Many moons ago my uncle gave me this Lenovo Ideacentre 310S-08asr which belonged to my great aunt. It was running Win 10 but on a 1TB HDD. It gets worse. Only 4GB ram. It still gets worse. This is sporting a 15W TDP laptop-grade 2 core AMD A9-9425. This is a SFF or small form factor machine so it actually runs on a 65W laptop style power supply (DC input).
In retrospect I don't think upgrading this was worth it but for a tad under $100 I did the following:
- Samsung 500GB SSD (SATA 3)
- 16GB RAM
- 3.5" to 2.5" drive carrier adapter
Cloned the old drive to the new drive with Clonezilla which took a little fiddling with Clonezilla but also disk partition managers (both windows and Niubi from the other thread) before and after cloning. But it all worked.
Windows is up to date and I have my profile on here.
Installed a version of VirtualBox and copied my MB stuff over. It works! So if the original plan was to make a garage PC (inclusive of MB WIS/EPC) then I have completed my task.
Garage PC functions include:
- WIS/EPC as mentioned
- Connect to speakers for music? I usually use my phone via a bluetooth receiver which I may still do. Also I could connect my phone using that app to text via keyboard and stuff.
- Copy my entire legacy MP3 collection to this? I don't have any country music though so I don't see how I could work on cars without it....
- General purpose internet box for unit conversions and other things without having to go inside or even touch my phone.
All I need now is....a work bench on which to place this sweet rig.
Posted from the new system in fine tradition. Keyboard is acceptable.
I could build a simple shelf for it. I probably don't want it on the bench top anyway due to pounding (even with SSD).
"New" garage PC
Re: "New" garage PC
Throwing some pics in here for future entertainment.
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Re: "New" garage PC
BIOS update and other stuff.
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