Re: Blown board again?

On 12/12/2023 12:50 PM, sticks wrote:

> Well, the replacement box was just as described.  Toshiba Satellite P755-S5215.  It had 6 GB of ram, one stick being a 4GB Samsung that I had an identical 4GB to up it to a total of 8GB.  It had no battery or power cord, and the keyboard didn't work, but it physically looked better than mine did.  So I upped the ram, swapped out the keyboards, put in a battery and fired it up.
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> Before I put my drive, an identical 640GB drive to the one in there, I wanted to see if the one that came with it worked.  It indeed had what appeared to be a fresh install of Windows 11 on it.  I'm not sure how they did that, since with the other drive I have with Windows 10 on it says it is unable to currently run Win 11.  I really do need to start paying more attention to the differences in 10 and 11, and what they did to make it possible, but for now I'm good using the Win 10 drive.  Oh, and the wi-fi is back to working again, so that is another plus.
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> All in all, I'm glad T and Paul kind of helped me to decide to keep at it instead of just buying a new replacement.  For $40 I saved quite a bit for a system I mostly use only when traveling.  I probably should have taken it all apart and reapplied the thermal past on the cpu/heatsink, but I put that off for now.  I'll probably install Core Temp on this laptop so I can keep an eye on CPU temps in the future.
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> Thanks for the help all!

There can be amazing value in the used market.

Not every purchase will be a lucky one.

   Paul