Somewhere around here, I have some Windoze XP CD’s which I was going to use to reload the operating system. Thus, cleaning and repair work completed, I purchased a new 80 GB SATA drive and a new CR2032 BIOS battery then got started. There are several youtube videos on how to get a LCD monitor apart which were very helpful as it is not at all intuitive. Replaced that and a few other suspicious looking electrolytics and it works as good as new. I took it apart and found a bulging 1000 µf 25VDC electrolytic capacitor on the power supply board. It had the classic flashing power button with no picture problem. The 19 inch Dell monitor was found at the dump. After examination, the BIOS battery was corroded and dead, there was some dirt and junk in the bottom of the case, but otherwise it appeared functional. It was completely submerged for almost 24 hours during the flooding following Hurricane Irene in 2011. It is a P4 2.8 GHz with one gigabyte of memory and had a bad hard drive. This particular unit is rather old and once belonged to my mother. I took an old dell PC and repurposed it as an online tuner. Because I need my main computer to do things on, I decided that I should have an internet media computer. After many years of declining listening options, I have finally broken down and started listening to radio on line. I have been a short wave radio listener since I was a wee young lad. After strenuously resisting, I have began to see the beauty of on line radio.
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