I've been using the Windows 95 startup sound as my ringtone for the past year. Everyone always asks me why it sounds so familiar because they don't know where exactly it's from, I just tell them "it's a part of life."
I was a child in 1997... And at this time I was amazed by the power you can get from a so thin device! Remember TV was huge, PC monitor was gigantic, PC tower was big too, an suddenly: a pc and a monitor for "almost nothing in space". Man it was a shock for me! Awesome channel! Thank you LGR!!!!
I know this is a year old, but I've seen you do this a few times now. A "proper" way to copy over the CAB files is to start by creating C:\WINDOWS\OPTIONS\CABS and copying the entirety of the WIN95 or WIN98 directory into it. You then run SETUP from that directory instead of the CD-ROM. That's where OEMs like Dell and Gateway 2000 loaded the CAB files.
LGR thank you for making videos man your voice and the mix of the amount of woodgrain in your channel makes me feel intense feelings inside thank you man
My mom had a similar ThinkPad (a 390X?) that she called the StinkPad. She got it from her employer, and they went out of business or something and didn't bother asking for it back, they never even cashed the check she gave them. I still have it somewhere.
Watching someone repair a 20-year-old laptop makes me wonder what we'll do with today's laptops 20 years from now. I can't really see someone cracking open a current-year MacBook and fiddling with batteries and things.
They literally cannot, the worst they can do is void any warranties. Unless some precedent gets set or some law created, you can open anything you own and do whatever you want to it.
ArmadilloAl Computer tech is advancing way slower than it was twenty years ago. In 20 years from now, the current PCs will probably be outdated but still usable.
@@sanderlippa5144 CHONKPAD etc. I think this one might be a little bit chubby even for 1997, though it may be that the 12" form factor makes it look fatter than it would otherwise.
I love this channel. Your videos are fantastic man!! I had a IBM Thinkpad that I bought when I was graduating high school. I was going to college and wanted a good laptop and I was working at a computer store during the summer back then. The owner sold it to me at a discount and I used most of my earnings for the summer and my dad helped me pay for it as well. I was super proud that I had worked so hard for it. It was modular in that the keyboard could be raised to reveal slots to put in a 2nd hard drive, memory and cd rom drive could all be easily accessed. In my freshman year of college I had to do a speech presentation in one of my classes and I chose to do a presentation on the laptop. Got lots of oohs and aahs when I showed off the modular functions! Sometime in the next month or so my dorm room was broken into and someone stole it and some other electronics from my roommate. It was never recovered and I did not have any kind of warranty or insurance on it. It was one of the saddest moments in my life!! Months later the thief was discovered, he was a fellow college student who was boosting stuff around the school. He was killed in a violent attack. Crazy story but watching this video brought back a lot of memories!!
Ah! There's nothing like watching a new high quality LGR video after working a 12-hour shift as night security and just a couple of hours of sleep. It feels sort of cozy.
That battery pack will probably just contain a bunch of cells and a control circuit. If you can open it up, you can probably replace them with new cells pretty easily.
Unfortunately, it isn't usually possible to disassemble a laptop battery without destroying the outer casing. Most of the time, the cells are actually glued into place.
Watching this on my brand new 2018 ThinkPad makes me pleased to see that, even after the handover to Lenovo, the core design and construction of these laptops are quite similar! It's very pleasing to see where certain features, and design language comes from, the ruggedness, the purpose built, "have the job done" style is awesome! Well done IBM, and keep it up Lenovo! BTW, great video as always! ;)
I own a IBM Thinkpad Windows 98. lol I use to own one back in day as well and I love it. They are great work horses and built tough. I loved the video man!!
I know. My first PC was a 486 which had a 540 mb hard disk back in 1995. When I bought my first Pentium 2 years later it had an 2 gb hard disk. Which was very spacious at that time.
@@Raiko05 I only would upgrade if the hardware I was currently using is starting to cause issues and if I can fix that current machine I will happily do that I don't get how some people judge others based on possessions and clothing
Software developer here. Love having your videos on while I work. Thanks for the cool content and for putting the recent history of technology into perspective.
Great video LGR, I own one of these machines and anyone having problems with 163,161 or 192 REPLACE YOUR CMOS BATTERY FIRST! It was a great sigh of relief when I got rid of all three errors just by replacing the CMOS battery, I was worried about the 192 error more then the other two.
Surprised you didn't take the whole thing apart and show off/clean the insides. Maybe a part 2 someday for a deeper inspection of the guts of this machine? Great video Clint! Glad to see a new video despite the setbacks with RUclips
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This used to be the bread and butter of doing technical support years ago. People would send in their computers with the hard-disk dead or dying and the new drive would need reinstalling back to a, 'new', state. Most of the time, the customer wouldn't have the disks/CDs which came with the machine, so it was generally a case of getting the drivers and any proprietary software from the net. Putting the OEM stuff on it was an extra touch which made the machine appear new and always gave a sense of satisfaction that you were restoring the machine almost back to being, 'new.' Generally, the chipset drivers should be installed first, then the audio, network and graphics last. Restarting after each wasn't always essential but was generally advisable. Especially those pesky HP machines which seemed to have a lot of hidden software-based hardware devices. The only use USB had, back then, was for web cameras!
Something from 1997 is by no means "old" to me, only when I remember that I was a sprightly 30 year old then LOL, but it is fascinating seeing just how far we've come in tech since then. I can't help but wonder what tech will be like in another 20 years. Good video mate, truly enjoyed it.
And yet your english is perfectly normal. Why are you foreigners moaning about how your "EnGlIsH SoOoOoO bAd!!1!11!1!!! PwEaSe FoRgIvE MeEeEeEe!1!1!~~``````~~~"? Seriously, your english is perfectly fine. In fact... you maybe aren't a FOREIGNER AT ALL?
You ever start to wonder if LGR has a problem with all the wood grain stuff? No, me either. If he starts considering changing his name to Woody then I think we must step in.
In primary school, I was the nerdy kid with the laptop (an IBM Thinkpad 345CS), UNTIL the nerdier kid got a 380 of some description which had everything I coveted: CD, a sound card, a bigger screen, Windows 95... you inspired me to hop on eBay, pick up a cheap 380D, and begin a project to bring it back to its former glory! Thanks LGR :D
What I'd like to see is Windows NT 4.0 running on a thinkpad with a PowerPC CPU. NT 4.0 was the only windows to support that and I've never seen any major retro tech channel covering that.
Light correction: NT 3.5.1 and 3.1 also supported PowerPC. It was the ThinkPad 850. It came with NT 3.51 stock I think and was compatible to the PowerPC version of NT 4.0. It came with a PowerPC 603e which I think had 100MHz and 32 MB of RAM.
I sort of remember that. I mean, I dual-booted NT 4.0 and windows 95 back in the day. They look so similar on the surface, but wow was there ever a difference in stability... That was the x86 version though. But I remember the installer and various things referring to DEC Alpha and PowerPC builds of it...
I'm not aware of any. The only downloads I could find for NT 4.0 for PowerPC were indeed some of the service packs that can still be downloaded on some ancient university FTP servers. Microsoft shut down the PPC support right when the first developers announced to port their programs to PPC. It never happened though. I suspect something similar is going to happen with the Windows 10 for ARM version soon.
They didn't demonetize this one, it was the other video that might've gone up today. Instead, this one is up since it was deemed safe. The other video was simply me taking a look at a set of shareware CDs, which was somehow "inappropriate."
One of my relatives had a 380D model however there was no power supply however when I went looking I found an original at a local computer store. This video helped a lot with restoring it and it was very fun to take it apart and play around with it!
I figured it out, LGR vision is like Neo's vision in Matrix, only in WOODGRAIN. ",...there's way too much information to decode the LGR. You get used to it, though. Your brain does the translating. I don't even see the woodgrain. All I see is maple, oak, cherry . Hey uh, you want a drink?"
Hey Screw RUclips for demonetizing your original episode for today. Glad you were able to find something else to put up. Sorry RUclips is such a shitter.
Commander Spock, the Thinkpad T30 models and the Dell D610/620/630 are often recommended for diagnostics sytems. I have the D630 and it does the trick, but the Thinkpads are generally regarded as being more rugged.
HOLY SHIT LGR! I literally just got this exact machine given to me through my (sole proprietor) e-recycling business. Granted the guy kept the HDD (no biggie because I have 50+ on hand), But other than that it's fully functional AND he had the original doc and 2 power supplies. I booted to BIOS and everything looked good; even the CMOS battery.... Also, incredibly further still, the unit's battery STILL works and holds juice for a coupe hours. Could not believe that part. This is a classic, and a beauty at that! Crazy timing for me to randomly find this video in my feed. Cheers! -H.B.
I bursted out laughing at the Steve1989 reference (complete with the spoon noise) lol. Clint, your channel and Steve's have a special place in my heart.
"BANANA" is the default CD driver device name used in the CONFIG.SYS file included in the boot disk for MS-DOS from the website AllBootDisks. This is almost certainly the file that LGR's custom boot disk was based on.
I have this laptop here with me too! And this is a big pleasure. Best keyboard, old ports, MS-DOS 6.0, Borland Turbo C++ 3.1, Microsoft QBasic... nothing better than this! Thanks Clint for old your videos with big old stuff! Inspiring!
Watching this video seven years after it came out for two reasons. First, to help support Clint as he goes through all of the cleanup after the storms in 2024 second, because I hadn’t seen this one yet and it’s always fun to watch Clint, clean stuff and slip in a few Duke numem references!
a trick I learned was to simply do this before installing windows 95 and simply run setup from the hard drive. that way it installs without nagging me for the windows 95 cd. the trick works with windows 98 as well.
Wow I haven't heard the PC speaker sound of commander keen since I played it as a kid.. I loved that game and that's what it sounded like back in the day for me. 💗
"Coffee and memories". Lol. I love your videos so much. You inspire people to take better care of their equipment. You are the soul reason I am using again my 2005 Toshiba laptop to do my writing instead of a modern laptop. I got my Toshiba fixed up with windows 7 and it's working perfectly. You can't beat these old machines. You rock LGR.
Clint! The 380 CAN do upscaling, and it's not too bad! At least it isn't on my 380Z :) In text mode it even loads an alternative (bigger) font! Press Fn+F8
I see you're giving that love to your laptop by cleaning it. one trick I recommend, try Windex if it's greasy it takes off thin grease film also it takes off certain things water vinegar may not. Windex with ammonia will kill germs
Love watching you are videos of bringing these old computers back to life. Right now I am studying Network Administration at my school, I love working on computers.
"Getting ready to run Windows 98 for the first time..." I remember helping my dad reinstall Windows on customers' computers back when we had a computer repair shop, and I still get so satisfied seeing that splash screen after installing 98 or XP. ^w^
I have an IBM aptiva with Windows 95 on it and it is still working just fine. The computer has the Cyrix cpu in it and the configuration IBM used. No one make towers like that any longer and I wish they did because the cases back then was heavier and was well built. I worked on one lady's old HP tower and it was fine after reinstalling the OS on it. I also have a Zenith laptop which have MS-Dos installed on it and seems to be working just fine. The computer have the 286 cpu installed on it and is a nice machine and was taken care of by the previous owner and nothing is broken on the case. I want to install Windows 3.1 on it to see how it will work though.
Found a working 380D today, can’t wait to start my journey in restoring it! I ordered a blank floppy disk so that I can start a fresh install. Never worked on any computers from this area so it will be fun.
RUclips and their over-reliance on algorithms, it's just like their DMCA process. If RUclips is going to do something like this, at least get a human to double check.
You Tube grown too big for humans to double check unfortunately. It's Largely automated now with Human Admins can make overrides and changes. But with all the thousands if not millions of videos that are uploaded every day Human intervention is becoming difficult at best.
There is an appeals process, but there seems to be a lack of transparency with videos getting confirmed as not advertiser-friendly for no reason... like Bryan Lunduke's video on tmux is "inappropriate" somehow, because that makes sense.
Lazy Game Reviews wow, that's oddware worthy! I must ask, are you going to try out add on boards for the soundblaster, like the dream blaster? (I think that's what it's called)
my dad had one of these with Win 98. That and his Compaq Presario were my first computers. I remember playing the sims and goofing around on paint all day.
Awesome restoration job! The computer is actually in pretty good shape, but the fresh Windows 95 install on it was very cool and with 64 MB's of ram it should run pretty fast and your now are able to portably play your favorite old school games... very nice job!
LGR I love your videos and I’m a big fan of your channel. I like a lot those old devices and I have some of those old stuff too, however, I’m from Brazil and I can’t find all those old stuff like you do... that’s why I watch your videos... fun nostalgia... keep publishing new stuff and I’ll keep watching you...
I started out on Windows 95 with my first computer back then on a Packard Bell flat style desktop computer. Then upgraded it to Windows 98 with Plus!, then Windows ME (Millennium Edition).
Very nice. I'm very fond of old Thinkpads, some of them make nice retro gaming machines. Many are also surprisingly upgradable. I still have a Thinkpad 755CX that I purchased used in 1997 for $700. The memory is maxed at 40MB, the HDD (originally 810MB) was replaced a few years ago with a 4GB microdrive, and I got for it a DockII docking station that provides apart from the usual ports, 2 ISA slots, internal and external drive bays and a SCSI adapter. With a P75 it works well for mid-late DOS games and early Windows ones. I also have a Thinkpad 755CE which is identical except for a 486 CPU instead of pentium and can use the same docking station; a Thinkpad 380ED (Pentium MMX 166) and a 380XD (the same as in your video) with port replicator; a 770Z (PII-366) with SelectaDock III with SCSI, internal/external drive bays and 2 ISA/3 PCI slots (2 shared). Also a Thinkpad 570 with UltraBase, and a R52 with Advanced Dock. Together these allow me to cover the period approx. 1992-2002 with ease, especially the ones with ISA/PCI slots in which I can add real sound and VGA cards. I have planned for a while but didn't get around to do it, making a 2xVoodoo2 SLI and real soundblaster (probably AWE64) setup for the 770Z using all 3 possible expansion slots in the dock. :)
Thank the powers that be that you exist, dude. I love these videos. You're a modern-day archaeologist. If I was you, I'd build a modest little technology Museum under a non-profit. The donations, and your finished works can all be curated and set up on display for the young and old alike.
I had a 1997 Thinkpad, and I can see similarities and a big difference from this unit. Mine was definitely not as boxy or thick. Nice to see someone passionate about old computers. I would take this to Best Buy for recycling....
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Find a man that treats you like LGR treats 90s hardware.
Not a fan of woodgrain women, personally.
SlackerKite I want a woman like dat. I’m male
TnTlover883 she thic af
I got you a brand new nipple!
Find a woman who treats you like LGR treats 90s hardware.
...
Sounds impossible.
Don't falter.
I've been using the Windows 95 startup sound as my ringtone for the past year. Everyone always asks me why it sounds so familiar because they don't know where exactly it's from, I just tell them "it's a part of life."
I see you are a men of culture as well (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞
did y'all know the piece was composed by brian eno?
That's very clever 🙂
YES MORE STROKES PLEASE!! THEY HURT MY VOICE SO MUCH MRS
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"I don't like that kind of noise coming from a battery."
I don't like ANY noise coming from a battery o_o
Back in 2009 I used to have an Asus Eee PC, and I used to joke that it's called "Eee" because that's the noise the battery makes
@@emilyemily9953 rip
exsacly
@@emilyemily9953 I had one of those, ungodly abomination
I'd be scared if my battery started to make a sound °~°
I was a child in 1997... And at this time I was amazed by the power you can get from a so thin device! Remember TV was huge, PC monitor was gigantic, PC tower was big too, an suddenly: a pc and a monitor for "almost nothing in space". Man it was a shock for me! Awesome channel! Thank you LGR!!!!
I know this is a year old, but I've seen you do this a few times now. A "proper" way to copy over the CAB files is to start by creating C:\WINDOWS\OPTIONS\CABS and copying the entirety of the WIN95 or WIN98 directory into it. You then run SETUP from that directory instead of the CD-ROM. That's where OEMs like Dell and Gateway 2000 loaded the CAB files.
I know this is 4 years old, but thank you.
I may redo my Windows 98 machine and try this out. Thanks for the tip.
My morning just got a whole lot better, love these videos where you work on old stuff to bring life back into it.
Awesome, I hope you enjoy this little project!
LGR thank you for making videos man your voice and the mix of the amount of woodgrain in your channel makes me feel intense feelings inside thank you man
Ever heard of The 8-Bit Guy? Not saying LGR is less entertaining.
i know 8 bit guy too
Philip Cooper Idk. LGR becomes more entertaining whenever he invovles his duke nukem side
The setup background looked so futuristic back then but now it looks like something that an average person can come up with in 5 mins on Paint.
"Let's apply that crap without restarting!"
This man likes to live on the edge.
I keep coming back to this video, it's therapeutic to see and listen to it. It seems to get better every viewing on top of it.
My mom had a similar ThinkPad (a 390X?) that she called the StinkPad. She got it from her employer, and they went out of business or something and didn't bother asking for it back, they never even cashed the check she gave them. I still have it somewhere.
Dude. Get that thing working. Old computers like these are a window into the past now.
@@TheEmeraldMenOfficial haha get it cuz it runs windows😂
ok ik its bad
I like to imagine that laptop has one big virtual smile on the monitor saying "thanks for cleaning me
A wood grain toothbrush... I love this channel!!! 😀
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Trees hate him!
Rex Warden alternative facts
Rex Warden donkey teeth...
Watching someone repair a 20-year-old laptop makes me wonder what we'll do with today's laptops 20 years from now. I can't really see someone cracking open a current-year MacBook and fiddling with batteries and things.
They literally cannot, the worst they can do is void any warranties. Unless some precedent gets set or some law created, you can open anything you own and do whatever you want to it.
ArmadilloAl Computer tech is advancing way slower than it was twenty years ago. In 20 years from now, the current PCs will probably be outdated but still usable.
Zazzilas Arden uh no.
ArmadilloAl I don't think any of our technology will last 20 years the way this did. Something just tells me no.
That's what I do :)
Apple computers are a nice challenge of your skills.
That thing is insanely thick. It looks like one of Ben Heck's console laptops.
ironically that thickness protect the computer
Nowadays, everything is so thin and fragile. You bump something and the screen cracks. Technology WOOHOO!! 😏😅
EXTRA THICC
Thiccpad
@@sanderlippa5144 CHONKPAD etc. I think this one might be a little bit chubby even for 1997, though it may be that the 12" form factor makes it look fatter than it would otherwise.
I love this channel. Your videos are fantastic man!! I had a IBM Thinkpad that I bought when I was graduating high school. I was going to college and wanted a good laptop and I was working at a computer store during the summer back then. The owner sold it to me at a discount and I used most of my earnings for the summer and my dad helped me pay for it as well. I was super proud that I had worked so hard for it. It was modular in that the keyboard could be raised to reveal slots to put in a 2nd hard drive, memory and cd rom drive could all be easily accessed. In my freshman year of college I had to do a speech presentation in one of my classes and I chose to do a presentation on the laptop. Got lots of oohs and aahs when I showed off the modular functions! Sometime in the next month or so my dorm room was broken into and someone stole it and some other electronics from my roommate. It was never recovered and I did not have any kind of warranty or insurance on it. It was one of the saddest moments in my life!! Months later the thief was discovered, he was a fellow college student who was boosting stuff around the school. He was killed in a violent attack. Crazy story but watching this video brought back a lot of memories!!
Ah! There's nothing like watching a new high quality LGR video after working a 12-hour shift as night security and just a couple of hours of sleep. It feels sort of cozy.
TheBandy01 sounds nice!
you forgot the retrobright
whops wrong channel
@@cookedchickenw9 wooosh
r/sorryididn’tmeanto
R/THANKYOUTHINKPAD
Jk
That is not how you spell whoops
"Hey guys I found a disk drive, do you need this?"
Yes I do computer, that's okay.
I don't know why, but this bit cracked me up xD
Yes! me too. It caught me really off guard.
13:20 :D
And Earlier:
"Oh ScanDisk, it's a blank drive, you'll be okay."
'I gotta check though, it might not be okay.'
@@__Mr.White__ lol. that i have to agree with you there, LOL, THAT cracked me up.
7:54
"Nice"
- Steve1989MREInfo
“Let’s get this out onto a tray”
@@AshtonSnapp lmfao. His glass and spoon melodies too.
nice hiss
I watch him too.
Just picked up on that too!
"Nice, m'kay"
“I like the feel of a fresh... nipple.” LGR, 2017
Don’t we all…
1:40
It's amazing to think that the phone (A FREAKING CELLPHONE!) that I'm watching this on has more storage than that machine. Technology is amazing.
Nicole Schoenhoft more storage and more raw power. It's incredible is it not?
I know my phone has 16gb
my phone theoretically can handle 2TB of storage card, I only have a 128GB in it though. It's an old phone, don't judge.
Why would you even need that much space.
cowcannon I don't know. Maybe for apps or pictures or something like that, but it seems like I bit much.
I feel my soul being cleansed watching this
yeah... i like that big brick of plastic too....
the thinkpad of course!...
What do you mean by soul?
That battery pack will probably just contain a bunch of cells and a control circuit. If you can open it up, you can probably replace them with new cells pretty easily.
It's possible, but lithium cells can be pretty nasty if you look at them funny.
Unfortunately, it isn't usually possible to disassemble a laptop battery without destroying the outer casing. Most of the time, the cells are actually glued into place.
I did literally this with my Thinkpad, but it was the older NiMH battery option, much safer than playing with LI cells.
Watching this on my brand new 2018 ThinkPad makes me pleased to see that, even after the handover to Lenovo, the core design and construction of these laptops are quite similar!
It's very pleasing to see where certain features, and design language comes from, the ruggedness, the purpose built, "have the job done" style is awesome!
Well done IBM, and keep it up Lenovo!
BTW, great video as always! ;)
Can you imagine if they made a modern version with the same thickness, it would be powerful as hell
I own a IBM Thinkpad Windows 98. lol I use to own one back in day as well and I love it. They are great work horses and built tough. I loved the video man!!
I have a T43 still.
You should cover your entire house in wood grain.
@@MisterRorschach90 I mean you can see these walls aren't
It is the year 2050 and Clint has become wood grain. God help us.
Back then
"Holy hell. 6.4gb!"
Now
"Bruh. You only have 1tb?"
I know. My first PC was a 486 which had a 540 mb hard disk back in 1995. When I bought my first Pentium 2 years later it had an 2 gb hard disk. Which was very spacious at that time.
A bit of trivia: a smartphone now has many more times greater computing capability than the Soviet Union ever had.
I have a 300 GB hard drive and that's all I need
@@Raiko05 :D
@@Raiko05 I only would upgrade if the hardware I was currently using is starting to cause issues and if I can fix that current machine I will happily do that
I don't get how some people judge others based on possessions and clothing
More like IBM T H I C C P A D
😆 BWL LOL
How I get windows 95 startup for my Mac
Yeah, IBM's Laptops are alway U L T R A T H I C C
I just love watching you work this magic and geek out over these. It makes my little heart feel all warm and fuzzy and happy.
7:53 Steve1989MRE would be proud of that "Nice!"
Gotta get that out onto a tray first! 😅😅😅
that laptop is thiccer than your wiafu.
Shimmers man !!! You hit my spot :))
lol
And the spoon music just prior to that.
"What year is it?" - LGR 2017
Knut Mikael Haukeland more like LGR 20XX
He's a computer!
2020
@name2 2021?
Rainy day here in Louisiana and I was just about to turn off the pc and pop in a movie, Then I spotted this!
Love these videos man.
KhakiBlueSocks Oh--Hurricane Harvey made it intense in our region.
Software developer here. Love having your videos on while I work. Thanks for the cool content and for putting the recent history of technology into perspective.
Great video LGR, I own one of these machines and anyone having problems with 163,161 or 192 REPLACE YOUR CMOS BATTERY FIRST! It was a great sigh of relief when I got rid of all three errors just by replacing the CMOS battery, I was worried about the 192 error more then the other two.
Was insanely happy when you got that white spot off tbh, so satisfying
Surprised you didn't take the whole thing apart and show off/clean the insides. Maybe a part 2 someday for a deeper inspection of the guts of this machine? Great video Clint! Glad to see a new video despite the setbacks with RUclips
This used to be the bread and butter of doing technical support years ago. People would send in their computers with the hard-disk dead or dying and the new drive would need reinstalling back to a, 'new', state. Most of the time, the customer wouldn't have the disks/CDs which came with the machine, so it was generally a case of getting the drivers and any proprietary software from the net. Putting the OEM stuff on it was an extra touch which made the machine appear new and always gave a sense of satisfaction that you were restoring the machine almost back to being, 'new.'
Generally, the chipset drivers should be installed first, then the audio, network and graphics last. Restarting after each wasn't always essential but was generally advisable. Especially those pesky HP machines which seemed to have a lot of hidden software-based hardware devices.
The only use USB had, back then, was for web cameras!
J0hNF_UK really? Here's my dream of playing Psarantonis, through a 3.0 USB stick, on this computer...
Who had a webcam back then tho really lol
@@ΑΡΗΣΚΟΡΝΑΡΑΚΗΣ you definitely can, since USB 3.0 has backwards compatibility with older revisions of USB, it just would be very slow.
Something from 1997 is by no means "old" to me, only when I remember that I was a sprightly 30 year old then LOL, but it is fascinating seeing just how far we've come in tech since then.
I can't help but wonder what tech will be like in another 20 years.
Good video mate, truly enjoyed it.
Thank you for the subtitles, my level in english is bad. Hello in France
And yet your english is perfectly normal. Why are you foreigners moaning about how your "EnGlIsH SoOoOoO bAd!!1!11!1!!! PwEaSe FoRgIvE MeEeEeEe!1!1!~~``````~~~"? Seriously, your english is perfectly fine.
In fact...
you
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a FOREIGNER AT ALL?
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Yuo mispelled simething !
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what comment were you correcting?
Bonjour
10:05 Scandisk voice: "I gotta check though, it might not be ok."
I got a HOW TO BASIC vibe from that clean at ~22:00
**throws egg at laptop**
Holy God you're right
Too bad he didn't just start trashing it.... That's the only truly way to bamboozle us a second time the way howtobasic did
You ever start to wonder if LGR has a problem with all the wood grain stuff? No, me either.
If he starts considering changing his name to Woody then I think we must step in.
Gaming with Caffeine Rage I dunno about 'Woody' but 'Wood E. Grain'' sounds kind of cool. 😂
I feel like he would change his name to Woody
In primary school, I was the nerdy kid with the laptop (an IBM Thinkpad 345CS), UNTIL the nerdier kid got a 380 of some description which had everything I coveted: CD, a sound card, a bigger screen, Windows 95... you inspired me to hop on eBay, pick up a cheap 380D, and begin a project to bring it back to its former glory! Thanks LGR :D
So nice seeing the old thing come back to life, and the care you give it.
What I'd like to see is Windows NT 4.0 running on a thinkpad with a PowerPC CPU. NT 4.0 was the only windows to support that and I've never seen any major retro tech channel covering that.
I've never run across a setup like that, but I'd love to!
Light correction: NT 3.5.1 and 3.1 also supported PowerPC. It was the ThinkPad 850. It came with NT 3.51 stock I think and was compatible to the PowerPC version of NT 4.0. It came with a PowerPC 603e which I think had 100MHz and 32 MB of RAM.
I sort of remember that. I mean, I dual-booted NT 4.0 and windows 95 back in the day. They look so similar on the surface, but wow was there ever a difference in stability...
That was the x86 version though.
But I remember the installer and various things referring to DEC Alpha and PowerPC builds of it...
Was there any 3rd party software (compiled, packaged, etc.) available for it?
I'm not aware of any. The only downloads I could find for NT 4.0 for PowerPC were indeed some of the service packs that can still be downloaded on some ancient university FTP servers. Microsoft shut down the PPC support right when the first developers announced to port their programs to PPC. It never happened though. I suspect something similar is going to happen with the Windows 10 for ARM version soon.
FDISK verifies the integrity of the user. No wonder I got so many fatal errors back in the day.. LMAO
Why they demonetized this, i see nothing wrong with this, I swear YT is becoming a shitshow
They didn't demonetize this one, it was the other video that might've gone up today. Instead, this one is up since it was deemed safe. The other video was simply me taking a look at a set of shareware CDs, which was somehow "inappropriate."
Lazy Game Reviews is it because someone thinks "shareware" sounds too much like "malware"?
Their new algorithm seems to be coming down hard on "violent games." Which now seems to include T-rated games.
I don't even think it may be "someone" behind the process anymore, it might be a black box AI in charge of automated demonetization that's gone rogue
Lazy Game Reviews how dare you showcasing a bunch of cds! THERE ARE KIDS IN HERE
One of my relatives had a 380D model however there was no power supply however when I went looking I found an original at a local computer store. This video helped a lot with restoring it and it was very fun to take it apart and play around with it!
That startup sound ❤️ it’s practically the sound of my love for computers beginning. Wild!
I figured it out, LGR vision is like Neo's vision in Matrix, only in WOODGRAIN. ",...there's way too much information to decode the LGR. You get used to it, though. Your brain does the translating. I don't even see the woodgrain. All I see is maple, oak, cherry . Hey uh, you want a drink?"
we used to call the nub a Centrally Located Integrated Tracker
TheBatNaz which is short for... :°]
So you use a clit to navigate the computer?
I call it a track-peg.
Hey Screw RUclips for demonetizing your original episode for today. Glad you were able to find something else to put up. Sorry RUclips is such a shitter.
No worries, I'll always try my best to readjust and bring you all something awesome :)
Oh yeah, let me remind myself to raise that LGR patreon fee. #ScrewTube
Commander Spock, the Thinkpad T30 models and the Dell D610/620/630 are often recommended for diagnostics sytems. I have the D630 and it does the trick, but the Thinkpads are generally regarded as being more rugged.
what was the other ep for today? didnt pop up for me :(
What's the endgame here though? What's happening at RUclips is really worrying.
HOLY SHIT LGR! I literally just got this exact machine given to me through my (sole proprietor) e-recycling business. Granted the guy kept the HDD (no biggie because I have 50+ on hand), But other than that it's fully functional AND he had the original doc and 2 power supplies. I booted to BIOS and everything looked good; even the CMOS battery.... Also, incredibly further still, the unit's battery STILL works and holds juice for a coupe hours. Could not believe that part. This is a classic, and a beauty at that!
Crazy timing for me to randomly find this video in my feed.
Cheers!
-H.B.
That was amazing work buddy! I so miss that era of the 90's. Quality built computers back in the day!
I bursted out laughing at the Steve1989 reference (complete with the spoon noise) lol. Clint, your channel and Steve's have a special place in my heart.
I think that reference was pretty nice.
Device Name : BANANA
oh na na.
lol, mine is still the default stuff
"BANANA" is the default CD driver device name used in the CONFIG.SYS file included in the boot disk for MS-DOS from the website AllBootDisks. This is almost certainly the file that LGR's custom boot disk was based on.
@Janice Alejo wha
My Dad used to have one of these, As a Kid I used to play the DOS version of SimCity as well as Warcraft II on this at times
I have this laptop here with me too! And this is a big pleasure. Best keyboard, old ports, MS-DOS 6.0, Borland Turbo C++ 3.1, Microsoft QBasic... nothing better than this! Thanks Clint for old your videos with big old stuff! Inspiring!
The jazz in combination with the beeping and the drive noises makes such a sound scape. I dont know how but its really mesmerizing.
windows....95!
...i've installed windows 2000 more times than i want to admit, nearly remember the serial by heart
2000 times?
Love your videos LGR, always makes my day to see you in my sub feed. Stay awesome =)
Thanks :)
Hi Clint! Love your videos, where can i find the music that you play around 17:13?
would you prefer to type "canyon.mid" into google
or did you want to search through the audio files on your windows 95?
Psht canyon.mid everyone knows passport.mid was where it was at. ;)
i was thinking more of the whole music library
The aesthetics are over 9000!!!
Watching this video seven years after it came out for two reasons. First, to help support Clint as he goes through all of the cleanup after the storms in 2024 second, because I hadn’t seen this one yet and it’s always fun to watch Clint, clean stuff and slip in a few Duke numem references!
This is that LGR episode that I always come back to for some reason.
"Nice, okay" 7:55
Nice SteveMRE reference haha
a trick I learned was to simply do this before installing windows 95 and simply run setup from the hard drive. that way it installs without nagging me for the windows 95 cd. the trick works with windows 98 as well.
Wow I haven't heard the PC speaker sound of commander keen since I played it as a kid.. I loved that game and that's what it sounded like back in the day for me. 💗
"Coffee and memories". Lol. I love your videos so much. You inspire people to take better care of their equipment. You are the soul reason I am using again my 2005 Toshiba laptop to do my writing instead of a modern laptop. I got my Toshiba fixed up with windows 7 and it's working perfectly. You can't beat these old machines. You rock LGR.
this is amazingly therapeutic to watch you restore old pc's and i just realized this video was dropped on my birthday :)
"fresh.... nipple"
-LGR 2017
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Top 100 Quotes of All Time
don't point it out, it might get the video demonetized
Allmost liked this comment before I noticed it has 69 likes
Dyila Akiyama it’s at 169 now...
It's at 217
Clint! The 380 CAN do upscaling, and it's not too bad! At least it isn't on my 380Z :)
In text mode it even loads an alternative (bigger) font!
Press Fn+F8
Came here to mention that. LGR should make use of the manuals :P
I see you're giving that love to your laptop by cleaning it. one trick I recommend, try Windex if it's greasy it takes off thin grease film also it takes off certain things water vinegar may not. Windex with ammonia will kill germs
Love watching you are videos of bringing these old computers back to life. Right now I am studying Network Administration at my school, I love working on computers.
My grandmother just gave me this exact laptop yesterday and this video has proven to be very useful.
Than ScanDisk impersonation was spot on.
Channeling a little bit of Steve1989MREInfo
Let's get this out onto a tray.
7:54
Nice.
Holy crap so i wasn't the only one thinking of that....
"I agreed to your outdated agreement"😂😂😂😂😂😂
Was feeling kind of off until I saw this video this morning. Helped perk me up in a weird way. Your channel is awesome.
"Getting ready to run Windows 98 for the first time..."
I remember helping my dad reinstall Windows on customers' computers back when we had a computer repair shop, and I still get so satisfied seeing that splash screen after installing 98 or XP. ^w^
I have an IBM aptiva with Windows 95 on it and it is still working just fine. The computer has the Cyrix cpu in it and the configuration IBM used. No one make towers like that any longer and I wish they did because the cases back then was heavier and was well built. I worked on one lady's old HP tower and it was fine after reinstalling the OS on it.
I also have a Zenith laptop which have MS-Dos installed on it and seems to be working just fine. The computer have the 286 cpu installed on it and is a nice machine and was taken care of by the previous owner and nothing is broken on the case. I want to install Windows 3.1 on it to see how it will work though.
7:53 is that some Coffee, Instant type 1? Alright, Cool.
Instant type 1, NICE!
LGR can you put on your best Duke Nukem impression? Sometimes you really sound like him. 7:38 is a perfect example
xxplosiv88 d u k i n u k i
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xxplosiv88 He does all the time. Watch his older videos.
20:58
dick kickem
Found a working 380D today, can’t wait to start my journey in restoring it! I ordered a blank floppy disk so that I can start a fresh install. Never worked on any computers from this area so it will be fun.
im no computer whiz and im definitely not old enough to remember older tech like this, but for some reason i just love watching videos like these!
RUclips and their over-reliance on algorithms, it's just like their DMCA process. If RUclips is going to do something like this, at least get a human to double check.
Do you realize how many people they'd need to hire for that? At least five Indian guys working thousands of hours of overtime.
those five indians would need to be fluent in every language spoken in all countries with an internet connection since not every video is in english.
You Tube grown too big for humans to double check unfortunately.
It's Largely automated now with Human Admins can make overrides and changes. But with all the thousands if not millions of videos that are uploaded every day Human intervention is becoming difficult at best.
There is an appeals process, but there seems to be a lack of transparency with videos getting confirmed as not advertiser-friendly for no reason... like Bryan Lunduke's video on tmux is "inappropriate" somehow, because that makes sense.
Maybe they don't like tmux because they're screen purists?
That is one adorable little hard drive
Ah, you failed to answer important life questions such as where does one find a wood grained toothbrush....
The woodgrain toothbrush store!
LGR, The woodgrain toothbrush looks suspiciously covered in that same vinyl wrap used on the WG486, I wonder...🤔
I didn't wrap it! Reach sells toothbrushes with all kinds of patterns, and one of them right now is woodgrain
Lazy Game Reviews is there a website? I gotta get me one
Lazy Game Reviews wow, that's oddware worthy! I must ask, are you going to try out add on boards for the soundblaster, like the dream blaster? (I think that's what it's called)
I don't know what it is but watching him clean and scrub down that laptop is strangely relaxing.
my dad had one of these with Win 98. That and his Compaq Presario were my first computers. I remember playing the sims and goofing around on paint all day.
Awesome restoration job! The computer is actually in pretty good shape, but the fresh Windows 95 install on it was very cool and with 64 MB's of ram it should run pretty fast and your now are able to portably play your favorite old school games... very nice job!
Thank you, I still use the machine all the time for capturing software footage!
LGR I love your videos and I’m a big fan of your channel. I like a lot those old devices and I have some of those old stuff too, however, I’m from Brazil and I can’t find all those old stuff like you do... that’s why I watch your videos... fun nostalgia... keep publishing new stuff and I’ll keep watching you...
Wow! I remember growing up with one of these as a kid, playing DOOM and RollerCoaster tycoon. Very nice.
I started out on Windows 95 with my first computer back then on a Packard Bell flat style desktop computer. Then upgraded it to Windows 98 with Plus!, then Windows ME (Millennium Edition).
It's too bad ME was such a downgrade, I remember having that before XP.
ME was horrible, lol :D I never want to see that trash again :D
Very nice. I'm very fond of old Thinkpads, some of them make nice retro gaming machines. Many are also surprisingly upgradable. I still have a Thinkpad 755CX that I purchased used in 1997 for $700. The memory is maxed at 40MB, the HDD (originally 810MB) was replaced a few years ago with a 4GB microdrive, and I got for it a DockII docking station that provides apart from the usual ports, 2 ISA slots, internal and external drive bays and a SCSI adapter. With a P75 it works well for mid-late DOS games and early Windows ones. I also have a Thinkpad 755CE which is identical except for a 486 CPU instead of pentium and can use the same docking station; a Thinkpad 380ED (Pentium MMX 166) and a 380XD (the same as in your video) with port replicator; a 770Z (PII-366) with SelectaDock III with SCSI, internal/external drive bays and 2 ISA/3 PCI slots (2 shared). Also a Thinkpad 570 with UltraBase, and a R52 with Advanced Dock.
Together these allow me to cover the period approx. 1992-2002 with ease, especially the ones with ISA/PCI slots in which I can add real sound and VGA cards. I have planned for a while but didn't get around to do it, making a 2xVoodoo2 SLI and real soundblaster (probably AWE64) setup for the 770Z using all 3 possible expansion slots in the dock. :)
Thank the powers that be that you exist, dude. I love these videos. You're a modern-day archaeologist. If I was you, I'd build a modest little technology Museum under a non-profit. The donations, and your finished works can all be curated and set up on display for the young and old alike.
Thanks! That's actually a goal of mine.
"What year is it?!"
So appropriate.
Will you do an episode on what got you interested in wood grain? :)
Haha, I love the voice over impersonating Windows. Do more please ! : D
I had a 1997 Thinkpad, and I can see similarities and a big difference from this unit. Mine was definitely not as boxy or thick. Nice to see someone passionate about old computers. I would take this to Best Buy for recycling....
Your Channel brings up so much precious memories! Thank you!