@@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
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. 😂
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.
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
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 😂
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.
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!
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.
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.
"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.
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
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.
@@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
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.
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
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!
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! 😂
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)
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
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.
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.
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.
Well that one was pretty obvious haha, the usual upgrade path for LCD screens is to OLED since it's just kinda better haha (though it is more pricey obviously)
seeing someone else struggling to open laptop not meant to be open like I've done a dozen times bring me joy, like... when you know the pain, you know, you know ? and of course each time you do that it's because you got an urge to try something out and install stuff that will serve no purpose in the long run but even if it's frustrating it's still fun for some reason
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!
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.
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.
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.
God damn. Your power is destructive. I love it. Your magnific machinary is "in love with you". Oh and i forgot to mention, every tehnology guy seeing this is dying and crying. You got us in anxeity.
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.
I see a man's descent into madness. The same journey I've endeavored so many times. I look at his eyes, reflected on the blank screen, and I see myself.
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
So this is my introduction to your channel courtesy of the algorithm. As far as I can tell, you're the Druaga1 of the next generation. That's definitely a good thing.
hey! I work professionally with computer hardware troubleshooting and I have a sneaking (unsurprising) suspicion that the motherboard may have sustained damage in some capacity. Failing RAM can corrupt data, as can failing storage (but it likely wasn't storage considering the new SSD). You could have very well been doing everything right! But the laptop simply... put its foot down.
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.
Technology: "if you breathe wrong or let me install the wrong thing, I will die" Also Technology: "I may be 20 years old, but I can be a router, NAS or remote PC if you need me"
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)
Yeah, so as you may have realized, many laptop keyboards are clipped or screwed in. You must release them in various arcane ways. Then access the screws beneath them. Next up: WiFi antennae. If you happened to have disassembled a DS or a satellite TV DVR (maybe because it was less than $10 and had a 1TB hard drive inside) you might be in possesion of little wifi antennae with the proper connector for this laptop. Putting them back in where the hinges used to be is totally acceptable. Also you have the option of taking the screen apart to get the original antennae and just winding up the extra wire, it works fine as well. I am at the beginning, so I assume you will be quickly discovering that support for Intel processors on HoloISO is not very good.
@@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 😂
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.
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
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.
I laughed so hard when he got excited and thought the whtie on black repetitive text is a loading bar, but that was actually the enter key pressing itself LMFAO
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 "might just strip the motherboard out with a mouse and keyboard" line reminded me of the time I rebuilt my pc into the motherboard box to take to London for a week.
Why do I get the feeling that I wasted 21 mins of life to watch a failure but at the same time found it quite entertaining cause of the funny methods to resolve the issues
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
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.
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
Good job
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
Same
Watching at 1:21, I have work at 6, have to head out approx 4:30 😂😂😂😂 plus one you
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
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.
alternatively "trying to make a bad steam deck out of a 75% broken laptop but I have a mental breakdown"
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
REAL
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.
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
Exactly
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
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 😂
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.
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!
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.
0:27 This aged well
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
@@BringusStudios What has happened to the screen tho?
The type of crack that had kinda indiciates it either:
fell.
or got bent
@@GregLukez
15:59 it means something is being held, something I think you want to hold in a different way...
probably an arrow key
"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.
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
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.
"what's the next thing....an OLED screen, perhaps?"
damn that aged well
exactly what i was thinking
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
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!
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
"whats does i get as next...a oled screen?"
Aged like wine
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
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.
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.
This is hilariously the kind of way I spend my time trying to make absolute ass machines work too.
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.
0:25 you actually guessed that it was gonna be a oled screen😂😂
Well that one was pretty obvious haha, the usual upgrade path for LCD screens is to OLED since it's just kinda better haha (though it is more pricey obviously)
Your pain and dedication is utterly visible - thank you for trying and sharing the utter frustration of trying to get things working.
This perfectly encapsulates all of my tech failures of recent memory. Literally down to the mental breakdown
This guy is almost as excited to get this running as I was when I built my first PC.
seeing someone else struggling to open laptop not meant to be open like I've done a dozen times bring me joy, like... when you know the pain, you know, you know ?
and of course each time you do that it's because you got an urge to try something out and install stuff that will serve no purpose in the long run but even if it's frustrating it's still fun for some reason
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.
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.
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.
More successful than the actual Steamboxes of yesteryear
Legit forgot this thing exist, at least proton come out of that
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.
Lmaooo man I feel this so much this was my experience with my first 3 laptops it's so relatable. Entertaining af
God damn. Your power is destructive. I love it. Your magnific machinary is "in love with you". Oh and i forgot to mention, every tehnology guy seeing this is dying and crying. You got us in anxeity.
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.
Wowsers - thanx so much for enduring the entire carnevil of fail for this expedition into cyberhell...you are a super trooper!😁
Watching this was like the same as watching a full on action movie.
I see a man's descent into madness. The same journey I've endeavored so many times. I look at his eyes, reflected on the blank screen, and I see myself.
Repairing laptops is a nightmare. You did very well
1:01 i always search for this video to listen to this part lol , ITSA FAST GAMING MACHINE !!
Bro predicted the steam deck oled
it was VERY predictable
I have literally no clue about anything you talk about, yet I was entertained throughout the entire video. Bravo
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
So this is my introduction to your channel courtesy of the algorithm. As far as I can tell, you're the Druaga1 of the next generation. That's definitely a good thing.
so it would seem OLED was the next move
hey! I work professionally with computer hardware troubleshooting and I have a sneaking (unsurprising) suspicion that the motherboard may have sustained damage in some capacity.
Failing RAM can corrupt data, as can failing storage (but it likely wasn't storage considering the new SSD). You could have very well been doing everything right! But the laptop simply... put its foot down.
This was a very entertaining clusterfuck, great job.
I started this video thinking 'that's a great idea, I have an old laptop'. And ended it thinking '350 is good value for a steamdeck'
the lengths a man will go to to avoid burning a DVD
I came for Steam Deck OS, left with my sides and lungs hurting xD You gained my sub sir.
This entire thing was a massive trainwreck and I loved it
"Someone has been in here..."
Somewhere far away, a man and his snake are very happy.
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.
1:13 the reflection on the bottom right corner of the black screen made think that the laptop was letting out smoke for a second lmao
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 !
That’s neat,
You need more subs, this channel Is incredible!!
3:25 is the worst. The keyboard has to come out before the rest of the palmrest.
you should do a speed run video were you do this but on a bunch of weird pcs as quick as you can
"An OLED screen perhaps" good call.
Watching all these youtube tinkerers, I thought I was sloppy and careless when messing with tech, but finding your channel boosted my confidence.
1:28 dankpods moment
Technology: "if you breathe wrong or let me install the wrong thing, I will die"
Also Technology: "I may be 20 years old, but I can be a router, NAS or remote PC if you need me"
This is great! You got potential, man. Keep it up!
Lol thanks for posting these videos. Giving me the urge to not take apart the electronics in my household and run linux on it. Keep it up.
I suffer so you don't have to 🫡
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)
Yeah, so as you may have realized, many laptop keyboards are clipped or screwed in. You must release them in various arcane ways. Then access the screws beneath them.
Next up: WiFi antennae. If you happened to have disassembled a DS or a satellite TV DVR (maybe because it was less than $10 and had a 1TB hard drive inside) you might be in possesion of little wifi antennae with the proper connector for this laptop. Putting them back in where the hinges used to be is totally acceptable. Also you have the option of taking the screen apart to get the original antennae and just winding up the extra wire, it works fine as well.
I am at the beginning, so I assume you will be quickly discovering that support for Intel processors on HoloISO is not very good.
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 😂
"Imagine how much better stuff would go if I actually thought about literally anything I did"
Never have I related more to anything in my life
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.
14:10 DUDE. THAT FUCKING PIG. XD Perfect nonintentional Minecraft pig impression. XD
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
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.
11:15 to skip the ad
"Incredibly slow 20 mb"-
Cries in third world
8:54 lmao
I laughed so hard when he got excited and thought the whtie on black repetitive text is a loading bar, but that was actually the enter key pressing itself LMFAO
an OLED screen perhaps? 👀
sticker: "Samsung SSD"
inside the laptop: HDD
14:10 piggo momento
This video is pretty entertaining to watch, you earned a usb
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
Watched the entire thing, awesome self depreciating humor!
Kinda getting DankPods vibes
All we’re missing is a duck and a ipad
and the australian feeling
He definitely takes A LOT of inspiration
The "might just strip the motherboard out with a mouse and keyboard" line reminded me of the time I rebuilt my pc into the motherboard box to take to London for a week.
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Why do I get the feeling that I wasted 21 mins of life to watch a failure but at the same time found it quite entertaining cause of the funny methods to resolve the issues
This video perfectly summarizes why I don't use Linux.
Loved this lmao, I wished every UA-camr uploaded their projects that didn't go well
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.
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.