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== About == | == About == | ||
Since March 2024 I started learning more things connected to maintenance and repair, I've been reading about these topics over the past years but I started to | Since March 2024 I started learning more things connected to maintenance and repair, I've been reading about these topics over the past years but I started to practice these skills only recently. | ||
On this page I will log my experiences and notes of my learning journey. | On this page I will log my experiences and notes of my learning journey. | ||
== Logs == | |||
=== ASUS eeePC 1215B === | === ASUS eeePC 1215B === | ||
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status: done | status: done | ||
This was my first ever repair, I managed thanks to the person that introduced me | This was my first ever repair, I managed thanks to the person that introduced me this practice, Massimiliano De Cinque. | ||
I found this computer in my basement in Italy, it was used by my grandma mostly to send emails. I remember that it stopped working when I was around 14. At the time I was experiencing some failures and errors with | I found this computer in my basement in Italy, it was used by my grandma mostly to send emails. I remember that it stopped working when I was around 14. At the time I found this old device I was experiencing some failures and errors with a computer I just bought, so while dealing with that frustration I became interested in the idea of fixing the old one, even though I did not know where to start. | ||
Under Massimiliano's guidance we did some basic troubleshooting and found out that everything was working exept the so called CMOS battery (a small coin-shaped battery that powers a chip, which stores the date, time, and hardware settings in the CMOS memory.) | |||
We replaced it with one he had and the computer was working again. Before closing the pc we cleaned it and replaced the thermal past on the CPU. | |||
After that the computer was back to normal, but someone installed Windows 10 on it and it was definitely not the best fit for the hardware capabilities of this computer. | |||
I swapped the old HDD disk with an SSD and together with a friend we installed Debian, this was also the first time installed Linux. | |||
== Notes == | |||
* Most contemporary tech devices are basically glass crackers, you have to surpass a feeling of anxiety or fear about damaging them as they look very fragile. Some of the first phones I had were looking pretty easy to open (having a removable cover and a couple of screws) the latest I opened for other people have the most overly complex way to fix both the screen and the battery (these are usually fixed with different types of adhesive). | |||
* Older devices have a wider range of screws. Compared with newer devices, which might have 3/4 types of them, I opened a couple of computers from the 2000's that had 13 different types of them, which makes it harder to put things back together when you are done doing what you need to do. | |||
Revision as of 23:41, 13 February 2026
About
Since March 2024 I started learning more things connected to maintenance and repair, I've been reading about these topics over the past years but I started to practice these skills only recently.
On this page I will log my experiences and notes of my learning journey.
Logs
ASUS eeePC 1215B
date: March 2024 status: done
This was my first ever repair, I managed thanks to the person that introduced me this practice, Massimiliano De Cinque. I found this computer in my basement in Italy, it was used by my grandma mostly to send emails. I remember that it stopped working when I was around 14. At the time I found this old device I was experiencing some failures and errors with a computer I just bought, so while dealing with that frustration I became interested in the idea of fixing the old one, even though I did not know where to start.
Under Massimiliano's guidance we did some basic troubleshooting and found out that everything was working exept the so called CMOS battery (a small coin-shaped battery that powers a chip, which stores the date, time, and hardware settings in the CMOS memory.)
We replaced it with one he had and the computer was working again. Before closing the pc we cleaned it and replaced the thermal past on the CPU.
After that the computer was back to normal, but someone installed Windows 10 on it and it was definitely not the best fit for the hardware capabilities of this computer.
I swapped the old HDD disk with an SSD and together with a friend we installed Debian, this was also the first time installed Linux.
Notes
- Most contemporary tech devices are basically glass crackers, you have to surpass a feeling of anxiety or fear about damaging them as they look very fragile. Some of the first phones I had were looking pretty easy to open (having a removable cover and a couple of screws) the latest I opened for other people have the most overly complex way to fix both the screen and the battery (these are usually fixed with different types of adhesive).
- Older devices have a wider range of screws. Compared with newer devices, which might have 3/4 types of them, I opened a couple of computers from the 2000's that had 13 different types of them, which makes it harder to put things back together when you are done doing what you need to do.