The project for today is this Dell Latitude D600, manufactured in 2003 the power jack and the hard drive need to be replaced. I called on the expertise of a friend to solder the new power jack in, I had attempted it and the connections failed, it's always good to have a talented friend!The laptop had a 40Gb drive in it, that is being increased to 120Gb, partitioned to 40Gb C:/80Gb D:, a far roomier drive for all those things that get installed in the system.
After putting the computer back together, I suddenly had a memory error, a memory card went bad? I was lucky this time, I had an extra 512Mb SODIMM laying around for it! So back to 1024Mb of ram it goes.No real problems here, after the repairs, reinstall the operating system, drivers, and the nearly 1200 updates and it will be done!
For some reason it will still not recognize the power supply? and it will not charge the battery? I know the power jack is installed properly, so no idea what the issue is?
There were no issues with the drivers, they are all still available on the Dell website, THANK YOU DELL!
I should have this one done later in the afternoon, still have Firefox and a rather large program to install on it. I believe I will install Microsot Security Tools on this machine also, it has unattended updating, a good thing for a lot of people!
Still having fun!
Me!
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