LGR - Restoring a 1997 IBM ThinkPad 380XD 

Find a man that treats you like LGR treats 90s hardware.

I've been using the Windows 95 startup sound as my ringtone for the past year. Everyone always asks me why it sounds so familiar because they don't know where exactly it's from, I just tell them "it's a part of life."

"I don't like that kind of noise coming from a battery." I don't like ANY noise coming from a battery o_o

"Let's apply that crap without restarting!" This man likes to live on the edge.

"Hey guys I found a disk drive, do you need this?" Yes I do computer, that's okay. I don't know why, but this bit cracked me up xD

A wood grain toothbrush... I love this channel!!! 😀

I was a child in 1997... And at this time I was amazed by the power you can get from a so thin device! Remember TV was huge, PC monitor was gigantic, PC tower was big too, an suddenly: a pc and a monitor for "almost nothing in space". Man it was a shock for me! Awesome channel! Thank you LGR!!!!

“I like the feel of a fresh... nipple.” LGR, 2017

I like to imagine that laptop has one big virtual smile on the monitor saying "thanks for cleaning me

The setup background looked so futuristic back then but now it looks like something that an average person can come up with in 5 mins on Paint.

7:54 "Nice" - Steve1989MREInfo

I know this is a year old, but I've seen you do this a few times now. A "proper" way to copy over the CAB files is to start by creating C:\WINDOWS\OPTIONS\CABS and copying the entirety of the WIN95 or WIN98 directory into it. You then run SETUP from that directory instead of the CD-ROM. That's where OEMs like Dell and Gateway 2000 loaded the CAB files.

I feel my soul being cleansed watching this

It's amazing to think that the phone (A FREAKING CELLPHONE!) that I'm watching this on has more storage than that machine. Technology is amazing.

More like IBM T H I C C P A D

I keep coming back to this video, it's therapeutic to see and listen to it. It seems to get better every viewing on top of it.

Rainy day here in Louisiana and I was just about to turn off the pc and pop in a movie, Then I spotted this! Love these videos man.

My morning just got a whole lot better, love these videos where you work on old stuff to bring life back into it.

My mom had a similar ThinkPad (a 390X?) that she called the StinkPad. She got it from her employer, and they went out of business or something and didn't bother asking for it back, they never even cashed the check she gave them. I still have it somewhere.

That thing is insanely thick. It looks like one of Ben Heck's console laptops.

"fresh.... nipple" -LGR 2017

10:05 Scandisk voice: "I gotta check though, it might not be ok."

Watching this on my brand new 2018 ThinkPad makes me pleased to see that, even after the handover to Lenovo, the core design and construction of these laptops are quite similar! It's very pleasing to see where certain features, and design language comes from, the ruggedness, the purpose built, "have the job done" style is awesome! Well done IBM, and keep it up Lenovo! BTW, great video as always! ;)

I just love watching you work this magic and geek out over these. It makes my little heart feel all warm and fuzzy and happy.

7:53 Steve1989MRE would be proud of that "Nice!"

Ah! There's nothing like watching a new high quality LGR video after working a 12-hour shift as night security and just a couple of hours of sleep. It feels sort of cozy.

I love this channel. Your videos are fantastic man!! I had a IBM Thinkpad that I bought when I was graduating high school. I was going to college and wanted a good laptop and I was working at a computer store during the summer back then. The owner sold it to me at a discount and I used most of my earnings for the summer and my dad helped me pay for it as well. I was super proud that I had worked so hard for it. It was modular in that the keyboard could be raised to reveal slots to put in a 2nd hard drive, memory and cd rom drive could all be easily accessed. In my freshman year of college I had to do a speech presentation in one of my classes and I chose to do a presentation on the laptop. Got lots of oohs and aahs when I showed off the modular functions! Sometime in the next month or so my dorm room was broken into and someone stole it and some other electronics from my roommate. It was never recovered and I did not have any kind of warranty or insurance on it. It was one of the saddest moments in my life!! Months later the thief was discovered, he was a fellow college student who was boosting stuff around the school. He was killed in a violent attack. Crazy story but watching this video brought back a lot of memories!!

Can you imagine if they made a modern version with the same thickness, it would be powerful as hell

Was insanely happy when you got that white spot off tbh, so satisfying

you forgot the retrobright whops wrong channel

Thank you for the subtitles, my level in english is bad. Hello in France

That startup sound ❤️ it’s practically the sound of my love for computers beginning. Wild!

I bursted out laughing at the Steve1989 reference (complete with the spoon noise) lol. Clint, your channel and Steve's have a special place in my heart.

Back then "Holy hell. 6.4gb!" Now "Bruh. You only have 1tb?"

My Dad used to have one of these, As a Kid I used to play the DOS version of SimCity as well as Warcraft II on this at times

Software developer here. Love having your videos on while I work. Thanks for the cool content and for putting the recent history of technology into perspective.

Watching someone repair a 20-year-old laptop makes me wonder what we'll do with today's laptops 20 years from now. I can't really see someone cracking open a current-year MacBook and fiddling with batteries and things.

That battery pack will probably just contain a bunch of cells and a control circuit. If you can open it up, you can probably replace them with new cells pretty easily.

This is that LGR episode that I always come back to for some reason.

So nice seeing the old thing come back to life, and the care you give it.

FDISK verifies the integrity of the user. No wonder I got so many fatal errors back in the day.. LMAO

I got a HOW TO BASIC vibe from that clean at ~22:00

Your restoration videos are really great, I enjoy seeing them. Keep up the good work!

That was amazing work buddy! I so miss that era of the 90's. Quality built computers back in the day!

Hey Screw RU-vid for demonetizing your original episode for today. Glad you were able to find something else to put up. Sorry RU-vid is such a shitter.

I figured it out, LGR vision is like Neo's vision in Matrix, only in WOODGRAIN. ",...there's way too much information to decode the LGR. You get used to it, though. Your brain does the translating. I don't even see the woodgrain. All I see is maple, oak, cherry . Hey uh, you want a drink?"

Love watching you are videos of bringing these old computers back to life. Right now I am studying Network Administration at my school, I love working on computers.

Your Channel brings up so much precious memories! Thank you!

I own a IBM Thinkpad Windows 98. lol I use to own one back in day as well and I love it. They are great work horses and built tough. I loved the video man!!

You ever start to wonder if LGR has a problem with all the wood grain stuff? No, me either. If he starts considering changing his name to Woody then I think we must step in.

In primary school, I was the nerdy kid with the laptop (an IBM Thinkpad 345CS), UNTIL the nerdier kid got a 380 of some description which had everything I coveted: CD, a sound card, a bigger screen, Windows 95... you inspired me to hop on eBay, pick up a cheap 380D, and begin a project to bring it back to its former glory! Thanks LGR :D

Those last Minutes of Cleaning were strangely satisfying. :-D

What I'd like to see is Windows NT 4.0 running on a thinkpad with a PowerPC CPU. NT 4.0 was the only windows to support that and I've never seen any major retro tech channel covering that.

You should cover your entire house in wood grain.

my dad had one of these with Win 98. That and his Compaq Presario were my first computers. I remember playing the sims and goofing around on paint all day.

this is amazingly therapeutic to watch you restore old pc's and i just realized this video was dropped on my birthday :)

The aesthetics are over 9000!!!

Love your videos LGR, always makes my day to see you in my sub feed. Stay awesome =)

I have this laptop here with me too! And this is a big pleasure. Best keyboard, old ports, MS-DOS 6.0, Borland Turbo C++ 3.1, Microsoft QBasic... nothing better than this! Thanks Clint for old your videos with big old stuff! Inspiring!

That was beautiful! Thanks for sharing this content. I never had a computer when kid, but someway I know that nostalgic feeling.

"What year is it?" - LGR 2017

Surprised you didn't take the whole thing apart and show off/clean the insides. Maybe a part 2 someday for a deeper inspection of the guts of this machine? Great video Clint! Glad to see a new video despite the setbacks with RU-vid

"Oh ScanDisk, it's a blank drive. You'll be okey." ScanDisk-voice: "We've got to check though, we might not be okey."

One of my relatives had a 380D model however there was no power supply however when I went looking I found an original at a local computer store. This video helped a lot with restoring it and it was very fun to take it apart and play around with it!

Device Name : BANANA

"Nice, okay" 7:55 Nice SteveMRE reference haha

"Coffee and memories". Lol. I love your videos so much. You inspire people to take better care of their equipment. You are the soul reason I am using again my 2005 Toshiba laptop to do my writing instead of a modern laptop. I got my Toshiba fixed up with windows 7 and it's working perfectly. You can't beat these old machines. You rock LGR.

Oh my god... the memories... the feels... *hugs his still running and still used x201* long love the trackpoint...

we used to call the nub a Centrally Located Integrated Tracker

Ahhhhh, needs more woodgrain.

Was feeling kind of off until I saw this video this morning. Helped perk me up in a weird way. Your channel is awesome.

Ah, you failed to answer important life questions such as where does one find a wood grained toothbrush....

Why they demonetized this, i see nothing wrong with this, I swear YT is becoming a shitshow

"Getting ready to run Windows 98 for the first time..." I remember helping my dad reinstall Windows on customers' computers back when we had a computer repair shop, and I still get so satisfied seeing that splash screen after installing 98 or XP. ^w^

Great video LGR, I own one of these machines and anyone having problems with 163,161 or 192 REPLACE YOUR CMOS BATTERY FIRST! It was a great sigh of relief when I got rid of all three errors just by replacing the CMOS battery, I was worried about the 192 error more then the other two.

Wow I haven't heard the PC speaker sound of commander keen since I played it as a kid.. I loved that game and that's what it sounded like back in the day for me. 💗

7:53 is that some Coffee, Instant type 1? Alright, Cool.

Restoring PCs is a beautiful thing, I really enjoyed the video, thanks a lot

Love your channel! This stuff is equally as nostalgic for me

Wow! I remember growing up with one of these as a kid, playing DOOM and RollerCoaster tycoon. Very nice.

7:51 Is that a nod to Steve1989?

well i really like seeing you restore and clean these great machines!i am a total clean freak with my various systems as well!!

Really enjoyed the video. It is always nice to share a cup of coffee with someone, even if I am at work while drinking along with you!

Channeling a little bit of Steve1989MREInfo Let's get this out onto a tray. 7:54

"I agreed to your outdated agreement"😂😂😂😂😂😂

The jazz in combination with the beeping and the drive noises makes such a sound scape. I dont know how but its really mesmerizing.

Such a beautiful machine, I had a lot of fun learning on it when I was a kid.

windows....95! ...i've installed windows 2000 more times than i want to admit, nearly remember the serial by heart

Awesome restoration job! The computer is actually in pretty good shape, but the fresh Windows 95 install on it was very cool and with 64 MB's of ram it should run pretty fast and your now are able to portably play your favorite old school games... very nice job!

Somehow it's relaxing seeing someone restoring a pc~ Seein' someone else doin' the work and seeing how shiny and "new" everything looks like in the end~ x3

Something from 1997 is by no means "old" to me, only when I remember that I was a sprightly 30 year old then LOL, but it is fascinating seeing just how far we've come in tech since then. I can't help but wonder what tech will be like in another 20 years. Good video mate, truly enjoyed it.

Will you do an episode on what got you interested in wood grain? :)

I have an IBM aptiva with Windows 95 on it and it is still working just fine. The computer has the Cyrix cpu in it and the configuration IBM used. No one make towers like that any longer and I wish they did because the cases back then was heavier and was well built. I worked on one lady's old HP tower and it was fine after reinstalling the OS on it. I also have a Zenith laptop which have MS-Dos installed on it and seems to be working just fine. The computer have the 286 cpu installed on it and is a nice machine and was taken care of by the previous owner and nothing is broken on the case. I want to install Windows 3.1 on it to see how it will work though.

I love thick laptops! Keep up the amazing restorations

Dude, lgr. I live for wat u do. Like restoring old pc's. Its so fun to just boot up old pc's and trying to make them run well. Its gr8 bro

I see you're giving that love to your laptop by cleaning it. one trick I recommend, try Windex if it's greasy it takes off thin grease film also it takes off certain things water vinegar may not. Windex with ammonia will kill germs

That is one adorable little hard drive

Thanks Clint! After watching you clean your pc things, it inspired me to clean off my 2006 macbook from my closest and pack it back into it's og box for storage.

I can feel the nostalgia get to me.....this was my first price of technology that I had as a kid...so happy to see it back again

I started out on Windows 95 with my first computer back then on a Packard Bell flat style desktop computer. Then upgraded it to Windows 98 with Plus!, then Windows ME (Millennium Edition).