Gadgetory

when I did my $40 PC a lot of people said with this motherboard still have life in it and that it wasn't free so today I'm gonna try my best to get it working for you guys so for this first part we're going to clean down the motherboard with some parts cleaner aka brake cleaner I usually do this on a lot of parts that I can't get to work for instance my retro Super Nintendo games if they don't work sometimes I can give them this and a bit of CRC 5 for 6 and they come back to life however before we do that we must take a precaution you'll remember ladies and gentlemen safety is a number-one priority you okay so it's the morning after and I have cleaned this whole board down with parts cleaner I've let it dry out and this is the actual socket here which was pretty dirty and it's actually looking a lot cleaner the actual pins so maybe that could be something to do with it so we're just going to pretty much clean up this board put some new heatsink paste on the Northbridge there and the Southbridge wack the heat sinks back on and give it another try but also before we do that I am going to run to my favorite hardware stores like the use parts places and give you guys a little insight of how I look for used parts and how I pick up these bug and switch a lot of people have requested it is and gentlemen we are here so they've got PC Depot which is like just a PC place that sells parts but the problem is is just the parts are always way too expensive there it's usually a bust I mean I went in there quickly and they had like an i7 920 for a hundred dollars so I was like now this place is not going to have anything decent but the place we're going to go over to is right over there called heart off and this is a big one it's in the reader so hopefully they have a lot of good stuff in there but we'll have a look it could be a bust we're the first section here they got like monitors which are all garbage and like this is like you kind of know that you're kind of not getting a deal here I mean like $250 roughly for a gtx 660ti so these guys need to kind of recheck their prices on a few things and sorry about this annoying crap in the background that like got it playing on loudspeakers then you go like some old school cooler here I mean feel these things are just a boss so we'll keep looking on and seeing if they got anything decent that's not bad you've got some den and speakers there for like 50 bucks and it's two of them so that's for the pair also over here I did find like if I was looking to put together a another 2.1 I'd probably pick that up that's like a Yamaha woofer with two amp to speaker outs on it so that's pretty good too so if we move around the corner here we can kind of like see that they're you know doesn't matter where you go even if it's used or not Bose is still overpriced and we're moving into the junk section this is basically where they probably get a lot of parts in that are missing things and they don't turn on so they couldn't be bothered checking them and a lot of times I find a lot of stuff works but I mean like look you got like Denon speakers here like five bucks for two speakers so I mean you could probably put together a 2.1 system no problems like I did before for nothing and then you got like just yeah lots of speakers here receivers so there's lots of stuff here but this is the part you all guys have been wanting to see and that's the computers so this is actually where I picked up the phantom 2 last time it was Miss advertised as a pentium and I actually got it as yeah is like a pentium G something but it was actually a phantom inside so I'm gonna check out this Dell XPS because I haven't seen this before and she had this one too and see what's inside and see if there's any bargains here because these two Anu I haven't seen them the last time I came here sir well the Dell XPS apart now it's got a 6800 in there so I think it's back from 2005 which is like I think from the top of my head that's like Pentium D days or something so this one's really not worth it I mean I couldn't be bothered for $30 so it's got 2 gigabytes of ddr2 memory in there so but anyway let's close this up and take a look at the next one so in here we've just got a case which is unfortunate and that's pretty much with that being said it's a boss I mean if anyone wants a copy of Windows XP there's a key for you but I mean like yeah this is this is real boss City today I mean it's just nothing really here so and then the good the anything with decent hardware in it they're asking like $200 for so yeah one thing I will say is those is their after a keyboard then they're like a dollar a lot of the keyboards are a dollar and you know I mean some of them filthy but actually some of them are decent so if you're after a cheap keyboard one dollar that's not too bad yeah now we're probably going to move on now to the next store because yeah this place was just a bust okay so here's the next place that I go to this is called tall garnet canta down so it's actually in my country hometown and yeah they sometimes have some good deals I mean generally the idea what deals is you're not going to get a deal unless that they can't get the parts working which was the case of my other two rigs that I got in the $40 PC bill but we're going to quickly go inside take a look what they got they might not have anything who knows let's find out inside now and there's like nothing here so there's that there's the other like sub-woofer bidet including the speakers for like $65 so I guess I picked up that bargain I mean there's just a lot of speakers here and no computer parts so unless someone wants a hel binder for $1 sir I mean I don't know looks like it's the bust in here too guys so I've actually got to get an IDE drive so I'll probably head to another place so I can get an IDE floppy drive and then I can try and boot up that motherboard at home so let's get moving all right so we just did the place called wonder X now so you can see there that's the kanji for Chuco so that means second hands so yeah we're going to go in and we're going to take a look upstairs there's a id CD drive and there's a kid going crazy in the background too so because around here we're ghetto or light okay so here we are with the board and it is just giving me the screen it doesn't matter what I do I have tried literally everything I can think of ps2 keyboard USB keyboard plugged into every single different USB port I've tried the solder drive plugged into every single different side of port I've even tried an IDE Drive plugged into the IDE port there and I just cannot get past this screen into the BIOS so I've tried yet and again I've tried the memory slot in every single different slot it just doesn't work it's just not happening guys this board is something is wrong with this board at a hardware level and it's just not getting even into the BIOS so the board's pretty much you know despite all my effort I cannot restore this board I mean unless I get new parts for it and solder it on which I'm not going to bother with an LGA 775 board so that being said let's move on now to a conclusion so there you have it guys despite what you do sometimes things just don't work out so this motherboard is bricked but at least the CPU works and at least the RAM works so it's not all a big loss I mean I did pick this rig up initially for $20 and also today I didn't have any luck when it came to finding any bargains so today was officially techno City day unfortunately but anyway guys that's it for today I'll be coming back here with another tech video very soon and if you have any questions or comments about this video then please put a comment in the comment section below and don't tell me about other things I can try because I have literally tried everything with this motherboard and I want to hear it Brad you can try this because no try - been there done that it just doesn't work so anyway that's it I'm frustrated with this motherboard and / so i'll peace out for now and i'll catch you in another video by this my brother got some $1 specials especially this game i remember this Hexen that was for the n64 that was pretty cool