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rig building

Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 1:42 pm
by renovation
went to build a charity build today. from all old scrap laying around .was i in for a shock looked all though my stash. only to find out not one cd rom in the stash to be found. guess im not building a give away. i had everything else old case ,old bio star m7ncd pro MB, 300 watt power supply, 256mb video card ,512 ram , old AMD 2500 cpu and heatsink with fan still on the mb ,even a 30 gig hd, just no CDrom.

Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 3:32 pm
by DaMaN
Let me look through my stuff, I'll let you know

Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 4:02 pm
by normalicy
Just a CD-ROM, I may have one. Seems like all the old ones I have tested defective though. The belts all go out on them & won't eject. I've got a couple SCSI ones that I'm pretty sure are still good though.

Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 4:15 pm
by renovation
don't both guys this just saves me grief not having one !
but thanks anyway .

Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 8:26 pm
by b-man1
i haven't had an optical drive in a rig for quite a while...i just use usb sticks to load the OS and such.

Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 8:28 pm
by normalicy
I've tried to go optical-less, but I just couldn't do it. There's always a disc for something that I need eventually.