chesleywan

It's highly unlikely that your laptop motherboard uses a standard desktop motherboard form factor. You might as well just take apart the screen from the laptop body and use it as is.

When I learned around four years ago, I used Kijiji to buy older computer hardware for cheap (i.e. Pentium 4 era) and mess around with it to learn things hands-on. So if you have the resources to do so, search your local classifieds or ask friends for old (but not too old) hardware for personal educational purposes. Even better, you might find someone giving away a non-working computer, learn how to troubleshoot problems, and then discover that it wasn't far from working. Then you can sell stuff, maybe even for a profit, to support your own learning.

Never heard of FinalMouse until this giveaway. Definitely looking to get a new mouse as my TactX is occasionally getting a double left click and one of the "slippy pads" underneath is coming off and snagging the mouse pad. Quite annoying. Would definitely like to experience the ergonomics of the Final Mouse. Good luck to everyone!

P = I * V P: power in watts (W) I: current in amps (A) V: voltage in volts (V)

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Plug in your PCI-E power connectors to the video card?

It was really enjoyable to watch the Scrapyard Wars and this video since it relates to something that I've been doing ever since I started learning about computers. I've definitely learned a lot of things through buying (and selling) through Kijiji (which seems to be the most popular choice here in Winnipeg, whereas Craigslist or other classifieds are prominent in other places). Cases are tricky, depending on how organized the seller is. Like in Scrapyard Wars and in many personal experiences, cases are sold with missing optical drive bezels, expansion slot covers or incomplete sets of screws. So, you may not be able to install everything as the manufacturer intended and aesthetically, you may need to improvise to get the look you want. Of course, there are USB ports and audio ports that may go bad, but oddly I only had that issue with a new case. Hard drives are also a little tricky, mostly because I don't know how to properly verify and predict the remaining life of the drive. I typically use Acronis Drive Monitor to get a health percentage, but I recently found it to be inconsistent and unreliable for a certain SSD in a system. Speaking of which, I have purchased SSDs used, but made sure that there was at least a year or two of warranty left. Definitely came in handy when I had a first-gen OCZ Vertex go bad and the seller helped with the RMA. I'm pretty open and haven't had much trouble buying all other components. Like the video said, RAM is an easy buy because of lifetime warranty. Used CPUs hardly fail, but may have leftover thermal paste or the occasional bent pin (more often when purchased from eBay actually). Video cards are definitely worth buying used... quite easy to get a good deal on an older, but relatively high-end card. No problems with used motherboards... really good for using up older leftover parts to put together a cheap machine. Haven't gotten too many power supplies... pretty critical component, so will either verify that there is warranty or just go for something cheap if it's for a budget build.

Yeah, s'all good now.

Erm. I may have derped really hard and never checked if the printer was actually on... which it should've been by default. Sorry for the trouble!

Printer is connected to a switch, which is connected to the main router. Main router is 192.168.100.254. Secondary router is 192.168.100.253. Connection from main router is in one of the LAN ("Ethernet") ports of the secondary router.

I've had a spare Linksys E2000 router sitting around and decided to try setting it up as an access point to increase the wireless coverage in the house. After following the instructions in Linksys KB Article 3733, I got it set up in a LAN to LAN setup and internet access was present, but the connection to the printer was lost. Any ideas?

Have you installed all your drivers yet? Assuming it's a desktop, it could be connected to a third-party storage controller that requires a driver to detect connected drives.

I have this issue too. Replaced the power supply, but it did nothing. Should technically only start when the jumpers are shorted on the front panel header... or motherboard is just crazy.

Searched "LGA 1150 Wi-Fi" on Newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=-1&IsNodeId=1&Description=lga%201150%20wi-fi&bop=And&Order=PRICE&PageSize=30 Cheapest is that Gigabyte ITX board. Will look awesome/hilarious in the Source 210.

Heck, the integrated HD Graphics on the Haswell Pentiums are pretty good for games like CS:GO at HD resolutions with relatively high settings. I had a spare HD5450 that actually made things run worse than without it. If you're on a budget, the Pentium should do you fine, and overclocking is only going to make it better.