Old PC's

[PiKe]

What's the best way to get rid of them? They're fully working and have their installation CD's but they're not use to us anymore, will a charity take them or do you need to call a special company to take them away?

 

[bandit]

you can just give it away, i would suggest stripping and creating a media pc, or mess aboutwith linux etc if it was me

 

[Slinky1989]

Obviously remember to remove/wipe/destroy any hard drives before giving away of course.....

But we all knew that already

 

[dr. sarf]

Whats the spec? I love taking old PCs off peoples hands

 

[Cuchulain]

What's the best way to get rid of them? They're fully working and have their installation CD's but they're not use to us anymore, will a charity take them or do you need to call a special company to take them away?

http://www.computeraid.org/dopconline.htm ?

 

[PiKe]

Obviously remember to remove/wipe/destroy any hard drives before giving away of course.....

But we all knew that already

I did actually

Whats the spec? I love taking old PCs off peoples hands

P3 500 with 64mb RAM, up in Cumbria though.

 

[t31os]

http://www.computeraid.org/dopconline.htm ?

Second that...

 

[GhostlyPea]

Our computers are taken by a company called re-commit. afaik they see whats good/bad and do charity stuff with them. they come to you, organise all the transprt etc. so no worries.

- Pea0n

 

[MumboJumbo]

Obviously remember to remove/wipe/destroy any hard drives before giving away of course.....

But we all knew that already

LOl who remembers the guy that had loads of porn and pictures of an ex naked on them and couldn't get rid of them but had already put it on ebay? Then corrupted the hard drive trying to do it?

 

[PeteLucky7]

LOl who remembers the guy that had loads of porn and pictures of an ex naked on them and couldn't get rid of them but had already put it on ebay? Then corrupted the hard drive trying to do it?

This one?

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17604858

 

[HummuH1]

This one?

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17604858

That's a ******' hilarious thread

 

[MumboJumbo]

hehehe

 

[rEeee]

Just wondering, is it better to sell a PC without HDD or shall I sell every part separately. Surely, I won't get same amount, if I sell it with HDD and Windows.

BTW, how much will you pay for this. It's Dells, still under warranty, lol. But, I have no idea what to do with it.

P4 with HT 3Ghz
1GB
6800 265mb


Cheers.

 

[Chaos]

Stick them on Freecycle and you will probably get someone to pick them up.

http://wildmanwildfood.com/pages/United Kingdom (UK) Freecycle Groups' Homepage.html

 

[Dogboy73]

This one?

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17604858

70GB of porn, including pics of his ex & the drive was on e-bay? I swear this guy was just trying to drum up interest in his auction

 

[PiKe]

70GB of porn, including pics of his ex & the drive was on e-bay? I swear this guy was just trying to drum up interest in his auction

He should have just deleted the dozen or so pic's of his ex and left the other 69gb of porn on there, I mean, you wouldn't bother trying to retreive pictures you never knew existed if there was 69gb to 'play' with.

 

[K.C. Leblanc]

Darik's Boot and Nuke is handy if you need to wipe the hard drives before you give old kit away.

Worse case take it up the tip, if your a business you will probably have to pay to get old PCs taken away (probably around £15 for a base unit and CRT monitor).

You can't just throw PCs into the normal rubbish.

 

[MumboJumbo]

He did try and nuke it but he got bored and stoped it half way ... idiot lol.