My cousin sent me on a new quest.

[Burz]

Buckle up.

 

So yesterday I had my drumming exam for my first year learning drums. Later the same day, my mom and I (She has a car, I'm too young to drive at 17 in Uruguay,) had to pick up my cousin (17, too) from her boyfriend's house and take her to her home, AND back.

 

All was fine and dandy until we got back, and she casually (but purposefully) told me they had a computer that wasn't working. I instantly offered help suspecting it was something stupid like the cable being half-plugged or something. So for clearance, my cousin's boyfriend is REALLY poor and lives in a house the size of a small garage, and they were extremely excited because they had just gotten an oven, the size of a microwave, for Christmas, from my aunt (cousin's mom.) That's the level of wealth they have. Also for clearance, her boyfriend is into weed, as is almost stereotypical of poor people where I live.

 

So I go into their house, again, tiny room, and get impregnated by the thick and sweet smell of cannabis. Great welcome. It was late at night so I didn't pay much attention to what was around (Except they had a friend over.) I picked up the case, which by the way, already had the side panel removed, and got back in the car.

 

As soon as I get home, I pick it up and realize the case itself strongly smells of weed. This is when I start to joke around how "happy" I will feel when actually checking it out the next day.

 

I woke up today, rather late, in fact, and my mother, a teacher, had to prepare a guy from the school for an upcoming chemistry exam. I had left the case on the table so she had to move it away for class time. Once he was gone, she told me what she had to deal with. Not only did the case STILL reek of weed, she found a condom wrap inside along with a bunch more trash. This managed to pique my curiosity so I got up. Sadly, I tend to have a bit of a shitty short-time memory so I forgot about it instantly and didn't see it. Until about 30 minutes ago, when I remembered it was still there and I needed to see it. So this is what I was greeted with:

 

Yes. The HDD is not plugged, the PC has no RAM at all, AND there is a bunch of McD dressing wraps along with the remains of a seemingly fun time with a strange balloon.

 

Now I have to fix it. I think the reason it won't turn on is the condom wrap is broken. Should I replace it maybe?

 

Also, on a serious note, I hope to be able to get it working and cleaned. If I do, I will update this post. As for the replacing condom wrap question, I think it would be a funny little gag to leave a few condoms inside once it's repaired, see how they react.

[TheGlenlivet]

I.... Um..... you.........

WOw.

Wear gloves.

[kb5zue]

Yep, I don't see any ram, don't see any hard drive, don't see any graphics card (but graphics could be integrated), so you have quite the job ahead of you.  Maybe they don't want a repair, but a replacement.

[Ophidio]

this is terrifying.

like actually terrifying.

horror movie of the year.

why is there no RAM? Did you take it out or was there no RAM to begin with? (would explain why it wasn't working)

 

2 minutes ago, kb5zue said:

Yep, I don't see any ram, don't see any hard drive, don't see any graphics card (but graphics could be integrated), so you have quite the job ahead of you.  Maybe they don't want a repair, but a replacement.

there is a harddrive, you can barely see it sticking out on the right side of picture and that motherboard uses an AMD apu so it has integrated graphics.

[Burz]

There was no ram, the picture is the PC just laid out on the table. I know that's part of the reason it doesn't work lol. As for replacing, They basically don't want to spend a dime on it, so if  I can add RAM, plug in the hdd and get it working I'll probably give it to them for free. Christmas spirit and all

[Himommies]

It's probaly cheaper to just buy a Optiplex for 50 bucks  then fix that

[Burz]

1 minute ago, Himommies said:

It's probaly cheaper to just buy a Optiplex for 50 bucks  then fix that

Uruguay prices are normally double the prices in North America, but I'll look into it. Thanks.

[Himommies]

Just now, Burz said:

Uruguay prices are normally double the prices in North America, but I'll look into it. Thanks.

Even with 40 dollar shipping it's still just a bit more expensive

[Eduard the weeb]

First of all OOF and 

 

F

 

okay, if you find it possible can you post specs of this " Battle station " lol

[GirlFromYonder]

I would first dip this in iso alcohol. Like FULLY. And then wear gloves and clean the rest. Maybe buy a pad lock for the side panel so this dont happen no more?

 

20 minutes ago, Burz said:

There was no ram, the picture is the PC just laid out on the table. I know that's part of the reason it doesn't work lol. As for replacing, They basically don't want to spend a dime on it, so if  I can add RAM, plug in the hdd and get it working I'll probably give it to them for free. Christmas spirit and all

You can probs get cheap ddr3 for that. 4 gb should be fine. maybe 8. and get a gt 710 or something if no display driver

 

6 minutes ago, Eduard the weeb said:

First of all OOF and 

 

F

 

okay, if you find it possible can you post specs of this " Battle station " lol

Is a FM2+ mobo. Now you know what the possible cpus are. Not good anyway.

[Eduard the weeb]

12 minutes ago, Burz said:

Uruguay prices are normally double the prices in North America, but I'll look into it. Thanks.

Couldn't you search the Uruguay used market ?

because I have a feeling that mobo will be dead tbh, and they will blame you

 

4 minutes ago, DeezNoNos said:

Is a FM2+ mobo. Now you know what the possible cpus are. Not good anyway.

just curious lol

[GirlFromYonder]

2 minutes ago, Eduard the weeb said:

just curious lol

ik

[Bcat00]

55 minutes ago, Burz said:

 

My god, i really gotta wonder why your cousin would be into someone like that. 

No wealth and poor self control on drug.

I'm guessing he's a rockstar band player? LOL

[robotsalad]

Just now, Burz said:

Uruguay prices are normally double the prices in North America, but I'll look into it. Thanks.

if you send me 55 USD I will send you an optiplex with a e8500 and AMD HD 5570 or something.

[Burz]

3 minutes ago, Bcat00 said:

My god, i really gotta wonder why your cousin would be into someone like that. 

No wealth and poor self control on drug.

I'm guessing he's a rockstar band player? LOL

He doesn't have a job Love is blind I guess?

[dragoon20005]

i see no point of repairing this PC because chances are they will sell it off to feed their weed adiction

 

you are going to waste more time cleaning the PC and trying to get it to work

 

smoke actually corrodes PC components

[NumLock21]

Man fuck this shit!

 

What you should have done was

 

1.

.

 

2. Take computer and toss into

 

3. Send them

 

[Crunchy Dragon]

I salute and respect you for trying. I personally would've probably done something diabolical like tell them what the problem was and leave it up to them to fix it and keep it in working condition they wanted it that badly.

 

That said, that is one heck of a job there. I would start by cleaning every inch of every component thoroughly. And then make sure it's all dry before trying to get it to post.

 

Shop around the used market and see if you can grab 4Gb DDR3 for cheap, and then throw Linux on the HDD.

 

 

[dragoon20005]

3 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

Man fuck this shit!

 

What you should have done was

 

1.

.

 

2. Take computer and toss into

 

 

3. Send them

 

no point sending them money

 

they are going to use the money for weed

 

these ppl should be sent to rehab for their own good

[burnttoastnice]

21 minutes ago, dragoon20005 said:

i see no point of repairing this PC because chances are they will sell it off to feed their weed adiction

 

you are going to waste more time cleaning the PC and trying to get it to work

 

smoke actually corrodes PC components

 

Personally I'd just slap a stick of 512MB in there, reconnect the HDD and call it a day...

[NumLock21]

27 minutes ago, dragoon20005 said:

no point sending them money

 

they are going to use the money for weed

 

these ppl should be sent to rehab for their own good

That's not money. Do you get what that last picture is?

[dragoon20005]

2 minutes ago, VegetableStu said:

bill, mate

 

2 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

That's not money. Do you get what that last picture is?

i do not know

 

but how are you going get money when they are piss poor?

[NumLock21]

5 minutes ago, dragoon20005 said:

 

i do not know

 

but how are you going get money when they are piss poor?

[kb5zue]

I guess that one of the first questions I would ask your cousin is how in hell did it get like that in the first place?

 

[dragoon20005]

15 minutes ago, kb5zue said:

I guess that one of the first questions I would ask your cousin is how in hell did it get like that in the first place?

 

OP mentioned both are high on weed

 

so my guess they just use it other than a PC.