Windows 10: Help Repurposing old Dell Laptop

Discus and support Help Repurposing old Dell Laptop in Windows 10 Ask Insider to solve the problem; So I'll begin by saying this is an odd post lol. I've been doing some cleaning and came upon my old Dell Studio laptop. Purchased in 2010 for college,... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Ask Insider' started by /u/Enloeeagle, Mar 2, 2021.

  1. Help Repurposing old Dell Laptop


    So I'll begin by saying this is an odd post lol.

    I've been doing some cleaning and came upon my old Dell Studio laptop. Purchased in 2010 for college, switched to a MBP a few laters because the Dell was nothing but trouble for me.

    Rather than throw out a still-functioning laptop, I figured I'd try making it into my "desktop" computer instead by connecting it to my monitor via HDMI. But it's in bad shape. The screen/LCD panel is disconnected from the body on the left side, and close to disconnecting on the right side. When I boot up, everything starts fine and shows up on the monitor. But there's an ungodly series of beeping noise that doesn't stop. There are 8 beeps every time - and according to the Internet, that's a "missing LCD connection" error. Which makes sense.

    My question is - how do I bypass the beeping and make it stop? Or is that not possible?

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    /u/Enloeeagle, Mar 2, 2021
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  2. kiddagoat Win User

    Repurposing Laptop

    In my specs I have listed my Sager NP8690/Clevo WU860 laptop. It is getting to be 7 years old now and I am noticing since I cannot upgrade the graphics card, it is struggling to handle the newer games coming out. I can play Source based games just fine but anything newer like Rainbow Six: Siege or Heroes of the Storm, it just isn't as capable as it once was. I was wanting to get some suggestions about what to do with the laptop as it works just fine.

    I am looking to get a new Sager soon so I will be transferring the Windows license over to it. I was thinking about putting some flavor of Linux on this laptop and make it a multi-purpose unit of sorts. Possibly connect one of those 6-8 drive bay enclosures as it has USB 3.0 and make it a file server for media and Acronis backups.

    Seeing as how the CPU and RAM are pretty beefy, I was also thinking about making this box a game server or sorts, I am sure I could spin up a few VMs for Source, Unreal, or other dedicated game servers.

    Just need some feedback and ideas. This laptop is awesome and would hate to see it go to waste.
     
    kiddagoat, Mar 2, 2021
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  3. Namslas90 Win User
    HELP! My Laptop has gone into SLOW MOTION!

    Should be able to get a "step-by-step here;

    http://support.dell.com/?~ck=mn
     
    Namslas90, Mar 2, 2021
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  4. Kursah Win User

    Help Repurposing old Dell Laptop

    Repurposing Laptop

    I've repurposed laptops for several things, small file servers, cheap Plex servers, OpenVPN servers, small Server 2012R2 labs (usually running Win8.1/2012R2 as host, and then several VM's), Linux machines/servers, Minecraft servers, etc.

    I recently retired an old laptop on a site running as a DC for a cheap-ass lawyer...funny that they charge $400/hr but "can't afford" to purchase actual server hardware and squawk when their $300 solution burns up with no backups.

    Whatever you do, I would treat it as something that could be a loss at any given time...at the same time it is kinda fun to see what you can get working on a laptop. I'd recommend playing with Linux as well...Ubuntu, Mint, Debian, Fedora is where I'd start.

    You could add a USB3 NIC (edit: or learn VLANs and use the single NIC if that's what your laptop has built in) and make it a pfSense router/firewall, you could do any number of things really....not the right tool for the job though, so ymmv. Whatever you do, have some fun with it! *Toast :toast:
     
    Kursah, Mar 2, 2021
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