Dell Touchscreen - Mint 18.3

booman

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I was giving a Dell Touchscreen Inspirion One 2205 ?All-In-One several years ago. It initially had a problem where if the computer was turned off it wouldn't turn back on.
I found a workaround by removing the CMOS battery and memory... then it would boot up just fine... at least until its turned off again. So naturally I would just put it to sleep every night to avoid it.

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One day it turns off and refuses to turn back on. I try all of my tricks and still nothing. After some research I found that other people with the same model noticed the video chip was over heated due to the poor Heatsink/Fan design.

Solution?
Remove the motherboard and bake it in the oven or use a heatgun on the GPU

I'm not about to bake the motherboard because it would melt a lot of plastic connectors.
so my daughter and I took the computer apart, removed the motherboard and I used a heat gun on it.

10 seconds intervals on low and about 1 inch away from the GPU
Slapped it all back together and BAM! booted up with the Dell screen!

yeah... see how long this will keep... I also blew out a bunch of dust and used some Arctic Silver on the CPU and GPU.
 
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well done Boo!

Most of my efforts to revive fading hard ware fall short of your success,

But when something actually works if feels better than getting one new! ":O}
 
It was a learning experience and definitely cheaper than buying a new one.
Even at 10 years old, it runs pretty well with Mint on it.
 
Yes me as well.
My oldest daughter is using and even older laptop (That huge suitcase one) with Mint 18 on it and she likes it.
I think its too slow, but she's happy with it.
I even offered to run OpenBox desktop environment, but she's happy
 
Thanks!
Its been a few years since that touchscreen bit-the-dust.
I eventually gave up repairing it and donate to Goodwill.
Now I have a 49in TV with a small shuttle PC and Linux Mint 19.
Runs great!
 
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