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Interesting T30 on eBay...

#1 Post by underclocker » Mon Oct 30, 2006 1:55 pm

I've decided not to pull the trigger on this one, but it looks like it may be worth it for someone with T30 experience or who wants to take a risk;

http://geobay.com/379a14

I called the shop and they said the blue on the LCD was just a reflection, not actually an image on the screen.

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#2 Post by scosgt1 » Mon Oct 30, 2006 8:09 pm

It needs a system board. It wil cost more to fix than you can just buy a working T30 for.
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#3 Post by rkawakami » Mon Oct 30, 2006 8:34 pm

GEEZ! Doesn't he know how to reduce the size of his images? That thing was huge (3000 x 2300 pixels)!
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#4 Post by underclocker » Mon Oct 30, 2006 9:52 pm

It needs a system board.
That was my assessment, too. Sometimes, but rarely, you get pawn brokers that just think the machine is broken because it won't boot to Windows properly.

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#5 Post by JHEM » Mon Oct 30, 2006 10:21 pm

scosgt1 wrote:It needs a system board. It wil cost more to fix than you can just buy a working T30 for.
Listen to the Sgt!

There's tons of working T30s around, some for as little as $300.

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#6 Post by scosgt1 » Mon Oct 30, 2006 10:46 pm

It "might" have the bad DIMM slot, which means that moving the RAM to the other slot might just boot it up.
STILL needs a motherboard.
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#7 Post by rkawakami » Mon Oct 30, 2006 11:08 pm

If I didn't have all of these T23s cluttering up my office (and more on the way), I'd probably get one of these T30 systems with the memory slot problem just to see how fixable (or not) it is.
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#8 Post by wogeboy » Tue Oct 31, 2006 8:30 pm

yup, picked up a T30 myself for 285! (needed ram, but thats cheap) and both dimm slots work.

If you decide to sell off any T23's , drop me an email

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