Thanks so much for watching! Oh, when I said 192MB of ram, I meant to say 196MB 😅 PS: Apparently I was actually right about it being 192. Also, a few people are suggesting the driver problems will go away with windows 98. If I do install that I'll let you know. (Update) I did put 98 on it, runs pretty good! The trident graphics chip sucks though 😅 ► Gear I Use (Affiliate Links): Dell G7 15 Laptop: amzn.to/32VOSux Keychron K2 Keyboard: amzn.to/2F51NCh Logitech G502 Mouse: amzn.to/351iae1 Benq 144Hz Screen: amzn.to/3jJk1YW Fujifilm Camera Bodies: amzn.to/2EXdPxL Fujifilm Lenses: amzn.to/3jY8xB9 Rode NTG3 Microphone: amzn.to/3jKWeHZ Rode Videomicro Microphone: amzn.to/3hXoua4 Rode Wireless Go Microphone: amzn.to/3bsVaWr Audio Interface: amzn.to/31XXVvV Manfrotto Tripod: amzn.to/356r7Tq RGB LED Light: amzn.to/3i2eNqL Godox SL-60w Video Light: amzn.to/31Vtsyl Apple iPad Pro: amzn.to/3h0i20H

@imeepysleepy

3 жыл бұрын

196 is pretty precise lmao.

@brian_jake

3 жыл бұрын

No problem. I enjoy and appreciate your content.

@kryptoniurn

3 жыл бұрын

Better than 120kb lol

@aliciaemiliahoward4300

3 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of my Toshiba Tecra 8100; which can game like an absolute champ. Sadly the drive has failed and I'm after a new one.

@DennisPayC

3 жыл бұрын

Oh my god,a very big diffrence😄

I guess I'm not the only one who made cardboard/paper laptops as a kid! Happy 20th birthday Win2000!

@matthewhaskins3937

3 жыл бұрын

You arnt alone I had a incredible cardboard computer with 0 gb ram 0 gb storage zero screen

@F_K3NT_D

3 жыл бұрын

My son designs his own iPhones and other devices out of cardboard. I think it's healthy

@SmilyTheMare

3 жыл бұрын

same here ive done it too

@RWMoortgat

3 жыл бұрын

Same! I used my Etch a Sketch as a screen and built a cardboard enclosure with a drawn in keyboard, and glued IBM stickers on it. I had a lot of fun playing executive with that thing :)

@lukmly013

3 жыл бұрын

My 1st grade classmates did too

4200 rpm hdd, and 64 mb of RAM, used up to at least 2011. This person must have had the patience of a saint.

@WiiUniverse

3 жыл бұрын

I used a 2004 Compaq Presario in 2015, up until 2016. faster than the 2011 laptop I got that year. Eventually, came back to it after a few slow computers in 2017 or 18.

@prince_saini

3 жыл бұрын

I had used a machine (Compaq Evo D510 SFF) with Windows XP 512MB RAM 80GB Hard Drive Intel Pentium 4 2.66GHz up until 2016

@randomchannel9331

3 жыл бұрын

@@prince_saini perfectly usable

@uPlayer_

2 жыл бұрын

Psivewri: I’ll just sit here and smell my eucalyptus oil

@SStarlight9614

2 жыл бұрын

@@WiiUniverse same except the toshiba i replaced it with was wayy better in every since except I still used the compaq due to it being windows xp and the laptop ran vista

10:10 that boot chime brought back memories

@harryroesser3916

3 ай бұрын

Me too

10:11 this is sooo soothing and almost nostalgic

These Toshiba laptops were the last ones before the build quality started to drop significantly. Cool you managed to get hold on one. Just an advise: remove the green Varta battery packs which keep the RTC and the CMOS RAM alive while the machine is turned off. The NiMH coin cell batteries inside are prone to leak, and if the acids reach the motherboard it's game over. I removed these battery packs from all the Toshiba laptops I have, and actually all of them were leaking inside, while fortunately no one did yet any damage. But they were all ticking time bombs!

@nitrax8629

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed - one of those varta batteries sadly destroyed an Armada 7800 motherboard I had - fortunately I had a spare board.

"Fellas, keeping your 'nub' clean is pretty important". I see what you did there at 6:35. But, good advice! :)

10:10 MAN, that Windows 2000 startup sound TAKES ME BACK!

@thispc101

3 жыл бұрын

10:11

@-mulmangcho-8832

2 жыл бұрын

Miss me dude?

@CaseyQuotes

2 жыл бұрын

@@-mulmangcho-8832 yass

Dude, I got 8.0 on IELTS test by throwing some of your phrases into the writing part. You sure have an intriguing way of expressing your ideas.

This was my dad’s work laptop back when I was maybe 11-12 years old and I would borrow it all the time! Love the nostalgic look back. You weren’t wrong about those speakers looking beefy. Still to this day the best laptop speakers I have ever heard👍

I loved Windows 2000, it was a rock solid OS back in the day and my first taste of the NT Kernel.

@Keullo-eFIN

3 жыл бұрын

Same here, I liked it more than XP.

@BananaPlaysGames

3 жыл бұрын

gotta love that incredibly relaxing startup sound

@Keullo-eFIN

3 жыл бұрын

@@thatpsfan2511 W2K is the best after W10 IMO :)

@melonmusk1842

3 жыл бұрын

me who is young enough to only remember windows 7: 'o_o

@thebean3883

3 жыл бұрын

@@melonmusk1842I feel you...

Psivewri: “I’m pretty sure that brought back some memories to people of a certain age” Me, smiling at the W2k startup sound: I feel attacked.

Had this exact same laptop in secondary school, circa 2002. It was my first ever eBay purchase! 😂

Man your channel is so relaxing, almost hypnotic. I get comfy at the end of the day and this oddly enough helps me unwind tremendously

I find watching such videos extremely satisfying and nostalgic. I appreciate the effort you're making for KZread, cleaning and repairing so many outdated devices that hide so many curiosities. ^ . ^

man, that win2000 booting sound so bring back such a great memories!

this is not only my life's but my whole family's first ever laptop! back in that time, damn! we rocked windows 98 here! and used to play games like road rush, need for speed II SE, Cadillacs and the dinasours and king of fighters. so many memories!

when I thought this day couldn’t get any better , psivewri uploads a video!

@KokoroKatsura

3 жыл бұрын

a n i m e n i m e

@Project_29

3 жыл бұрын

XD

Love these videos. I never get why previous owners don’t clean them before they sell and ship. I always clean mine before I sell them.

0:12 looks like I'm not the only one who did this😂

@thebasketballhistorian3291

3 жыл бұрын

First time I've ever heard this was a thing, lol.

@icecrystal0094

3 жыл бұрын

I once had an old laptop and put it's components in the card board, with the help of my dad

@Windows-no8fh

3 жыл бұрын

nah I did too

@Windows-no8fh

3 жыл бұрын

but I used paper

Man that's pretty old... I love how u repair stuff like that and if it weren't for u I wouldn't have anything to do during the day

I have been the proud owner of a modest home-based laptop e-commerce business since 2005... I had never thought of cleaning the keyboards using rubbing alcohol and q-tips (normally I use a rag and diluted lemon cleaner) ..... thanks for the "tip" ! Cheers from Canada!

laptops: exist psivewri: i'll take your entire stock

Your videos are great! keep it up! I like how well explained your videos are. About this particular video, I especially enjoy late 90's PC so I enjoyed watching it.

I love your restoration videos so much! I’m addicted and appreciate the new life you give to these wonderful gadgets 😌

Great video Nathan, watching your channel is one of the best parts of my week.

Yes!!!! Glad you used my "make it look horrible" suggestion

Gotta love the old toshiba satellite laptops. Love the design and i even have some myself.

That windows 2000 startup sound brought back so many memories of a more peaceful time to me. Thank you fo including it. And I'm 18 since you said "people of a certain age"

visaje mis respetos mi papa, esa compu es historia en tus manos

10:10 nostalgia. Though I didnt have a computer then, I used the one in my college. Always wanted this audio.

One of the best variant of these laptops is the Toshiba satellite pro 490XCDT, I did the same ram upgrade, and faster 80 gig hdd. PCMCIA LAN 10/100mbs, and Dlink WiFi, with win XP pro SP2. Zero driver problems It's heavy, and thick, it works well enough to do office work, and remote desktop to wirelessly access my main music computer. You did a great job with this. Thanks for sharing. One thing though, you were lucky to get this laptop unlocked, I had to make a dongle to use in the parallel port to unlock mines when I bought it.

Tech stuff is ALWAYS A MASTERPIECE! I especially like what you did as restoring things or making things work again and cleaning things. Made me drooling from the beautiful Tech somehow reach that subscribe button. Congrats on your success btw especially during covid.

Cool video, as always! The part of ruining Windows' visual just cracked me up! LOL!

Im only 16, but windows 2000 brings back alot of memories. The first pc my dad ever gave me was a Toshiba satellite that ran windows 2000. I used to use it alot as a kid.

Toshiba hard drives are the bane of my existence. Every one that I’ve had in a laptop has failed pretty quickly. Same with my family. My dad recently told me his laptop was running slowly so I opened it and found a Toshiba hard drive, took it to my of and tested it and it was failing.

but where's the PsiBook Pro (2020)?

@zingythelemon7949

3 жыл бұрын

@@brian5271 😂

indeed that sound on startup windows was great

Great video! The last 2 videos of the charity videos and the setup organisations are awesome!

I agree on the designs from the 90's early 2000's Nowadays laptops just all seem alike. Then, companies just dared to be different now they all just play safe and rarely try anything new. Mostly the designs is the main power behind my collect vintage laptops hobby. The pride of my collection is an *mint* Blue Alienware Aurora m7700

Loving the videos Nathan, keep it up 👍

I remember the second laptop my father ever purchased was a Windows XP era Satellite. That laptop was used for many years, including for his work, my mother’s work, and I even used it as my first ever audio recording laptop. If I’m not mistaken, that unit sits in my tech-savvy younger brother’s closet as a last ditch XP machine if we ever need a computer that runs it 🤣

0:12 You were not the only one, I used to make fake PC setups out of paper and cardboard The good ol' times

Ahh brilliant, reminds me of my first work laptop from 2000! My laptop was critical to my job, had absolutely no backup and ran about as well as this one even back then 😂

Love your videos @Psivewri keep doing what your doing!!

This is nostalgic! This was our first ever family laptop! Windows 98! Good times!

That startup sound brought back many memories for me. My first PC was a Dell Optiplex GX150, had Windows 2000 on it. I was about 6 or 7 at the time (2007/2008). I had quite a few of those Satellite laptops from that era when I was that age, most of them were found on the side of the road (good old Thursday night throw outs). I remember being given one that belonged to a teenager. Lets just say the hard drive was very full, lots of "homework"... Would've cost a bomb to download all that over dialup!

8:03 i though "HA! you left a spot on the screen!!" but in fact, that was a spot on my own screen, and i confess it still is.

I had a nearly identical Toshiba (With some weird 2,5MB 2D GPU) back in 2003. Games like Half-Life 1/Counter Strike, Unreal Tournament, Starcraft, Diablo... ran playable on it. I even tried UT2004 on it when it released and it was able to run it in software mode ... at 3~ FPS. I swapped it in 2005 with a Gericom, that one had a P3 800 Mhz (Instead of Celeron 400) with 256MB RAM and a ATI Rage GPU (8MB), the D3D support was a "game changer" and even games like Warcraft 3 ran just fine. I got some 54Mbit U.S Robots WiFi card and could use my full internet speed just fine.

Best retro-tech channel on the KZread. Greetings from Poland :)

It's been almost 20 years since since the last time that I've played Motocross Madness, thanks for the nostalgia.

I remember a movie where a Toshiba laptop very very similar to this one plays a 'big role". I also remember the strange operating system in the movie with green lines of text and a dim sound when the text was filling the screen, line by line. Also there were some 3d-lined vector graphics visualizing, what was happening. I just don't remember the name anymore, had in on VHS.

I have the exact same laptop working up to this day. Mostly as running a terminal emulator to administer all home servers.

Love your vids man keep up the great work

We can do it boys, lets get this guy to 200k before August

Back in 2005 I had a Satellite 4200. That originally had a 500Mhz Celeron and a 8Mb 3D accelerator graphics card. I upgraded that machine to 320Mb of RAM, 40GB HDD, swapped the original CD to a DVD, and as the processor was socketed too, changed the Celeron to a 750Mhz Pentium III. Good old memories :)

Such a lovely piece of work

I remember helping a woman with her Windows 2000 computer years ago. I updated it with the latest Windows updates and it worked pretty good. I now own an HP 17" laptop with an SSD upgrade from the original HDD and it still works pretty good with it's 16GB of ram and i7 Intel processor. It doesn't compare well with the latest and greatest laptops except for the 500GB SSD I put in. I'll keep using it until it quits. It is still powerful and fast for its age!

Hearing that Windows chimes put tears in my eyes... Let me put that sound in my Windows 10 laptop.

Great video. Keep up the good work!

The fact that you also watch cold ones is part of the reason you are one of the best tech youtubers

Some of the 11" Portege range from that era have the S3 Savage card with 8mb VRAM and also a PIII CPU, I can run up to NFS Porsche on my 3480ct and Quake runs at 1024x768. The downside is they take MicroDIMMs which are more expensive if you want to take them above the base 64mb ram. Can boot via USB floppy too so you just copy the installation folder to a hard drive partition.

Got distracted by that Titanic model in the background lol

"Psivewri has encountered a Wild Laptop!" "Psivewri throws Eucalyptus Oil!" "Psivewri has cleaned a Wild Laptop!" Psivewri encountering a "Laptop in the wild"

Very nice, half past midnight in Germany, cannot sleep, but look: a new vid from down under, Made my night

Wait, so 3D Pinball was first bundled WITH A BUSINESS OPERATING SYSTEM??!! I can already imagine the Office Workers back in 1999, playing 3D Pinball on their NT Workstation

I tell ya, its an addiction restoring old computers. Something satisfying about it. These machines have had so much use in the past, its sad to see them just go straight into e-waste when they could be used for so many other things. Sure maybe they can't run the latest games, but they sure can run games you cannot run on new hardware due to compatibility.

the pizza box thing made me smile omg. used to do that so much as a kid but with chocolates!. turned the lid into a screen and flipped over the plastic insert upside down so it'd turn into a kind of keyboard

Hello @Psivewri, I am 99% sure the heatsink isnt riveted on the CPU board, you need to bend the corner claps on the heatsink or heatspreader to remove it. I have a few Pentium II era notebooks and CPUs in them look like this and can be removed without drilling the rivets

Same! Just mine were on paper sheets done at school. Ah, the days,

Keep up the good work you make great content

Earlier models of these were kind of beige / brown. I had one a long time ago. Those keyboard control mouse was extremely fidgety and a usb mouse was a better solution. That was back around win 95, and those were extremely heavy carting them around and just nice to put it down. That’s the Uk, those didn’t have network connections. Those things did have cds. Although those days far lighter to take a usb stick home than the computer. It was also back in the days of floppy discs and iPhones.

I love your videos. I know you get that a lot but if you look in my watch history, its just your videos. I only use youtube mainly for your channel. Thankyou for the content. A lot of my computer knowledge comes from you as well. I owe you that

Nice restoration! Most likely it originally shipped with Windows 98 since it only had 64MB RAM installed from factory. Being a relatively mediocre Celeron 400, the Windows 98 SE would be a better choice of OS. Windows 2000 tended to run somewhat slow on anything below 600 MHz even if it had enough (128MB or more) RAM.

@psivewri

3 жыл бұрын

Last night I did install 98, found all the drivers as well. Seems to run pretty good 😊

Thanks for trying multiple times though it failed. It motivates brother.

My first laptop (still have it) is a toshiba tecra 8100 from the same time as this. Originally had windows 2000 and upgraded to xp at some point when it was my main computer. A few years ago I put 98 on it as I’d never used that OS before. Thing runs better under 98 than it ever did running 2000 or xp

@psivewri

3 жыл бұрын

A few people have mentioned the better compatibility with windows 98. I'm actually putting 98 on there right now :)

I have that exact same model! Mine has Windows 98 installed. Was thinking of installing OS/2 at some future time.

Ohhh win 95, 98.. 2000 had to be one of my start up sounds.. So many memories from school days

Great video. The brought back some memories!

im glad you decided to keep windows 2000 its a rock solid operating system and i like the fact you dont have to activate it like xp. My pc we had growing up had windows 2000 until about 2010 when we got xp and 2000 survived the whole time and kept getting fixed but not totally broken

Also be careful with the hinge, I had a laptop of the same era (Same design as well) from toshiba (Satellite pro 4280) The hinges were really tight and I applied some WD-40 and the hinges became the complete opposite and would not even hold upright. The machine still sits like that years after the hinges broke.

Teacher: Who invented eucalyptus oil? Students: Isn’t it obvious? Psivewri!

@itsourtubenow9729

3 жыл бұрын

Cringe.

@ghostofsparta1045

3 жыл бұрын

@@itsourtubenow9729 pretty good description of your self

@aeebeecee3737

3 жыл бұрын

Ha ha... Lol

@user-pi5xz5je4y

3 жыл бұрын

Trees did.

I remember seeing a similar laptop from that era running a desktop Pentium/Celeron 4 and a desktop HDD inside , might be a Toshiba I can't be sure, gone are the crazy times.

we had a dell tower running w2000 for a short period of time. such a good pc.

I knew he had a trusty pocket knife, but this episode was the first time meeting his trusty vacuum cleaner.

Back then I recall 2000 being preferred for security & server usage (LANs, and for WWW) for a while in its context early 2000s.. even when XP was around, some people swore by 2000 back then lol. Anyway everything moved on pretty quick.

Hello! Good day! I hope you are doing well and safe and sound, despite of the challenges we are facing and experiencing amid the COVID-19 pandemic. I am glad to know that you are safe since you are one of the greatest KZread video creators I am following and currently subscribed to. I am a big fan of yours from the Philippines. I am Jerico Alba, a 2nd Year Mass Communication student and I watch how you restore PCs and other devices using your iconic eucalyptus oil and your skills in restoration of PC components (e.g. the laptop from 1990s, and repairing many Macbooks). However, you told from one of your videos that you have so many laptops that you have restored and you have no idea of where and who to give it to? And have you mentioned that it can be sent to viewers? I am one of your greatest fans since I subscribed you when you still have less than 100K subscribers, and I love sending likes to your videos. I have also recommended you to my friends and luckily, they are now an avid fan of yours. I also learned a lot of things in restoring a PC and laptop. However, the profits I earn from fixing them only benefits to our daily livelihood, and I still struggle for online classes due to the COVID-19 pandemic, for I only rent a laptop to use, just to pursue my education. I hope you can notice my message and be one of the lucky fans that will be able to receive a free restored MacBook :( Moreover, the video was uploaded in September 15, which is my birthday. I wish you a happy holidays, my friend! If so, this will be very lucky and best holiday for me. Thank you very much and I will still continue to be one of your avid fan no matter what! I love you and your videos! :)

Don't forget to remove the Bios and Clock batteries, I have one of these laptops and the batteries started leaking :( Nice video.

I'd love to see you do a sleeper build is this laptop case

oh God. that chime... what memories.

Being a bit late on the show, but just discovered your video and had to add some detail. It looks like a MMC-2 CPU-card you got there on that late 1990's machine. Back during the early-mid 2000's while working on the Pentium-II 233-266MHz ThinkPad 770X/770Z-lineup, it came to my attention that these MMC-2 CPU-cards went up to a Pentium-III 850 SpeedStep processor and that they could be installed, running at 700 MHz though. But still a major improvement. The modular design of your Toshiba resembles the IBM ThinkPad line quite a lot. The LCD-hinges does look like coming from the same OEM-manufactorer. Instead of using WD40, I'd recommend using TriFlow (lubrication oil with Teflon) or Singer Sewing Machine oil on the hinges. Thirdly, you should go look for NT 4.0 memory management tweaks. These will work in Windows 2000. For one, the IoLockLimit tweak should improve performance. Windows 2000 is an excellent Operating System. My latest W2K driver supported machine is the 2005 range ThinkPad Z60m. With GB's of RAM and a CPU in the GHz-range, Windows 2000 is flying like a Saturn-V. Good luck and best wishes. Cheers mate.

How many laptops actually shipped with Windows 2000? Like the OS only had a shelf life of 2 years before it was overshadowed by XP (which was more fit for laptops anyways), and wouldn’t more people buy a laptop with Windows 98?

@Keullo-eFIN

3 жыл бұрын

XP came in 2001 so not even two years. Personally I liked 2000 more.

@korbenbutterworth3479

3 жыл бұрын

2000 was more of a buisness version of windows like previous nt versions me was the consumer release eventually they decided to move from dos to nt with consumer releases that was what xp was

@MichaelSidneyTimpson

3 жыл бұрын

Don't forget about ME...sorry

@siddharthbhatia8815

3 жыл бұрын

Mine did. I loved it so much.

@89ivanivp

3 жыл бұрын

I recall 2000 being known for security, and popular with server use & such

Nice work. Just an FYI, WD40 is great for getting things temporarily moving but a light machine oil should keep it running smoothly for years. Hope part 2 goes well!

You should start a laptop / pc repair service! Nice video.

i had one of these or a similar model here in the US while in school 2007. Played a ton of diablo 2. I ran windows XP on mine. It was second hand from my mothers upgrade for her business at the time.

I had a toshiba 1555cds growing up, it has the exact same design but older and was based for Windows 98

The new setup is looking good

6:34 "Fellas, keeping your nub clean is pretty important" 🤣🤣🤣

I remember running Windows 2000 and ME on our Gateway Desktop and Dell Inspiron from 2001

Mad respect for the pizza box thing. I might've done this as well but I can't remember for sure, pizza boxes could be fun though :)