What to do with an old broken laptop

[CHenry]

Disposal recommendations?

 

[ssgrock3]

drill a hole in your hard drive to destroy it and then throw it in the trash

 

[Catt57]

Might I suggest....

This is mostly 22lr with a handfull of 22WMR for good measure.

 

[Aries]

You can donate it to Goodwill or a computer shop would probably take it. There are just a little bit of precious metal in it. As advised above, take the hard drive out and keep or destroy it.

 

[CHenry]

drill a hole in your hard drive to destroy it and then throw it in the trash

Might I suggest....

This is mostly 22lr with a handfull of 22WMR for good measure.

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Punch several holes! lol

 

[p238shooter]

Interesting, last week three of us were on ham radio one night discussing old lap tops. I pulled out a win98 that booted up and an old XP that booted while plugged in. One guy suggested loading linux or what ever it is operating system on them and put them back into service doing some normal stuff with a lot of programs existing out there They would not be fast, but they would be functional.

 

[CHenry]

Interesting, last week three of us were on ham radio one night discussing old lap tops. I pulled out a win98 that booted up and an old XP that booted while plugged in. One guy suggested loading linux or what ever it is operating system on them and put them back into service doing some normal stuff with a lot of programs existing out there They would not be fast, but they would be functional.

This laptop wont boot up like just a black screen. The 2 lights on the side are lit but thats all I get.

 

[TANSTAAFL]

I hear there are some wonderful things being done with Tannerite these days... be creative.

 

[Aries]

This laptop wont boot up like just a black screen. The 2 lights on the side are lit but thats all I get.

If you move it around so the light hits the screen at different angles while it's running, can you ever see a faint image of what would be on the screen? I'm wondering if the LCD went out. Do you see a logo or anything at all on the screen when you first turn it on, like before Windows starts trying to load?

 

[TANSTAAFL]

Interesting, last week three of us were on ham radio one night discussing old lap tops. I pulled out a win98 that booted up and an old XP that booted while plugged in. One guy suggested loading linux or what ever it is operating system on them and put them back into service doing some normal stuff with a lot of programs existing out there They would not be fast, but they would be functional.

Actually have seen old Laptops run pretty quickly on Linux. It's far smaller than Windows. This worked great on a Late 90's era IBM ThinkPad:

https://www.damnsmalllinux.org/