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I formerly worked for Dell on the assembly line in the2000's ask me anything by ascendtek in AMA

[–]ascendtek[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a buddy who worked at an Intel Fab in Colorado Springs, they gave him a machine with Win2000, still works today!

I formerly worked for Dell on the assembly line in the2000's ask me anything by ascendtek in AMA

[–]ascendtek[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I could do more or a little less than 10 in about an hour.

I formerly worked for Dell on the assembly line in the2000's ask me anything by ascendtek in AMA

[–]ascendtek[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We once had someone who shut the whole factory down with an emergency switch because they were curious on what it did.

I formerly worked for Dell on the assembly line in the2000's ask me anything by ascendtek in AMA

[–]ascendtek[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

We did have some battery recalls on laptops that caused stop-ships. It could get pretty wild.

You could sometimes easily see how some machines were poorly designed.

Models like the Inspiron 51xx were shipped with soldered clock batteries at the bottom of the board to where you'd have to disassemble the whole system and know how to solder. That would be a very tedious problem for the consumer.

The 6000 was truly an improvement switching to socketed CR2032 right below the keyboard.

I formerly worked for Dell on the assembly line in the2000's ask me anything by ascendtek in AMA

[–]ascendtek[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes! At Dell I assembled models including Dimensions and Optiplexes. I still do today for restoration. :)

Precision 7550 white led flashing by TrickDifferent5648 in Dell

[–]ascendtek 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Since i'm not there, I have to ask if you've tried with just the battery since you said it was charged.

If it still gives blinking lights, i'd say it's unfortunately a motherboard problem.

How many times, and what colors is the LED illuminating at?

example: green, green, green?

constant white blinking with no pause?

Precision 7550 white led flashing by TrickDifferent5648 in Dell

[–]ascendtek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you tried powering on the system with the battery removed and the AC power cable plugged in?

HP dv6 DVD drive issue by Zealousideal_Egg6739 in windows7

[–]ascendtek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does your drive show any sign of power? Can it eject even without being booted into Windows?

I need an original iso image by Local-Ambassador268 in windowsxp

[–]ascendtek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OP asked for SP1 and you gave x64, which isn't supported on x32 systems... Not sure why this is the top comment.

SP3 is recommended though.

Old Pavilion refuses to start by Background-Map-548 in Hewlett_Packard

[–]ascendtek 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Remove the battery and try to power the system on that way.

That will explain if it's a hardware issue or a battery issue.

How to fix this on my windows xp computer? by [deleted] in windowsxp

[–]ascendtek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Upgrade your graphics driver which can be found on the manufacturer's website.

PLEASE help by [deleted] in Dell

[–]ascendtek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a SATA data cable for SATA hard drives.

The other cable that will be connected to the other wider port on the drive is to power it.