Jesusfrk611
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I'm working on making my room a computer workshop. My room is about 450 sq. feet so I've got plenty of space now to get some computers and I'm all set!
I do have two broken computers I never use:
Dell optiplex GXa
333MHZ PII
128MB RAM
10GB HDD
NO OS
I'm still trying to fix this one but no luck- always comes up "keyboard data line error" or something like that, even though the keyboard works fine on this computer. This makes it impossible to install an OS.
Emachines W2260
AMD Athlon XP2200+ processor
60GB HDD w/windows XP Home
768MB RAM
NVIDIA MX 4000 video card (assumably broken since when I tried another PSU, no video came on the screen when I tried two different monitors)
NO PSU (broken)
That's a good way to start. Now ask people you know if they've got any old computer stuff lying around that you can have. You'll start out with older stuff, but it will gradually get newer. That's how I started. Sometimes you can get lucky and get a car full of good stuff that's fairly new. I picked up a trunk and backseat full of stuff for only $50 not long ago. One of the towers I got was the ASUS system on one of my previous posts.