Ok, thanks. Can you take a photo with your camera-phone for us and post back? We might be able to identify it.
Are there no identifying logos on it such as with
OEM computers, for example, Dell, HP, Acer, Gateway, e-Machines, etc.?
What about labels on the outside of the case; on the top, back, or bottom is where they usually put them. Here's a how to locate your Service Tag label file with photos for you:
http://www.uis.edu/informationtechn.../sites/106/2013/04/LocatingServiceTagorSN.pdf.
If neither of those PCs turn on *perhaps you should try it!*; they are most likely both broken, dead or both.
Otherwise they are just taking up space in your home doing nothing. Buying a new hard drive is a waste of money if those PCs won't even POST to
BIOS!!
Since your brother is giving you non-working computers (sounds like 2 of them!), and no help; perhaps you can drive them over to his house or ship them there via UPS if he lives out of State or out of the Country. . If you're lucky, one of those front-porch package thieves will steal it from his front porch for you. I've got other customers who do this sort of thing--dump their old or non-working computers on family members or friends and make it seem like they are doing you a favor. Then they bring them to me asking if it's worth it to pay me to fix them. Ugghhh... If this is a clone PC, which we suspect it is, you have 2 choices:
(1.) take it to a computer repair shop and pay a Tech to figure out what you have and fix it for you; or
(2.) Ship it back to him and tell him to stop dumping his junk on you!
BBJ