Bought from user DeltaDon on the VCF forums - here’s the link, he has more available im pretty sure: forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/nos-green-753-laptop.1245131/
As soon as I saw the thumbnail for this video I thought "Hey, I recognize that box. It's the same as the one for that OEM laptop Adrian Black reviewed not too long ago" I did not expect your unit would come from the exact same stock/people, though!
Yep! He had/still has a bunch. Not sure how many of those left are TFT models though. I actually didn’t even find Adrian’s video until after my own unit was already on the way!
Definitely fun to see something new after sitting for so long! Glad yours ended up in pretty good shape, shame about those speakers, reminds me of trying to play music through a Jornada handheld PC, ha!
Loved the video! My video on the latitude e5440 is posted by the way (it’s low quality because I kind of rushed to get the video out and did not feel like charging my phone)
ohh here is my friend from vcfed! I was thinking about making a video on my NOS green753 too but idk. At least you are! Wow my internal speakers actually sound good - I guess I got lucky. My AC Adapter is a different brand than yours (iLAN) and is not deteriorating. You and I have A LOT in common. Would be cool to meet you!
Gahhhh, I was pulling my hair out at that socket with my "ThinkPad" 310. I disassembled and reassembled that thing so. many. times. in order to find what's wrong. I spent a whole day doing *that* (with much more swearing than I'm willing to admit), and when I was fully pissed off I just jammed and pushed that screwdriver in there without giving any shits whatsoever, and guess what: it clicked into place. At first I thought I broke something, but you cannot imagine my painful relief when it booted. All that time, wasted on something so simple. You live and learn, and sometimes brain cells and nerves are just casualties. Almost the same exact thing happened with the Latitude CPi if you recall, only it was the NeoMagic chipset and DC/DC board in that case. And hey, we have the same floor tiles! Also when you said 25 years I felt that. I still feel like it's 2020 sometimes.
Those sockets have caused me grief with everything. Although it wasn’t the full issue, my dead CTX EzBook gave me trouble with its socket. And my WinBook FX did too, when I took it apart for the first time and unseated it when taking the heat sink off. I only took it apart to check for a VARTA battery, and I FOUND one, but then I had to get it FULLY torn down just to get the leverage needed to re seat that awful CPU socket. I hate them! Wish I knew where the floor tiles came from… would help with the hole in the floor next to my desk where they needed to do plumbing work 😅
What program do you use under Win 98 to undervolt the CPU? I really would like to do that on my old Thinkpad to increase battery life and lower temperatures.
It wasn’t a program - there are physical switches on the motherboard that control the CPU voltage. I lowered them from the 3.3 volt setting to the 2.9 volt setting. I’m not aware of whether your thinkpad has the same setup.
@@3lectr1c Oh I see. That's a bummer, as I am almost certain my Thinkpad doesn't have that hardware capability. I have programs to do the undervolt through software on WinXP and later Win versions, for Core 2 Duo and Pentium M processors, but I was hoping there was a similar software out there for Win 98 too.
Looks awfully similar to a machine I've just purchased off of ebay...its an unbranded notebook with the model NB7D which apparently was made by Chicony
@@3lectr1c at least it exists!, it's been posted too, just gotta wait for it to show up at my pickup location. Also I'd recommend getting any plastic parts that's how signs of failure 3D scanned for when they go
@@lukedavis436 I wish I knew of an easy way to do that... Professional 3D scanner is quite expensive. So far so good close to a month in now. Yes, I'm slow to edit haha.
where did you buy it from? Why didn't you give a link?
Bought from user DeltaDon on the VCF forums - here’s the link, he has more available im pretty sure: forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/nos-green-753-laptop.1245131/
As soon as I saw the thumbnail for this video I thought "Hey, I recognize that box. It's the same as the one for that OEM laptop Adrian Black reviewed not too long ago" I did not expect your unit would come from the exact same stock/people, though!
Yep! He had/still has a bunch. Not sure how many of those left are TFT models though. I actually didn’t even find Adrian’s video until after my own unit was already on the way!
Definitely fun to see something new after sitting for so long! Glad yours ended up in pretty good shape, shame about those speakers, reminds me of trying to play music through a Jornada handheld PC, ha!
Loved the video! My video on the latitude e5440 is posted by the way (it’s low quality because I kind of rushed to get the video out and did not feel like charging my phone)
ohh here is my friend from vcfed! I was thinking about making a video on my NOS green753 too but idk. At least you are! Wow my internal speakers actually sound good - I guess I got lucky. My AC Adapter is a different brand than yours (iLAN) and is not deteriorating. You and I have A LOT in common. Would be cool to meet you!
Hmm, interesting. I’d thought before that the speakers likely degraded with time, guess so.
Gahhhh, I was pulling my hair out at that socket with my "ThinkPad" 310. I disassembled and reassembled that thing so. many. times. in order to find what's wrong. I spent a whole day doing *that* (with much more swearing than I'm willing to admit), and when I was fully pissed off I just jammed and pushed that screwdriver in there without giving any shits whatsoever, and guess what: it clicked into place. At first I thought I broke something, but you cannot imagine my painful relief when it booted. All that time, wasted on something so simple. You live and learn, and sometimes brain cells and nerves are just casualties. Almost the same exact thing happened with the Latitude CPi if you recall, only it was the NeoMagic chipset and DC/DC board in that case.
And hey, we have the same floor tiles! Also when you said 25 years I felt that. I still feel like it's 2020 sometimes.
Those sockets have caused me grief with everything. Although it wasn’t the full issue, my dead CTX EzBook gave me trouble with its socket. And my WinBook FX did too, when I took it apart for the first time and unseated it when taking the heat sink off. I only took it apart to check for a VARTA battery, and I FOUND one, but then I had to get it FULLY torn down just to get the leverage needed to re seat that awful CPU socket. I hate them!
Wish I knew where the floor tiles came from… would help with the hole in the floor next to my desk where they needed to do plumbing work 😅
What program do you use under Win 98 to undervolt the CPU? I really would like to do that on my old Thinkpad to increase battery life and lower temperatures.
It wasn’t a program - there are physical switches on the motherboard that control the CPU voltage. I lowered them from the 3.3 volt setting to the 2.9 volt setting. I’m not aware of whether your thinkpad has the same setup.
@@3lectr1c Oh I see. That's a bummer, as I am almost certain my Thinkpad doesn't have that hardware capability. I have programs to do the undervolt through software on WinXP and later Win versions, for Core 2 Duo and Pentium M processors, but I was hoping there was a similar software out there for Win 98 too.
Looks like the screen is quite decent! Those speakers are pretty bad though. XD
sounds like you need to back up the drivers online.
Another person who bought it did actually!
The link’s somewhere in one of the threads on VCF
Looks awfully similar to a machine I've just purchased off of ebay...its an unbranded notebook with the model NB7D which apparently was made by Chicony
Hmm, don’t have any info on that model really. Just have sources saying that it exists is really it.
@@3lectr1c at least it exists!, it's been posted too, just gotta wait for it to show up at my pickup location.
Also I'd recommend getting any plastic parts that's how signs of failure 3D scanned for when they go
@@lukedavis436 I wish I knew of an easy way to do that...
Professional 3D scanner is quite expensive. So far so good close to a month in now. Yes, I'm slow to edit haha.
Wew 😮