I Tried Making A Steam Deck Out Of A Horrible Laptop... Everything Went Wrong
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- Опубліковано 31 жов 2022
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can you pin this comment so i can flex on my friends
u r cool
I wish I was as cool as you. :(
@@mireaaa u r cool 2!
This Is illegally funny
flex on your friends
came for the steam deck, stayed for the free windows 7 key
came for Steam, stayed for Berrorart!
💀
well the windows 7 key works on windows 10/11 i think
If ya stayed for it, Didja use it?
Cuz I may use it.
Just use chew 7
This trainwreck was pretty entertaining.
thats what she said
@@Lord_Gwumbles Ouch
fosho
Entertainment 🤓
xD yes!!!
It may be the sleep deprivation but this is easily one of the most entertaining videos I’ve ever seen
0:22 The OLED and the faster processor both came true!
The Steam Deck OLED does not have a faster processor than the LCD.
@@caner7067 It does by a tiny bit
@@caner7067 OLED model has a 6nm APU compared to LCD's 7nm APU. It isn't a big difference, but it has positive affects on battery life, and I believe minor speed increase too. (memory isn't the best so I'd try to find some more information yourself if you are interested in it)
@@tankintime2118 the upgrade from 7nm to 6nm mainly only improves battery life, the chip itself is identical. The actual performance improvements come from the ram chips, which are faster in the SD OLED.
@@caner7067 Yeah, I didn't have the best memory on the specifics of it. The 6nm APU has very minimal performance impacts since it is able to run cooler from drawing less power, but it isn't anywhere near the RAM improvements in performance impact as far as I know. Thanks for mentioning the new RAM upgrades; I almost completely forgot about that lol.
The amount of times I tried to do things on old computers and I had the same struggle.
I felt your pain and happiness throughout the video, what a ride!
Great vid
Sameeee
Yeah, I have to get old tech just to install windows it’s insane.
Old laptops and OEM computers are a pain, desktops are comically easy to work with.
@@Hackerisitic kinda agree to you.
You've made Druaga1 proud. This Toshiba was fighting you tooth and nail. Also "hostname" is the name of the computer (in case you didn't know). All in all a great video, we've learned that you can't pummel an old dog like a Toshiba laptop to do your bidding. 😂
He's pretty much like Druaga1's.... weird cousin.
Oh man, I hope Duraga1 is doing well. Havent seen anything from him in a while.
i think your comment was the reason i was recommended this channel, i hope druaga is doing more of the funny blue psu smoke
Definitely get a Druaga1 vibe
sad we wont get any more SSD videos but its always fun to see ssds on different OSes
9:16 thanks for the debugging tutorial!
Lmao
Only works in lua
This is that janky shit I like! I'll take these videos over LTT and shit anyday because this is what actual people deal with and do when they wanna recycle tech. As someone who a graveyard of parts and broken shit like this myself I can respect this video. Glad youtube recommended it.
Me to do random bullshit like this with sare parts all the time
Me to three
Mee to like do this random stuf
Agreed
Me starting this video: "I should do more projects."
Me watching this video: "This is why I don't do projects."
It's fun when it works its hell when things go wrong
I mean, I do believe youd be more competent than op vid with just a tiny bit more of computer knowledge and common sense
I mean he seems to be computer novice, with a little knowledge like uefi and all it won't take much time.
15:28 was the laptop's kb spamming a key input
it is incredible that you actually made it into a desktop. I've given up on laptops because of USB port issues.
Was going to mention preciselly that. The laptop keyboard is faulty.
alternatively "trying to make a bad steam deck out of a 75% broken laptop but I have a mental breakdown"
"nope. i'm sick of it."
I felt this moment in my soul. The last time it happened to me, I bagged up the parts and paid someone else to reassemble the device.
Watching you struggle with the screwdriver and ending it with "dedotated wam" was just top tier UA-cam. I suppose if all else fails it could be a Minecraft server with that wam
this may be helpful for a later date, Ventoy lets you use either bios or UEFI modes to boot iso files off of a USB drive. another good thing to mention, Linux (and SteamOS by extension) sometimes need certain kernel extensions to use your wifi adapter.
Nice video. As an os engineer, this was a bit painful, but glad you learned something about operating systems along the way. Swap is virtual ram. Host name is network name of the computer.
Virtual ram? What?
@@R.K_Chalkboard For when you want to download more ram
/s
Simply put, swap is a place on your drive that may be used as (veeery slooow) RAM if your actual RAM is full
Pagefile..
@@DarkLinkAD I think windows calls it a page file. But yes same idea.
To take it step further, a program that runs on your system doesn't access the memory of the computer directly. If it did, a malicious program could do anything it wanted to on the system from deleting the contents of the harddrive to reading passwords. As a result, it allocates memory by requesting it from the kernel, which has a memory manager. The memory manager allocates continuous memory segments called pages and maps the address space from this virtual memory to physical address space in the ram. As a result, the kernel has the ability to move ram not in use if physical ram is low to another storage space, the swap or page file, and then reload it back to ram when needed. It swaps the memory to and from the disk, hence the name. Since the memory is grouped in to pages, windows chooses to Call it a page file. Same idea although the mechanics are slightly different in their respective implementations.
Thanks for posting this, this is my experience with nearly every semi joke project I decide to adventure into. I always use junk I have lying around taking up space and remind myself:"oh right, this is why I haven't touched this garbage in ages".
Hilariously relatable struggle you show here.
It sucks to fight through this crap but honestly I think it teaches you many niche troubleshooting skills that can be applied else where. The number of times I've heard "how did you think of that?" or "how did you know to do that?" is almost entertaining enough to make working with the garbage worth it 😂
Interesting thing about this laptop: I’ve worked at a few Geek Squad locations, and I can safely say that it’s the most common model of Toshiba laptop I see. Toshiba Satellite, some series designator plus 55.
T-55, P-55, PS-55, it’s insane. They all shipped with Windows 7 and they all come in with destroyed Windows 10 installations that crash when you open settings, and sometimes even CMD.
But their drives don’t seem to fail very often, which is good because they’ll often have a decade and a half of stuff on them! 😂
Toshiba makes some pretty reliable hard drives such a shame their laptops were shit
Mine got bios bit rot after the Hard drive started to fail !
first it started to beep loudly whenever I try to enter the bios & freeze, It booted normally tho~ got all important stuff backed up then when I replaced the Hard disk ... BLACK SCREEN
Funny thing I never formatted the windows since I bought it in 2011
RIP Toshiba Satellite PSK04, you served me well (2011~2019)
Yeah, Windows really likes to break when you turn it into a different version. Reinstall always works better.
My dad was a sales rep for Toshiba from 2008 to 2018. He said Toshiba was very conservative with their drivers they didn't rush out their drivers.
@@_EyeOfTheTiger funny you say that, the Toshiba MQ04 hard drives are the worst hard drives I've ever seen, they always die after 1-2 years
You were SO close, try finding a distro with legacy support and DO IT AGAIN!! Seriously bro, we believe in you!
Just installing Linux on such a machine isn't all that hard. I have a very similar Toshiba laptop, exact same outer shell and screen, except a bit older, with a 1st gen i7 and an nvidia GPU, not supported by nvidia's proprietary drivers. Still run Linux on it with no problem
"what's the next thing....an OLED screen, perhaps?"
damn that aged well
exactly what i was thinking
While I get cleaning the inside of laptops is tougher than a desktop tower. I feel bad for the family member who once owned that laptop knowing they'll put their current/next one through hell.
Entertaining video by the way.
A SpongeBob reference, a Homestar Runner reference, and a Jimmy Neutron reference all within the first 5 minutes. Who is this man and why is he after my heart
Wait... What was the homestar runner reference? I've absorbed so much media into my mannerisms that I don't even remember anymore lol
@@BringusStudios Oops... dedotated wam is its own thing. Every time I hear a r sound with a lisp I just assume it's Homestar lol
@SonicManEXE it's a minecon 2011 (I think) reference, where a kid asked how much detotated wam (dedicated ram) he needs for a minecraft server
@@Biggerman159 Yeah, I realized this lol. It definitely has Homestar energy though
This guy is almost as excited to get this running as I was when I built my first PC.
it was such a change of pace to see someone fail like me on youtube that watching a 20 minutes video just for you to fail has made me want to subscribe, cant wait to see more of your content!
Bro predicted the steam deck oled
I'm pretty sure those 2nd gen i7's don't support Vulkan (on Linux) at all, so you wouldn't have much luck running games on these. You could of course try an egpu!
😂🥺😘💕😆
You need at least HD 3000(Ivy bridge) or higher, and even then, Ivy Bridge and Haswell have only experimental support.
Can you even run an eGPU with no thunderbolt and very old if any USB 3.0 support?
egpu needs bandwidth lol
@@jbritain Yes. You can use the mPCI-E slot intended for the wifi card.
15:50 ^[[24~ is the ANSI escape sequence for the F12 key. ^[ starts the sequence and [24~ is the code for F12. When the program running in the terminal doesn't know what to do with an escape sequence, it just gets printed instead.
Well shit that makes a lot of sense
so it would seem OLED was the next move
15:59 it means something is being held, something I think you want to hold in a different way...
probably an arrow key
Your pain and dedication is utterly visible - thank you for trying and sharing the utter frustration of trying to get things working.
0:25 you actually guessed that it was gonna be a oled screen😂😂
the assumption with the oled screen aged very well
More successful than the actual Steamboxes of yesteryear
Legit forgot this thing exist, at least proton come out of that
You can also buy some laptop antennas with shorter cables and just attach the antennas to the laptop chassis in some suitable place. Or just use the existing antennas, and coil up the extra.
Watching this was like the same as watching a full on action movie.
This whole video is such a mood. I've been in this exact scenario with an even lower budget. And until recently a Sceptre brand monitor was my monitor for testing things.
Having dealt with an old (unknown brand) laptop before I can attest that the struggle is, in fact, real. Thanks for reminding me of the hours wasted trying to do all sorts of jank just to get to the BIOS
"An OLED screen perhaps" good call.
I only found your channel a few weeks ago and I have been exclusively watching your content. Fantastic work on all your projects. I do almost the same thing with my electronics. I would also like to note, because of you, I now own a 3D printer and used PCBway because of all your great videos!
This is hilariously the kind of way I spend my time trying to make absolute ass machines work too.
2:55 dedotated wam
Lmaooo man I feel this so much this was my experience with my first 3 laptops it's so relatable. Entertaining af
The amount of old shit computers I have done the exact same thing with blows my mind. You remind me so much of me when I used to take all my old family crap and make it work. My favorite is when I made a PSU work by using electric tape and twisting the lines together. Probably a fire hazard but screw it.
Very entertaining video! Seeing you make your way through the Laptop was fun to watch, seeing what you can do with it! Hopefully you decide to return to and install a Linux Distro for general use besides gaming like Linux Mint, Debian, Fedora, or Arch if you are brave enough.
This is the content I need more of! I am constantly doing weird and random shit with old pc parts I have lying around. It's hilarious to see someone else go through the struggle of installing stuff that should NOT be installed on the hardware.
This perfectly encapsulates all of my tech failures of recent memory. Literally down to the mental breakdown
this was insanely entertaining good job man
this is such sicknasty awesome content please never stop making videos
This entire thing was a massive trainwreck and I loved it
An interesting idea. Regardless of how it ends up. A Chromebook with old laptops sure been done before, but Steam big picture mode, maybe a Steam link connection from one device to another why not. That's the new hip marketable thing if you don't have a Steam Deck. XD
16:46 in these cases you can use your smartphones "tethering over usb" option
Wowsers - thanx so much for enduring the entire carnevil of fail for this expedition into cyberhell...you are a super trooper!😁
an OLED screen perhaps? 👀
3:25 is the worst. The keyboard has to come out before the rest of the palmrest.
I felt all that pain. When you're doing something super obscure and prompt just spits in your eye every time you make some progress. Great video. Unfortunate for your project though but you've earned a sub.
just stumbled upon your channel dude. The trainwrecks are amazing, thank you. +1 sub
more seriously, the next thing id like to see from valve is a 'steam control 2' emulating all the input options of the deck & with full steam input compatibility.
This is great! You got potential, man. Keep it up!
This was awesome loved it I have been through this so much time
This laptop reminds me of my old Toshiba Satellite, which was a Core i7 laptop too coincidentally, and in which i ended up installing a SSD too. I still use it as a secondary machine to monitor my Twitch stream chat while I stream using my modern 13700KF main machine.
The hard drive should have come in a caddy to hold it in place, that might explain the block and cable time.
It would have bin a steam Maschine, but you cleaned the Fan
Repairing laptops is a nightmare. You did very well
You need more subs, this channel Is incredible!!
I just took apart an older version of this laptop yesterday. The way you did it was painful.
This was a very entertaining clusterfuck, great job.
Kinda getting DankPods vibes
All we’re missing is a duck and a ipad
I just subbed your content reminds me of Michael mjd which nothing normally ever goes right for him so you guys are great to watch and you made me want to do this to a old laptop of mine
This was the most entertaining video I've seen in a while and so satisfying in the end❤
Glad to see Linux is as easy to install on old hardware as everyone says it is. Great vid, keep it up!
i mean the man decided to install a distro made for the steamdeck, a standart ubuntu install would be WAY easier
This PC has a non functional keyboard, monitor, and steamOS is not intended for use by random people yet.
To be fair SteamOS 3 is designed to use Vulkan almost exclusively, so a GPU without Vulkan support wouldn't work.
@@DiThi absolutely
@@franchioping5047 Ubuntu, mint, manjaro, and hell if he wants gaming focus there is always pop os
you should have declipped the keyboard, removed the ribbon connector, and then unscrew 2 screws. i have an old asus that i dissassemble like every week that looks like your toshiba...
as for the cmos battery, on mine i think it didn't have one but you could reset the bios by pressing for like 30 seconds on the power button with the battery removed (i think it empty the capacitors that replaces the cmos battery or something)
Intertaining to watch keep it up :D
brilliant video mate that was so funny
I'm not a pc specialist, but I remember I tried to install windows 10 to a 2nd gen i7 laptop though a USB Stick and it was imposible. I ended up using an external DVD reader via Usb and it worked.
interesting, was probably an issue with your flash drive or whatever tool you used to make the usb drive bootable. I install windows from USB drives on machines ranging from 2006 and even they can boot the Windows 10 installer.
alone getting anything to work on that old thing is impressive lol
Loved this vid you're a genius!!
Love the destiny ps4 at the end. I had a big destiny 1 sticket on my ps4 back in the day. With the first logo.
1:28 dankpods moment
It really hurts me how you tore that cover. As a tech enthusiast, I feel sad whenever a perfectly repairable laptop gets destroy like that.
This thing is a PoS. You're no 'tech enthusiast' if you think this retro junk is even worth using.
@@BuzzingGoober You should realize that many tech enthusiast value ie. Rasberry Pi's a lot and their compute power is miniscule. Actually way less than this laptop. I consider myself "semi" enthusiast as I've built multiple plus 1000€ rigs in the years, but I still have ie. old Pentium laptop with svga and Soundblaster compatible sound with proper "fast" refreshing TFT and I pretty much value it higher than my M-series Macbook Air 😂
I have literally no clue about anything you talk about, yet I was entertained throughout the entire video. Bravo
I know I am late to this but just found your videos. I love them hah better than half the youtubers I like to watch sometimes.
as a person that loves linux and tried holoiso, I can definitely understand your pain. Trust me, I tried installing holoiso, it's simply not the way to go, especially if you are a complete beginner. It's a mess, I daily drove arch linux and I'd say that arch linux is far easier to install than holoiso, yes terminal install can be scary, but it's far easier than holoiso by a lightyear. Try popOS instead, or fedora, you are gonna have a much better experience. trust me. (also don't use ubuntu, snaps are kinda mid, and I don't like how canonical runs ubuntu, stick with popOS or fedora),
Is Holo iso required to install Steam Deck or just Linux in general?
What even is holoiso? I googled it and got a lot of info but nothing said what the hell it does
@@sta1nless From what I can gather it's some kind of Linux Distro(kernal?? Not sure what the right term is) with the software needed to install Steam OS to your PC
Watching you mangle that poor thing hurts in ways I can't find words to describe... I love it, but it still hurts......
18:51 it looks like you tried to use apt-get on an arch based distribution. Just fyi the package manager is pacman on arch.
Great video !
As I look to my main rig assembled in pieces on a motherboard box because my riser cable died recently (...8months ago) - I really relate to your method of madness.
God, the ragequit after nothing goes right is all too relatable. Sorry to see you experience that :(
If you do try again, Valve is beginning to add the SteamOS Big Picture UI to the standard version of Steam (granted it's only in the beta branch of Steam right now), so you can get something pretty similar to the Steam Deck experience by just installing a different distro and launching Steam with the correct boot parameters. I don't have a Steam Deck and haven't tried the beta yet, but based on past experiences I can't imagine there'd be many differences between the two versions.
Yeah I have been meaning to look into this. The whole ordeal should get easier with time.
I love how little fucks you give. Big change from watching people like Dawid does Tech Stuff and Linus Tech Tips. It's funny, but professional. You just don't give a fuck and it's GREAT
Watching people break shit without breaking it is fun
@@Im_Rainrot it may look fucked, but it all comes together in the end... somehow
i love how you added an ad spot after adding "send help"
Man i laughed so hard during this video that i had to subscribe, thank you. 😎👌
This video perfectly summarizes why I don't use Linux.
8:54 lmao
Great editing, I haven't laughed this hard at a UA-cam video in awhile.
Watched the entire thing, awesome self depreciating humor!
Your monitor is w10 compatible? That's wild
Windows basic display adapter
@@starleigh6680 it was a joke my dude
if i was reading it correctly you tried to install Nvidia compatible drivers for an intel integrated graphics that is why you got the terminal login for user it was installed just the GUI wasn't showing cause you lacked the hardware to display it but im not a total expert in the way of linux but i have been trying to use it daily to get better at it
you presumed right. he should ave tried the amd/intel version.
Swap is allocated memory from your main drive (hard disk or ssd) to use as a slow type of ram when your ram is full. It's a way to not lose information during high demand tasks.
This reminds me of when I tried to install RetroArch on an old NCR POS terminal from like 2008 that I got from my old job.
Man this video stressed me out lol. Probably picked the worst possibly laptop you could. Not your fault. Who would have thought this would be difficult
The point where i would have given up would be where you opened the notebook
Bro what the fuck does this mean. "The true at the lastest when opening been"?
@@justinpflieger3380 Have used deepl so that it is better translated but apparently that is also not optimal I meant that I would have given up at the point where the notebook was made open
@@dedbash OH! Ok that makes sense, sorry and thank you
1:01 i always search for this video to listen to this part lol , ITSA FAST GAMING MACHINE !!
When you pulled that the thing apart my hart skipped a beat