hey! you! yea you! are you one of ... ugh... (counts fingers) about 4 people annoyed that the only voodoo envy machines up for sale are of the green variety?!? (please ignore that one of the listings is also mine) well here i thought i'd change things up a little bit!
behold one of the rarest model Voodoo Envys i've ever heard of, the Mi:732! what makes this unit special is the fact that it uses the clevo M560A chassis as a base, and that machine is already incredibly hard to find even just parts for. but here it is in the most rare form, the Voodoo Envy!
i got this unit as a trade from someone who saved it from being recycled, they found my posts online and entrusted me to restore it to its full glory, and i am extremely proud to have it completely restored!
let's give the rundown of this system:
when i got it, all it would do is stay powered on for maybe a couple seconds before shutting down without a single beep, light or any other signs of life. but given it's a rare Voodoo Envy and appeared to not be missing any pieces, i sought to make it right. i was able to find a motherboard on some romanian website i've never heard of out of a Turbo-X system. as i waited for it to arrive, i took out the heatsinks to clean them and noticed that the cpu was actually a ES Pentium M 770 chip. i think that this was a cheap ebay upgrade done years ago, and not that this was any sort of proto voodoo unit or anything like that. the previous owner was a true gamer until it stopped posting, what a legend! i wondered if that was the cause of the bootup issues so i put in a normal 1.73ghz chip, and still nothing changed.
after a couple weeks, the new board came in, and i spent that afternoon carefully replacing the board and exploring the incredible quirks of the Clevo M560a based machine (like little heatsink fin stack ACTIVELY cooling the palmrest through heatpipes!), i powered it on for the first time... and nothing showed on screen... dang.
oh wait, i forgot to reinstall the ram haha.
after plugging it back in for totally the first time, it came up to a bios screen! it's alive! its aliivee!!
i put the rest of the components back in including the hard drive that came with it, and i was shocked to see it power right up to a windows xp voodoopc desktop!
unbelievable, a factory hdd with the factory os on a voodoo envy?!? i've never had anything like that happen to me!
the original user had a lot of emails and such, so i made a new profile and deleted the old for data safety of the original owner. but it is still the factory os with all the original software the previous owner installed!
it's an incredible journey and story that this unit has had. i contemplated seeing if i could send a letter to the first owner's address that i found in a 2008 email file saying hey look i was able to restore your beloved envy machine! but then also thought that'd be creepy to find out that a machine you sent away to be scrapped was able to have its data ripped of your info so i never did anything like that or tried to reach out in any way.
as for the system itself as it stands now, here's its specs:
Intel Pentium M 1.73ghz CPU
1gb DDR2 ram
40gb IDE HDD (w/ FACTORY OS INSTALL!!)
ATI Mobility Radeon X700 256mb (Clevo Format, can fit D900T/K & M570A NVidia cards too)
15in 1920 x 1200 widescreen display
front CD player that can be used even when the system is powered off
working battery!
extra dvd drive with a silver pearlescent drive cover from another voodoo envy that i found on ebay like 2 years ago. i currently have it in place of the black colored one just for some extra flare.
only thing of note with this units condition is the front casing does lift up from someone forgetting to undo the screen tabs and just breaking the front chassis screw mounts. sadly this is a common problem on these old M560a/M570a based machines and theres not much that can be done other than using glue or other less than perfect filling material for new screw mount points. theres some smudges on the surface but the paint still glistens and looks great in the light, with some vehicle polish it will really pop! (yes voodoopc did actually use auto grade paint booths to paint their computers!)
i have a lot of history with this unit. if this never sells, then i really dont mind. but if it does go for the asking price, i can't say i'd complain. i'd use the funds just to help my family.
auction includes laptop, extra dvd drive and power cord only. feel free to send a message if you have any more questions or just want to chat about old computers, then that's fine too haha.
(side note the desktop in one of the pictures may also be for sale... for the right offer : ) )