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@@Joostuh Agreed; it's a problem on many old laptops because dust accumulates and the thermal paste gets hard and crusty over time. Cleaning out the dust and giving it some good ol' Kryonaut can work wonders. Get a 128GB cheapo SSD for them as well, and a clean Windows 7 install. That should be enough for even moderate multitasking.
My first laptop was a Toshiba only because that’s the brand my dad used so I wanted one as well Poor thing could barely push 10fps in Minecraft but we all start somewhere
The Toshiba got toasty. The fans probably stopped working as soon as they realized it’s running vista. Love it. Would love to see James do some sketchy fix to cool it.
True. I had a similar Toshiba back in those days and you'd have to pull the panel that covers the fans every-so-often and clean it out. Otherwise it'd insta-heat up and just go dead.
"If I had a nickel for every time I tried putting some crap nugget's software on one of my computers and the software killed it, well I'd have two nickels, which isn't much but it's strange that it happened twice"
I have a HiBy R2 and it skips and the whole OS seizes up momentarily while processing multichannel DSDs and won't play back Super Audio CD images, as I found with my copy of "The Downward Spiral". Good player for multichannel FLAC (surprisingly) and garden variety HD audio, however.
Circa 2001 i literally found on the side of the road an abandoned 386sx machine which would run at some dumbass speed like 16mhz, and managed to wedge Win95 onto it (despite not being supported), partly to see if I could at all and partly to try to use it as like an IRC and MUSH client while I was out in my workshop. And it was dog slow but it could do telnet okay. So then I was like, "okay, can I get this thing to play MP3s?" I actually got winamp installed and running _without swapping_ (thanks to hyperagressive paring down of Win95) and it played like half a second of a song, just long enough to make me all "!! :D !!" Before it halted for like _over a second_ while it buffered up the next little bit to dump out to the speakers and that was like... the best it could do. It tried so hard. xD
The reason your disc drive was upset is that slim disc drives like laptops have are only designed to work when they are mostly level. It was very upset about being sideways.
It's likely related to the format errors he was getting on the Duane video, that flash memory is probably on it's last legs, just by the fact that this was brand new and not even that old you can just see how terrible that thing must of been.
with the toshiba dying, i had a satelite like that one, a little higher-end, its the thermal paste drying out on the external chipset, and also the tensioning bracket has some issues there, basically the laptop is shutting itself off because the chipset is frying itself
That's what you get for cheap product that were already crap brand new. Your Satelite wasn't "a little higher-end" because all the lineup of Satelite are "very to just low-end". You won't have these problems in apple products of that time, nor of real mid to high-end products (same today btw, don't expect your less then 700$ laptop to last more then a couple of years)
You’re right about that AMV conversion software. To this day it’s still shipped with the most generic Chinese MP3 players, and I think it’s the same version too 😂.
This actually connects to my favorite Wade quote; "'Course [the SpongeBob nugget] has skip protection. When was the last time your flash drive SKIPPED?"
For real. I open my RU-vid for a small number of creators and this lad is one of them. Thank you for working so hard and recording and editing all of this madness!
I’ve seen some serious nuggets on this channel, but the sheer concentration of nugget energy on this one is so overwhelming… I think it deserves a trophy.
Those Toshibas really hate being oriented with the bottom in that direction. They're furnaces, and their cooling is super sensitive and I hated it the whole time I had one.
4:39 my experience in the translation industry is coming up again - those are all software in different languages (Msifr being MSI French, Msiko being MSI Korean, msiru being MSI Russian, etc etc.) I can spot these a mile off 😅
Yup. No experience in the translation industry here but a lot in dealing with the most annoying install of windows 7. File trawling to find the bugs ftw...or something
Hey Dank your laptop troubles is likely caused by a loose DC jack in the laptop. I repaired many laptops in the past. Since this particular model has the jack soldered to the motherboard it isn't worth repairing. The CPU is actually a classic better than Intel one back in those days. I would advise picking up an old Lenovo Thinkpad(or IBM depending on the vintage). They have an aftermarket supply of parts and are usually more repairable, as in their DC jacks are just a cable that plugs in to the motherboard, making repairing them in the case of a bad DC jack much more manageable. In regards to that MP3 player, it was suffering with issues to it's internal flash. Hence why it wouldn't read almost anything and talking about format errors. You just got lucky with the recording.
Yes, he should definitely get a ThinkPad. The best thing is that because of how big of a community there is around using old ones is that just about every possible issue has been fixed before. Just look at the ThinkPads forum, I don't think I've ever had an issue that wasn't on there. I've actually been using a t43 thinkpad from 2005 and it works great, yeah sure it isn't "fast" but who needs things like "speed" or "reliable support for modern applications" when you can have "oldish thinkpad". I have completely lost control of my train of thought and it has dismounted from the rails so I believe I shall end this comment reply here, farewell to all fellow internet goers.
oooh I’m familiar with this one. I worked at Dick Smith and just prior to Christmas 2012 they excitedly advised us that we were going to get half an aisle of licensed “kids technology”. From memory Barbie and Glee branded variants of this player are also out there. Shockingly, the range was a failure and practically none of it sold until reduced to clear. It would be fun if you ever find the Glee branded Bluetooth speaker lamp! 😬
I hope that there is a contemporary artist out there somewhere who watches this channel and contact dankpods privately asking whether he could send all the MP3 players that he has reviewed and make an Iron Throne style chair for him lol.
I keep repurposing them for all kinds of stuff. I have a small speaker that now runs with a fixed USB cable. Also, free cables in case you need to build extensions.
That toshiba laptop sure did hit me with a bit of nostalgia. I'm both glad and sad to see they remain at least as dodgy as I remember them being from around that era.
I vividly remember "gaming" on that model of laptop. It was my first pc. The old turion ii and amd/ati graphics made hl2 an almost enjoyable experience. EDIT: Welp that didn't last long
The reason why the laptop is dying could be due to overheating. Cleaning nearly two decades' worth of dust out of that thing, plus reapplying thermal paste, would help lots.
>MP3 player He should make a FLAC player instead. If the only MP3 players left are E-waste tier garbo, it's apparent that the quality players are truly enthusiast.
It’s probably the battery on the Tobisha. Some old laptops, even smart phones would use the battery as kind of a capacitor under CPU spikes, even when plugged in. I had an HP laptop and a S3 that would crash under load, even when plugged in, until I replaced the batteries.
Vista was ahead of its time. When Vista was on a good spec'd out computer, it was fine. It was these "Vista Basic" computers that largely gave it its bad name 8 was terrible too, but if you used beta 8.1, it was fantastic
Yeah, and Windows 7 was literally a more or less tweaked Vista with a better (imo) task bar and aero snap. By 7's release, the tech finally caught* up to Vista's requirements. (also Vista's aero still looks good today, such a timeless design.)
Yeah, manufacturers really tried to cheap out from the mid 00s onwards, and would put Vista even on the lowest of low end garbage machines they were pumping out just because it was the "newest" OS at the time. No wonder it ran like junk.
@@SwissArmyTin Couldn't agree more! those "Vista Capable" and "Vista Basic" ones were the worst. I had a Toshiba L40-13s which had some sort of a Pentium Dual Core and 2GB of ram, and came with Vista Home Premium on it, ran that like a dream.
Suggestion: Instead of throwing away the Toshiba, take it apart, swap out a few components (give it an SSD, more RAM, maybe swap the Wifi card since it's probably so old, etc) and take your own suggestion and install Linux on it! It'd be cool to have a Linux laptop as part of the DankPods collection of nuggets!
Das war mal 'n Nugget! Ich freue mich einfach jeden Donnerstagabend, wenn ein neues Video kommt. Und natürlich noch die After Show danach. Witziges Video wieder!
Huh, ich habe mit allem unter Wades Videos gerechnet aber nicht einem deutschen Kommentar. How weird wenn man bedenkt dass das ein komplett englischer Channel ist.
5:14 - Seems like Vista hasn't changed one bit, randomly bricking computers and laptops. I know it's most likely hardware issues, but a PC with Vista I had working on got bricked so hard that I ended up having to re-install the OS. Potential fluke? Maybe. Infuriating? Ever much so yes
3:35 It is true that Windows vista was mostly misunderstood. It is right that the performance where not the best and it would be slightly slower than older Windows versions but other than that it all worked fine and with new updates the problems mostly got solved. When you had a quite new computer witrh modern performance than it would be fine
About the Toshiba: it just needs new thermal paste applied to the CPU and Chipset. Also looks like it's very easy to disassemble and get to the CPU. But no one will forget the Eeepeecee. Rip
@@calvindibartolo2686 yeah, but there would be some heat dissipation even with old thermal paste. I looked up that cpu, and it has the ability to throttle itself when it's too hot (it's old enough that I did have to check), so unless thermal paste can somehow get so bad that it actively becomes a blanket... I don't know how good thermal protection was in 2005 with AMD, but modern ones can run games with the damn plastic not removed, and this was literally just booting up and transferring files, and if the fans were running super loud (which would happen if it was being killed by the heat), it probably would've been mentioned. If it's a heat problem that killed it, then it's probably a chronic problem that has permanently killed it, and reapplying thermal paste won't do anything.
@@bastian_5975 if a CPU can't throttle itself down low enough, it will shut down. I've seen enough CPUs do this it's easy to diagnose so long as he tried it a few minutes later when it's had time to cool
I had an old Toshiba laptop fail like that. The connector on the power supply had most of the wire strands broken, so as soon as it started pulling any real current from the charger, the 2 strands remaining couldn't keep up and it would just die.
4:45 MSI is a Windows installer filetype the last 2 letters is the country code. MSI polish, MSI spanish, MSI korean, etc. Microsoft Software Installer.
I'd like to say something for the Toshiba. He wasnt just a laptop. He was a friend. He was there for the good times and the bad times. He was there when the Zalinskis came to buckees and ate all of the cheese curds. He was there when they didn't tell their folks we said hi. He always knew just the right times to say ope, and he was always there to get the nugget players working. Rest in peace Toshiba. You will be missed.
You just unlocked a core memory for me, Hotwheels made this mp3/camera car thingy that I had as a kid, it was pretty neat and if i remember it had a custom startup screen which was neat
Man, growing up I had my share of nuggs. While few could play video, the only ones I ever owned that couldn’t play an mp3 were made before mp3s Which is to say none were an MP3 player running mp3s. This thing is a new level. It must have a stupid small amount of caching. If any.
I had one nugget before getting my 5th gen iPod. Bought maybe 3 nuggets later on for size reasons and am happy with my headphone jack-phone and my Sansa nowadays.
0:10 haven't really counted, but I may number about 300 toy cars, all of them bought by my dad when I was a little boy. Stopped getting them when I was 5 or 6 and I'm sure that a few may have been cascaded from my brother's collection. Most of them were Matchboxes, with a fair number of Majorettes, and a few Hot Wheels. Also a good number of off-brands.
The Laptop might die because it could be overheating. If you choose to keep the thing, you might wanna replace the thermal paste which should resolve the crashing issue.
I love stupid Hot Wheels merch so much, I'm happy to see some made its way into your vids. HW is good at making toy cars, not much else, so it's always interesting to see how it turns out
You should look up Peter Knetter's video on the Hot Wheels portable Nintendo Switch dock backpack. It is a beautiful example of stupid Hot Wheels merch.
That Toshiba actually brought back great memories. My dad bought one new back in the day (I could’ve been but 4-6 years old) and I spilt lemonade on it while he was using it in a recliner chair. It shut off exactly like it did in this video. The damn thing then booted back up and he used it for another 2 years, but it never was quite as fast as it was when it was new.
The Toshiba laptop dying is like when a video game makes you go through a tutorial with a friend and that friend immediately dies by the villain of the game.
Check the charging jack/port on the Toshiba, which is hands down the most common issue with Toshiba laptops of that era and only takes 10 min to diagnose and fix: The bottom cover is easy to remove, then plug the charger in, then use a voltmeter to check the pins that connect charging port cable to the motherboard (if the charge port is good, you should see the output voltage of the AC adapter on those motherboard pins). You also might be able to tell just by how loose the AC adapter is when plugged into laptop. I've replaced SO SO many of those on Toshiba laptops of that era. They either break off inside the chassis and have to be epoxied back into place, or the jack itself dies. The laptop was prob not charging when plugged in because bad port, and so it was running on battery. The part is gonna $10-15.
I have an Mp3 player. It’s over nine years old, has a battery life that lasts me a whole week and the 112 songs i have on it take up less than a quarter of its space. I use it every day and it works like a charm. Goes to show that newer doesn’t always mean better.
Another thing i should note is it didn’t need any fancy formatting on the player or my computer. It read like a flash drive. Just drop the mp3 in the right folder, eject and you’re done
@@smoothestbrain With that much space it might be worth upping the bitrate. Or even going for uncompressed WAV, which also should reduce the load to decode it. And yes, that is also how I run my Sansa. Just drop the files in and go. Even my old 256 MB nugget back in 2005 or so could do that.
Man, I had a Toshiba Satellite just like that with Vista except it didn't have the fingerprint scanner. Seeing how yours acted brought back nightmares of the hours I spent on the phone with Toshiba tech support.
Would love to see you look at Music Label Soundwave (and the accompanying headphones). It's an official Transformers MP3 player that plays music and transforms and it's such a weird thing
Love how every video gives a tiny history at the start of the video for any new viewer, although I’ve been watching for a while, it helps new viewers too
4:05 yeah like two weeks ago. I got a harddrive that was not meant to hold an operating system, its slow as heck and grinded my computer to a halt any time file stuff needed to happen. Im so glad I remedied the situation.
My guess on the laptop is an overheating issue I would replace the thermal paste with new thermal paste, the stuff in my first laptop from the same era had dried in after half a year of daily use, so even if that was a travel computer, the stuff could still be trashed from age alone
I have an old Sencor MP3 player that skips. It's caused by a crystal oscillator that wasn't soldered properly, and it causes audio distortions or complete crashes when dropped. Also, mom had a USB drive that had playback speed issues because it was one of those 1000TB drives from Wish and it started corrupting everything when it reached 2GB.
4:37 All those weirdly named files are just the program in different languages. The Setup program simply checks your computer's language and launches the installer for your language. "Msien" would have been the English installer.
3:42 I remember those little strip fingerprint readers that laptops used to have. I never used mine but seeing it on your laptop gave me a wave of nostalgia.
Never thought I would see Majorette cars mentioned anywhere. They were everywhere when I was a kid in Sydney, especially when we visited friends etc in the western suburbs. My brother preferred Matchbox but we had a couple Majorettes.
You always tend to turn on my nostalgia. I really love feeling this while watching you. Born in ‘98 i grew up with nuggets and my mother bought the same toshiba laptop back in 2008 and i still have it running to this day. It runs horribly, but i think thats the vista experience I had all of my early gaming experiences on this thing - pure nostalgia moment for me at 3:30 Thank you
I had that same Toshiba Satelite in the late 00s. Brand new. After 6 months it had a battery that held 10 minutes of charge. By the end of the year it instantly turned off if it wasn't plugged into the wall. An absolute turd.
Can't believe I can finally watch my favorite AMVs on the go with this. Edit: Can't believe I can finally watch the first 0.5 seconds of my favorite AMVs on the go with this.
