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Author Topic: Burnt PC boots up Matthew Bailey Master Film Handler Posts: 461 From: Port Arthur,TX Registered: Sep 2000 posted 08-09-2008 01:40 PM                     I go walkin around toen with a grocery cart looking for scrap materials or other useful items to salvage people's trash,usually dry trash. I found a burnt PC,a Packard Bell with a Pentium 1 inside a burnt house that had long been salvaged from. Anyway I powered it up & Windows 95 booted. The outside of the case has smoke/heat damage while the motherboard & everything else inside is covered with soot.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 08-09-2008 02:12 PM                       Sometimes, it works. Pretty amazing.  |  IP: Logged Damien Taylor Master Film Handler Posts: 493 From: Perth, Western Australia Registered: Apr 2007 posted 08-09-2008 07:17 PM                     This reminds me of that old Marantz print ad. It included the testimony of some guy whose building burnt down, and his amp was burnt, dropped through the floor, was recovered and worked perfectly albeit disfigured.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-09-2008 08:04 PM                     I serviced a DTS 6 that was in a booth fire a number of years back. All that was bad was the audio coupling caps on the analog board had shorted fomr the excessive heat. The unit is still running today... all charred!  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-09-2008 10:25 PM                     You could take the MoBo out of the old case and put it in a new one. There are lots of guys out there who have fun putting old computers into new cases. Just check around and you can find all kinds of site where guys with too much time on their hands show off their crazy case mods. http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/jdbnsn/HOF%20pics/monsterfinalshow/ On the other hand, it might be kind of cool to have a computer in a charred case sitting on your desk.  |  IP: Logged Joe Elliott Master Film Handler Posts: 497 From: Port Orange, Fl USA Registered: Oct 2006 posted 08-19-2008 12:29 PM                     You could make your own movie themed mod, like Nightmare on elm street. Put Freddies glove coming out of it.  |  IP: Logged

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