DESKTOP BUILD: MISCELLANEOUS TROUBLESHOOTING
| USB ISSUES:: Provides the guidelines for evaluators on the minimum hardware specfication and what needs to be removed or included as systems move through Evaluation.
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| NO IDE ports on the Motherboard, and no available SATA optical drives in Build: Determine if the incoming pizza boxes are full of tasty, fresh goodness or dried and rotting crap.
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| Laptop As-Is_Checklist: Laptops that teeter between "too slow to Build" and "too fast to Recycle" are given a last chance to fly away.
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| Laptop Build Checklist: Get your hands dirty with questionably functional laptops. Side effects of this step may include frustration, yelling, belief in demonic forces at work within laptops, and learning all sorts of exciting new things.
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| Laptop QC Checklist: Double-check the builder's work, keep things clean and standardized, and prepping laptops for their final destination.
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ADDITIONAL SUPPORT TO THE LAPTOP PROGRAM:
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| Laptop Recycling
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| OS installation - A workstation dedicated to loading 2.5" hard drives is available in the Laptop Build area. Drives which have been successfully erased are loaded, one at a time, at that station.
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| Sorting Laptop Memory
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| Shelf organizing
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WHAT DO I NEED TO BRING?
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| We have hand tools to accomplish the rebuild and recycle tasks, but over time you may find you want to bring and use your own. No problem! Be sure to label them so they don't get lost. Here are some Tool Sources around town for those that are interested.
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Classes
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| Oftentimes the USB port will not be working properly when tested with a USB mouse. Should this happen to the back, onboard USB ports, you may want to install a PCI card that offers USB ports. Otherwise, simply make note of it in the Printme notes and proceed. If this should be the case in the Front Panel USB ports, look to make certain that the wiring coming from the Front panel for the USB ports (check the plastic tips, they should have writing on it) can be plugged into the pins on the Motherboard. Look at the Front Panel Motherboard Pin-outs page for a diagram of how to make these connections.
| Some motherboards will not have any IDE ports in order to connect hardware, and since we currently have a shortage of SATA optical drives, this can become a problem in build.
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