve G5 valuations , but the rest of my plan was not. The first problem was moving this stuff, the machines were only a couple hours away but when doing the math on the…

TLDR; Rossman Repair Group was able to fix an A2289 13” MacBook Pro for less money than Apple and without losing data. I post this in hopes it helps someone else. We purchased a new 2020 13” MacBook Pro in August of 2020 for my wife to use. It was extremely well taken care of, used at home, she used a keyboard protector, only used the Apple provided power adapter and it had generally light use of mostly web browsing and streaming videos. Two years later the laptop went to France for a vacation – we rarely bring laptops on…