I Bought A 30 Year Old Laptop From eBay! Can We Fix It?

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In today’s video we’re going to try and fix a 30 year old Sharp PC-4741 laptop that I bought off of ebay. This notebook was released in 1990 and features a 40MB hard disk! So, can we restore it? Let’s find out! #vintage #laptop #restoration
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@psivewri 4 жыл бұрын

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@michaelwincott 4 жыл бұрын

Superb. Really like your style, Psivewri. Long live eucalyptus oil!

@YourRoof 4 жыл бұрын

I was litteraly checking my notifications every 10 mins every day for another masterpeice video of yours. Thanks for the astonoshing content love you. YOUR THE BEST

@unitedco1904 4 жыл бұрын

So this is why you needed that Conner replaced, its an awesome machine!

@billieellish3793 4 жыл бұрын

I really have enjoyed this

@OmegaWolf 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah my laptop crashed

@anhoanghocgioi3140 4 жыл бұрын

WD Engineers: If you open up a hard drive, it will never work again. Nathan: Hold my rubber seal

@NoobixCube 4 жыл бұрын

I mean, these days, they're assembled in clean-room conditions, and are often close to airtight in their construction. Some high end server drives are even filled with helium, rather than regular air. A thirty year old hard disk, though? It's a miracle they worked at all, to begin with, considering how delicate modern mechanisms have to be. I guess tolerances for putting 42 MB into the same space we can currently cram, what, 6 TB, are much looser.

@vuiupian 4 жыл бұрын

69th like nice

@HeX341 4 жыл бұрын

I did it once. It was a dying 80 Gb HDD and just opened it. I closed it after taking a photo and put it back in the PC, it did not matter because all the information was already backed up. The hard disk works even today, but without a boot sector. It's also very slow.

@XeonProductions 3 жыл бұрын

I've successfully recovered multiple drives that had stuck heads by opening them up and manually unsticking the heads. I didn't have any clean room and the people involved didn't want to pay for data recovery and their data wasn't that vital. I've even done experiments where I opened a drive, ran it with the cover off and blew dust and spit into it and surprisingly the drives continued to work fine for some time before I started getting read errors and other problems. Obviously that's a worst case scenario, and I wouldn't trust any drive after popping the cover and unsticking the heads, but it's not the end of the world. I wouldn't try opening newer high capacity helium filled drives though.

@jonah5908 3 жыл бұрын

@@NoobixCube it's just a myth that you NEED those conditions to open up a hard disc safely. Sure, you risk debris breaking something but i've opened many disc drives in a regular room environment and they still work.

@RogerAlan 4 жыл бұрын

Vintage content, hell yeah

@OmegaWolf 4 жыл бұрын

Lol

@bd360_online 4 жыл бұрын

Very old but worth to keep in the archives.

@andrive 4 жыл бұрын

Yep

@simonmadeley1330 4 жыл бұрын

Wow. As an IT guy for 35 years this was made all the more interesting at the 14:30 mark when Solution 6 was mentioned. I worked for Solution 6 and to have it described as "primitive" made me laugh. In 1990 Sol6 (as it was genrally known by users) was actually quite advanced compared to what it replaced. Basically, it saw the shift from proprietary systems of the day to DOS based (and later Windows). Life revolved around Novell networks for us and then NT3.5. The good old days (pre-internet)! Sol6 was (and still is) Australian software and was bought by MYOB in 2008. Entertaining video as we would never have pulled an actual HDD apart. It would have been tossed in to bin as soon as we saw it was a Conner.

@helenHTID 2 жыл бұрын

Technology and strategies always moving my dude! It may have been advanced back then, Just like the hardware, But just like hardware, Coding has moved forward leaps and bounds since. Yes it will seem strange and funny to those who were involved or around something that was mind blowing at the time, Being now thought of as old school/primitive to future generations. My dad worked as part of the Xenix team at Bell Labs in 1980, Derived from the ground breaking Unix system and was the backbone to DOS.. Oh boy is that a relic to how far clever minds have come in this space lol

@RamLaska 3 жыл бұрын

Those were the days (1977-2000) where a 5-year-old computer was truly a relic. Today, I use a 12-year-old Thinkpad for work everyday, and I don't even notice how old it is most of the time.

@FS--ew3se 2 жыл бұрын

I use a old laptop from 2013 gaming one I found in a dumpster Msi ge70 2oe 011ne

@1greenMitsi Жыл бұрын

yup I love my x220

@telengardforever7783 Жыл бұрын

I still use i5 6th gen for travel and remote desktop. Computers are just so overpowered now-a-days that they don't age as quickly as they did in the past. I can't imagine using the VIC-20 I purchased in 1980 in 1990. But I can totally see me still using my 6th gen from 2016 in 2026.

@ermgunk1127 Ай бұрын

@@FS--ew3sewhere did you find this dumpster

@Pendleton115 4 жыл бұрын

The insides of this laptop are really interesting. Almost looks like a desktop board crammed in a laptop chassis.

@realomegadrumer 4 жыл бұрын

12:27 Imagine finding this frog at your doorstep at 10PM and it sounded like this.

@miguell9591 3 жыл бұрын

lol

@xpmyt341 3 жыл бұрын

Lol

@Tearnalte 2 жыл бұрын

Lol

@intel386DX 4 жыл бұрын

7:36 Your machine posses CGA video card see here (2:10 "Console CGA" to the right), and Keen 1, 2 and 3 have only EGA versions, so you have to try Keen 4, 5, 6 and Dreams they have CGA variants. 11:40 WTF man :D?! it started to work opened WoW Cool!!!! 15:25 try Windows 3.0 it runs even on 8086

@ianweber9248 3 жыл бұрын

intel386DX The CGA version of Keen 4 (and probably the others too, never actually played them) looks absolutely awful in colour (it uses the Cyan/Magenta/Black/White CGA palette), but since that’s a monochrome display you won’t see any of that. What you will see though is the horrible ghosting that comes from it having a particularly bad refresh. I’m not sure exactly what sort of panel it has exactly, but it’s definitely unsuitable for games.

@intel386DX 3 жыл бұрын

@@ianweber9248 yes refresh rate is poor, but it is still playable and you can even connect the external monitor.

@kpopRC 3 жыл бұрын

hey buddy! great videos. you might want to use a sowing machine oil. wd40 is not a lubricant.

@JessicaFEREM 2 жыл бұрын

I was about to say that

@JessicaFEREM 2 жыл бұрын

@@DoNotSayThree "WD-40" without anything after it is more like a penetrating oil rather than a lube. for finer mechs, sowing machine oil is a better fit, because it's easier to apply and it's simply made for being used on small moving parts.

@AndreBeukesZA Жыл бұрын

@@JessicaFEREM ummm yeah lets just ignore "SOWING" machine.

@AtoManPL 3 жыл бұрын

Every time I see one of those chunky laptops I think how perfect would be to fit a modern Raspberry Pi inside. So much space! The battery compartment actually seems like a perfect place to fit it so it can be replaced easily.

@charliethegrey 10 ай бұрын

The refresh rate on the LCD is awful though so you'd have to replace that also

@cosmicrdt 4 жыл бұрын

Xtree (gold) was the program everyone used for file management before Windows was popular. Many still used it right into the 2000's.

@ChaplainDMK Жыл бұрын

Any reason why something like it wasn't included in various DOS versions by default?

@sacrificeme958 4 жыл бұрын

Where do you even learn this stuff?

@jamesorrell7462 4 жыл бұрын

From breaking a lot of shit

@petrolmonkey6891 4 жыл бұрын

@@jamesorrell7462 can confirm, a good way to learn

@MrLurchsThings 4 жыл бұрын

Asking questions and google 😁

@TylerFurrison 4 жыл бұрын

Self taught probably

@maynnemillares 4 жыл бұрын

No school and no teacher can make you as skilled with hardware like that.

@raviolisauce103 4 жыл бұрын

I love how you always judge the packaging.

@jwoody8815 4 жыл бұрын

The interface is called "Direct Access" had it on my first PC around 1992, Windows 3.0 would run on that, it only requires and 8088 class CPU because it supports real mode, Windows 3.1 does not.

@LukeSchiralli 3 жыл бұрын

Well done for not losing patience and getting that drive working!

@jdcrupelmonde272 3 жыл бұрын

In those days, my 286 didn't run W3.11. You actually needed a 386. Thanks for letting me relive those beautiful days of DOS-computing.

@n6vcw 3 жыл бұрын

That main menu brought back some memories. I used to use it on my 8088s and 80286s. You could configure the top menu "name" to say anything you wanted.

@Moth11 4 жыл бұрын

This is definitely your funniest video so far man. “Paul’s juicy menu” 🤣

@SurajKumar-AskMe 4 жыл бұрын

Man! Your videos are so interesting that I look forward to new videos. You make the entire process look so easy. Keep up the great work.

@leadergames0661 4 жыл бұрын

Hey Nathan, I have also bought a similar laptop and your video has helped me a lot. Keep up the good work!

@ramentrash0 4 жыл бұрын

I love your work so much man. You have been a big inspiration for me and I have been refurbishing old computers and other technology because of these videos. Thank you so much!

@heresjhonny702 4 жыл бұрын

12:26 That's how my knee sounds when i get up...

@timorouw5555 3 жыл бұрын

Have you tried WD-40?

@oaxe4757 3 жыл бұрын

lol bruh

@JacobTechShit 4 жыл бұрын

The drive may have had stiction... opening it up may have helped loosen up the stepper motor, and moving that head and armature by hand may have helped as well. Good video!

@caficionadocafe 4 жыл бұрын

your voice is so calm

@metalheadmalta 4 жыл бұрын

Good job. I remember those hard drives pretty well... Even when new the heads would sometimes stick. I used to work in a computer repair shop (down to boad level!), and we saw hundreds of these hard-drisks... Together with Western Digital Caviar (at that time!) they were hopeless. As for the graphics problem, you simply do not have graphics. It's a computer with text capabilities only.

@MrLurchsThings 4 жыл бұрын

Given the work you went through with that HDD, I bet there was a distinct WTF when it booted, followed by much cheering.

@aldesigns 4 жыл бұрын

I love this content! There is a lot of fixing to do and the laptop is vintage which is my taste :) Hoping for more vintage laptops :)

@arnlol 4 жыл бұрын

I wonder if that drive is one of those that used a rubber bumper to stop the head in the parking area like I have seen in some other videos of people fixing old macs... If it’s the case then the drive may die again when the head sticks back to it. It’s amazing to see how old hard drives were much more resilient, I mean, you moved the heads without even rotating the platter and that didn’t seam to cause any damage. Try that on a modern drive and I don’t think it’ll work fine afterwards...

@CardboardGuy 4 жыл бұрын

Psivewri’s friend; I need a computer. Psivewri; Hold my eucalyptus oil while I visit eBay.

@andrive 4 жыл бұрын

Stop

@ziuzz4168 4 жыл бұрын

*no* *self advertisment ShAgGeR*

@brazgazz 4 жыл бұрын

100 likes isnt alot lol

@skeletron9003 4 жыл бұрын

Your content is very entertaining! Thank you for brightening my days with your good, relaxing, funny content! I’ve been a fan since January this year, and have never missed a video since :)

@adews7204 4 жыл бұрын

Damn that thing is old, I love it!

@zeusincoming282 3 жыл бұрын

Those things were like $5000.00 in todays money. They were like $2500.00 in 1990. I remember seing thes at Radio Shack and the demo model was kept in a case under lock and key. The Clerks had to get it out for you and stand next to you the whole time you checked it out.

@robertshields2879 3 жыл бұрын

I think old electronics are fascinating

@adews7204 3 жыл бұрын

Robert Shields I agree they are the best!

@apdole 4 жыл бұрын

Your content is SO professional and I love it.

@mima85 4 жыл бұрын

Probably the hard drive had a problem that is quite common to these old units: there are little rubber bumpers that prevent the head stack's voice coil assembly to hit hard on the metallic magnet's frame when the disk parks the heads. These bumpers degrade with the years and transforms themselves in a mess of sticky goo, that literally sticks the head stack assembly to the voice coil's magnet's frame. The voice coil actuator doesn't just have enough force to disengage the heads from that sticky goo and the drive fails its initial test as it's not able to move them, so the computer won't detect it. What did you do when you opened the hard drive was to move manually the head stack (be careful, this could scratch the disks!). This unlocked it, now the drive was finally able to move its heads so it passed its power on self test and shown itself to the BIOS. So you solved temporarily the problem, but be careful as that sticky goo is still there, and it'll lock again the drive in a very short time. To solve it, what I did on an handful of my old hard drives is to put a little piece of adhesive tape over that goo, so the voice coil's assembly won't touch anymore the sticky surface and won't lock again.

@galah_pie 4 жыл бұрын

Hi, you and Linus helped my find my hidden talent of fixing/ making tech, thank you so much :)

@oOrbitZz 3 жыл бұрын

I really enjoy watching this. It brings back memory on my first computer encounter. Especially when I see WordStar (our word processor before) , Lutos 123 (our spreadsheet before similar to excel), and DBase III which is a database programming language we back when no one knows SQL would exist.

@facebookmemelord2091 4 жыл бұрын

that is incredible, you broke the one rule of pc tech repair and it actually fixed something. I'm amazed, awesome video!

@GALAXY_pengu 4 жыл бұрын

i quite like watching you restore old macs i find them fun to watch

@redleader6442 4 жыл бұрын

Have you considered trying Windows 3.0? It's the last Windows OS compatible with the 8086/88 processors, and I've gotten it working on a V40 before. It's a tad slow, but definitely usable.

@intel386DX 4 жыл бұрын

exactly :)

@scorp18121982 4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely a great video. I hope you kept this machine!!!. Congrats for your patience with it too!

@ExpertCMX 2 жыл бұрын

Makes me so thankful for the ease of technology we all utilize today. Thanks for the awesome video (:

@jessicaroe271 4 жыл бұрын

Totally off topic, but I love that little beard thing going on Nathan! 😂👍💕

@BilisNegra 4 жыл бұрын

Archimedes: "give me a lever and I can move the world". This guy: "give me something I can clean and polish with eucalyptus oil, and I'll build a video/project around it".

@flipz4dayz116 4 жыл бұрын

Hey Psivewri, Hello from Queensland! Your videos are awesome, and have inspired me to start working on computers myself! Hands down my favourite tech KZfaqr.

@garyreardon11 4 жыл бұрын

I was surprised you got the hard drive working. Great video as always!

@giovanegladio 4 жыл бұрын

Love this channel, great video

@enzomeister 4 жыл бұрын

Very interesting, love your content keep the good work.

@RobertDeloyd 4 жыл бұрын

No way! you got the drive working with the top off! simply amazing, Nathan!

@migueldoliveiracomposer 4 жыл бұрын

Even though most of the repair attempts here evade my limited knowledge, I have leaned to admire a new level of perseverance.

@RamLaska 4 жыл бұрын

Windows 3.1 required a 286 It's probably a CGA video card, possibly MDA (monochrome). Text mode games and demos will work

@intel386DX 4 жыл бұрын

notice in the BISO SETUP it is CGA here 2:10 and the CPU is V40 the most advanced CPU on XT machines it even have 80188 instructions, but still it can only run Windows 3.0 (3.0 can run even on 8088) ! :)

@RWL2012 3 жыл бұрын

yeah there are Pac-Man and Tetris clones for text mode DOS haha

@RamLaska 3 жыл бұрын

There’s also some demos like “YO!” by Future Crew.

@deansimons6693 4 жыл бұрын

“The Eucalyptus Oil Squad.” Iconic.

@balazshevizi7457 4 жыл бұрын

I think the key is when you took the hard disk apart, you moved the head.(it was stuck in the middle) I've had some hard drives in the past with stuck heads, therefore the motor couldn't spin the platters and it gives errors.

@gameboy3800 3 жыл бұрын

that is incredible. i've taken out so many connor drives from old compaqs thinking they were dead. now i'll need to see if giving them some fresh air will revive them like yours did!

@Reality-Escapist 4 жыл бұрын

Bruh this is such an underrated channel

@pavelcollee-foley7997 4 жыл бұрын

Commander Keen and Lemmings are made for 386s and 486s and require a graphics card which that laptop doesn't have. You should probably try some of the early 80s sierra games such as ultima or their point and click adventure games as they will function on 8 bit cpus like the 8088 as the 286 line of cpus and onwards are 16bit.

@intel386DX 4 жыл бұрын

not exactly he have problem not starting the games because this machine have CGA video card and he tried EGA/GVA games on it! btw Keen 1,2 and 3 have only EGA variants, but 4, 5, 6 and Dreams have CGA versions as well , so he have to try them :) and this CPU is 16bit with 8bit data bus www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/V40/index.html . And all keen games runs even on 8088/8086 4.77MHz ,but scroll smooth on at least 8MHz ! and this CPU is the near the most advanced for XT platform NEC V40 at 10MHz even have 80188 instructions and have 8080 8bit emulation mode!

@denizdenizki 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your KZfaq-Videos. 🙌 I live in Germany and i can learn many Things about the language. You speak sooo clearly English and i can understand every single word. And my Hobbies are to repair Computers and watch Videos about it. Thank you ✌️ You are one of my favourite KZfaqrs! Greetings from Germany🇩🇪

@rapemachine 4 жыл бұрын

friggin love this series

@BaconFaceMcGee 4 жыл бұрын

Opening a hard drive usually ruins hard drives. But fixed this one... odd.

@RustyX2010 3 жыл бұрын

Just spray some eucalyptus oil on the platter and it'll be fine

@BaconFaceMcGee 3 жыл бұрын

RustyX2010 I don’t have any oil....

@stephaniethebatter7975 Жыл бұрын

Well, given what other comments have said, it's likely that the head was stuck and disassembling the hard drive and moving the head freed it. Also, the rubber grommet, likely there to reduce the noise produced by the hard drive, may have deteriorated and started to get into the head mechanism, causing it to get stuck.

@BaconFaceMcGee Жыл бұрын

@@stephaniethebatter7975 That’s a good theory. That’s probably what happened.

@NZMantaGSi 4 жыл бұрын

Xtree! Fantastic bit of software, I used to use xtree gold on my old dos PCs, was such a great file manager

@mdijkens 3 жыл бұрын

Still using it for over 30 years :-) Now it's called x64 on Win10

@peterasq 3 жыл бұрын

@@mdijkens Xtree - A great bit of software, If more people used, they would understand their computers better.

@mdijkens 3 жыл бұрын

@@peterasq exactly. And it still can do stuff I can't find any other tool doing that

@TannerFixesTech 4 жыл бұрын

Awesome video, that thing is badass! Also that’s crazy the drive worked after opening it!

@dragonsnack1335 4 жыл бұрын

Looks like the arm of the hard drive was just stuck on the disk. That happens sometimes. You can either smack the side of the HD on a table or manually open it and move the arm yourself. Good job reviving such an old computer.

@stargreen1609 4 жыл бұрын

11:50 reminds me of diana adams from osfirsttimer

@DomenicoMarsala 3 жыл бұрын

YEA lol!!!

@pacershark452 4 жыл бұрын

I thought I was the MAN with my IBM Thinkpad T43. I Have humbly been schooled.

@thatvirtualguy7731 4 жыл бұрын

We need more people like you on the interwebs.

@vedantagrawal9530 4 жыл бұрын

You worked so hard on thos one. Great video as always. Thanks for the amazing content.

@Tpavra 4 жыл бұрын

When you opened the hard disk, the head wasn't parked. I'm guessing when you moved the head it bumped it back into life 🤔

@parandersson6541 2 жыл бұрын

Yes, that was the problem

@kristaldrewery9143 3 жыл бұрын

9:59 how does the laptop even turn on if thats inside it

@shredxmichael 3 жыл бұрын

Hey Mate awesome video! Nice to see another Aussie interested in vintage tech. Just a note... Don't use WD-40 for lubrication. WD-40 is a Water Dispersant, good for cleaning or freeing up stuck bolts but the creaking hinge will just creak again in a few weeks.

@bd360_online 4 жыл бұрын

This is why I become membership of your channel and this video is one of the most difficult pieces of classic techs you've ever managed. It's good to see it back to life but not perfect and it has some rarest parts in it, making it difficult to repair. Ouch!. Hope you're okay then, Nathan. 😟🙂

@psivewri 4 жыл бұрын

I was quite lucky to get this running! Thanks for becoming a member :)

@vaddex 4 жыл бұрын

Your voice is so satisfying lmao. I use it to fall asleep 😂

@Menstral 4 жыл бұрын

ASMR for nerds, or gay nerds.

@vaddex 4 жыл бұрын

UwU v2 Major compliment

@alexy.07 4 жыл бұрын

I bought my laptop in October of 2019 and I’m already starting to get some issues with it (It’s an Acer Swift 3 if you’re interested) when a 30 year old laptop only had a faulty hard drive...like bruh😂

@iamsk8 4 жыл бұрын

Aleksander Gorgoń fix it

@angryhrajecznow638 4 жыл бұрын

RMA it?

@Tamay. 3 жыл бұрын

That screen looks more modern than brand new laptop lol

@iulianispas8634 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful , solid design with a art deco vibe . When i think of the amont of work to design just a single model of japan laptop , just insane

@sahd0w 4 жыл бұрын

Also, I just wanted to say every time the laptop creaked my cat jolted awake and looked at me angrily lol. #eucalyptusoilclub

@maryonette1433 2 жыл бұрын

Double check all the BIOS settings, make sure VGA card is detected. It may also have a make or model number either there or on the chip/board. If BIOS detects your graphics card, you may be able to download the drivers onto a disk and install them that way. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!

@iloveappleyoutube7198 3 жыл бұрын

You’re so good at fixing stuff dude!!!!!!!!!

@cdos9186 4 жыл бұрын

So happy you could get that Conner Peripherals hard disk working again!

@KnezevicFilip 4 жыл бұрын

Hey Psivewri remember Guitar guy from qna that's me I lost my Gmail account

@dardocarrizo1639 2 жыл бұрын

hypnotic video!!! thanks for sharing!!!

@remyrising 4 жыл бұрын

All that "interface" was is a simple custom batch file using some Basic commands. I use to make those all the time. You use the PRINT command to draw the border and make the menu entries and then use the IF and THEN commands to open whichever program you wanted from your list by hitting whichever number or letter you assigned it to.

@rs52594 4 жыл бұрын

I may have been born four years after this computer came out and will never do away with modern laptops and the internet, there will always be something interesting and charming about these old computers from the 80’s and 90s.

@RedPMD 4 жыл бұрын

Great video and it's a miracle you got that 42mb HDD working!

@coryknight7669 3 жыл бұрын

good save and nice piece

@josiahbarkhau9359 4 жыл бұрын

Old Connor drives have an issue with the rubber being sticky causing the heads sticking in place inside the drive and you moved the heads away from it making it bootable until shutting it down.

@Otokichi786 2 жыл бұрын

In/near 1990, I was the user/maintainer of the photo studio's IBM XT. I also used XTree to make it easier to run PFS: Write and File (Also known as "ProWirte" and "ProFile" back then). An 8088 processor wasn't going to run any version of Windows, but it could run Ye Olde GeoWorks/PCGeos GUI. I used GeoWorks Ensemble 1.0 and 1.2 after I replaced the 20MB HDD with a 40MB HDD and replaced the full length 512K Monochrome graphics card with a 640K half length Color graphics card.

@PearComputingDevices 4 жыл бұрын

I had a Nec 286 around 1992 back in 8th grade that was very similar. You could probably run Windows 3.0 or 3.1 but Windows 3.11 is certainly out of question. I couldn't run it either as my laptop only had 2mb of ram. Even if I maxed it out to 4mb of ram Windows 3.11 wouldn't work. You needed a 386 sx or better for it's virtual mode, and a DX would certainly be a better cpu for it. Luckily Windows 3.1 ran just fine. I think mine had a weird type of advanced MCGA by the way. It wasn't until 12th grade did I buy a laptop that had any color, the NEC could do 16 or 256 greyscale. It could hardly work with anything but "pc jr" display modes. Your standard 640 by 480 by 16 greys would have been the best it could do. My later 755 and 760ed Thinkpads offered much better capabilities getting me past high school and in to college. Sweet memories I admit.

@bitwize 4 жыл бұрын

"Neil's Juicy Main Menu" is undoubtedly one of many menu programs written to make things easier for DOS users by letting them select an installed program from the menu rather than typing in DOS commands to start it. It would have been started from AUTOEXEC.BAT. Some of these DOS menu programs let the user customize the title, color scheme, etc., hence "Neil's Juicy Main Menu".

@philiplibertine 4 жыл бұрын

This is probably my favourite video you’ve done.

@bwack 4 жыл бұрын

I like this fixing challenge. :) Wow, was the harddrive pickup arm stuck perhaps ?

@AtoManPL 4 жыл бұрын

I wonder if Windows 2.0 would work. That said, those IDE connectors are interesting, considering there isn't a power source to connect the drives to. Maybe the same mainboard was used in some desktop machines? I also wonder how doable would be to just gut all the innards and make it a Raspberry Pi based machine. Imagine if someone did that and made it a semi-modern machine in that form factor :P

@intel386DX 4 жыл бұрын

Windows 3.0 will work ,you do not have to going back to the 2.0 ot 1.0

@burningblades1515 4 жыл бұрын

Love you cleaning laptops keep up the good work 😁😁😁

@Spare7801 4 жыл бұрын

Yay I love your videos it's so cool to see old computers get fixed I might do this too

@ChesterChance 3 жыл бұрын

Insane video, I feel exhausted while watching what you are doing... Thank you.

@banxai 4 жыл бұрын

Love your vintage computer vids.

@xidannadix9386 2 жыл бұрын

Judging by where the read head was on the drive when you opened it I looks like the drive might have had a stuck read head by moving it I think you freed it and that’s why it started working again.

@user-jm3ti1kg8n Ай бұрын

Great work ♥️

@jjjacer 4 жыл бұрын

my best guess with the hard disk was sticktion, when you opened and moved the head it unstuck it. although in doing so you might have damaged some areas of the drive but at that point it probably wouldnt matter (might have been able to tap/bump the drive while powered to make it work also. and yeah for a 8088 compatible its newest windows would be 3.0 which could run in real mode on the 8/16bit processors as far as video it might not have graphics support (text mode only) or some weird graphics mode that isnt normally supported

@TwilightTails 3 жыл бұрын

It’s cool to see that there is a CCFL inverter in the display ccfl stands for Cold Cathode Fluorescent lamp

@fishmanloveslinux7978 3 жыл бұрын

I am a fan of your videos. Though I may not always comment, this is a blast from the past for me. This particular laptop never ran great brand new. The co-processor is either damaged or corrupted in some way. But it was neat to see her crank up never the less. : = )