LGR - Restoring a 1997 IBM ThinkPad 380XD
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2017
- Cleaning, upgrading, and reinstalling the original operating system and drivers for this classic Think Pad laptop from 1997! Error 161 and 163 are no big deal and installing the highest-capacity HDD of the time is cathartic.
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Downtown Alley 1 and 3
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Find a man that treats you like LGR treats 90s hardware.
Not a fan of woodgrain women, personally.
SlackerKite I want a woman like dat. I’m male
TnTlover883 she thic af
I got you a brand new nipple!
Find a woman who treats you like LGR treats 90s hardware.
...
Sounds impossible.
Don't falter.
I've been using the Windows 95 startup sound as my ringtone for the past year. Everyone always asks me why it sounds so familiar because they don't know where exactly it's from, I just tell them "it's a part of life."
I see you are a men of culture as well (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞
did y'all know the piece was composed by brian eno?
That's very clever 🙂
"I don't like that kind of noise coming from a battery."
I don't like ANY noise coming from a battery o_o
Back in 2009 I used to have an Asus Eee PC, and I used to joke that it's called "Eee" because that's the noise the battery makes
@@emilyemily9953 rip
exsacly
@@emilyemily9953 I had one of those, ungodly abomination
I'd be scared if my battery started to make a sound °~°
"Let's apply that crap without restarting!"
This man likes to live on the edge.
The setup background looked so futuristic back then but now it looks like something that an average person can come up with in 5 mins on Paint.
My morning just got a whole lot better, love these videos where you work on old stuff to bring life back into it.
Awesome, I hope you enjoy this little project!
LGR thank you for making videos man your voice and the mix of the amount of woodgrain in your channel makes me feel intense feelings inside thank you man
Ever heard of The 8-Bit Guy? Not saying LGR is less entertaining.
i know 8 bit guy too
Philip Cooper Idk. LGR becomes more entertaining whenever he invovles his duke nukem side
I was a child in 1997... And at this time I was amazed by the power you can get from a so thin device! Remember TV was huge, PC monitor was gigantic, PC tower was big too, an suddenly: a pc and a monitor for "almost nothing in space". Man it was a shock for me! Awesome channel! Thank you LGR!!!!
I keep coming back to this video, it's therapeutic to see and listen to it. It seems to get better every viewing on top of it.
A wood grain toothbrush... I love this channel!!! 😀
TheSinglePlayer
Trees hate him!
Rex Warden alternative facts
Rex Warden donkey teeth...
I like to imagine that laptop has one big virtual smile on the monitor saying "thanks for cleaning me
I know this is a year old, but I've seen you do this a few times now. A "proper" way to copy over the CAB files is to start by creating C:\WINDOWS\OPTIONS\CABS and copying the entirety of the WIN95 or WIN98 directory into it. You then run SETUP from that directory instead of the CD-ROM. That's where OEMs like Dell and Gateway 2000 loaded the CAB files.
I know this is 4 years old, but thank you.
I may redo my Windows 98 machine and try this out. Thanks for the tip.
7:54
"Nice"
- Steve1989MREInfo
“Let’s get this out onto a tray”
@@AshtonSnapp lmfao. His glass and spoon melodies too.
nice hiss
I watch him too.
Just picked up on that too!
"Nice, m'kay"
I feel my soul being cleansed watching this
yeah... i like that big brick of plastic too....
the thinkpad of course!...
What do you mean by soul?
"Hey guys I found a disk drive, do you need this?"
Yes I do computer, that's okay.
I don't know why, but this bit cracked me up xD
Yes! me too. It caught me really off guard.
13:20 :D
And Earlier:
"Oh ScanDisk, it's a blank drive, you'll be okay."
'I gotta check though, it might not be okay.'
@@__Mr.White__ lol. that i have to agree with you there, LOL, THAT cracked me up.
More like IBM T H I C C P A D
😆 BWL LOL
How I get windows 95 startup for my Mac
Yeah, IBM's Laptops are alway U L T R A T H I C C
“I like the feel of a fresh... nipple.” LGR, 2017
Don’t we all…
1:40
It's amazing to think that the phone (A FREAKING CELLPHONE!) that I'm watching this on has more storage than that machine. Technology is amazing.
Nicole Schoenhoft more storage and more raw power. It's incredible is it not?
I know my phone has 16gb
my phone theoretically can handle 2TB of storage card, I only have a 128GB in it though. It's an old phone, don't judge.
Why would you even need that much space.
cowcannon I don't know. Maybe for apps or pictures or something like that, but it seems like I bit much.
Ah! There's nothing like watching a new high quality LGR video after working a 12-hour shift as night security and just a couple of hours of sleep. It feels sort of cozy.
TheBandy01 sounds nice!
That thing is insanely thick. It looks like one of Ben Heck's console laptops.
ironically that thickness protect the computer
Nowadays, everything is so thin and fragile. You bump something and the screen cracks. Technology WOOHOO!! 😏😅
EXTRA THICC
Thiccpad
@@sanderlippa5144 CHONKPAD etc. I think this one might be a little bit chubby even for 1997, though it may be that the 12" form factor makes it look fatter than it would otherwise.
My mom had a similar ThinkPad (a 390X?) that she called the StinkPad. She got it from her employer, and they went out of business or something and didn't bother asking for it back, they never even cashed the check she gave them. I still have it somewhere.
Dude. Get that thing working. Old computers like these are a window into the past now.
@@TheEmeraldMenOfficial haha get it cuz it runs windows😂
ok ik its bad
Rainy day here in Louisiana and I was just about to turn off the pc and pop in a movie, Then I spotted this!
Love these videos man.
KhakiBlueSocks Oh--Hurricane Harvey made it intense in our region.
10:05 Scandisk voice: "I gotta check though, it might not be ok."
Watching this on my brand new 2018 ThinkPad makes me pleased to see that, even after the handover to Lenovo, the core design and construction of these laptops are quite similar!
It's very pleasing to see where certain features, and design language comes from, the ruggedness, the purpose built, "have the job done" style is awesome!
Well done IBM, and keep it up Lenovo!
BTW, great video as always! ;)
I love this channel. Your videos are fantastic man!! I had a IBM Thinkpad that I bought when I was graduating high school. I was going to college and wanted a good laptop and I was working at a computer store during the summer back then. The owner sold it to me at a discount and I used most of my earnings for the summer and my dad helped me pay for it as well. I was super proud that I had worked so hard for it. It was modular in that the keyboard could be raised to reveal slots to put in a 2nd hard drive, memory and cd rom drive could all be easily accessed. In my freshman year of college I had to do a speech presentation in one of my classes and I chose to do a presentation on the laptop. Got lots of oohs and aahs when I showed off the modular functions! Sometime in the next month or so my dorm room was broken into and someone stole it and some other electronics from my roommate. It was never recovered and I did not have any kind of warranty or insurance on it. It was one of the saddest moments in my life!! Months later the thief was discovered, he was a fellow college student who was boosting stuff around the school. He was killed in a violent attack. Crazy story but watching this video brought back a lot of memories!!
7:53 Steve1989MRE would be proud of that "Nice!"
Gotta get that out onto a tray first! 😅😅😅
that laptop is thiccer than your wiafu.
Shimmers man !!! You hit my spot :))
lol
And the spoon music just prior to that.
That battery pack will probably just contain a bunch of cells and a control circuit. If you can open it up, you can probably replace them with new cells pretty easily.
It's possible, but lithium cells can be pretty nasty if you look at them funny.
Unfortunately, it isn't usually possible to disassemble a laptop battery without destroying the outer casing. Most of the time, the cells are actually glued into place.
I did literally this with my Thinkpad, but it was the older NiMH battery option, much safer than playing with LI cells.
Can you imagine if they made a modern version with the same thickness, it would be powerful as hell
Thank you for the subtitles, my level in english is bad. Hello in France
And yet your english is perfectly normal. Why are you foreigners moaning about how your "EnGlIsH SoOoOoO bAd!!1!11!1!!! PwEaSe FoRgIvE MeEeEeEe!1!1!~~``````~~~"? Seriously, your english is perfectly fine.
In fact...
you
maybe
aren't
a FOREIGNER AT ALL?
From Instead of in*
Yuo mispelled simething !
y1ou're*
what comment were you correcting?
Bonjour
Back then
"Holy hell. 6.4gb!"
Now
"Bruh. You only have 1tb?"
I know. My first PC was a 486 which had a 540 mb hard disk back in 1995. When I bought my first Pentium 2 years later it had an 2 gb hard disk. Which was very spacious at that time.
A bit of trivia: a smartphone now has many more times greater computing capability than the Soviet Union ever had.
I have a 300 GB hard drive and that's all I need
@@Raiko05 :D
@@Raiko05 I only would upgrade if the hardware I was currently using is starting to cause issues and if I can fix that current machine I will happily do that
I don't get how some people judge others based on possessions and clothing
you forgot the retrobright
whops wrong channel
@@alpha-9609 wooosh
r/sorryididn’tmeanto
R/THANKYOUTHINKPAD
Jk
That is not how you spell whoops
my dad had one of these with Win 98. That and his Compaq Presario were my first computers. I remember playing the sims and goofing around on paint all day.
I just love watching you work this magic and geek out over these. It makes my little heart feel all warm and fuzzy and happy.
Was insanely happy when you got that white spot off tbh, so satisfying
Watching someone repair a 20-year-old laptop makes me wonder what we'll do with today's laptops 20 years from now. I can't really see someone cracking open a current-year MacBook and fiddling with batteries and things.
They literally cannot, the worst they can do is void any warranties. Unless some precedent gets set or some law created, you can open anything you own and do whatever you want to it.
ArmadilloAl Computer tech is advancing way slower than it was twenty years ago. In 20 years from now, the current PCs will probably be outdated but still usable.
Zazzilas Arden uh no.
ArmadilloAl I don't think any of our technology will last 20 years the way this did. Something just tells me no.
That's what I do :)
Apple computers are a nice challenge of your skills.
My Dad used to have one of these, As a Kid I used to play the DOS version of SimCity as well as Warcraft II on this at times
Software developer here. Love having your videos on while I work. Thanks for the cool content and for putting the recent history of technology into perspective.
"fresh.... nipple"
-LGR 2017
staberas
Top 100 Quotes of All Time
don't point it out, it might get the video demonetized
Allmost liked this comment before I noticed it has 69 likes
Dyila Akiyama it’s at 169 now...
It's at 217
I figured it out, LGR vision is like Neo's vision in Matrix, only in WOODGRAIN. ",...there's way too much information to decode the LGR. You get used to it, though. Your brain does the translating. I don't even see the woodgrain. All I see is maple, oak, cherry . Hey uh, you want a drink?"
Great video LGR, I own one of these machines and anyone having problems with 163,161 or 192 REPLACE YOUR CMOS BATTERY FIRST! It was a great sigh of relief when I got rid of all three errors just by replacing the CMOS battery, I was worried about the 192 error more then the other two.
That startup sound ❤️ it’s practically the sound of my love for computers beginning. Wild!
You should cover your entire house in wood grain.
@@MisterRorschach90 I mean you can see these walls aren't
It is the year 2050 and Clint has become wood grain. God help us.
I own a IBM Thinkpad Windows 98. lol I use to own one back in day as well and I love it. They are great work horses and built tough. I loved the video man!!
I have a T43 still.
This is that LGR episode that I always come back to for some reason.
In primary school, I was the nerdy kid with the laptop (an IBM Thinkpad 345CS), UNTIL the nerdier kid got a 380 of some description which had everything I coveted: CD, a sound card, a bigger screen, Windows 95... you inspired me to hop on eBay, pick up a cheap 380D, and begin a project to bring it back to its former glory! Thanks LGR :D
Hey Screw UA-cam for demonetizing your original episode for today. Glad you were able to find something else to put up. Sorry UA-cam is such a shitter.
No worries, I'll always try my best to readjust and bring you all something awesome :)
Oh yeah, let me remind myself to raise that LGR patreon fee. #ScrewTube
Commander Spock, the Thinkpad T30 models and the Dell D610/620/630 are often recommended for diagnostics sytems. I have the D630 and it does the trick, but the Thinkpads are generally regarded as being more rugged.
what was the other ep for today? didnt pop up for me :(
What's the endgame here though? What's happening at UA-cam is really worrying.
I got a HOW TO BASIC vibe from that clean at ~22:00
**throws egg at laptop**
Holy God you're right
Too bad he didn't just start trashing it.... That's the only truly way to bamboozle us a second time the way howtobasic did
So nice seeing the old thing come back to life, and the care you give it.
One of my relatives had a 380D model however there was no power supply however when I went looking I found an original at a local computer store. This video helped a lot with restoring it and it was very fun to take it apart and play around with it!
"What year is it?" - LGR 2017
Knut Mikael Haukeland more like LGR 20XX
He's a computer!
2020
@name2 2021?
FDISK verifies the integrity of the user. No wonder I got so many fatal errors back in the day.. LMAO
That was amazing work buddy! I so miss that era of the 90's. Quality built computers back in the day!
I have this laptop here with me too! And this is a big pleasure. Best keyboard, old ports, MS-DOS 6.0, Borland Turbo C++ 3.1, Microsoft QBasic... nothing better than this! Thanks Clint for old your videos with big old stuff! Inspiring!
I bursted out laughing at the Steve1989 reference (complete with the spoon noise) lol. Clint, your channel and Steve's have a special place in my heart.
I think that reference was pretty nice.
we used to call the nub a Centrally Located Integrated Tracker
TheBatNaz which is short for... :°]
So you use a clit to navigate the computer?
I call it a track-peg.
"Coffee and memories". Lol. I love your videos so much. You inspire people to take better care of their equipment. You are the soul reason I am using again my 2005 Toshiba laptop to do my writing instead of a modern laptop. I got my Toshiba fixed up with windows 7 and it's working perfectly. You can't beat these old machines. You rock LGR.
Love watching you are videos of bringing these old computers back to life. Right now I am studying Network Administration at my school, I love working on computers.
What I'd like to see is Windows NT 4.0 running on a thinkpad with a PowerPC CPU. NT 4.0 was the only windows to support that and I've never seen any major retro tech channel covering that.
I've never run across a setup like that, but I'd love to!
Light correction: NT 3.5.1 and 3.1 also supported PowerPC. It was the ThinkPad 850. It came with NT 3.51 stock I think and was compatible to the PowerPC version of NT 4.0. It came with a PowerPC 603e which I think had 100MHz and 32 MB of RAM.
I sort of remember that. I mean, I dual-booted NT 4.0 and windows 95 back in the day. They look so similar on the surface, but wow was there ever a difference in stability...
That was the x86 version though.
But I remember the installer and various things referring to DEC Alpha and PowerPC builds of it...
Was there any 3rd party software (compiled, packaged, etc.) available for it?
I'm not aware of any. The only downloads I could find for NT 4.0 for PowerPC were indeed some of the service packs that can still be downloaded on some ancient university FTP servers. Microsoft shut down the PPC support right when the first developers announced to port their programs to PPC. It never happened though. I suspect something similar is going to happen with the Windows 10 for ARM version soon.
The aesthetics are over 9000!!!
Those last Minutes of Cleaning were strangely satisfying. :-D
i always get asmr from random videos and never from asmr videos. probably because i don't expect it here.
HOLY SHIT LGR! I literally just got this exact machine given to me through my (sole proprietor) e-recycling business. Granted the guy kept the HDD (no biggie because I have 50+ on hand), But other than that it's fully functional AND he had the original doc and 2 power supplies. I booted to BIOS and everything looked good; even the CMOS battery.... Also, incredibly further still, the unit's battery STILL works and holds juice for a coupe hours. Could not believe that part. This is a classic, and a beauty at that!
Crazy timing for me to randomly find this video in my feed.
Cheers!
-H.B.
Surprised you didn't take the whole thing apart and show off/clean the insides. Maybe a part 2 someday for a deeper inspection of the guts of this machine? Great video Clint! Glad to see a new video despite the setbacks with UA-cam
Love your videos LGR, always makes my day to see you in my sub feed. Stay awesome =)
Thanks :)
Hi Clint! Love your videos, where can i find the music that you play around 17:13?
would you prefer to type "canyon.mid" into google
or did you want to search through the audio files on your windows 95?
Psht canyon.mid everyone knows passport.mid was where it was at. ;)
i was thinking more of the whole music library
Something from 1997 is by no means "old" to me, only when I remember that I was a sprightly 30 year old then LOL, but it is fascinating seeing just how far we've come in tech since then.
I can't help but wonder what tech will be like in another 20 years.
Good video mate, truly enjoyed it.
Your restoration videos are really great, I enjoy seeing them. Keep up the good work!
You ever start to wonder if LGR has a problem with all the wood grain stuff? No, me either.
If he starts considering changing his name to Woody then I think we must step in.
Gaming with Caffeine Rage I dunno about 'Woody' but 'Wood E. Grain'' sounds kind of cool. 😂
I feel like he would change his name to Woody
Ahhhhh, needs more woodgrain.
Dyila Akiyama so true :D
this is amazingly therapeutic to watch you restore old pc's and i just realized this video was dropped on my birthday :)
Your Channel brings up so much precious memories! Thank you!
Why they demonetized this, i see nothing wrong with this, I swear YT is becoming a shitshow
They didn't demonetize this one, it was the other video that might've gone up today. Instead, this one is up since it was deemed safe. The other video was simply me taking a look at a set of shareware CDs, which was somehow "inappropriate."
Lazy Game Reviews is it because someone thinks "shareware" sounds too much like "malware"?
Their new algorithm seems to be coming down hard on "violent games." Which now seems to include T-rated games.
I don't even think it may be "someone" behind the process anymore, it might be a black box AI in charge of automated demonetization that's gone rogue
Lazy Game Reviews how dare you showcasing a bunch of cds! THERE ARE KIDS IN HERE
Device Name : BANANA
oh na na.
lol, mine is still the default stuff
"BANANA" is the default CD driver device name used in the CONFIG.SYS file included in the boot disk for MS-DOS from the website AllBootDisks. This is almost certainly the file that LGR's custom boot disk was based on.
@Janice Alejo wha
My grandmother just gave me this exact laptop yesterday and this video has proven to be very useful.
Was feeling kind of off until I saw this video this morning. Helped perk me up in a weird way. Your channel is awesome.
"Nice, okay" 7:55
Nice SteveMRE reference haha
Wow I haven't heard the PC speaker sound of commander keen since I played it as a kid.. I loved that game and that's what it sounded like back in the day for me. 💗
The jazz in combination with the beeping and the drive noises makes such a sound scape. I dont know how but its really mesmerizing.
Oh my god... the memories... the feels... *hugs his still running and still used x201* long love the trackpoint...
Will you do an episode on what got you interested in wood grain? :)
7:53 is that some Coffee, Instant type 1? Alright, Cool.
Instant type 1, NICE!
"Oh ScanDisk, it's a blank drive. You'll be okey." ScanDisk-voice: "We've got to check though, we might not be okey."
"Getting ready to run Windows 98 for the first time..."
I remember helping my dad reinstall Windows on customers' computers back when we had a computer repair shop, and I still get so satisfied seeing that splash screen after installing 98 or XP. ^w^
Ah, you failed to answer important life questions such as where does one find a wood grained toothbrush....
The woodgrain toothbrush store!
LGR, The woodgrain toothbrush looks suspiciously covered in that same vinyl wrap used on the WG486, I wonder...🤔
I didn't wrap it! Reach sells toothbrushes with all kinds of patterns, and one of them right now is woodgrain
Lazy Game Reviews is there a website? I gotta get me one
Lazy Game Reviews wow, that's oddware worthy! I must ask, are you going to try out add on boards for the soundblaster, like the dream blaster? (I think that's what it's called)
Than ScanDisk impersonation was spot on.
Dude, lgr. I live for wat u do. Like restoring old pc's. Its so fun to just boot up old pc's and trying to make them run well. Its gr8 bro
Really enjoyed the video. It is always nice to share a cup of coffee with someone, even if I am at work while drinking along with you!
Channeling a little bit of Steve1989MREInfo
Let's get this out onto a tray.
7:54
Nice.
Holy crap so i wasn't the only one thinking of that....
"I agreed to your outdated agreement"😂😂😂😂😂😂
Such a beautiful machine, I had a lot of fun learning on it when I was a kid.
The way you unbox or unseal is soooo... Satisfying
7:51 Is that a nod to Steve1989?
Xeotroid Nice!👍
Xeotroid I think it was lol he's done it before
That's how I took it. Nice!
Xeotroid combined with the spoon clicks, I would say so.
Let's get that ThinkPad out on a tray.....
Wow! I remember growing up with one of these as a kid, playing DOOM and RollerCoaster tycoon. Very nice.
Somehow it's relaxing seeing someone restoring a pc~ Seein' someone else doin' the work and seeing how shiny and "new" everything looks like in the end~ x3
Restoring PCs is a beautiful thing, I really enjoyed the video, thanks a lot
UA-cam and their over-reliance on algorithms, it's just like their DMCA process. If UA-cam is going to do something like this, at least get a human to double check.
Do you realize how many people they'd need to hire for that? At least five Indian guys working thousands of hours of overtime.
those five indians would need to be fluent in every language spoken in all countries with an internet connection since not every video is in english.
You Tube grown too big for humans to double check unfortunately.
It's Largely automated now with Human Admins can make overrides and changes. But with all the thousands if not millions of videos that are uploaded every day Human intervention is becoming difficult at best.
There is an appeals process, but there seems to be a lack of transparency with videos getting confirmed as not advertiser-friendly for no reason... like Bryan Lunduke's video on tmux is "inappropriate" somehow, because that makes sense.
Maybe they don't like tmux because they're screen purists?
That is one adorable little hard drive
I can feel the nostalgia get to me.....this was my first price of technology that I had as a kid...so happy to see it back again
Excellent tip there about creating a CAB folder on the hard drive, seem to remember doing that myself from time to time, but I've had a few sleeps since 1997!
Awesome restoration job! The computer is actually in pretty good shape, but the fresh Windows 95 install on it was very cool and with 64 MB's of ram it should run pretty fast and your now are able to portably play your favorite old school games... very nice job!
Thank you, I still use the machine all the time for capturing software footage!
LGR I love your videos and I’m a big fan of your channel. I like a lot those old devices and I have some of those old stuff too, however, I’m from Brazil and I can’t find all those old stuff like you do... that’s why I watch your videos... fun nostalgia... keep publishing new stuff and I’ll keep watching you...
windows....95!
...i've installed windows 2000 more times than i want to admit, nearly remember the serial by heart
2000 times?
Thanks Clint! After watching you clean your pc things, it inspired me to clean off my 2006 macbook from my closest and pack it back into it's og box for storage.
That was beautiful! Thanks for sharing this content. I never had a computer when kid, but someway I know that nostalgic feeling.