Recommendation for a computer repair kit...

[RalfHutter]

My repair kit is almost indentical to WarCon's with the addition of:

1)An image of Win98 "enumed" burned on a CDr and a couple of Drive Image bootable floppies.

2)Floppies with IBM Drive Fitness Test, Maxtor Power DIag, Memtest86 and DocMemory.

3)Win98 startup disk.

4)Working floppy drive and cable.

5)Small optical PS2 mouse.

6)One of those "flexible" PS2 keyboards, rolled up.

6a)various PS2-USB, PS2-AT, PS2-serial etc adaptors.

7)Brand new Enermax 350 watt PSU.

8)20Gb HDD, partitioned and formatted with FAT32, ATA100 cables, extra jumpers.

9)Spare 3com 905 NIC with RJ-45 connectors + some extra CAT-5 and a crimp tool, extra PCI modem card and some telephone cable and RJ-11 stuff, ATI Radeon LE vid card.

10)For my AMD buddies who are "HSF challanged" a spare 1.2Ghz Tbird chip.

11)A couple of 80mm fans and a bunch of extra fan wires, pass-throughs, 3-4 pin adaptors, Panaflo tails, etc.

12)A bag full of extra case screws, drive mounting screws, MoBo brass and plastic stand-offs, little red MoBo washers etc.

All this fits into a plastic tackle box that's about 2' x 1' x 1' and weighs about 25lbs, so it's pretty manageable.

 

[mcveigh]

I'm just starting to do some service type calls, where I have to fix things on scene, I have most of what ralf hutter and war con have listed, except for vid cards/cpu/power supply stuff like that.

but I do bring 2 usb to ethernet adapters with me and a crossover cable.they are very small and are great for connecting either 2 computers together (like my laptop and the bad computer.
of course some old pc's dont have USB, so I also carry a spare NIC w/ drivers w/ me.

 

[figgypower]

So... where would I buy these quality tools (online... if possible)...

 

[Jerboy]

<< So... where would I buy these quality tools (online... if possible)... >>



Home Depot. Come on, you don't need to get online to get screwdrivers..

 

[figgypower]

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<< So... where would I buy these quality tools (online... if possible)... >>



Home Depot. Come on, you don't need to get online to get screwdrivers.. >>



Uh huh... except I live in the boonies, and there is no Home Depot without an hour's drive (and that's just to, another coming back)... so...

 

[amdskip]

Local hardware store should be just fine if not better than Home Depot