- 8
- 12 597
The Employed Linux User
Приєднався 9 жов 2023
The Odyssey: Thinkpad T43 Refurb
Next one won't take as long... i hope.
Buy this laptop on based.win or my ebay page: www.ebay.com/usr/beaconcomputerparts
Buy this laptop on based.win or my ebay page: www.ebay.com/usr/beaconcomputerparts
Переглядів: 3 989
Відео
Short Update
Переглядів 1392 місяці тому
Im not dead, again. Just took a while to get the T43 working. Also i have no clue what to do with this printer.
The First of Many: Thinkpad T61 Full Refurbishment
Переглядів 6 тис.5 місяців тому
In this video, I test and refurbish a Thinkpad T61. Buy this laptop at based.win for free shipping! Or on my ebay page: www.ebay.com/usr/beaconcomputerparts
The First Ever Chromebook: Samsung 303C
Переглядів 3977 місяців тому
In this video, I test and refurbish a Samsung X303C12 - (one of) the first ever chromebook(s). Buy this laptop at based.win for free shipping! Or on my ebay page: www.ebay.com/usr/beaconcomputerparts
Trackpad Fever: ASUS X501U Repair / Salvage
Переглядів 1627 місяців тому
In this video, i salvage an ASUS X501U Purchase these parts on my ebay page: www.ebay.com/usr/beaconcomputerparts
A Sh*tbook: Latitude 3452 Refurb
Переглядів 4828 місяців тому
In this video, repair a Dell Inspiron 3452 - a low-powered Netbook that can barely run Windows. Buy this laptop at based.win for free shipping: Or on my ebay page: www.ebay.com/usr/beaconcomputerparts
How Broken is this thing?! - Dell Latitude 6330
Переглядів 6319 місяців тому
Music and Links: pastebin.com/3BX4uZBm
Replacing A Battery on my Friends Laptop....and Windows 11.
Переглядів 484Рік тому
Music and Links in pinned comment below. I replace the battery and install Windows 11 on my friends laptop.
27:50 Window Vista and 7 will be able to run perfectly on it.
13:17 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
8:47 Why did you use an SD Card instead of an SSD?
Dude, just FYI, "chassis" is pronounced in English as "sha-see", or sometimes "cha-see", but never "cha-sis".
\o/ [] / \
Your “The Employed Linux User”, and I’m “The Unemployed UA-cam Watcher Who Builds PCs As A Hobby And Lives In Their Parents Basement”.
Curious if it woud work with UA-cam. You went on UA-cam without a video. It was just a static picture with music.
entertaining
2:54 lol
A buddy of mine had a T42 he used to mostly destroy people on CS:S on low at 640x480. When he spilled bong water and killed it, he punched the keyboard caving in the whole middle of the thing, and then it worked for another couple years but needed an external keyboard.
Awesome 😂
Replace the keyboard also super easy...
@@lancheloth it was punched hard enough to bend the board and bottom of the laptop. Honestly I don't know how the thing worked.
@@kloroformd oooo, I stand corrected... Middle of the keyboard seems like where the motherboard lies below it? Franken / zombie ThinkPad!!!
This is all one needs tbh unless u play vidya
Or watch hi res video
looking forward to more videos
\o/
God bless you.
finally
Shame about the awful dirge playing in the background
The hard drive cover appears to have two metal strips with screw holes and if so, then that is how a drive is attached, Dell have used that design on several laptops.
Linux Mint is my daily driver and it has been for several years, but I do have Windows 10 on an old HP USDT PC., and Windows 11 on a laptop just in case I need Windows for some task, I have found that Windows 11 works better if at least 16 gig of ram., is installed.
Ah, the good old day of Thinkpads. Where the screen bezel was not a damn sticker. I blame Apple for the woes of current machines. Thin, thin, thin above all. Then Intel for reducing the spec size for Ultrabook size.
I saw a whole lotta time -wasted- spent on replacing mildly corroded case screws but I musta missed the part where you replaced the _17 year old_ thermal paste... 🤔
If you were having trouble getting the drive wipe program to boot from USB, why didn'y you just burn a CD? The image fits nicely on CD and you have an optical drive.
mine still on, using 4GB ram and 256GB SSD, works like a champ after i unlock the bios, still ok with windows 10 pro, i might gonna go to linux soon
拆螺丝却拆了10 分钟,
I have one can u fix it for free it has the nvidia gpu
Hey man, I wanted to buy one from your website, but then I found out that they're out of stock. Will you restock them? I'm ready to buy one for 85 dollars.
God bless you.
Hello Good job.
I use one as a retro gameing computer. I updated the ram hard drive and battery. Reinstalled windows Vista business and it runs like a new machine.
Mental Outlaw also sent me here :)
I have a t420 and im content with it. Installed arch with dwm on it
this music reminds me of old Sonic games
its runescape music
@@mraaron1584 its fire
IKR, I was banging and dancing throughout this refurb documentary😅
there may be a couple people here that need to hear this: if you have an old lenovo and want to refurbish it, lenovo has excellent consumer-facing documentation for their computers. additionally, even if they don't sell the part themselves anymore, their parts catalogue is *also* consumer-facing, which is very useful in finding parts numbers if you have an old laptop and you don't know what to replace? 1, the battery. 2, replace that silly old spinning disk hard drive with an SSD. still crashing? run a memory test. (memtest). got errors in memtest? 3, replace the ram, run memtest again. still crashing? bad CPU. most of the time they're not replaceable, unlike this model laptop. >90% of the time that's all that's needed. everything else is just extra. I've repaired >2000 computers, it's not as hard as it may seem. good luck and try not to strip any screws
ofc there's a lot more to it, I just see comments about people giving up and it's a bummer. don't overcomplicate things. read the docs. replace that ding dang HDD
Tried refurbishing a t410, did not take anything. Ubuntu, Kali (old from 2019, new), our PXE server, Debian 11, Deb 12, Rocky Linux 8, Clonezilla, Athena OS, etc... on this thing. I re-set the RAM and Hard Drive, turned on and off most options in BIOS, you name it, I did more of it. Same results no matter what. I did get a Kali 2019 Live instance to work, but it was slow... install quit like the others 1/3 of the way through. So, ended up thinking it was hardware related. Wish I saw this video before dumping it, refurbish the screen or something with raspi idk. Great video, looking forward to more.
hard drive?
u have new sub, i look forward to more thinkpads/linux!
gnu+ThinkPad smh
Mental outlaw sent me here
LeChuck’s theme rocking in the background!
I bought one brand new a couple of years ago and the battery latch was giving me issues as well.
Mental Outlaw sent me here.
He did? When? Why?
@@one_step_sideways Yes. Yesterday. Why not?
Me too
Yup - me too
Came here from The Libre Podcast big SirSudo fan!
Best laptop ever made, still have mine working, switched every part of it including cpu and screen)
I think theres alot of contenders for best and most durabile laptop ever made in that era Heck even the netbooks of that era of computers had more upgradablity than modern day laptops Rant time I bought an acer laptop for £12 ( can not remember the model for life of me) and pretty much everything on that machine was upgradeable. CPU,RAM,SSD,Disk drive, Laptop was dead sadly tried everything Reseating ram swapping cpus trying externel montior Doing a rain dance covering the laptop in holy water. Shame really. Its surprising how far we've come when it comes to laptops we've went from being able to upgrade the CPUS and GPUS in laptops to producing glorififed e-waste in not even a decade
laptop of Theseus
Better than the X230T?
@@PeterWolfe2012 if you can take it apart and change the screen then maybe 😅
Didn't ask + YWNBAW + You fell off + Seeth + Cope + Mald + Dilate + Cringe + Incel
Imagine buying this for -10% from based.win with Monero to download the AT&T customer database and do other cool hackerman stuff with your friends
5:49 Mental Outlaw hell yeah
I have a Latitude E5570 Core i7 - 6820 HQ 2.7 Ghz. 16 GB Ram AMD Radeon R7 M370. I purchased this refurbished. A year later I purchased a Dell Latitude 3520. Guess which one I like better? Latitude has gone downhill it seems the new one I have is nothing but a rebranded Inspiron. The Latitude E5570 is more like a Precision. I am running Windows 10 on both systems. I am not a big fan of Windows 11.
Inspiron vs. Latitude vs. Precision is a real thing.
I don’t know if you can help. I just installed Linux Ubuntu and I have no sound. I am new to Linux lol
Drivers
First
Is this the channel mental outlaw mentioned about in the libre podcast?
Old Dells never die they just sometimes need a few cheap parts. I have an XPS L521X still going which is around the same age as this I think with the 3rd gen i7, still has the best 1080P display I've ever seen. Replaced the keyboard and it made it feel like a new machine again :) The USB ports in this era all seemed to break in the same way, the centre plastic breaks in them. They're not so difficult to replace if you can solder since that's a USB 2.0 port on the side, not many pins. The 3.0 ones are a little more tricky.
Oh, finally tour chan🎉