Mutant Corn
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...actually, it's about the 4th one I've gotten, and quite possibly the oldest, lol. My dad's workplace disposes of old computers for people, but I always get a shot at making them work first. This one is/was an old HP Pavilion with a 733MHz Celeron, a total of 320MB of RAM(256+64), a 20GB "quantum Fireball" hard drive, and a read-only cd drive.
Oh, and Windows ME.
Turns out, it had a bad PSU. I had a spare mATX PSU from a newer Pavilion, but this old thing was even tinier. Comparison:
And so the fun begins:
To start off with, I stripped the case down to see how much room it had overall. This is it with the mobo tray and floppy drive cage removed:
That apparatus in the middle prevented the new PSU from going in, so after some work with a Dremel, I ended up with this:
I got a hole drilled in the back that, in addition to a pre-existing one, allows a the new PSU to be mounted. Unfortunately it started to rain as I was about to widen the hole in the back, so out came the tin snips. Not the prettiest thing ever but it works:
Oh, and Windows ME.
Turns out, it had a bad PSU. I had a spare mATX PSU from a newer Pavilion, but this old thing was even tinier. Comparison:
And so the fun begins:
To start off with, I stripped the case down to see how much room it had overall. This is it with the mobo tray and floppy drive cage removed:
That apparatus in the middle prevented the new PSU from going in, so after some work with a Dremel, I ended up with this:
I got a hole drilled in the back that, in addition to a pre-existing one, allows a the new PSU to be mounted. Unfortunately it started to rain as I was about to widen the hole in the back, so out came the tin snips. Not the prettiest thing ever but it works: