Trying to FIX: Toshiba LAPTOP (Satellite Pro C660)
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- Hi, this 'trying to fix' video shows me attempting to repair a faulty noisy laptop with a smashed screen and no hard drive.
Remember that this is just for entertainment and I am not an expert in these repairs. The processes in the video may not be the best way, the correct way or the safest way to fix these things.
I do love fault finding and trying to fix broken things so I hope that comes across in this 'Trying to FIX' series.
Many thanks, Vince.
imo for laptops get a cheap 120gb-256gb ssd. makes a hell of a difference in performance.
Yup if only Is for browser web put a ssd Is a great upgrade, apart for that you can upgrade the cpu, sometin like i5 or i7, and up you ram to 8gb ddr or 16gb, for cheap
@@lutboy2909 I did that to a 2009 Toshiba satellite and it was so much quicker
Both of HP HDX 16 and Dell Latitude have SSDs (Which I had fixed and updated).
I've never seen thermal paste like that. That's definitely not how MX-4 should look.
Yeah it's old... It may come in a new tube, but it's old paste.
What I would do is squeeze it all out, mix it up, and reload it in the tube.
@@knighthawk86855 your right it needs a good mixing because its old stock most people would buy the small tubes i would be trying to pull the plunger out and mix it in the tube with a bit of thin rod/skewer
Yeah old paste. The silicon base and thermal particulates has separated. Needs a good remixing.
@@captain_sp33dy MX-4 is a very good paste, obviously something not right with that one.
Ive seen many thermal pastes that look runny to start on first use, but usually a few squirts and its normal again.
As someone who has done this at least a thousand times, I was wincing whenever he starting pulling on things or saying, "I wonder what this does."
Same here, I would have upgraded the ram and put an SSD in it, then sold it after the repairs.
Haha same here man!
@@ariahjade34 that Toshiba isn't worth wasting an SSD on. That board probably won't last much longer. I'm actually surprised it's still running.
How smol is the trackpad 😂
Yep, I was dying inside.
Thats is expired thermal paste. It happens when the paste isnt stored in a good environment. Thermal paste does go bad by being dry or solvent seperates from the material, not by being old.
it looks more like thermal adhesive, used for permanent connections to parts that are not meant to come off. If it is expired paste, it could be re-mixed, but you'd have to get it out of the tube.
@@kruleworld i had thermal paste that separated and it wasnt thermal adhesive. I had to throw it away and buy another tube
Most modern laptops use a NGFF wifi/bluetooth card that has two antennas- one of them is just for wifi and the other is shared between wifi and bluetooth. They use two antennas so they can use a technique called spatial multiplexing, where they can send different data on the exact same frequency at the exact same time, and get higher throughput. This is called MIMO, which means Multiple In, Multiple Out.
You struck gold with the toilet roll. I found an old bottle of hand sanitizer i a week ago, I bought it about 6 months ago. 11 yr old saw that I left it in my car.. "dont leave valuables in the car he warned me" 😂
I've always suspected old laptops throttle the cpu because the paste has dried out
Not to mention concentrated dust blocking the heatsink....
@@8bitbubsy Not to mention no easy way to blow it out in recent designs. My old laptops had a simple door you'd open and the whole fan would pop out. Now you have to fully disassemble everything down to taking the heatsink off just to blow some freaking dust out. That's like you need to remove the engine of your car to wash it properly. Ridiculous.
@@anonamatron Yeah... I usuallly disassemble the laptop and remove the fan and blow it out, then I blow out the heatsink while I'm there. Some laptops are still pretty easy to maintain, but others are just hopeless these days.
Toshiba's are problematic. They throttle by design. I use ThrottleStop program to bypass that.
My old dell kept shutting down randomly. Worked out was overheating. Changed thermal paste and problem was fixed. After about 4 years use becomes less effective.
Fixing a laptop is one of the most satisfying projects to complete! There are so many different sorts of items that can be replaced and repaired, it turns into like ten projects into one and when everything comes together including a decent upgrade; new life arises from the dead...
I agree, especially if you can get your hands on a lot of broken ones. I just recently started upgrading the CPU in working laptops using broken ones. It's really fun turning them into a Hackintosh as well. Lol
Ugh. Please don't misunderstand me: I'm not trying to tell you that your opinion is wrong. Everyone is different, and that is what makes the world interesting. But for me (15 year long relationship with building and fixing desktop PC's) I found working on laptops to be much less fun. Each to his\her own.
I've never seen a thermal paste like that, clear gel liquid. Mine is dark gray and very viscous. You can get fakes from Amazon, especially if it's sold by a third party.
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Everyone was!
I know you always say, don't follow what you do, but you gave me enough info, and the courage to try, so last year the wife and I go dumpster diving, at the end of the college school year, and found so many good things, one was a fully working ps3 first Gen, with the flip up front part, added that to my ps collection, but the best dive was this Toshiba laptop, it is only a few months old at the time, about 1 year old now, and I couldn't get it to work, I took the knowledge you shared, and made a power cord for it, which got it to at least turn on so I could figure out what was wrong with it, I fiddled around with it, replaced a few things, and got it to work, and it's the one you can flip backwards and it becomes a tablet, a 17" tablet, I was so happy, and cause it's a foldable tablet model it also has touch screen, I have since given it to my wife, cause I use her new laptop for my electronic drums to run software on it, but want to thank you for giving me a direction to go to finally fix a truly nice laptop, thanks buddy.
When I first took a laptop apart (about 15 years ago) the hidden screws under the keyboard also had me stumped for awhile.
I remember, when I tried taking apart a laptop. I search at Google how to do it. Now for good measure I always download the service manual for the laptop.
@My Mate VINCE You should have a look at Thermal Grizzly, I have completely replaced Arctis and MX-4 with Aeronaut or Hydronaut. Also in my opinion all mechanical drives in laptops should be replaced with an ssd, they are the same size and they dont slow down and fail every few years, $30 US dollars for a 250 gig ssd, $60 for a 500.
Oh yes, a friend of my grandparents got a new laptop around 2 years ago, Acer Aspire ES1, it's ok for her with i3-6006U and 1080p Screen, but Windows 10 is SLOW LIKE HELL because of the HDD, maybe just 4 Gigs of RAM are also braking, but in Task Manager the Hard Drive use is 100% permanently.
I should visit her again, already got a 4GB Stick of RAM since December here and a SSD...
Thermal Grizzly is good, I use Kryonaut, it's not so comfortable to handle, but because it's rather dry, it won't dry out so soon.
Conductonaut (Liquid Metal) is also great for older Laptops, it probably won't lower the maximum temperatures significantly, but the fan may spin up later and less often also maybe with lower rpm, so you get less noise, but careful, you should apply a barrier of nail polish around the Die and just a tiny ball of liquid metal.
I have first hand experience with the major difference between a HDD and SSD. When you load Windows 10 on an HDD you will notice most of your bottle necking on disk access as it is quite often pinned between 99% and 100% use according to task manager. Once I installed a SSD the computer felt snappier and windows responded much better as the usage according to resource monitor and task manager was no longer pinned and under 10% at idle on a fresh restart
Joo se viikonloppu muuten
Never saw a windows 10 CD
Mind blown
And you never will. That's a DVD lol
@@BlueIsLeet and it's a DIY burned copy of it.
Thought that MS sells retail dvds of Windows 10?
@@astevens59 No they don't, or I thought they didn't, but if they did, then I'm surprised, especially when the DVD design in that video looks like a crappy Photoshop job
Yeah Microsoft don't sell it on cd only one usb drive
Very cool u fixed something that was probably going to get threw away and u should try fixing some apple produces
@@bandbgamesroom he replaced the camera connector on a waterdamaged iPhone for his daughter. I would love to see him fixing broken PC motherboards and stuff.
I would like to see you do more laptops and desktop stuff is a good change because i do love your console repairs but you have done alot of them now soo still keep at it but maybe change things up a bit do laptops desktops.
2 old toilet rolls :) :) :) :) Nice, this made my day!!!!!! Love all your videos. Keep us entertained, especially now we just sit home each day, cannot go anywhere!!!!
These old Toshiba satellite laptops really are one of the most serviceable machines out there. Good to see another one repaired so it can live on.
I had a good laugh when you found the 2 toilet rolls - excellent ;-) Nice to see that laptop came back to life ...
That’s his old laptop from other videos
@@iainadams9726 no it’s not!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well done for 1st time around
Windows 10 . . No thanks . . Been using windows since first version came out (3.1) now use Linux instead at least everything is free also less computing power is needed and no virus scanner needed either.
Android is a version of linux which most people dont know
Windows 10 works fine on all my computers. Also Linux has horrible video drivers.
Nah, Android is based of Linux, yes, but it has no terminal or other Linux things, which makes calling android Linux, wrong.
And you don’t call them versions, you call them distributions, or distro for short.
Adnan Bukvic Android is Linux though. It also does have a terminal, although it’s hidden by default. You can install apps to use it though.
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It’s based on Linux, it’s not Linux.
The thermal paste was watery because you didn't let the cpu dry after you used the alcohol
Nice work mate, I suggest you to put a piece of foam or something
in the empty area of the hard drive slot just to protect it from accidentally coming off,
Cheers
If I remember on the C660, there is a piece of plastic on the underside of the hard drive cover that keeps the drive pushed into the slot.
@@Christopher_T_Paul good to know :)
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vince i would have put a SSD in that laptop ssd's always speed up old laptops especially the boot time's are super fast and loading up programs
vince i wouldnt put a ssd the cpu is very slow and its very old
I agree, use a ssd for a boot drive and you won't go back to a hdd for a boot drive.
@@Username_-fm4lj I had put an ssd on 2 old laptops and they did ran great. There's no issues with them. If the CPUs is actually ancient, then that will not make much of a difference.
@@Username_-fm4lj not true, ive actually used once of these laptops, same model and same cpu, the i3 is good, ive actually upgraded the cpu on that system to an i5 since it has a replaceable cpu. my current laptop as of now is from 2011 and is a lenovo ideapad z370. upgraded to 8gb of ram and an i5 2450m cpu. trust me, its a good system
Hey vince, I've been using this cheap thermal paste from ebay, and it works really well. from what I've seen, you can get near identical performance of MX-4, and it's dirt cheap! If you want to give it a try, it's called GD900. Also, just a suggestion, but to really speed up that old machine and breathe new life into it, use an SSD instead of a hard drive. Trust me, once you use a PC with a Solid State Drive, you'll never go back to using a mechanical Hard Drive. :)
We all know the issues with copyright, but for. the love of God, no more background music. That was torture......
you do not need to use that much i can put that much on 4 cpus you don't need a lot you are wasting it a small amount is good that much will squeeze out all over the cpu.
Dont forget the experience of repairing, even with breaking even thats worth something! 🙂
Your iphone is upside down
There's a general rule of thumb when replacing the display of the laptops, that is the size and the connectors. If you don't have the same size or connector. Then it will not fit (work for not having the right pin connector). And I did have my fair share of things with fixing scrap laptops. I have an HP HDX 16-1140US laptop that had thermal paste encrusted around the die shield. Which it actually overheats every time I have tried to use it for a while. Fixed it by repasting (and making sure that the fan wire is connected to the motherboard). Still missing the back shielding (or something like it). And Dell Latitude with i7 620m. Both worked perfectly fine, but the Dell is missing an R key. I had tried to get a replacement for it, but I had the wrong one.
Easier way: Just Google the model of the laptop with screen replacement. I have done that many times and got the exact screen required.
@@HuntersMoon78 That is true. But with some models, the original replacement isn't available.
19:01 dude. They make fakes. Once I bought arctic silver 5 and the tube was cheaper and it was all different and not silvery.
This laptop will be perfect if you upgrade CPU, RAM and install an SSD.
"MS-DOS or whatever it is" Lmaoooo :p
It's not MS DOS, it's called the "Post" ! And after that when you hit escape or f12 you can access the BIOS or the boot menu!
I fancy the bag the laptop came in a lot.
Don't you have the same laptop.
i must say vince, you have a good taste in music. But i have a question, whats the name of the song at the beginning?
The_Oak Play's It’s Threesum Sons by Magdy Haddad. Here’s the Spotify link! open.spotify.com/track/4yRzB0GSHmWAas5dCFfwBQ?si=nsIh6uNmTZG_SPxo9slQ8Q
Just buy SSD hard drive and You will have very fast laptop :)
15:49 Hi friend, great video.
Just a quit tip, when you undo the GPU or CPU screws you should undo them in an X motion (one by one - you have numbers there, marked it down, for that reason), you should not undo one side and then the other side, you risk to break the die if the cooler is too tighten up by springs- same thing to the screwing process.
That Arctic Silver doesn't look genuine to me as well.
Hey Vince, if you are ever going to try to fix a Macbook, look for a faulty no power 12" Macbook from 2015-2017. They go around fairly cheap(for a newer mac) on ebay and often only need a power distribution chip replaced (U4700). That's a 5£ fix.. So you could make good profit from them because of the brand :) also Louis Rossmanns videos can teach you how to do it.
Greetings from Germany
Making me stay up late for 1 of your videos and then cringe for half an hour lol, great vid though and good first effort.
Hello Please Help me
I have Toshiba Satellite C650 and I want to Upgrade it's CPU ... Can you please tell me which CPU will be best for this laptop currently it's has Core 2 Duo
Vince u finnaly tried to repair an computer
Jonathan Novak ikr kinda got mad at him when he call very expensive pcs a budget pc
THAT THUMBNAIL PREDICTED THE WINDOWS 11?!
Hallow i love your videos and stay safe you and your familly from the COVID-19. Luv u❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🤗
I miss the classical music, it made your videos so unique. Please bring it back. :)
I got the same computer
It's not broken, it's modern art - sell it for profit :D
Also thanks, I try to keep safe and sane - guess with your videos it will be much easier ;)
The thermal paste is perfectly usable, I would suggest you mix it after applying, sometimes the silicone grease that prevents the paste from solidifying while in storage separates, it's not a common occurrence but it does happen, it doesn't affect thermals.
Sometimes when it happens i mix it with toothpick right on the die or on place i applying it.
dvd drive and sdd from ps3
One tip for repair of plastic body, use piece of paper and gel alike superglue. Put some glue on the inside of the plastic body, put the paper, press it well on place and put extra glue on top of the paper to fully be absorbed with glue. I have done it few times and works better that just glue.
I love the videos, but me being someone who builds and repairs computers this video had my anxiety at level 15 out of 10. Haha
I'm surprised the hinges didn't completely snap the corners off while folding it with the keyboard and palmrest off. These Toshiba laptops have total garbage build quality. The only thing I've seen worse is the HP/Compaq 52 series laptops and all others that use that housing. I also sometimes forget that not everyone who works with electronics knows what all the components and cables in a computer are. That laptop won't have Bluetooth unless it's been added. Almost all laptops have the dual antenna wires running around the perimeter of the screen. On the thermal paste you just shake it really well and it remixes, but yeah that was a CRAP TON of paste. Lol And yes the caddy is necessary. Other than that being in upside down haha... the original one had a screw hole that kept it in place with the screw that holds the HDD cover down. As is, if the laptop gets bumped hard it can dislodge the hard drive. Still a pretty decent job for your first time doing this. Even if the computer didn't work you could easily make your money back with the Windows product key and disk.
I actually have a toshiba satellite and I replaced the WiFi card as the old one wasent working probably because I left it off all the time since I was using Ethernet.
Hi Vince, your videos are never boring, and i can never wait for the next one.
Please release your videos, and make videos of the other laptops.
From now SSD's are much better to repair old laptops. Never try to buy the original HDD, especially if it's an old 320GB... it's slow and not reliable.
You did it 100% right. That mx4 was not good you right about that. The HDD you can stick with dubbel tape. Also change the bios bat also. And change the thermal pad. For the first time really good Job.
gotta say i was screaming at you when you didnt remove the keyboard
Im not suprised the keyboard had so many crumbs on it, seeing as this is a home laptop and not a school laptop I believe your friend used it with bags of crisps about
Don't replace the hard drive with another hard drive, put an SSD in it, it will be way faster. Installing Windows 10 is very simple, just boot to the install disk and follow the instructions.
I haven’t my watched the video yet, but I specialise in repairing computers and laptops so this should be interesting, I might be able to teach you something.
I have the C660 17L. It also needs a screen. It was mums, but she went to it one evening and the screen was cracked. Not sure how it happened. My theory is someone shut the lid when something was laying on the keyboard, and shut it to hard.
Just about to go to bed and saw the notification for the vid, it was rude not to watch :). Great to see a windows laptop, looking forward to the first MacBook:) great video as usual
. Most of the time with a cracked laptop case I won't bother 2 fix it because most of the time the plastic of the screen hinch are proken! But good fix! Next time use an cheap ssd, the laptop wil be twice as fast! Again good fix, have fun with the laptop
That Windows disk I would not trust. You can create a Windows 10 USB using the Media Creation Tool from Microsoft.
My Mate VINCE just here to support you and like, stay healthy mate. all the best.
Working late again vince? Hope you and your family are keeping well during the madness, tha ks for the videos, I watch every single one.
Wanna fix my Samsung RV 511 ? Keys don't work properly on keyboard
I bet if you so desired you could upgrade the ram and switch to an ssd and get a lot of speed and more life from that laptop but if you are happy with it then that great but could be a nice simple upgrade to see big performance changes keep up with the great content love watching
Your laptop says Toshiba Leading Innovation it is nice and I have a satellite l75d-a7283
When I saw the thumbnail I thought it was special Star Wars themed laptop!
I have 2 from the Toshiba C6xx series. They work within their limits. Basic fairly well designed and as you have illustrated are quite repairable. IME you might want more RAM for W10 but Linux will Just Work on everything and depending on the CPU will run faster and most things will work better (internet things like streaming UA-cam). BTW my first one of these dates from 2011(8 and a half years as of this post) for which I paid 250 USD and consider the payback to be complete. My second one is a newer model with a slightly faster CPU that I purchased for 55 USD a year ago.
Well done, mate. Keep on keepin' on and be well.
Hi Vince, dont know if you'd be interested, but I've got a Sony X700 UHD Blu-Ray player and an Xbox One S 1TB that don't work, the bluray is dead and the xbox won't start games, but does boot and plays 4k blurays. I am just going to take them to the tip if you aren't bothered as I can't be bothered to fix them and have replaced both. (Replaced the Xbox with an Xbox One X and it's junk too, not having much luck with Xboxes)
Just thought they might make interesting videos.
Loving the content anyway, keep up the good work while we're all locked away in our houses (and sheds).
I could be wrong but I believe that thermal paste is oil based and it looks like the oil has separated out, you probably need to kneed the tube to mix it back through.
One of those is my main computer! 6Gb RAM, 120GB SSD for the OS and a 500Gb HDD replacing the DVD for data, plus an external 23" screen, and running Linux Mint, it does everything I need, including 3D CAD. I've had it apart to clean the fan, but haven't needed to replace any parts yet.
Seriously? You never installed Win 10? My 8 year old granddaughter did her laptop in no time. It dead simple and very quick. Not like installing XP on an old machine. Windows 10 does it all itself apart from a few keystrokes. That model laptop is a fairly old 2nd gen i3 with 640gb HDD and 6gb ram as standard. You've been robbed. 😉 Fit an i5 3rd gen 16gb ram and an SSD and they fly. You can fit another HDD in the place of the DVD using a caddy and use the DVD externally with a sata to usb caddy. Not much use for DVD drives once you have installed the software so the bay is better used for HDD storage. I have Tecra R950 upgraded in the same manner using.g two 1tb Crucial MX500 ssd's. It's now a decent machine but it's no gaming rig due to the graphics limitations. BTW Flattening that plastic coated bag down against the ram slots is not your cleverest move though I doubt it has done any harm. Just not good or safe practice. BTW as you are going to find out...your installing updates only taking two or three minutes, well, you're an optimist as that was just the start of it....it takes hours to do it all!
I own two of these C660s (a 2EL and a 1D7) and I really enjoyed this video
I know you don't want to put money into it but I think upgrading the ram and giving it an SSD over and HDD would make it leaps and bounds faster. One of THE best things to upgrade in older machines is the SSD and upgrading the ram to say 8GB (2x4GB) sticks. Give someone a very very nice browsing/media machine.
Dude flip the keyboard onto the mousepad and you can get easy access to the plug
I use a Toshiba satellite not sure exactly but it's modern like 2010 (or so, modern in 2010 too). And works amazing to be honest. Pretty much works for my daily basis, and also to play TF2 ay high settings 60 fps, and works pretty fine, amazing computer I found at trash bin.
Great fix Vince. Installing an SSD would of made some difference on that we laptop. Installed one on my 12 year old laptop a few months ago and the difference was amazing. Mick 👍🍻
Thanks Mick, I was pricing them up in CEX yesterday. I am very tempted, thanks for confirming what others have also mentioned :-)
SSD even makes a difference on a modern laptop. Have an Asus 510u with Intel i5 and even the optane memory cache. But it sometimes was terribly slow particularly after an update. A good 2 mins before I could actually use it most times. I got SSD. Cloned the hard drive bootup down from 2 mins to 15 seconds. Chrome down from 20 seconds until usable to 3 seconds. Asus fitted a rubbish Toshiba 1tb hard drive that runs at just 5400rpm and it was crippling it. Most laptop hard drives are pretty poor. My 11 year old desktop with SSD was quicker. It's not now though. This thing is really fast now.
@@Mymatevince 25 quid 120 gb on Ebuyer vince
I put in an SSD using an mSATA 500GB SSD and mSATA to IDE adapter in my ThinkPad R40 and runs faster than it did before with the failing 20GB HDD (also cloned the 20GB to a working 40GB drive prior to cloning to the 500GB SSD). Might do the same with other systems for my 486 systems and early Pentium systems. However, TRIM isn't supported in earlier Windows and requires 3rd party software to TRIM the SSD.
My sister bought a new laptop and gave me her old one which looks identical to this. It was only January this year and it had Windows 7 installed. I thought I would try Windows 10 and it activated fine. It seems ok to use, would be faster with a SSD. The main problem is there is no HDMI, I'm surprised at that seeing as I have an older Compaq Celeron that does have one and that laptop struggles with even 720p video. I've not decided what to do with the Toshiba yet. Looking at your motherboard it appears to have a separate GPU, I don't know if mine does, I'll check sometime. Also looks like the CPU is socketed which is rare nowadays in normal laptops.
Without the official caddy if you bang the laptop on the side the hard drive will come out, the way I resolve this on Toshiba laptops is put some blutac in the gap on these machines
No just use balled up paper
@@pinklightninggacha I had bubble wrap and i just put a lot of that rolled so it wouldn't be able to come out, plus it gives it a small amount of protection I guess
I'd probably test it with the VGA and a bootable Linux distribution. Sometimes you might need to press an F key, ESC, or whatever to bring up a boot menu. The nice thing about something like Ubuntu Linux is that it'll generally work out of the box with all but the most esoteric hardware. That way you'd at least know everything but the screen works. Very easy to download and create a Linux USB stick with Windows.
There is an interesting thermal paste available on Ali Express called GD900. It's totally unassuming, cheap as chips even in a 30g tube, but also really good. Tech Yes City did an interesting comparison of several models, including this.
I got an Xbox one S to replace my ps4 so I could play with my friends however I have noticed that the graphics on my Xbox are bad, not terrible but still bad. For example it takes ages for things to render and pixels around the edge of in- game things are choppy especially with trees and foliage. It is a second hand xbox which I got from CEX in the UK. I dont know what the problem is and dont know how to fix. If anyone could help or give a suggestion because I don't know whether it's the HDMI or my TV or just the xbox itself...
I've done 3 Toshiba Satelllite C50 laptops for my own use, 1 as old as that with the removable battery and 2 later ones with the battery held in by 2 screws you invalidated the warrenty if you removed them, all with intel processors. I love em, all now have 8GB ram, 500GB ssd and Intel i5 processors. They all run windows 10 home and it's hard to distinguish between them in performance. Easy to rebuild and repair for an old fool like me so have fun with it.
my goal in life now is to see vince lurking around tesco looking at peoples bags for life
I have a Toshiba and it's never been right since I got it! On first powering it up, it updated to a different version of Windows 10 and never worked right. Within 6 months the optical drive gave up. I had it replaced under warranty and it came back with a non functioning webcam and a note saying the software was corrupted and that it was not covered by the warranty. HEAP OF SHIT!
What you suggested may be MS-DOS(Microsoft disk operating system) was in fact the boot sequence of the laptop which is the visible part of the firmware of the laptop along with the setup(when you power the laptop on and it says press F2 or another key to go into setup). MS-DOS was a command line operating system on which the windows operating system sat on top off. Now after the firmware runs it boots straight into windows and MS-DOS was replaced by command prompt which is built into windows.
There have been issues with watery Arctic MX-4 paste going back as far as 2015. I won't touch the stuff myself. Did you notice the CPU cooling tube was pinched too. That is not going to help with cooling issues. You don't need a HDD they just get thrown in a big pile for the scrap man. Use four decent double sided sticky pads. Don't use thin double sided tape as that doesn't allow for an air space for cooling. A small piece of sponge packing between the bottom end of the drive ensures a firm Sata connection.
Rule of thumb for laptops, 'Top Down' usually its simple to do these with easy to remove bezel and keyboard and your in like flyn. Dells and Lenovos's makes this swap out easy. If your screen is busted but the inverter is good ( backlight / power ) screens are dirt cheap ( LG / Philips ) and are easy to swap out.
Good fixes Vince.
Thermal paste tube, did you shake the tube for 2 mins before use? (LOL) or maybe squidge it in the tube with the cap on to mix it better.
If you need toilet rolls you can get them on Ebay at £6 for a pack of 4 (shame on the people trying to profit off the plight of others at this time) OR just go to a small corner shop as they have loo rolls and hand sanitizers and stuff and no queueing.
Great job done there. One very important minder is the battery was under a recall due to overheating issues from Toshiba so be careful and don't leave leave it plugged in and unattended - I know of this cause I have a old Toshiba C650D model and as the battery aged from 2010 back when I purchased the laptop I noticed after 5 years the battery stated to get very hot when charging so Be mindful of that...
Last Toshiba laptop I owned lasted a year. Last Toshiba product i would ever buy. Hardware has become literal junk since the advent of digital......I know that makes me sound old, but it's quite true. The bag it came in is worth more than the laptop.
Hey Vince....another interesting video. Why not the Linux as your OP system? Its free, works really well, fast on older machines and has almost none of the problems that Windows has. I tried it just out of interest and have never gone back to Windows!
I'd suggest you don't flip this laptop and actually keep it. It is one of the laptops that is very easily upgradable and repairable. Laptop nowadays have soldered on RAM and CPU whereas these dinosaurs have a very similar setup to normal desktop pc which makes the a fun little project to have when you get bored.
Hi I'm Vince from mytescobags.com and today were looking at this series 2 empire strikes back B4L only joking vince just made me laugh so proud of that bag 😆😆 keep up the good work 👍🏻
I know it's kinda late but.... consider burning a dvd/using an usb pendrive to run some linux distro live, so you can diagnose problems even without an hard drive.
There are lots of distros that can boot from usb directly, such as Linux Mint.
my brother have found same laptop but this laptop have mutch overheart problem ! i have changed thermal paste and modiffied fan, but the cpu is still going over 95° just playing minecraft, or video and shutdown over 96°
get a linux live cd easy way to fully test a laptop without installing anything cheap 120 gig ssd is around £15 to £17 i have fixed up a few older laptops than this and spent more than there worth doing so but its a bit of fun the hp my dad got for £2.50 works fine not spent much on it but it runs amiga emulation very well upto the equivalent of a 68040 so that is what it will be used for plus you can always use them for mame older laptops still run mame romset 37b5 very well you could even salvage a working motherboard fro a laptop that has to many broken case parts to build a basic mame arcade cabinet cheap arcade stick buttons and controller on ebay around the £15 mark .One thing i will say when searching for a screen for a laptop do not search for the model numberof the laptop itself but just the number from the screen itself .i see this toshiba has a cpu in a socket depending what socket and cpu is you might be able to swap it for a faster cpu this is what i done with an old acer 5315 so from a single core 1.7 ghz i now have a 2.4 ghz core two duo way faster than it was this laptop i factory restored the windows operating system and removed all the bloatware its the only laptop i have that runs windows and its vista lol .that said i can use it to copy files to my net md sony minidisc ,my sony vaio is great for emulation nvidia graphics chipset that is still supported in linux and it can run sega dreamcast nintendo n64 and atari jaguar and 3do perfectlyso its a decent enough laptop for day to day use and really great for retro gaming .
If you are going to be keeping the laptop I would suggest that you upgrade the ram in that. 4GB wont get you very far in Windows 10. You'll definitely see some slow downs because of it.