Modifying The Prison Laptop 

The 1st video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bRoRPiDOtUg.html Also I tried to install windows in a multitude of ways and it would never boot but all my homies hate windows anyway so it's all good

Man actually added a BIOS flashing port to the maximum security prison laptop. He deprisoned the prison laptop in the most security violating way he possibly could have and I respect it.

Raise your hand if you got here before it gets taken down

Fun fact, Prison tech is not allowed to have decent speakers, it's either so low you have to have your ear next to it to hear anything or forced to use headphones, no inbetween.

I have a theory on why your gamer password never works while using the laptop keyboard. In fact it's kind of silly. You have NumLock on, which means that the "m" in "gamer" gets replaced with a "0" as the vague blue marks on the keys indicate what key presses are made if NumLock was on.

The laptop has more usb ports than my laptop and usb hub combined

Imagine installing windows 7 on it. The aero theme + transparent laptop shell would be like a match made in heaven...

Wenting here, some comments/ notes about the mods: 1. I uploaded the modded BIOS.. It's quite hacky, basically the BIOS had a integrity/ signature check. Changing modules inside the BIOS causes it to ignore that particular UEFI module and boots you to the BIOS screen for recovery. So the modded BIOS really is just about screwing up the whitelist checking module so the BIOS no longer loads the check. In return it would try to boot you into the BIOS screen prompting you to reflash a correct BIOS 2. It's possible to set an empty password. Though every time it loses power (no battery no DC) it resets to the default password 3. The USB FFC connector without 5V is for the fingerprint reader. The fingerprinter reader doesn't need 5V so it doesn't have it 4. The pinout for the touchpad connector is literally printed on the touchpad itself 5. There is indeed speaker connectors on the mainboard, however the speaker amplifier is disabled by either the BIOS or the EC. Re-enabling that requires modding the BIOS or the EC firmware 6. Another thing disabled by BIOS/EC is bluetooth. Even though the Intel wireless card supports it, it has been disabled Have fun hacking

This laptop somehow has more USB ports than my $1000 MacBook.

Personally I would pull 5v from the SATA header so you don't overload the touchpad line by plugging too many devices in at once. I love modifying little things like this, adding features that it never had. Such a cool little laptop i wish manufacturers would be bold and put stuff out like this again.

I am the only one that noticed funking OG.Xbox SDK in the end?

Two ideas: - 3D printed casing around the USB ports to look more presentable - USB audio card with some speakers added

The USB connector could be 3.0, but it is more probable that it is a dual USB 2.0, especially when looking at the pinout of the USB board.

7:14 They are not gaps they are speedholes

Caught the second channel vid before the main channel vid goes live I feel like I'm accessing forbidden knowledge

Most people: Can't wait for new Taylor Swift album to drop. This guy: Can't wait for the new BIOS to drop for my prison laptop.

Absolutely love this channel. 100% pure comedy. 100% pure jank. It’s 100% perfect

Gotta love those "Circuitry Breakout Tactics", CBT always coming in clutch.

Absolute madlad doing this with the battery connected.

That wiring made me scared, confused, happy and impressed all at once thats insane

Thank you Bingus for enlightening me about the existence of flat flex cable breakouts. This will allow me to fix soo many broken electronics I've been keeping just in case. I swear that just a few years ago I looked for the exact same thing but couldn't find anything online anywhere.

That's not a choke on the USB hub wire, but rather, it's a strain relief. A choke is those donut things wrapped in wire, just FYI.

Wow... The end result is really polished. Good job man!

You clearly underestimated my passion for jank projects. I am SO watching this hahahaha This is one of the reasons I fell in love with YT.

that moment when the prison laptop is better than your personal laptop

I love these videos, very inspiring. My ThinkPad X1 Carbon (3rd Gen) died last year and I replaced the internals with a cheap HDMI to eDP board to reuse the display. My next goal is to also use one of these little breakout boards so I can use the touchscreen again. I know it also just uses the USB protocol since I was able to find a full schematic of the laptop online :D

Bringus, did they catch you gaming on-the-go. Did they, bringus?

If you're going to add speakers, maybe take some vinyl, cut a pattern in it and cover all the light except for the logo. Make it like the prison architect games, logo

I'm watching this from the shower. Don't disappoint.

"I guess I'll just... I don't know, put it through cbt?" 4:54 lmfao

Thanks for the shoutout! I actually met Wenting in person at VCF East. he seems like a decent guy. Unfortunately, being as busy as the show is, we didnt get to say much to each other.

That prison port on the bottom is very very likely a PCI express port built by the secure book manufacturers to only fit their own hardware add-ons ( which will be several different devices) such as a 3 in 1 printer, scanner and copier, a dock to add some USB ports for removable media, among other hardware useful for schooling and transfering documents and work to USB sticks to be sent off to the school for grading. You will find all the laptops in the yard don't have these parts it's just 1 or more 3 in 1 printers and docks in the education rooms and the inmates just come in sit the laptop on the dock and it connects to a local ethernet network to share school documents and work with the teachers and students. It also would connect with the rest of the nessasary hardware needed.. so I don't know why no one thought to use the interface on the bottom it would have left the trackpad working.. I know this because I've been in and out of prison my whole adult life in Australia 🦘 and we also have these computer's and that port does control shared hardware in the education rooms.. the dock and other hardware isn't available to the inmates to purchase tho so I don't imagine you will find it on eBay but there is infact other hardware it can connect with and it also allows IT services to audit the laptop when searches are nessasary and it can grant higher levels of bios access but only if you are accessing the device though the dock port so the user in a cell can't modify the laptop or delete any data... Hopefully that all helps.. it's probably all jumbled up in how I tried to explain it but I'm not a genius PC user just someone with enough brain cells to understand how it works and what it can connect with roughly..

damn you. I watched the first vidoe thinking it was something to have in the background while I worked, but here I am now, intently watching the continuation. I could've been done with work by now, but nooooo you just had to make interesting content.

The touchpad has the answer you seek written on its board, its not actually using USB, well it kinda is but its actually using I2C over USB so its I2C data being sent through a USB interface.

You need to modify the bios with aptio's customization software, or find the manufacturer of this motherboard, who probably has a consumer version. This laptop is reminiscent of that notebook from the movie Hackers from the 90s, the protagonist gets a super laptop from the villain, and it has a transparent case (it's a prototype of the Apple Powerbook). I have a Compaq Presario 1400, which I removed the metal shield, leaving it translucent, and it also looks like this. The touchpad has more lanes, because there must be variants of this piece that have a biometric reader and multimedia buttons.

wow...! I enjoyed this hard work. Thank you for the great content.

4:51 "one USB is not enough" *Famous last words before Apple removes all the USB ports*

The end result is more prison-looking than the original prison version. 10/10 would watch again.

"Sometimes Green is positive, sometimes it's negative" I love how the "Universal Serial Bus" is universal.

i saw “2” in the title and thought i missed an upload, but now that there’s a premiere going on i realized that he just uploaded this one first lol

I'd love to see the next step in this series where the speakers are added, a better BIOS is added... the progress made so far has been excellent though. I never thought a laptop with no USBs at all would even be possible.

amazing video mr bringus. this was beautiful to watch

Why is that prision tech is so cool??? Everything is transparent! Why cant that be mainstream???

I spent a few years in prison in the late 90s/early 00s. It's crazy to me they have laptops now, we were lucky to have the see through walkmans.

Theres a lot of crazy things in this video that I have never seen before but this external BIOS pinout is my absolute favorite

i love how you went out of your way to undo _everything_ that makes this a prison laptop except the translucency

Adding a BIOS header pins as connector in the case was pure genius.

If you need more space in there (for example for a speaker) you can take the SSD apart, it is probably just a very small board in the big case

Never heard of either of your channels and clicked on this video from recommendations, so the intro caught me off guard!

I would have started at the port in question and found V+ and ground to start with. Also you can visually trace the pins back to a USB static protect chip or circuit pretty quickly.

They sell the secure book 6 now, and they sell a dock which has built in usb ports for students.

Remove the charging port and put a usb-c in, find some small speakers and wire them to the headphone jack, 3d print a little shell piece for the usb hub... Love the clear plastic shell!!!!

My guess with the gamer keyboard is that the built in keyboard has numlock active when booted into Ubuntu and because there’s no number pad on the keyboard, couple of keys basically turn into the number pad so you are typing in numbers instead of the password

Im fairly certain they make a specific board that hss usbs for that exact ribbon cable, and its on the pinebook pro, fits the chassis too i think

The concerning thing about the backlight bleeding through the back of the lid is that if they just put some reflective tape there, you'd get... more backlight. It's a gorgeous touch, though - one I'd like to see with a separate dedicated LED panel on a more normal laptop with a transparent lid. Getting further into fantasy territory, if such a laptop had a matrix of nice diffused RGB LED squares on the back, it could even be hooked up to the display for bias lighting on the desk and wall behind the laptop!

Should’ve been on the main video, this is top tier content

USB color standards are needed, the other day i found a USB cable that used red for ground, and blue for 5 V

The finished product looks sick! It would be cool if these were powerful enough to be used as a daily driver laptop, walking around with my literal prison laptop, doing stuff

the fact that i watched the first video, clicked home and this was the first result

Of course I'm coming to the second Channel you have genuinely become one of my favorite RU-vidrs to watch

I wonder if it's possible to figure out what the docking port on the bottom does. It's possible that it could allow to access USB and legacy ports without having to open up the laptop.

so the way a headphone jack works is theres 5 pins: a ground, 2 in for sound (left and right) and 2 out for sound. when you plug in a jack, it breaks the connection to the out and sends it to the headphones. you can easily find small speaker drivers thatll be able to be powered from the headphone jack, just wire them to the sound out pins and youll have an easy speaker add. the undisablable secure boot might keep you from ever running windows on it, and also any other distro other than ubuntu (maybe debian and suse) as canonical has some uefi keys and is pretty gatekeepy about them.

One of the hardest titles to ever bless the youtube algorithm

dude, absolutely love the videos. how about replacing the cpu on this one? or even adding the hdmi header for summorgamyn(C)?

yeppie, you made it to the 2nd part

DOC wont be happy one of their commisary items has this type of explanation on how to rewire it.

down to the basics, that laptop is basically just a chromebook, but with an ssd

this video is actually better than the other one, at least i learned more things about tweaking and messing around with the motherboard and connctors unlike the original video that was about coding and programing with magic non sense language that only few people can understand. this is pretty fun..

If this DOES get taken down I will download it lol

A normal day in prison

Good time to show bios mod tools

Well, that some interesting stuff to watch! Thank you!

3d print a cover for the light on the back, bonus points if it's prison related

kubuntu: clearly a man of culture

Man you 100% got me with that intro haha.

cant stop throwing up love you bringus

You should look into a nibbling tool. great for making square holes in thin material.

You should see what you can dig up on the prison port

The usb power is possibly separate to allow higher power devices that the ribbon cable cannot handle

How did I even stumbled upon this masterpiece of a schizophrenic experience?

i bet that bottom port is for a dock that gives it things like a usb port, for use during setup

We just need consumer-grade transparent laptops rn ngl

Good thing is that even though the video may get demonetized, you will still get paid in cigarettes

You can open the SSD if it is one and you get much more space inside.

"and I thought you'd close the tab and move on with your day" unfortunately I'm rotting in bed

I want to see more from the prison laptop

Cartier before it gets taken down

Love you brother

now i kinda want a clear laptop

Love your videos

The trackpad was labeled I²C, that connector was likely a dual serial connection for I²C *and* USB.

You're actually insane, keep it up Jon bingussy!

just casually showing us a bit of a xbox developer kit

you should make your own bringus studios logo with the light at the back that would be awesome

15:20 that’s actually how the old macs used to do it too. Like they used the backlight bleed from the screen.

Really cool project, that thing now has more USB ports than the average laptop.

That BIOS password sticker looks kinda cool lol

good work

I did close the tab and move on but this got recommended to me so here I am!

*proceeds to close the tab and walk away*