@@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.
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.
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. 😂
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.
"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.
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.
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 😂
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
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!
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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!
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.
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.
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!
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 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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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 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
I love when everything goes wrong in tech videos... No, I'm serious, it's quite entertaining for some reason. I also enjoy MJD "everything went wrong" videos.
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)
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.
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
This was like watching car crash in slow motion, And I am here to stare and watch all of it as I cringe at every move and love it at the same time Edit: Love the Violence is not the answer it is a question and the answer is yes policy
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.
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.
@@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 😂
Toshiba Satellite was actually my first laptop. It now serves its purpose as a home laptop, after a couple teen years, and served me up until I finished high school
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.
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
SteamOs is not made for old devices. Something like EndeavourOS or Linux mint XFCE would be much better for such devices, since they aren't UEFI exclusive and have way smaller background usage. And you can play on them nearly as good as on the steam deck. There should be next to none extra incompatibilities compared to steam os (Though 90% won't work on this device because of hardware).
As a Linux user this was funny to watch, but you should have gone for a normal Linux distro like EndeavourOS and installed the SteamOS GUI onto that :)
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!!!
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.
It may be the sleep deprivation but this is easily one of the most entertaining videos I’ve ever seen
Same
9:16 thanks for the debugging tutorial!
Lmao
Only works in lua
REAL
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 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
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
0:27 This aged well
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.
"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.
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.
15:59 it means something is being held, something I think you want to hold in a different way...
probably an arrow key
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.
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 😂
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
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!
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
"whats does i get as next...a oled screen?"
Aged like wine
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.
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
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
so it would seem OLED was the next move
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
Bro predicted the steam deck oled
it was VERY predictable
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
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.
0:25 you actually guessed that it was gonna be a oled screen😂😂
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.
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.
This guy is almost as excited to get this running as I was when I built my first PC.
"what's the next thing....an OLED screen, perhaps?"
damn that aged well
exactly what i was thinking
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.
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!
Your pain and dedication is utterly visible - thank you for trying and sharing the utter frustration of trying to get things working.
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 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.
1:28 dankpods moment
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.
"An OLED screen perhaps" good call.
This perfectly encapsulates all of my tech failures of recent memory. Literally down to the mental breakdown
This is hilariously the kind of way I spend my time trying to make absolute ass machines work too.
More successful than the actual Steamboxes of yesteryear
Legit forgot this thing exist, at least proton come out of that
Watching this was like the same as watching a full on action movie.
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.
1:01 i always search for this video to listen to this part lol , ITSA FAST GAMING MACHINE !!
Repairing laptops is a nightmare. You did very well
you should do a speed run video were you do this but on a bunch of weird pcs as quick as you can
This entire thing was a massive trainwreck and I loved it
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
an OLED screen perhaps? 👀
the assumption with the oled screen aged very well
3:25 is the worst. The keyboard has to come out before the rest of the palmrest.
The longer you watched, the worse it got! Was fascinating to watch!
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
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.
Lmaooo man I feel this so much this was my experience with my first 3 laptops it's so relatable. Entertaining af
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.
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.
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 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
Wowsers - thanx so much for enduring the entire carnevil of fail for this expedition into cyberhell...you are a super trooper!😁
11:15 to skip the ad
I love when everything goes wrong in tech videos... No, I'm serious, it's quite entertaining for some reason.
I also enjoy MJD "everything went wrong" videos.
I can relate
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)
This video is pretty entertaining to watch, you earned a usb
This was a very entertaining clusterfuck, great job.
When he took out the butter knife and starting prying away at the case, i had so many flash backs of me doing the same thing
14:10 piggo momento
That's wild, this is damn near the same exact laptop I had around 2012
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
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.
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
This was like watching car crash in slow motion, And I am here to stare and watch all of it as I cringe at every move and love it at the same time
Edit: Love the Violence is not the answer it is a question and the answer is yes policy
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,
I have literally no clue about anything you talk about, yet I was entertained throughout the entire video. Bravo
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.
"an oled screen perhaps?" Valve says yes
This is great! You got potential, man. Keep it up!
When you pulled that the thing apart my hart skipped a beat
8:54 lmao
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.
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 😂
it's funny how your worst laptop would be the 2nd best pc if it was mine (being better than 3 of my 4 old thingies)
This video perfectly summarizes why I don't use Linux.
Toshiba Satellite was actually my first laptop. It now serves its purpose as a home laptop, after a couple teen years, and served me up until I finished high school
put bazzite on this now
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.
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.
The brawl theme as the steam OS logo popped up was beautiful
SteamOs is not made for old devices. Something like EndeavourOS or Linux mint XFCE would be much better for such devices, since they aren't UEFI exclusive and have way smaller background usage. And you can play on them nearly as good as on the steam deck. There should be next to none extra incompatibilities compared to steam os (Though 90% won't work on this device because of hardware).
Watching all these youtube tinkerers, I thought I was sloppy and careless when messing with tech, but finding your channel boosted my confidence.
0:12 what is the name of this game
Super smash bros
Super smash bros. Ultimate
APEX LEGENDS, duh
13:37 "WalgreenInfinitive" IM SORRY WALGREEN?
As a Linux user this was funny to watch, but you should have gone for a normal Linux distro like EndeavourOS and installed the SteamOS GUI onto that :)
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
the lengths a man will go to to avoid burning a DVD
pro tip never ever expect usb wifi adapters to work on Linux, they never do.