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Great vid, one small correction: the daughterboard at 5:16 does not contain both the CPU and GPU: It is in fact a mobile module cartridge (MMC-2) processir board containing both the Pentium III CPU and Intel 443BX northbridge chip. I bet you could swap this out fairly easily for a faster processor module if needed. The plates are actually just pressure fitted onto posts: they can be pried off and pressed back down fairly easily.
It can be upgraded to 500MHz for sure. 650/750/850MHz may be an issue because of Speedstep. It was an issue with the 600X models that didn't originally come with a 650MHz CPU.
The “Baseball” screensaver was great. My dad always had that one on our living room Gateway 2000 PC. He also had a ThinkPad very similar to this one. What a nostalgic video.
Great restoration as always! I have IBM Thinkpad 390E, probably a little bit older than your laptop, I think they have the same graphics card. It's amazing how they're so different in the access to the hardware. Unfortunately, my unit condition is much more worse.
CPU and GPU are not on the same board. It's just the CPU, cache and the chipset which is probably a 440BX. The "GPU" itself must be somewhere on the motherboard.
I'll agree, the hinge design like that on plastic laptops isn't great. But IBM and later Lenovo improved it with the magnesium-alloy body paired with the two pegs.
"Laptops have come a long way" True, but with multiple sacrifices like reduced port selection, non-removable batteries, and soldered components that used to be user upgradable in some cases.
I watched a video about this sort of thing about an hour ago which describes a business strategy called planned obsolescence. The title of the video is call "This is why we can't have nice things". The whole point of them making batteries irremovable is to force you into spending a lot more money on a whole new laptop. It's so wasteful.
This video is awesome. I have a thinkpad t30 from 2002, it runs windows 2000, with a 60gb hard drive and 512MB RAM. I really like the design of the old devices- and the keyboards!
I have an ThinkPad 390X, too. It has the Celeron 400MHz, 128 MB RAM and a very big hard drive with 80 GB. My hinges are OK, they are not cracked. Unfortunately one of the foldable feets are missing. But it's a good retro laptop, it has floppy and CD drive in the same device and it has excellent input devices. Got mine from eBay for about 20€.
Well the ThinkPad 390 series weren't their top of the line laptops, as such the build quality is definitely not that great. That kind of hinge design works well if you have metal support on the bottom like the case on many Dell Latitudes at that time, but unfortunately this thing doesn't have it. As a result the hinges definitely feel quite weak even on mine which had no cracks. I have owned a 390X just like that but I actually find it quite boring compared to the ThinkPad 600 since my optical drive doesn't work either, so I ended up selling it for really cheap (which I regretted)
i got a t61 a 2007 laptop got windows 10 running on it, 4gb of ram and an ssd. Very poor to use, bad and even struggles loading web pages and word. But i love it.
I also did a video on how to change the thermal paste in these MMC CPU cards. You don't need to touch the rivets at all: th-cam.com/video/iZD0ydevIjM/w-d-xo.html
hi nice laptop i have my coolection some thinkpad 600x the one for me to this same 450mhz p3 320mb ram 20gb hdd and neo magic 256zv 4mb vga but to this day I don't come idea what type vga this neo magics vga s :P
Hi, I've got a 390E, exactly the same case. Mine has a pentium 2, smaller screen and does 640x480 max. Could you let me know more about the internet xircom card. Mine doesn't have any card and it's a pain using usb to transfer files.
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 TH-cam 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! :)
3:25 He sounded like the guy who did the 90s ad thing I don’t know why I thought that but if you listen carefully from the time stamp above you’ll understand why I said it
I've got an ibm 390E and I think the IDE controller is failing, because I can't install windows, the installer fails to copy some of the files. If I try installing windows on the hard drive with another PC, when I put the hdd back into this ibm, then it doesn't let me install any applications and soon after it fails to boot.
I picked up a old IBM ThinkPad A21m, its in very good shape, it came from a local seller who was cleaning out his attic, he was selling other branded laptops as well as a lot, but i bought only this thinkpad because its was in such great shape, no wear what so ever, so i think i am very lucky with this one! It has a 800mhz pentium 3, 256gb of ram and a 100gb ide hard drive, its slow, but it has a ati rage mobility m with 8mb's of dedicated memory and plays 3d games very well, and i modified the thinkpad a bit, under a flap, i found that the build in modem and ethernet happened to be on a mini pci card, so i took the laptop appart, i installed some wifi antenna's from another machine, and i replaced the mini pci ethernet card with a wifi card, so now, this laptop has build in wifi which works great under windows 2000, and for the ethernet solution, i have a xircom one like you have, but my card has 2 additional rj12 plugs, one for data and one for fax, and the red color of the xircom card matches the black and red theme ibm had going on their thinkpads up to this day with lenovo's thinkpads. Great laptop i must say :p
interesting. i have a normal 390 with a Pentium mmx chip in it. hard drive is dead gonna try to get it up and running only issue i have is the laptop has a bios lock and idk the password. nice to see what it would be like if it could boot. luckily mine seems like it isnt cracked or anything on the plastics
I don't know if it's just me or if I'm a bad fan, but it's only today that I found out it was pronounced "pee-siv-rye". I had been pronouncing it as "see-ve-ree" in my head all this time.
Use dishwashing soap on the TrackPoint nub(s) and don't glue them in. Order something weird in China that doesn't make sense for your Thinkpad model to get new ones for free.
Mine is from 2011 but I put an ssd drive recently cause I couldn't stand start up taking over 5 minute. How in the hell did that not bother us back in the day. Lol
I know it's your laptop and you can do with it as you wish but it was sad to see you peeling the Qantas sticker. Stuff like that gives the machine character and tells a story (in my opinion)
I have that very machine, working, along with many other beauties. I have been told I am a hoarder, or junk collector. I am neither, well maybe I am but for good reason I have saved them. They will be some of the only truly usable machines before long.
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Looks painful 😂
Hey! you NOT supposed to play duke nukem 3d with mouse, so of course it will be hard with touchpoint
no
you finally got verified 🎉
Hackintosh it!!!
"With the help of this Ethernet card, which is faster because it is red..." that's amazing. 😅
*RED*
Red represents that it's faster aka normal ethernet card is 10.2 gigabit per second and red one is 17.2 so ye
I have that exact internet card
@@vertyyy8234 I was today years old when I learned that red is ACTUALLY faster. I want red now!
Wait until somebody says that it wont make it faster. Lol
RED MAKES EVERYTHING FASTER!!!
The screensaver was called "The 60s USA" because, well... there was a lot of recreational hallucinogenic use at that time lol
You're probably right 😂
did he just switch to a perfect american accent for a second wtf
Time?
@@siddhoot 3:24 I think
I'm so used to the way he speaks, I didn't even realize it!
(I'm American.)
ThinkPad + Eucoliptus oil = Psivewri
Let me open it with my tick knife. Always like that
Using this Ethernet card, which is faster
*because it’s red*
Like Char Aznable's MS-06S Zaku II?
69 likes lmao
red is sus
That Windows 98 startup sound, yes: It manages to be soothing and ominous at the same time. A minor masterpiece.
I am gonna find a way to make my ASUS TUF Gaming A15 to boot up with that sound
You need start up changer and also need to enable in the settings “Play startup sound” which is off by default but can be ticked on
Personally, I would have left that Quantas sticker on it. That's a bit of that laptop's history right there.
Recently restored my old Thinkpad 570E, and let me tell you. The Windows 98 startup sound is terrifying at 3 AM
Watch out dude
Yes it is
I don't believe that
@@NepgearGM6.1 what don’t you believe?
@@Junkob101 that the Windows 98 startup sound is terrifying
I'm watching this video on a Lenovo ThinkPad T420
T430
Love my T430 and T440p
Me on X220
I’m watching it on an IPhone 11 Pro
*420*
Great vid, one small correction: the daughterboard at 5:16 does not contain both the CPU and GPU: It is in fact a mobile module cartridge (MMC-2) processir board containing both the Pentium III CPU and Intel 443BX northbridge chip. I bet you could swap this out fairly easily for a faster processor module if needed. The plates are actually just pressure fitted onto posts: they can be pried off and pressed back down fairly easily.
It can be upgraded to 500MHz for sure. 650/750/850MHz may be an issue because of Speedstep. It was an issue with the 600X models that didn't originally come with a 650MHz CPU.
I'm sorry...
Right before 9/11, Psivewri to control tower: 9:21
:D
9:20 bin Laden approves
The “Baseball” screensaver was great. My dad always had that one on our living room Gateway 2000 PC. He also had a ThinkPad very similar to this one. What a nostalgic video.
Great restoration as always!
I have IBM Thinkpad 390E, probably a little bit older than your laptop, I think they have the same graphics card.
It's amazing how they're so different in the access to the hardware.
Unfortunately, my unit condition is much more worse.
I had an alarm for this
You beat me by 3 seconds. :)
Worked out great
Not for first comment but just so I could see it immediately
I like how the design has barely changed
The screensavers are my favorite part of going back to classic versions of Windows. Makes me sad Windows 10 buries them.
I don't own a Thinkpad but those laptops are great because they are a strong build series of laptops.
- over 20 years old
- purchased off Twitter
- shipping paid with a crap load of stamps
Ooh, this is going to be a good episode!
me: * takes my broken laptop to the service center*
the guy at service center: sorry we can't...
Psivewri: Hold my eucalyptus oil
That IBM desktop background is awesome. Can you upload it somewhere?
Now I know how to pronounce psivewri
4:20
CPU and GPU are not on the same board.
It's just the CPU, cache and the chipset which is probably a 440BX.
The "GPU" itself must be somewhere on the motherboard.
4:45 Apple designers definitely should watch this.
You know you're going to have a good time watching the videos he makes
I'll agree, the hinge design like that on plastic laptops isn't great. But IBM and later Lenovo improved it with the magnesium-alloy body paired with the two pegs.
Great video❗️I remember when this came out, I was working for Compaq Computer Corp. 👨💻 and this was competing with our CPU’s
I still have external 3.5 floppy for this, also a CDRom.. 🤣🤣
YAYYYY I’m the One hundred thirty second comment!!!
♪No... One... CAAAAAAAARESSSS!♪
@@JustJaidenism th-cam.com/video/BLUkgRAy_Vo/w-d-xo.html
Thundersnow obviously you do.. dork
@@notyaniecetv No, I seriously don't care :/
Where do you put your coins Nathan? WHERE?!
No one better say "first"
first
First
First
Everyone who just said first is a savage
second hahahahaha
You make the best videos
Love from Bangladesh. I never missed your any video since 2019
*ThiccPad*
its my fist time hearing the correct pronunciation of psivewri
House Screensaver giving me teletubby vibes
"Laptops have come a long way" True, but with multiple sacrifices like reduced port selection, non-removable batteries, and soldered components that used to be user upgradable in some cases.
ikr
bUt iTs tHiNnER sO iT fITs iN yOuR bAcKpaCk bEtTeR
I watched a video about this sort of thing about an hour ago which describes a business strategy called planned obsolescence. The title of the video is call "This is why we can't have nice things". The whole point of them making batteries irremovable is to force you into spending a lot more money on a whole new laptop. It's so wasteful.
old laptop keyboards are soooo much better than today
Thinking pad🤔🤔🤔🤔
It's wonderful to see a notebook that old actually getting restored. They are still reliable nowadays.
Great work! ☺️
3:06 ah yes, I’m from the USA and I remember everything looking like a 2D reflective ball back in the day
As technology progressed creativity got left out in the wayside.
hej man that is some high quality stuff!
i think im only one who is watching in slovakia? :D
@@tehcooler i am from slovenia lol
JdLepercoon1206 its a country in eastern Europe, it used to be part of Czechia.
@Ber Ber no im really from slovakia XD
@Ber Ber i know but i think there is a little percet of people who are from europe especialy slovakia i think? :D
5:48 Psivewri spitting some rhymes
Lol
Yoo he do be rapping dho
You're gonna use it for games and stuff?
(Can you get the reference?)
would be awesome if you would test out how linux distros would run on old machines.
perhaps something like puppy linux?
This video is awesome. I have a thinkpad t30 from 2002, it runs windows 2000, with a 60gb hard drive and 512MB RAM. I really like the design of the old devices- and the keyboards!
You can get wifi cards too.
Nathan's been blazing it up
Thiccpad
2:23 MAN, that takes me back.
I have an ThinkPad 390X, too. It has the Celeron 400MHz, 128 MB RAM and a very big hard drive with 80 GB. My hinges are OK, they are not cracked. Unfortunately one of the foldable feets are missing. But it's a good retro laptop, it has floppy and CD drive in the same device and it has excellent input devices. Got mine from eBay for about 20€.
Well the ThinkPad 390 series weren't their top of the line laptops, as such the build quality is definitely not that great. That kind of hinge design works well if you have metal support on the bottom like the case on many Dell Latitudes at that time, but unfortunately this thing doesn't have it. As a result the hinges definitely feel quite weak even on mine which had no cracks.
I have owned a 390X just like that but I actually find it quite boring compared to the ThinkPad 600 since my optical drive doesn't work either, so I ended up selling it for really cheap (which I regretted)
A video after long time
watched this on my 13 year old HP Compaq 6710b that still holds up in 2020 and has awesome sounding speakers on it
I cant stop watching your videos. I love watching videos like these. Thank you for makin this type of videos.
I always love your old laptop restoration videos.Keep the Good Work up man.your style of making video is just great man.
i got a t61 a 2007 laptop got windows 10 running on it, 4gb of ram and an ssd. Very poor to use, bad and even struggles loading web pages and word. But i love it.
Would you consider uploading the restore CDs to archive.org? It is difficult to find all the drivers for old IBM stuff.
Watching on my Thinkpad X1 Carbon. Love the old Thiccpads!
I also did a video on how to change the thermal paste in these MMC CPU cards. You don't need to touch the rivets at all: th-cam.com/video/iZD0ydevIjM/w-d-xo.html
I'm so early! Amazing videos, I absolutely love your videos! Keep up the great work
@Christian Grenier still early
Awesome. Still have a Thinkpad 600E from 1999 sitting here and a Thinkpad T40p from 2003. :-)
11:31 2D accelerators dont need cooling ussually. And chip next to cpu is chipset 100%.
Just bought a thinkpad 390 thanks to this video. Great machine.
hi nice laptop i have my coolection some thinkpad 600x the one for me to this same 450mhz p3 320mb ram 20gb hdd and neo magic 256zv 4mb vga but to this day I don't come idea what type vga this neo magics vga s :P
If you're wondering why the 60s USA screensaver is diffrent, the .dll files were misconfigured.that screensaver is actually Science.
Yo! How bout upgrade video of Thinkpad T440p/T540p. That's the last modern socketed cpu thinkpad.
"That won't stop me from crashing int...." The FBI would like to know your location.
Hi, I've got a 390E, exactly the same case. Mine has a pentium 2, smaller screen and does 640x480 max. Could you let me know more about the internet xircom card. Mine doesn't have any card and it's a pain using usb to transfer files.
I smashed the LCD on my Thinkpad by accident.... But I have a spare X220 on the way as an emergency backup
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 TH-cam 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! :)
Try some psydelics and you'll know why the screensaver is called "60s USA". Haha
I had exactly the same model. The hinge will break if you keep using it. Apart form that, amazing machine for the time.
Thank you Psivewri, very cool
Hi psivewri :) love your videos! from The Philippines 🇵🇭
3:25
He sounded like the guy who did the 90s ad thing
I don’t know why I thought that but if you listen carefully from the time stamp above you’ll understand why I said it
I've got an ibm 390E and I think the IDE controller is failing, because I can't install windows, the installer fails to copy some of the files. If I try installing windows on the hard drive with another PC, when I put the hdd back into this ibm, then it doesn't let me install any applications and soon after it fails to boot.
I picked up a old IBM ThinkPad A21m, its in very good shape, it came from a local seller who was cleaning out his attic, he was selling other branded laptops as well as a lot, but i bought only this thinkpad because its was in such great shape, no wear what so ever, so i think i am very lucky with this one! It has a 800mhz pentium 3, 256gb of ram and a 100gb ide hard drive, its slow, but it has a ati rage mobility m with 8mb's of dedicated memory and plays 3d games very well, and i modified the thinkpad a bit, under a flap, i found that the build in modem and ethernet happened to be on a mini pci card, so i took the laptop appart, i installed some wifi antenna's from another machine, and i replaced the mini pci ethernet card with a wifi card, so now, this laptop has build in wifi which works great under windows 2000, and for the ethernet solution, i have a xircom one like you have, but my card has 2 additional rj12 plugs, one for data and one for fax, and the red color of the xircom card matches the black and red theme ibm had going on their thinkpads up to this day with lenovo's thinkpads. Great laptop i must say :p
interesting. i have a normal 390 with a Pentium mmx chip in it. hard drive is dead gonna try to get it up and running only issue i have is the laptop has a bios lock and idk the password. nice to see what it would be like if it could boot. luckily mine seems like it isnt cracked or anything on the plastics
One word: Tweezers. you'll get a lot less paint or ink on your fingers, and it helps a lot with detailed work. You're welcome.
I don't know if it's just me or if I'm a bad fan, but it's only today that I found out it was pronounced "pee-siv-rye". I had been pronouncing it as "see-ve-ree" in my head all this time.
Use dishwashing soap on the TrackPoint nub(s) and don't glue them in. Order something weird in China that doesn't make sense for your Thinkpad model to get new ones for free.
God, I feel old. I remember when those were new. LOL 😂
It would be cool to see a version of a Flight Simulator 2020 setup
Mine is from 2011 but I put an ssd drive recently cause I couldn't stand start up taking over 5 minute. How in the hell did that not bother us back in the day. Lol
>crashes onto a building
>looks at the date
>sept. 6, 2020
bruh.
Hi there! Got the same notebook and want to restore it and bring back to life. So can you upload the Recovery CD you got with yours?
Been a fan for 4 years and still don't know what you're channel name means lol
Very feature-rich for the time. Other than the poor graphics card, looks useful.
I know it's your laptop and you can do with it as you wish but it was sad to see you peeling the Qantas sticker. Stuff like that gives the machine character and tells a story (in my opinion)
Bringing back memories❤️Thanks, Psivewri!♥️
My childhood: the Windows 7 startup sound
Hey Psi, can you upload that Thinkpad screensaver, please?
about that Quantas sticker, what does it mean to be chemically marked
Hello @psivewri can i send you an old ultrabook from 1990s
Is that safe while using Spray to clean our PC??? :)
I have that very machine, working, along with many other beauties. I have been told I am a hoarder, or junk collector. I am neither, well maybe I am but for good reason I have saved them. They will be some of the only truly usable machines before long.
Problem with ridge wallet vs traditional wallets - nowhere for annoying coins.