Everex GC3500R Computer Repair

Fixing a cheap computer that had some bad caps.

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Entertainment

Tags:

• cheap
• computer
• Everex
• GC3500R
• Impact
• bad
• capacitors
• repair
• recap
• Via
• C7d
• CPU
• processor
• Windows
• XP

[MixerVM]

What size hdd did it have?

[Maxxarcade]

@MixerVM I never checked this particular one, but I think the factory drive was an 80GB Western Digital.

[MixerVM]

Were you repairing the computer for them or did they give it to you to keep?

[Maxxarcade]

@MixerVM I fixed it for a coworker.

[psychoclown420]

@Maxxarcade well i did do some optimizing, obviously i didn't run aero which freed up a lot of memory, disabled sidebar, and followed a guide for disable certain core services like some type of scanner and tablet services etc.. and i only ran one program: google chrome. And of course it was the 32 bit version. Was yours up to sp1 or sp2? that may have made a difference also. One advantage vista had vs XP on my machine was that vista took advantage of teh 2 threads better as well as the memory

[Maxxarcade]

@psychoclown420 Wow, maybe Aero slows it down a lot. I have Vista Ultimate x64 on my HTPC, which is an Athlon 64 x2 5600+. It ran horrible on 2GB, but noticeably better on 4GB. Maybe there were a lot of things running on that system though. It never seemed that slow when it used to be my main rig.

I have Windows 7 Pro on my Toshiba NB205, which has an Atom N280 and 2GB RAM. It's decent for what it is, but feels like a 486 compared to my main PC LOL.

[psychoclown420]

@psychoclown420 also, that netbook ran vista ultimate sp2 x86 just fine, only thing hampering it was the 1gb of ram and and the IGP.. couldn't do aero for both those reasons, used too much ram and had a conflict with the IGP.. however the 1.6ghz atom n270 didn't strugle really.. with more ram and a better gpu, it would run vista fine.. also i was running it hooked up to a 1920x1080 monitor

[psychoclown420]

according to passmark, that bitch benches at 332 points average... for reference, the intel atom n270 (think first gen circa summer 2008, 8.9' netbooks) scored 304... so this cpu is just barely better than my old acer aspire one.. also, a 3.2ghz celeron D (single core circa 2005) scores 394.. and my athlon 64 3000+ 2.0ghz scores 491... of course my athlon ii x4 scores 3400 average.. my personal scored around 4000 with the overclock

[Trance88]

You say 2 gigs isn't enough for vista? My "designed for vista" laptop from 2007 was maxed out at 2 gigs. Since that laptop died, I'm now running a Dell Optiplex GX150 with a Pentium 3 processor with Windows XP. POS barely plays 360P quality videos. Ram is MAXED out at 512 MB. I tried to use a 256 MB AGP GPU with it, but it crashes.

[mechadrake]

nice job! I once made a hackjob capacitor replacement on our old internet browsing computer, was amazed it succeeded, because i was really rough on motherboard and got only dodgy caps, which were motherboard rated. Have no idea if that thing would hold, because computer got upgraded to much newer after a month, haha.