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Hi Patrick French  If your current laptop has a optical drive, and yes, you can do a swap. System should detect the new optical drive. (1) Eject the current drive tray (2) Power Off the laptop (3) Unscrew the optical drive screw, normally held by one screw. (4) Pull out the drive, by holding on the ejected tray (5) check if there are any rail brackets, if so remove and transfer to the new drive. (6) install the new drive and screw to hold it. (7) power on and test.

HI Ender Agent89 What model is your laptop? You mentioned it is giving some clicking sound… I believe it is a traditional 2.5 SATA mechanical hard disk. Most probably it has failed. SSD now is affordable now, if possible to get it for your repair replacement.

Hi Julia, any abnormalities when using before it happened ? https://www.sos-parts.com/microwave-tripping-breaker.html There are some possible causes why this will happens, e.g. faulty door switch, faulty magnetron .... bad capacitor, HV diode etc ... do note that working inside microwave oven, involves with high voltages, if unsure, consult someone who know about this. it can be lethal if you are unsure what to do.

Hi @nick I would suggest you to check for BIOS updates, AFAIK some dell SSD have firmware updates, which you can use your service tag to search and under storage.

Hi misstif03 Based on the specs, it is running on a private 2.4Ghz frequency. https://www.verywellfamily.com/infant-optics-dxr-8-review-4783589 There is a way, but you need proper soldering tools. You can try this and this WiFi RP-SMA Antenna and connector. I suggest to buy in set, to avoid mis match, look around on online, price should be reasonable. In Summary, Open up the device as ifixit follows, and remove till step 3 Infant Optics DXR-8 Back Cover Prerequisite https://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/ig... Desolder the antenna from the mainboard. Remove the broken antenna parts from the casing. Fit in the new SMA connector, you might need to drill or work into it. and solder the pigtail end to the mainboard. End product should be like this as an example. And you connect the sma antenna to it.

Hi @will_treds Let us know what hard drive are you using. I guess you are using 3.5 Inch HDD. Do note 3.5 Inch need to have external power supply to supply to the hard disk.

Hi @annibraun What services are you connected with? Microsoft 365? Exchange? If your mail data is in server, I can say to delete the corrupted ost file and allow outlook to rebuild again. This will take some time to download your mails, calendar items, etc. Else if this is the corrupted ost from another pc and you need to recover, most prob you need recovery software to work with like, Kernel for OST, etc.

Hi Keystone  Here are some of my input. Alright, depending on your budget and misc, but minimum cat 6, will you be laying cables all by yourself? or contractor to lay the cables and perform patching and termination by yourself? Any estimated cable points you are going to lay out? Normally i will also make and print a copy of a floorplan / blueprint for a reference. Easy to locate and troubleshoot. If you have a label printer, it is good also to label those. Is your apartment having any riser to go access to pull the cables? Check for this also, it would be handy. Get reputable network cables, e.g. Belden, Panduit, AMP, 3M. If your place is “noisy” shielded is a good option for internal cable backbone run. I will take EIA-TIA-568B wiring as a guide. which I do normally. In Summary of parts you need for cabling matters, If your apartment is big, suggest to get a drum / box of cable, est about 305M or 1000ft # Network RJ-45 connectors, think how much you need, get some spares. get reputable like 3M, AMP If...

Any burnt smell or symptoms before this happened? any unusual activity? do note that working inside microwave oven, involves with high voltages, if unsure, consult someone who know about this. what had you checked? switches? some idea btw https://www.sos-parts.com/microwave-tripping-breaker.html

There is one trick is to mask off PIN 20 in the wireless card, but this will keep wifi card always on. I had done this for many old laptops which those airplane / kill switch went cranky after some time of usage. https://gsid.in/using-old-mini-pcie-wlan-cards-in-modern-laptops/

This is nostalgic, most will also remember the epic PS1 startup sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXF9zRqZ...

Not mentioned some people are very “creative”, doing mods breaking away those Sony Games protection at that time.

AFAIK, different sets apart from languages, some video output, e.g. NTSC, PAL.

Tips: Either use a multimeter or use a CR2032 battery to test the LED before soldering in :)))