Ricardo Cao asks:
I have an old laptop just sitting at home and I have been wanting to get ideas for projects I can do with the spare parts that I have. Almost every single part still works: screen, ram, hard drive, fan, etc… The full laptop is not functional anymore as the motherboard is dead but most of the spare parts work.
I am looking for suggestions about projects that I could do with the spare parts. Preferably projects that are cheap!
Thank you.
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System: Windows 7
Tagged: fix hardware, hardware tips, old hardware, recycle hardware, reuse hardware
System: Windows 7
Tagged: fix hardware, hardware tips, old hardware, recycle hardware, reuse hardware
22 Answers -
Prathamesh Saygaonkar
September 17, 2012Well,Thats a interesting case. You Can Always Reconstruct the laptop using various guides available online..Now a days motherboards are cheap too If You have a website you could always do away with an extra server. Also You Could Boost the speed of the computer you are using by parallely dividing the work of your computer. also you could sell the spare parts to a laptop repairing agency and make some extra bucks.. Also you could give it to a local school for teaching students computer science.
susendeep dutta
September 17, 2012Five Things to Do with Your Old Laptop -
http://gizmodo.com/5666465/five-things-to-do-with-your-old-laptop
10 Brilliant Ways To Reuse Your Old Laptop -
http://walyou.com/recycle-laptop/
mohit kumar
September 17, 2012Use them in desktop!
ro ot
September 17, 2012I fix my old laptop with ubuntu on usb stick. that works fine. and easy to run
Erlis Dhima
September 17, 2012Hmm…
I don’t know how they can be used, since I don’t know their size, type etc..
For example, if you have a RAM = 1Gb, you can build a ‘so, so’ computer..
If you have a RAM = 2Gb, then you can build a good computer! But it’s not only the RAM that is important!
So, in other words, if you give me the full specifications for your laptop parts, maybe I can give you a better suggestion..
Elrick Browne
September 17, 2012buy a hard drive enclosure and put the laptop hard drive in and make a external drive for backup! (sata or pata) according to you connection and the hard drive
Abaquin Dharence
September 17, 2012the best thing you can do is to go to the nearest, repair shop on your place!
Dylan Brendan
September 17, 2012Great article right here! http://gizmodo.com/5666465/five-things-to-do-with-your-old-laptop
Eserpess der
September 18, 2012Turn it into an Xbox 360
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVr2__UbrLg
Bernardo Delapasion
September 18, 2012You could always use the spare parts whenever your new laptop has a problem, if you have one and it’s compatible Not much of an answer but hey at least you’ve got some ideas *_~
Rajaa Chowdhury
September 18, 2012You can actually build your own Tablet out of it. I did watch a video in youtube of a chinese person doing the same. Check this link : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbfMHAdHtz0
Bruce Thomas
September 18, 2012Old laptops are good for putting in the bottom of fish tanks and letting the inhabitants have a go.
Brian
September 18, 2012I had the same issue, I sold the parts on ebay.
Vishwang Bhaskar
September 19, 2012reuse and recycle the parts u can …… liked the fish tank idea
EL
September 19, 2012Take it apart, and then try putting it back together!
Angel Vinod
September 19, 2012Well, what I’d do is to get a cheap motherboard, and assemble this laptop such that it looks like a helpful Item on my study desk, Seperate screen from the keyboard and it’ll look cool.
Alexis Akridge
September 19, 2012Here is some help:
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/findbysymptom/tp/computer-wont-turn-on.htm
Dimal Chandrasiri
September 20, 2012a good advice: if you r interested in computers, just try to disassemble the Laptop. find a compatible main-board for a cheap price nd fix it. you’ll get to know the hard ware. you’ll exp disassembling. then finally, sell the working laptop nd make some money! win win.
vasu gupta
September 21, 2012reconstruct it or just sell it for a few bucks
Declan Lopez
September 28, 2012you could make an external hard drive, you can easily find cheap enclosures online
Jim Chambers
October 7, 2012On many laptop motherboards there is a surface mount fuse labelled F1. Short across it with a fine piece of wire and the laptop may come back from the dead.
Abba Jee
November 25, 2012either you can pay some money to repair it from market or sell its parts ( something is better than nothing )