I'm giving away the Pink laptop that was featured in my last video! twitter.com/NathanPSI/status/1402905668592410630?s=19 The rules are listed in the Twitter thread listed above. I'm posting to the US, UK, Australia and New Zealand 🙂 Goodluck!
About the Bios locked issue, call Lenovo and try to use social engineering to have them unlock it for you. I bought a Thinkpad that was bios locked, called lenovo, and they unlocked it for me. Hopefully you will have just as much luck.
I am facing little problem my ThinkPad shutdown automatically after some time of use. I am not able to find any reason . Can one suggest any solution or may be what is the problem in my ThinkPad??
I had a regal gran sport 2 door it had the map lights with the lenses you could aim, perfect for playing gameboy advance before they came out with the back lit model lol.
lemurmad I still got the 255% when I had a dead battery in 20H2. I think it may vary from laptop to laptop. Mine still had some voltage in the pack so maybe that’s why
My “refurbished dell student ready laptop” overheated and died but 1 week after I bought it from eBay. In retrospect partly our fault for trusting a shady seller, but also the sellers part for blatant false advertising.
On the GPU front you actually got lucky in a way, the Quadro NVS cards in the 61 series ThinkPads are notorious for failing. Still doesn't excuse a scam.
@@penguinsushi8442 All early nvidia G8xM chips fail. Doesn't matter what laptop. Desktop cards including G9x are also prone. MCPs (their nforce chipset) from this time might be as well. Basically if it's an nvidia product from 2007-8, run away.
Pretty much any 'high end' videochip in a laptop is notorious for desoldering itself. I am still baffled by how many people bought laptops with geforces and radeons back in the day. After 4, 5 years they were all dead as a dodo.
I think it would be a good video to show your audience why you weren’t eligible for the eBay buyer protection aka money back guarantee. This way they can see what went wrong and how to avoid getting scammed like you did.
Yea, im wondering how he wasn't eligible. The only thing I can think is that he was outside of the 30 day return window which is why its important to inspect and test ebay purchases ASAP
@@FlyboyHelosim at the very least its an item not as described. The seller might have made a mistake and shipped him the wrong laptop sure but its still not ok. Imagine ordering a laptop with an intel core i7 and getting an i3.
@@FlyboyHelosim yeah, these sellers are often pc recyclers and are selling huge lots of stuff - yes they should be more careful but i like to attribute this kind of stuff to ignorance instead of malice
@@FlyboyHelosim he should have gotten a partial refund since it wasn't as listed. I've legitimately never had an issue with the site so I'm not sure what even happened. Hell I've never even had to escalate it to ebay, I just contact the seller and they usually give a fair deal (or in the case of a thing I ordered recently, they were able to ship it for a cheaper price than their estimate so without even contacting them they refunded me the difference.)
I cleared my parts 390’s bios but simply unplugging the CMOS battery and letting all power drain out, then reinstalling it and boom, right into the bios.
@@aegonthedragon7303 Some models have a dedicated chip for saving the password etc., on my Thinkpad, I just shorted two legs from that chip when powering on the laptop and that did the trick. So in newer ones the CMOS battery doesn't work, it just resets the bios but doesn't clear the password etc.
well for me i reset my password bios with shorting the EEPROM but i do not recommend to unplug the cmos battery because if you unplugged it, the password will not reset anymore and i got RTC (Real Time Clock) error in my thinkpad T430 and its very dangerous if you have modified bios like 1vyrain because the date/time setting is gone and dont worry my laptop did fix from laptop servicer (sorry my grammar is broken because my english language is not my first language)
“It’s always very satisfying to remove old paste, maybe that’s just me though” Definitely not, I love getting to the part of the video where the thermal paste is removed haha literally so satisfying seeing it cleaned off
he used 3x as much paste as he needed to though, and extra paste = worse temps than just right. source: I've pasted laptops with mx4 and mx6 and my first attempts used that much paste and I found out later it spilled over
@Psivewri when you had the laptop open, bios locked laptops can *sometimes* be reset by removing the cmos battery.. laptops have one, they're just abit different to pc cmos batteries.
I had this laptop from 2016 until 2018. It was the first thinkpad i could actually use to work on and what a pleasure it was ! I made some various upgrade, and finaly swap the motherboard for the nvidia equiped. Sadly, the card failled 8 month after i've buy it. So it's much better you have the intel equipped, because the nvidia was notorious to fail !
I have an old Dell Latitude D630 which is pretty much the equivalent system down to the X3100 graphics. I was lucky enough to be able to scrounge a Core2 Extreme X9000 and two 4GB RAM sticks for mine. It's a decent performer under Linux though the GMA graphics are the weak point. Ironically, with the D630, having the Intel rather than the nVidia graphics is actually a plus as these systems were initially produced with faulty nVidia GPUs that were prone to failure.
Great video! I love those old Thinkpads! I never buy from sellers with less than a 97% or so positive rating because of junk like this. And I always read a lot of the customer feedback for the ones I do buy from. You can get a good feel really quick for who you're dealing with. I'm strict with myself over that because I got scammed myself. I ordered an SSD from a 97% positive seller a year or so ago and tracked it til I was told it had arrived at my home. It had not. I contacted EBay, they said wait a day or so. Never came. I took the tracking number, called UPS, and they said it had been delivered to another address a couple miles from me. It had not. I contacted the seller, who said that yes the package had been delivered. It...had not been delivered. Then I noticed...the seller's name in the email was different than the one I had purchased from. I followed the link in the email, and I ended up at a totally different store...with a 77% positive approval! No amount of maneuvering could get me back to the original seller. That seller simply didn't exist. I contacted EBay and put them on the scent, presenting my evidence. They not only immediately refunded my $$$, but they contacted me back and said they had shut the seller down for fraud. A few very stressful days taught me not to skip the details. It wasn't a lot of money but nobody likes to get taken and honestly I've got much better ways to waste time than that.
With ThinkPads you don't need to lookup random tutorials for disassembly, go download the Hardware Maintenance Manual for whatever machine you're working on and you get a full disassembly guide and parts list for potential upgrades.
Another awesome video!!! Sorry you got scammed but it was still fun to watch you finagle with it. I agree about the keyboard... I have an old Lenovo laptop from 2010 and although the system itself is slower than molasses, the keyboard feels AMAZING to type on. I wish newer laptops offered the same typing experience.
Dear Psivewri, for old hardware, I recommend you to use q4OS or exeLinux (both with the trinity desktop, an old KDE desktop environment but up to modern standards).
Love the ThinkPad content! Unfortunately I can relate to poor packaging. I once had someone send me a 2010 15" MacBook Pro in just a postage bag without bubble wrap! It arrived with a completely shattered screen.
@@abhimaanmayadam5713 Thanks for the comment, I'm about to buy a older ThinkPad and will have to double check with what I need and whether or not it comes with it. I honestly had no idea
@@Valrax old intel integrated graphics dont support opengl. Find something with an ATi graphics card. Intel CPU is fine. Also get something with a core 2 duo. Core Duos and Pentium Ms are 32 bit and don't support pae.
Great video! I've loved ThinkPads from the beginning. Seeing older budget models makes me appreciate how far they've come, even though they all posessed brilliant design from the earlier years. I currently use a bit dated T470s model, but my first ThinkPad was an i Series 1300 - I loved those huge bezels and my USB wifi adaptor.
I had the exact same model that I bought for $1 USD in the States at a University auction. I cleaned it up, replaced the HDD with a 128 Gb SSD, then maxxed out the RAM. Since I don't Game I just fixed it up to do Office tasks and finally I installed Arch Linux XFCE4 on it. It ran great for what it was designed to do. Great video! Thanks for sharing. Also,
We used to use R61s as classroom projector hosts. The CPU fans had a tendency to fail out of the blue, so seeing the insides of that laptop brought back some memories!
I'd love to find a way to out scam these types of scammers, especially the ones who don't even bother to reply as they're likely too busy ripping people off to have the time. The thought has occured to try and gather a group of like minded people with a small amount of money to temporarily burn to get together, buy out all their stock and then have everyone claim it back on paypal. Ending up with nothing but auction fees may get their attention.
I currently use a ThinkPad R61 as a basic home server that I bought back in 2015 for dirt cheap on eBay, it does the job reasonably well and is in really good shape, I run an external drive enclosure over USB 2.0 and have it set up through Windows Storage Spaces. Mine runs a T7200 @ 2.0 GHz, 4GB of RAM, a spare 120GB SanDisk SSD I had lying around and currently have it running Windows Server 2012 R2 (Windows 8.1), it was running Windows Server 2008 R2 (Windows 7) for a long time until last year when support ended so it got an upgrade. I wouldn't take it further than Windows 8.1 tbh, back when I first got it I used it as a machine to run the Windows 10 beta builds before it came out and they never seemed to run the best, even after Windows 10 was finalised. I'd just stick with Windows 8.1 or Linux for one of these.
I used to have the older Pentium M based R 51 Thinkpad. The R series were really great laptops and they still run pretty well under Linux. I got a new battery for mine and passed it on to someone in my community,
Socketed CPU is more of a 'gotcha' for the uninitiated though. Liiike.. You can only replace a 2004 CPU with a 'very slightly' faster CPU that's also from 2004. ~usually stuff like that. The reality is that socket compatibility puts an end to most of the fantasy. I get a feeling that when people see old laptops with CPU sockets in them they think they'll be able to put a "zOMG 32 cores" 2025 CPU into in the future but that's just not how it ended up working. They end up buying an old thinkpad and then being bored of the lack of 'real' upgradeability in like a month 😄👋
The first Thinkpad I bought from Ebay was a X60s, and that arrived in a thin flimsy cardboard box with no bubble wrap or anything to protect it at all. I was extremely lucky it arrived in mint condition with not a scratch and fully working.
Hello Nathan. I recommend you search up Sebi's Random Tech's video on clearing Supervisor passwords from Thinkpad's. I used his video to clear the supervisor password from my T61. Also, if you do it, you can flash Middleton's modbios for these Thinkpads. Since you put in an SSD the SATA II speeds would be a great addition.
I few months ago I've got a Lenovo X61S for free - it came in a box with a lot of free components. No memory. No HDD. I just added 2x1GB DDR2-667 SO-DIMM and a 160GB 2.5" HDD to it, installed ElementaryOS and voilá: it is now up and running flawlessly.
The screen in this one has probably been changed before. The stickers covering the screw holes often get lost, or the tech doesn't bother applying new adhesive so they just fall off. Specs wise I bet you the seller just googled the model on the screen bezel instead of the proper machine type on the bottom and just took the first thing they saw as gospel.
I got my first ThinkPad a few months ago: a T61 with the infamous NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M GPU. Older batches of this laptop appears to have problems with the GPU. Fortunately, mine does seem to be working just fine. Exact same process on disassembly! I also spent on 4GB DDR2 RAM sticks. Glad you still enjoyed working on that R61 despite the hiccups with the seller.
@@lbsiuk I did buy 1 lol! My friend bought a 4GB DDR2 stick for her old laptop, but it became really slow for some reason, even with updated BIOS. So I she gave it to me, hence my second 4GB stick.
@@kielagut my god you are lucky. I am really tempted to buy 2 4GB sticks for my Dell E6400/D830, as they can both take 8GB, but I really don't want to pay that much. It's possible that CEX will have it at a cheap price though.
I've had the opposite experience buying a dell laptop on ebay, seller had several in stock so it was certainly laptops sold by a company after they were replaced, It was supposed to come with a 3720QM, it came with a 3740QM (100mhz extra base and boost speed) so that's a win.
a couple of months ago, I found a true IBM Thinkpad G40 laptop on the side of the road. It still works fine and booted right into Windows XP. It has a 2.6 ghz Intel Pentium 4 cpu with 512 mb ram and it seems to be from early 2004. Still works fine today although it has a damaged usb port, but still not bad for a laptop that I found in the trash.
I really love lenovo thinkpad laptops 😍😍 They have a lot of ports and really durable. But what I really love the most is the thinkpads where you can directly install a cheap egpu dock instead of removing the bottom case and wifi card.
Shame that you got scammed - and it's unusual for eBay to not agree with you. Normally, eBay quickly sides with the buyer in any return request - you can easily open a request for "doesn't work or is defective", or "doesn't match description or photos" and force a return, with the seller paying the return postage. The seller can also give a partial refund if they want to (which you can accept or decline).
If the bios is locked just check the net to see how to unlock a IBM ThinkPad bios i have an dell precision m4700 that had a bios password on it i went on the net and found out how to unlock the dell precision m4700 bios
I actually like that little LED light better. It's not as harsh to the eyes especially in a dim-lit area, especially when non-gaming laptop tend to use white or blue-tinged backlit keyboard. Reminds me of early to mid 2010s HP laptop
at least you got bubblewrap. You know what someone did sending 2x RX580 video cards to me? Newspaper. Exactly ONE piece of newspaper. I'm not joking. Props to the courier company of not breaking them... they still functions.
The school it came from, should give you the old cmos password. Otherwise you’ll need to jump a few wires to a serial dump module to find the hex code for the password
The BIOS can be unlocked with the right tools. I bought a Thinkpad with a locked BIOS but fortunately it had already been upgraded with a modded version, e.g. to unlock SATA 2 capability as the X61s is factored limited to SATA 1 otherwise.
Few notes to add, nVidia Quadro NVS 140 was fine when it was working, which it wasn't for long. It is the same as the GeForce 8400M, and those failed like mad when these machines were 1-3 years old. I had a R61 back in 2009 (I even installed Windows 7 RC on it), but it failed being only 14 months old and out of warranty. I repaired it with heating the GPU with a heatgun, but I know it didn't last more than few months then. So good thing you didn't get a Quadro model. For the locked BIOS, I think there is a way to unlock it, either by an unlock code and a unlock generator, or reading a password chip with a cheap programmer. Perhaps an idea for a next video :)
I managed to save a R400 from trash. It has been used in a school BUT has not suffered from abuse ! It is actually in a fairly good condition. Works great on Linux, even with 2Gb of RAM (SWAP saved the day again) but that GMA 4500m... There is a dock compatible which adds a PCIE x16 connector (x1 wired) for a GPU but it is extremely rare and expensive... I'm using it right now to type this comment. Great little TH-cam watching machine.
The BIOS can be reset by either: - unplugging the main and CMOS batteries and holding down the power button for 10 seconds or - if that doesn't work, get a CH341A programmer and flash the EEPROM.
ThinkPads and their impossible to beat BIOS passwords were a great selling point when they were new on the market, but now is pretty much just an e-waste creation tool
Luv the video as always ....i also have thinkpad t410 with i5 processor and same battery issue as yours laptop have in the video but it still working good
I just sold my mint high end T60P for €50, was for sale on and off for 2 years, nobody ever showed interest. It played half life 2 / battlefield 2... Even did the cooling mod with copper shims instead of pads, had 1tb ssd and win7 pro 64bit with all drivers and buttons working and advanced dock.
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I'm giving away the Pink laptop that was featured in my last video! twitter.com/NathanPSI/status/1402905668592410630?s=19
The rules are listed in the Twitter thread listed above. I'm posting to the US, UK, Australia and New Zealand 🙂 Goodluck!
wheres canada bro
About the Bios locked issue, call Lenovo and try to use social engineering to have them unlock it for you. I bought a Thinkpad that was bios locked, called lenovo, and they unlocked it for me. Hopefully you will have just as much luck.
Entered - thank you :)
hey could you add canada posting :)
I am facing little problem my ThinkPad shutdown automatically after some time of use. I am not able to find any reason . Can one suggest any solution or may be what is the problem in my ThinkPad??
That teeny little keyboard light is just lovely. Reminds me of the map light in my old Buick.
That unopened ThinkPad video was epic 👍
LOL Clint. I remember mine back when I had my Buick Century
2 of my favorite TH-camrs in one place!
my old accord had a map light like that too. loved it
I had a regal gran sport 2 door it had the map lights with the lenses you could aim, perfect for playing gameboy advance before they came out with the back lit model lol.
It wasn't a complete scam: At least you got a free Aldi bag!
Lol
$1 value!!
I see we have an optimist here
@@magicmango2787 HuGE pROFiT1!!!1!1!!1!1
Plus $50 AUD(about $38 USD) for a working Thinkpad even with DDR2 is not bad deal period, it is a shame the seller lied on the specs however.
255% available charging.
Now that's quite a deal
What a deal!
wait till somebody doesnt get the joke lol
But yeah, that's a huge deal!
@@captainchris2 That's actually not the reason. Its just windows being windows.
But they fixed it in the updates.
lemurmad I still got the 255% when I had a dead battery in 20H2. I think it may vary from laptop to laptop. Mine still had some voltage in the pack so maybe that’s why
@@plzdonhack I think they fix it in 21H1.
You gotta download it from microsoft or whenever it shows up in updates.
Clicked faster than you could say "Eucalyptus Oil"
great comment
a little unreleated but i really miss laptops with a hell ton of ports
Many Lenovo Thinkpad models still have them if you want them.
@@CommodoreFan64 My Dell XPS15 has practically anything I would need. Also, business laptops usually have many more ports.
Typing this on an M1 macbook air. I feel ya.
a toshiba satellite A350 laptop that has hardware failure is the only laptop i've seen a microphone port on in real life
@@PearCoin124 Huh? I have never seen an (older) laptop without one? :D.
Good video! I’ve had eBay purchases come in just like this, you’re not alone.
My “refurbished dell student ready laptop” overheated and died but 1 week after I bought it from eBay. In retrospect partly our fault for trusting a shady seller, but also the sellers part for blatant false advertising.
everyobody that likes shopping on ebay has been scammed numerous times..
On the GPU front you actually got lucky in a way, the Quadro NVS cards in the 61 series ThinkPads are notorious for failing. Still doesn't excuse a scam.
The official buyers guide also recommended against buying the p suffix T series because of that as well.
@@a_xylotl It's a shame really, such a nice machine yet you can't take advantage of the higher powered models because they will likely fail.
@@skyediann3399 The Dell Latitude D630 models with Quadro NVS cards fail frequently too.
@@penguinsushi8442 All early nvidia G8xM chips fail. Doesn't matter what laptop. Desktop cards including G9x are also prone. MCPs (their nforce chipset) from this time might be as well. Basically if it's an nvidia product from 2007-8, run away.
Pretty much any 'high end' videochip in a laptop is notorious for desoldering itself. I am still baffled by how many people bought laptops with geforces and radeons back in the day. After 4, 5 years they were all dead as a dodo.
my mom still uses this exact laptop every day, i think even with the exact same specs, but i'm not sure about that
Couldn't you get that laptop to be upgraded/ refurbished for her? .. I'm sure it deserves that.
I think it would be a good video to show your audience why you weren’t eligible for the eBay buyer protection aka money back guarantee. This way they can see what went wrong and how to avoid getting scammed like you did.
Yea, im wondering how he wasn't eligible. The only thing I can think is that he was outside of the 30 day return window which is why its important to inspect and test ebay purchases ASAP
@@FlyboyHelosim at the very least its an item not as described. The seller might have made a mistake and shipped him the wrong laptop sure but its still not ok. Imagine ordering a laptop with an intel core i7 and getting an i3.
@@FlyboyHelosim yeah, these sellers are often pc recyclers and are selling huge lots of stuff - yes they should be more careful but i like to attribute this kind of stuff to ignorance instead of malice
@@FlyboyHelosim he should have gotten a partial refund since it wasn't as listed. I've legitimately never had an issue with the site so I'm not sure what even happened. Hell I've never even had to escalate it to ebay, I just contact the seller and they usually give a fair deal (or in the case of a thing I ordered recently, they were able to ship it for a cheaper price than their estimate so without even contacting them they refunded me the difference.)
The bios can probably be cleared like many other older Thinkpads. My second hand E540 was also locked but I found a guide how to reset it.
I cleared my parts 390’s bios but simply unplugging the CMOS battery and letting all power drain out, then reinstalling it and boom, right into the bios.
@@aegonthedragon7303 Some models have a dedicated chip for saving the password etc., on my Thinkpad, I just shorted two legs from that chip when powering on the laptop and that did the trick. So in newer ones the CMOS battery doesn't work, it just resets the bios but doesn't clear the password etc.
Never been locked out of my thinkpad, but any acer accepts an universal unlock code you can find online. Maybe there is one too for thinkpads
well for me i reset my password bios with shorting the EEPROM but i do not recommend to unplug the cmos battery because if you unplugged it, the password will not reset anymore and i got RTC (Real Time Clock) error in my thinkpad T430 and its very dangerous if you have modified bios like 1vyrain because the date/time setting is gone and dont worry my laptop did fix from laptop servicer (sorry my grammar is broken because my english language is not my first language)
I believe you have to tear apart the entire machine to do that though
I was breathing until Psivewri released a new video and decided that was more important
"It looks like some school students thought this was a touch screen"
That must be the most Gen Z thing I've ever heard in a while
“It’s always very satisfying to remove old paste, maybe that’s just me though” Definitely not, I love getting to the part of the video where the thermal paste is removed haha literally so satisfying seeing it cleaned off
he used 3x as much paste as he needed to though, and extra paste = worse temps than just right.
source: I've pasted laptops with mx4 and mx6 and my first attempts used that much paste and I found out later it spilled over
Man, I can’t wait for these videos! 😂😂
Seller :HAHA I'VE SCAMMED YOU
Him: hold my eucalyptus oil
@Psivewri when you had the laptop open, bios locked laptops can *sometimes* be reset by removing the cmos battery.. laptops have one, they're just abit different to pc cmos batteries.
you can use a master bios password too
I had this laptop from 2016 until 2018. It was the first thinkpad i could actually use to work on and what a pleasure it was ! I made some various upgrade, and finaly swap the motherboard for the nvidia equiped. Sadly, the card failled 8 month after i've buy it. So it's much better you have the intel equipped, because the nvidia was notorious to fail !
the intel gma graphics is just complete pain. i remember trying to play minecraft on old gma4500, good old days....
I have an old Dell Latitude D630 which is pretty much the equivalent system down to the X3100 graphics. I was lucky enough to be able to scrounge a Core2 Extreme X9000 and two 4GB RAM sticks for mine. It's a decent performer under Linux though the GMA graphics are the weak point.
Ironically, with the D630, having the Intel rather than the nVidia graphics is actually a plus as these systems were initially produced with faulty nVidia GPUs that were prone to failure.
It's possible with Sodium
I currently play on a HP Compaq, from 2010.
With a:
2.8 ghz Pentium
8GB DDR3 RAM
And an AMD 7400 Series graphics card
I kinda thought it was a really old ibm but when I saw it running windows 10 I was like waaaaaaaaaa
I had the same reaction when I was able to install Windows 10 on a Dell Inspiron 6400.
Don't change a winning team!
I always forget just how short the time period that IBM actually made ThinkPads was
The way that jerk packed it is a crime against humanity.
5:41 the passive aggressive voice made me so happy 😂
Great video! I love those old Thinkpads!
I never buy from sellers with less than a 97% or so positive rating because of junk like this. And I always read a lot of the customer feedback for the ones I do buy from. You can get a good feel really quick for who you're dealing with.
I'm strict with myself over that because I got scammed myself. I ordered an SSD from a 97% positive seller a year or so ago and tracked it til I was told it had arrived at my home. It had not.
I contacted EBay, they said wait a day or so. Never came.
I took the tracking number, called UPS, and they said it had been delivered to another address a couple miles from me. It had not.
I contacted the seller, who said that yes the package had been delivered. It...had not been delivered.
Then I noticed...the seller's name in the email was different than the one I had purchased from. I followed the link in the email, and I ended up at a totally different store...with a 77% positive approval!
No amount of maneuvering could get me back to the original seller. That seller simply didn't exist.
I contacted EBay and put them on the scent, presenting my evidence. They not only immediately refunded my $$$, but they contacted me back and said they had shut the seller down for fraud.
A few very stressful days taught me not to skip the details. It wasn't a lot of money but nobody likes to get taken and honestly I've got much better ways to waste time than that.
There is nothing I hate more than BIOS-locked Thinkpads
With ThinkPads you don't need to lookup random tutorials for disassembly, go download the Hardware Maintenance Manual for whatever machine you're working on and you get a full disassembly guide and parts list for potential upgrades.
Thicker laptops were probably more durable than today's skinny laptops which only have 3 usb ports and non removable batteries and no cpu upgrade 😡😡😡😡
@@FlyboyHelosim noice!
Another awesome video!!! Sorry you got scammed but it was still fun to watch you finagle with it. I agree about the keyboard... I have an old Lenovo laptop from 2010 and although the system itself is slower than molasses, the keyboard feels AMAZING to type on. I wish newer laptops offered the same typing experience.
The seller didnt THINK he would get exposed selling the THINKpad. My sense of humor doesnt exist 🥲
I THINK you should probably keep your day job 😏
You may want to THINK again before posting your next joke
@@rollingtroll i THINK i should 😅
This is why you check the seller's ratings on Ebay
Dear Psivewri, for old hardware, I recommend you to use q4OS or exeLinux (both with the trinity desktop, an old KDE desktop environment but up to modern standards).
Love the ThinkPad content! Unfortunately I can relate to poor packaging. I once had someone send me a 2010 15" MacBook Pro in just a postage bag without bubble wrap! It arrived with a completely shattered screen.
maybe already cracked before posting ?
For disassembly, Lenovo publishes "hardware maintenance manuals", it should be on their website along with the usual manuals.
Yay, Linux Mint. One of my favorites for low end systems.
I'm celebrating with you while writing this on my Linux Mint Acer E11 from 2015! (echo, echo, echo, echo!)
I was looking at the same exact one lol, trying to grab one for older games / windows xp system
I don't recommend it
It doesn't support Opengl.
@@abhimaanmayadam5713 Thanks for the comment, I'm about to buy a older ThinkPad and will have to double check with what I need and whether or not it comes with it. I honestly had no idea
@@Valrax old intel integrated graphics dont support opengl. Find something with an ATi graphics card. Intel CPU is fine. Also get something with a core 2 duo. Core Duos and Pentium Ms are 32 bit and don't support pae.
Great video! I've loved ThinkPads from the beginning. Seeing older budget models makes me appreciate how far they've come, even though they all posessed brilliant design from the earlier years. I currently use a bit dated T470s model, but my first ThinkPad was an i Series 1300 - I loved those huge bezels and my USB wifi adaptor.
Removing the clock battery should erase the BIOS password, either that or using a DOS flasher to revert it back to the stock Lenovo one.
That's not an option with these machines, as they store the password on a dedicated chip and removing the CMOS battery doesn't do anything to it.
This guy is FRICKING underrated. He needs more views
I had the exact same model that I bought for $1 USD in the States at a University auction. I cleaned it up, replaced the HDD with a 128 Gb SSD, then maxxed out the RAM. Since I don't Game I just fixed it up to do Office tasks and finally I installed Arch Linux XFCE4 on it. It ran great for what it was designed to do. Great video! Thanks for sharing. Also,
That knife always makes me feel like the product will be incredible
Epic blades = epic reveals
We used to use R61s as classroom projector hosts. The CPU fans had a tendency to fail out of the blue, so seeing the insides of that laptop brought back some memories!
I'd love to find a way to out scam these types of scammers, especially the ones who don't even bother to reply as they're likely too busy ripping people off to have the time.
The thought has occured to try and gather a group of like minded people with a small amount of money to temporarily burn to get together, buy out all their stock and then have everyone claim it back on paypal. Ending up with nothing but auction fees may get their attention.
Laptop: *is dirty
Eucalyptus oil: Hello there.
This brings me back. This was the laptop i got when i attended high-school. Thanks for the great vid! :)
This is why I don't buy from sellers that have ratings below like 97%
I currently use a ThinkPad R61 as a basic home server that I bought back in 2015 for dirt cheap on eBay, it does the job reasonably well and is in really good shape, I run an external drive enclosure over USB 2.0 and have it set up through Windows Storage Spaces. Mine runs a T7200 @ 2.0 GHz, 4GB of RAM, a spare 120GB SanDisk SSD I had lying around and currently have it running Windows Server 2012 R2 (Windows 8.1), it was running Windows Server 2008 R2 (Windows 7) for a long time until last year when support ended so it got an upgrade.
I wouldn't take it further than Windows 8.1 tbh, back when I first got it I used it as a machine to run the Windows 10 beta builds before it came out and they never seemed to run the best, even after Windows 10 was finalised. I'd just stick with Windows 8.1 or Linux for one of these.
I used to have the older Pentium M based R 51 Thinkpad. The R series were really great laptops and they still run pretty well under Linux. I got a new battery for mine and passed it on to someone in my community,
A laptop with replaceable CPU. Feels like alien technology today!
Right? Unfortunately laptop manufacturers don't even have the choice. Intel or AMD just don't sell a laptop CPU with pins. BGA only. Tossers
@@s8wc3 there are some laptops which use a desktop CPU, but of course much bulk and precious little autonomy
@@s8wc3 maybe battery will improve once BIG.little becomes standard also for Intel
Socketed CPU is more of a 'gotcha' for the uninitiated though. Liiike.. You can only replace a 2004 CPU with a 'very slightly' faster CPU that's also from 2004. ~usually stuff like that.
The reality is that socket compatibility puts an end to most of the fantasy.
I get a feeling that when people see old laptops with CPU sockets in them they think they'll be able to put a "zOMG 32 cores" 2025 CPU into in the future but that's just not how it ended up working. They end up buying an old thinkpad and then being bored of the lack of 'real' upgradeability in like a month 😄👋
i like that he kinda laughed when he said that he was excited
Looks like a Thinktank what a design nightmare for upgrades or if has issues.The yellow led light is so funny.
The first Thinkpad I bought from Ebay was a X60s, and that arrived in a thin flimsy cardboard box with no bubble wrap or anything to protect it at all. I was extremely lucky it arrived in mint condition with not a scratch and fully working.
Hello Nathan. I recommend you search up Sebi's Random Tech's video on clearing Supervisor passwords from Thinkpad's. I used his video to clear the supervisor password from my T61. Also, if you do it, you can flash Middleton's modbios for these Thinkpads. Since you put in an SSD the SATA II speeds would be a great addition.
It made me remember that I spotted a Thinkpad T61 15.4" on ebay for 8€, it was marked as "For pieces" even though it was working...
I few months ago I've got a Lenovo X61S for free - it came in a box with a lot of free components. No memory. No HDD. I just added 2x1GB DDR2-667 SO-DIMM and a 160GB 2.5" HDD to it, installed ElementaryOS and voilá: it is now up and running flawlessly.
This is completely off topic. But I just wanna say I love that hoodie
I really love those old Thinkpads! They look well and it's still possible to use in 2021! :D SSD +Linux Mint XFCE makes it faster than before!
The screen in this one has probably been changed before. The stickers covering the screw holes often get lost, or the tech doesn't bother applying new adhesive so they just fall off. Specs wise I bet you the seller just googled the model on the screen bezel instead of the proper machine type on the bottom and just took the first thing they saw as gospel.
I can hear Dankpods scraming about ebay GSP
Your profile pic is adorable :3
Oh boy this eucalyptus oils my keyboard
I’m surprised how that laptop survived inside an Aldi bag!
The seller didn't intend to, but he just proved how tough those buggers really are lol.
I got my first ThinkPad a few months ago: a T61 with the infamous NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M GPU. Older batches of this laptop appears to have problems with the GPU. Fortunately, mine does seem to be working just fine. Exact same process on disassembly! I also spent on 4GB DDR2 RAM sticks.
Glad you still enjoyed working on that R61 despite the hiccups with the seller.
Did you actually buy 4GB dimms? I thought they were stupidly expensive, a good $50 each?
@@lbsiuk I did buy 1 lol! My friend bought a 4GB DDR2 stick for her old laptop, but it became really slow for some reason, even with updated BIOS. So I she gave it to me, hence my second 4GB stick.
@@kielagut my god you are lucky. I am really tempted to buy 2 4GB sticks for my Dell E6400/D830, as they can both take 8GB, but I really don't want to pay that much. It's possible that CEX will have it at a cheap price though.
I've had the opposite experience buying a dell laptop on ebay, seller had several in stock so it was certainly laptops sold by a company after they were replaced,
It was supposed to come with a 3720QM, it came with a 3740QM (100mhz extra base and boost speed) so that's a win.
a couple of months ago, I found a true IBM Thinkpad G40 laptop on the side of the road. It still works fine and booted right into Windows XP. It has a 2.6 ghz Intel Pentium 4 cpu with 512 mb ram and it seems to be from early 2004. Still works fine today although it has a damaged usb port, but still not bad for a laptop that I found in the trash.
I really love lenovo thinkpad laptops 😍😍 They have a lot of ports and really durable. But what I really love the most is the thinkpads where you can directly install a cheap egpu dock instead of removing the bottom case and wifi card.
Shame that you got scammed - and it's unusual for eBay to not agree with you. Normally, eBay quickly sides with the buyer in any return request - you can easily open a request for "doesn't work or is defective", or "doesn't match description or photos" and force a return, with the seller paying the return postage. The seller can also give a partial refund if they want to (which you can accept or decline).
the vertical USB port made me laugh more than it should have
Ugh. eBay is the worst, not only do they fee you to death, but like you experienced, they're not there on your side as a buyer when it matters.
I always check feedback first especially buying a laptop. Feedback showed seller had +20 & -5 for past month. At least you had something that worked.
If the bios is locked just check the net to see how to unlock a IBM ThinkPad bios i have an dell precision m4700 that had a bios password on it i went on the net and found out how to unlock the dell precision m4700 bios
The Thinkpads are just about bullet proof. I don't think I would buy one that old, but at that price delivered, it's a fun machine to play with.
I actually like that little LED light better. It's not as harsh to the eyes especially in a dim-lit area, especially when non-gaming laptop tend to use white or blue-tinged backlit keyboard.
Reminds me of early to mid 2010s HP laptop
Hands Up for GNU/Linux -> Mint
: )
I'm glad that psivewri has discovered Linux. it makes these videos a lot more enjoyable : )
or ReviOS
I'm using Debian + xfce personally
at least you got bubblewrap. You know what someone did sending 2x RX580 video cards to me? Newspaper. Exactly ONE piece of newspaper.
I'm not joking. Props to the courier company of not breaking them... they still functions.
The school it came from, should give you the old cmos password. Otherwise you’ll need to jump a few wires to a serial dump module to find the hex code for the password
If he removed the CMOS battery for a while, wouldn't that clear the password? I never dealt with a bios password.
Love what you do with these computers. Amazing !
Great video! You brought that laptop back to life!
The BIOS can be unlocked with the right tools. I bought a Thinkpad with a locked BIOS but fortunately it had already been upgraded with a modded version, e.g. to unlock SATA 2 capability as the X61s is factored limited to SATA 1 otherwise.
Few notes to add, nVidia Quadro NVS 140 was fine when it was working, which it wasn't for long. It is the same as the GeForce 8400M, and those failed like mad when these machines were 1-3 years old. I had a R61 back in 2009 (I even installed Windows 7 RC on it), but it failed being only 14 months old and out of warranty. I repaired it with heating the GPU with a heatgun, but I know it didn't last more than few months then. So good thing you didn't get a Quadro model. For the locked BIOS, I think there is a way to unlock it, either by an unlock code and a unlock generator, or reading a password chip with a cheap programmer. Perhaps an idea for a next video :)
Sorry for scam, great video nonetheless! 👍
i use linux mint in my laptop , seeing linux mint in this video is satisfying
Minty fresh!
I managed to save a R400 from trash. It has been used in a school BUT has not suffered from abuse ! It is actually in a fairly good condition. Works great on Linux, even with 2Gb of RAM (SWAP saved the day again) but that GMA 4500m... There is a dock compatible which adds a PCIE x16 connector (x1 wired) for a GPU but it is extremely rare and expensive...
I'm using it right now to type this comment. Great little TH-cam watching machine.
You can unlock those BIOSs on old TPs with an actual paperclip. Shorting the EEPROM at a set time in boot cycle does it.
@Phoenix 𝙾𝚙𝚎𝚗 𝙼𝚢 PROFILE There are safe-date motherboards that don't suffer from the nVidia bonding agent failure.
1:58 ... absolutely loved it
Just came across the channel enjoyed the content and humour 😂 👏
The BIOS can be reset by either:
- unplugging the main and CMOS batteries and holding down the power button for 10 seconds
or
- if that doesn't work, get a CH341A programmer and flash the EEPROM.
Well that will teach you about ignoring my emails when i had some laptops for sale oh well serves you right.
ThinkPads and their impossible to beat BIOS passwords were a great selling point when they were new on the market, but now is pretty much just an e-waste creation tool
Damn, sorry to hear you got scammed but nevertheless great video like always!
Luv the video as always ....i also have thinkpad t410 with i5 processor and same battery issue as yours laptop have in the video but it still working good
You can install a T9300 or even X9100 cpu in it, alongside Middleton's BIOS and 2x4GB DDR2 RAM, it is still a very capable machine
As far as scams go, could have gone a lot worse. Still a major disappointment when they lie or exaggerate the specs though.
My Lenovo legion also has a screen that folds down like that. You should definitely check out the sellers feedback.
... i clicked the video fully expecting *eucalyptus oil*
Some of the bios chips can be unlocked by shorting a few pins. I know it works on the x131e and similar models, maybe look into that.
The guy how uses his own music but has to mention
HI mate i had one of these few years ago, You can do the middletons bios upgrade to unlock the sata 2 speeds.
7:01 Same as the HP Compaq nx7300
Anyone else noticed the happy little octopus at the background during testing?
I just sold my mint high end T60P for €50, was for sale on and off for 2 years, nobody ever showed interest. It played half life 2 / battlefield 2...
Even did the cooling mod with copper shims instead of pads, had 1tb ssd and win7 pro 64bit with all drivers and buttons working and advanced dock.
The battery was so good, it confused the laptop into thinking it had 255%!