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My HP laptop is a nice brick.....
Purchased mebbe a year ago....never touched....bought it to look at trail cam pics/videos.....winbloze...used a couple of times. Now it's a worthless made in China POS, and I can't even tell which model it is....
I'm thinkin' 00....what say ye? Any other options...cell phone is all I have right now. Thanks.... I need to examine some old flash drives....find a couple of ancient Excel spreadsheets, etc. and move to another flash drive...don't need to open/read them (yet). Last edited by KFC911; 02-16-2019 at 03:13 AM.. |
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02-16-2019, 03:00 AM
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What's wrong with the laptop?
I used an adapter to view SD cards on my Samsung phone and a friend did the same on his Iphone and Ipad. You can buy viewers pretty cheap If the laptop won't fire up, try reseating the RAM. I had and HP that was really finicky and I was always having to reseat the RAM to get it to work right. https://www.amazon.com/BoneView-Android-Micro-USB-Hunting-Included/dp/B010GFHZB0 https://www.basspro.com/shop/en/stealth-cam-game-camera-sd-card-reader-viewer
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02-16-2019, 03:19 AM
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I use the second one....very happy now.
I forget the code.....hard disk 3F0 or something...no boot/op sys etc.....a worthless POS brick. I need to peek at ancient USB flash drives. Last edited by KFC911; 02-16-2019 at 03:31 AM.. |
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02-16-2019, 03:26 AM
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Something like this work?
https://www.amazon.com/DSYJ-Micro-Male-Female-Adapter/dp/B0027YYMU6 If you can get the thing to fire up and it's not a hard drive failure, format it and turn it into a chromebook.
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02-16-2019, 03:58 AM
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It's a dead brick at this point.
I have nothing to plug that USB adapter into.... I now have a solution....thanks fer letting me vent  .I hate cheap POS pcs (Apples too  ).....there...I feel better now 
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02-16-2019, 04:05 AM
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I have a high dollar engineering Dell laptop for work that is DOA after spending the night in a cold car. The company Dell rep already replaced the motherboard and it still won’t connect to an external monitor. What a POS.
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02-16-2019, 04:56 AM
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You could install Linux Mint (Along side Windows) to get it going.
It's a lot easier than you may think. That's all I run on my home PCs/LTs now. I don't miss anything from Microsoft.
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02-16-2019, 05:13 AM
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Take out the battery. Sometimes they put the info sticker in there.
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02-16-2019, 05:13 AM
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Did you get the memo?
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Also, computers are super fun to shoot. Just sayin....
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02-16-2019, 05:17 AM
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Fiocchi 00 buckshot it is....thanks OWP! |
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02-16-2019, 06:28 AM
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02-16-2019, 06:38 AM
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The memory checks out....BIOS 1.18.0.0
Please install an Op Sys on your Hard Disk... Bite me .
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02-16-2019, 07:04 AM
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I'm with Bill
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I am an Asus brand whore. My office laptop is a 2011 Asus ROG that still works as good as the day I purchased it.
I loved it so much I purchased another one in 2015 that I use at home (all my work related stuff is all cloud based now) and it works perfectly as well. I will only buy Asus computers.
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02-16-2019, 07:23 AM
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^^^ my data will NOT be kept on somebody else's hardware. I just don't mess with this stuff at all anymore....as a former systems programmer....I have an elegent solution. Drop by a friend's house, play with his dawgs, mebbe have a beer, spend a minute or two on "his" POS pc....done
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02-16-2019, 07:35 AM
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I'm with Bill
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I have my own cloud server, only 2 people can access it. myself and my drafter who works from home.
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02-16-2019, 07:51 AM
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Well this won't be popular here but after years of owning disposable laptops I've found a fantastic piece of equipment in my MacBook Pro.
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02-16-2019, 08:13 AM
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Im not an HP fan, but it seems that’s all our IT department will get unless you qualify for a mac(devs). My latest one is an I7 elitebook, and it’s always acting flaky. Doesmt like being docked, locks up anytime I try to access files.... total POS.
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02-16-2019, 08:50 AM
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