Restoring An Old Windows 2000 Laptop! 

Thanks so much for watching! Oh, when I said 192MB of ram, I meant to say 196MB 😅 PS: Apparently I was actually right about it being 192. Also, a few people are suggesting the driver problems will go away with windows 98. If I do install that I'll let you know. (Update) I did put 98 on it, runs pretty good! The trident graphics chip sucks though 😅 ► Gear I Use (Affiliate Links): Dell G7 15 Laptop: amzn.to/32VOSux Keychron K2 Keyboard: amzn.to/2F51NCh Logitech G502 Mouse: amzn.to/351iae1 Benq 144Hz Screen: amzn.to/3jJk1YW Fujifilm Camera Bodies: amzn.to/2EXdPxL Fujifilm Lenses: amzn.to/3jY8xB9 Rode NTG3 Microphone: amzn.to/3jKWeHZ Rode Videomicro Microphone: amzn.to/3hXoua4 Rode Wireless Go Microphone: amzn.to/3bsVaWr Audio Interface: amzn.to/31XXVvV Manfrotto Tripod: amzn.to/356r7Tq RGB LED Light: amzn.to/3i2eNqL Godox SL-60w Video Light: amzn.to/31Vtsyl Apple iPad Pro: amzn.to/3h0i20H

I guess I'm not the only one who made cardboard/paper laptops as a kid! Happy 20th birthday Win2000!

4200 rpm hdd, and 64 mb of RAM, used up to at least 2011. This person must have had the patience of a saint.

"Fellas, keeping your 'nub' clean is pretty important". I see what you did there at 6:35. But, good advice! :)

Psivewri: “I’m pretty sure that brought back some memories to people of a certain age” Me, smiling at the W2k startup sound: I feel attacked.

10:11 this is sooo soothing and almost nostalgic

10:10 that boot chime brought back memories

This was my dad’s work laptop back when I was maybe 11-12 years old and I would borrow it all the time! Love the nostalgic look back. You weren’t wrong about those speakers looking beefy. Still to this day the best laptop speakers I have ever heard👍

These Toshiba laptops were the last ones before the build quality started to drop significantly. Cool you managed to get hold on one. Just an advise: remove the green Varta battery packs which keep the RTC and the CMOS RAM alive while the machine is turned off. The NiMH coin cell batteries inside are prone to leak, and if the acids reach the motherboard it's game over. I removed these battery packs from all the Toshiba laptops I have, and actually all of them were leaking inside, while fortunately no one did yet any damage. But they were all ticking time bombs!

Wait, so 3D Pinball was first bundled WITH A BUSINESS OPERATING SYSTEM??!! I can already imagine the Office Workers back in 1999, playing 3D Pinball on their NT Workstation

Had this exact same laptop in secondary school, circa 2002. It was my first ever eBay purchase! 😂

Dude, I got 8.0 on IELTS test by throwing some of your phrases into the writing part. You sure have an intriguing way of expressing your ideas.

I loved Windows 2000, it was a rock solid OS back in the day and my first taste of the NT Kernel.

10:10 MAN, that Windows 2000 startup sound TAKES ME BACK!

when I thought this day couldn’t get any better , psivewri uploads a video!

I have been the proud owner of a modest home-based laptop e-commerce business since 2005... I had never thought of cleaning the keyboards using rubbing alcohol and q-tips (normally I use a rag and diluted lemon cleaner) ..... thanks for the "tip" ! Cheers from Canada!

this is not only my life's but my whole family's first ever laptop! back in that time, damn! we rocked windows 98 here! and used to play games like road rush, need for speed II SE, Cadillacs and the dinasours and king of fighters. so many memories!

Yes!!!! Glad you used my "make it look horrible" suggestion

laptops: exist psivewri: i'll take your entire stock

Man your channel is so relaxing, almost hypnotic. I get comfy at the end of the day and this oddly enough helps me unwind tremendously

man, that win2000 booting sound so bring back such a great memories!

Love these videos. I never get why previous owners don’t clean them before they sell and ship. I always clean mine before I sell them.

Im only 16, but windows 2000 brings back alot of memories. The first pc my dad ever gave me was a Toshiba satellite that ran windows 2000. I used to use it alot as a kid.

0:12 looks like I'm not the only one who did this😂

I find watching such videos extremely satisfying and nostalgic. I appreciate the effort you're making for RU-vid, cleaning and repairing so many outdated devices that hide so many curiosities. ^ . ^

Man that's pretty old... I love how u repair stuff like that and if it weren't for u I wouldn't have anything to do during the day

Toshiba hard drives are the bane of my existence. Every one that I’ve had in a laptop has failed pretty quickly. Same with my family. My dad recently told me his laptop was running slowly so I opened it and found a Toshiba hard drive, took it to my of and tested it and it was failing.

We can do it boys, lets get this guy to 200k before August

Back in 2005 I had a Satellite 4200. That originally had a 500Mhz Celeron and a 8Mb 3D accelerator graphics card. I upgraded that machine to 320Mb of RAM, 40GB HDD, swapped the original CD to a DVD, and as the processor was socketed too, changed the Celeron to a 750Mhz Pentium III. Good old memories :)

One of the best variant of these laptops is the Toshiba satellite pro 490XCDT, I did the same ram upgrade, and faster 80 gig hdd. PCMCIA LAN 10/100mbs, and Dlink WiFi, with win XP pro SP2. Zero driver problems It's heavy, and thick, it works well enough to do office work, and remote desktop to wirelessly access my main music computer. You did a great job with this. Thanks for sharing. One thing though, you were lucky to get this laptop unlocked, I had to make a dongle to use in the parallel port to unlock mines when I bought it.

visaje mis respetos mi papa, esa compu es historia en tus manos

I remember the second laptop my father ever purchased was a Windows XP era Satellite. That laptop was used for many years, including for his work, my mother’s work, and I even used it as my first ever audio recording laptop. If I’m not mistaken, that unit sits in my tech-savvy younger brother’s closet as a last ditch XP machine if we ever need a computer that runs it 🤣

I remember helping a woman with her Windows 2000 computer years ago. I updated it with the latest Windows updates and it worked pretty good. I now own an HP 17" laptop with an SSD upgrade from the original HDD and it still works pretty good with it's 16GB of ram and i7 Intel processor. It doesn't compare well with the latest and greatest laptops except for the 500GB SSD I put in. I'll keep using it until it quits. It is still powerful and fast for its age!

I love your restoration videos so much! I’m addicted and appreciate the new life you give to these wonderful gadgets 😌

Your videos are great! keep it up! I like how well explained your videos are. About this particular video, I especially enjoy late 90's PC so I enjoyed watching it.

I used to make laptops out of cardboard, using steel wire to make a hinge, I even made some that were a 2 in 1 design. I even made a working CD tray, although the whole laptop was the size of a CD.

This is nostalgic! This was our first ever family laptop! Windows 98! Good times!

Great video Nathan, watching your channel is one of the best parts of my week.

Gotta love the old toshiba satellite laptops. Love the design and i even have some myself.

0:12 You were not the only one, I used to make fake PC setups out of paper and cardboard The good ol' times

Cool video, as always! The part of ruining Windows' visual just cracked me up! LOL!

"Psivewri has encountered a Wild Laptop!" "Psivewri throws Eucalyptus Oil!" "Psivewri has cleaned a Wild Laptop!" Psivewri encountering a "Laptop in the wild"

That windows 2000 startup sound brought back so many memories of a more peaceful time to me. Thank you fo including it. And I'm 18 since you said "people of a certain age"

but where's the PsiBook Pro (2020)?

I agree on the designs from the 90's early 2000's Nowadays laptops just all seem alike. Then, companies just dared to be different now they all just play safe and rarely try anything new. Mostly the designs is the main power behind my collect vintage laptops hobby. The pride of my collection is an *mint* Blue Alienware Aurora m7700

I tell ya, its an addiction restoring old computers. Something satisfying about it. These machines have had so much use in the past, its sad to see them just go straight into e-waste when they could be used for so many other things. Sure maybe they can't run the latest games, but they sure can run games you cannot run on new hardware due to compatibility.

Got distracted by that Titanic model in the background lol

Tech stuff is ALWAYS A MASTERPIECE! I especially like what you did as restoring things or making things work again and cleaning things. Made me drooling from the beautiful Tech somehow reach that subscribe button. Congrats on your success btw especially during covid.

I knew he had a trusty pocket knife, but this episode was the first time meeting his trusty vacuum cleaner.

Great video! The last 2 videos of the charity videos and the setup organisations are awesome!

Ahh brilliant, reminds me of my first work laptop from 2000! My laptop was critical to my job, had absolutely no backup and ran about as well as this one even back then 😂

Love your videos @Psivewri keep doing what your doing!!

Loving the videos Nathan, keep it up 👍

I had a nearly identical Toshiba (With some weird 2,5MB 2D GPU) back in 2003. Games like Half-Life 1/Counter Strike, Unreal Tournament, Starcraft, Diablo... ran playable on it. I even tried UT2004 on it when it released and it was able to run it in software mode ... at 3~ FPS. I swapped it in 2005 with a Gericom, that one had a P3 800 Mhz (Instead of Celeron 400) with 256MB RAM and a ATI Rage GPU (8MB), the D3D support was a "game changer" and even games like Warcraft 3 ran just fine. I got some 54Mbit U.S Robots WiFi card and could use my full internet speed just fine.

Keep up the good work you make great content

Love the cucumber joe shirt lol

Great video. Keep up the good work!

8:03 i though "HA! you left a spot on the screen!!" but in fact, that was a spot on my own screen, and i confess it still is.

The fact that you also watch cold ones is part of the reason you are one of the best tech youtubers

Love your vids man keep up the great work

I'm ashamed to admit it but I knew the good old pizza box trick back in my childhood 😅

Such a lovely piece of work

Nice restoration! Most likely it originally shipped with Windows 98 since it only had 64MB RAM installed from factory. Being a relatively mediocre Celeron 400, the Windows 98 SE would be a better choice of OS. Windows 2000 tended to run somewhat slow on anything below 600 MHz even if it had enough (128MB or more) RAM.

Best retro-tech channel on the RU-vid. Greetings from Poland :)

Very nice, half past midnight in Germany, cannot sleep, but look: a new vid from down under, Made my night

Great video. The brought back some memories!

Mad respect for the pizza box thing. I might've done this as well but I can't remember for sure, pizza boxes could be fun though :)

the pizza box thing made me smile omg. used to do that so much as a kid but with chocolates!. turned the lid into a screen and flipped over the plastic insert upside down so it'd turn into a kind of keyboard

10:10 nostalgia. Though I didnt have a computer then, I used the one in my college. Always wanted this audio.

I love your videos. I know you get that a lot but if you look in my watch history, its just your videos. I only use youtube mainly for your channel. Thankyou for the content. A lot of my computer knowledge comes from you as well. I owe you that

Always lovely seeing these older rigs still hangin' around in 2020! New machines just don't have the same vibe to them...

That startup sound brought back many memories for me. My first PC was a Dell Optiplex GX150, had Windows 2000 on it. I was about 6 or 7 at the time (2007/2008). I had quite a few of those Satellite laptops from that era when I was that age, most of them were found on the side of the road (good old Thursday night throw outs). I remember being given one that belonged to a teenager. Lets just say the hard drive was very full, lots of "homework"... Would've cost a bomb to download all that over dialup!

Teacher: Who invented eucalyptus oil? Students: Isn’t it obvious? Psivewri!

Some of the 11" Portege range from that era have the S3 Savage card with 8mb VRAM and also a PIII CPU, I can run up to NFS Porsche on my 3480ct and Quake runs at 1024x768. The downside is they take MicroDIMMs which are more expensive if you want to take them above the base 64mb ram. Can boot via USB floppy too so you just copy the installation folder to a hard drive partition.

My first laptop (still have it) is a toshiba tecra 8100 from the same time as this. Originally had windows 2000 and upgraded to xp at some point when it was my main computer. A few years ago I put 98 on it as I’d never used that OS before. Thing runs better under 98 than it ever did running 2000 or xp

Archiologist: hey sir is this a primative laptop Boss: no that is just one of psivewri's pizza boxs

Earlier models of these were kind of beige / brown. I had one a long time ago. Those keyboard control mouse was extremely fidgety and a usb mouse was a better solution. That was back around win 95, and those were extremely heavy carting them around and just nice to put it down. That’s the Uk, those didn’t have network connections. Those things did have cds. Although those days far lighter to take a usb stick home than the computer. It was also back in the days of floppy discs and iPhones.

Great work mate!

Love Your Videos Keep It Up.

Back then I recall 2000 being preferred for security & server usage (LANs, and for WWW) for a while in its context early 2000s.. even when XP was around, some people swore by 2000 back then lol. Anyway everything moved on pretty quick.

6:34 "Fellas, keeping your nub clean is pretty important" 🤣🤣🤣

Another great video!!

indeed that sound on startup windows was great

Hearing that Windows chimes put tears in my eyes... Let me put that sound in my Windows 10 laptop.

"Legit Windows 2000 CD" lol. Love it.

Hello @Psivewri, I am 99% sure the heatsink isnt riveted on the CPU board, you need to bend the corner claps on the heatsink or heatspreader to remove it. I have a few Pentium II era notebooks and CPUs in them look like this and can be removed without drilling the rivets

I really like what you do!

It's been almost 20 years since since the last time that I've played Motocross Madness, thanks for the nostalgia.

Yes I saw this on twitter! ❤️ Love ur vids btw I'm the person that said put xp or vista on it! ❤️

I bought a lower end version of the exact same laptop (a 4060XCDT) for exactly 1€ at a boot fair. It comes with a mobile Pentium 2 at 333 MHz, and came with the 128 MB RAM expansion, which unfortunately was defective. The hinge also broke on me, and even after attempting to expoxy it together, it's quite loose. Apart from that, everything works perfectly, even the original 4 GB hard drive, and even the floppy drive! Oh, and the speakers sound absolutely incredible for the age of this laptop. Aesthetically, it's in perfect condition.

Hello! Good day! I hope you are doing well and safe and sound, despite of the challenges we are facing and experiencing amid the COVID-19 pandemic. I am glad to know that you are safe since you are one of the greatest RU-vid video creators I am following and currently subscribed to. I am a big fan of yours from the Philippines. I am Jerico Alba, a 2nd Year Mass Communication student and I watch how you restore PCs and other devices using your iconic eucalyptus oil and your skills in restoration of PC components (e.g. the laptop from 1990s, and repairing many Macbooks). However, you told from one of your videos that you have so many laptops that you have restored and you have no idea of where and who to give it to? And have you mentioned that it can be sent to viewers? I am one of your greatest fans since I subscribed you when you still have less than 100K subscribers, and I love sending likes to your videos. I have also recommended you to my friends and luckily, they are now an avid fan of yours. I also learned a lot of things in restoring a PC and laptop. However, the profits I earn from fixing them only benefits to our daily livelihood, and I still struggle for online classes due to the COVID-19 pandemic, for I only rent a laptop to use, just to pursue my education. I hope you can notice my message and be one of the lucky fans that will be able to receive a free restored MacBook :( Moreover, the video was uploaded in September 15, which is my birthday. I wish you a happy holidays, my friend! If so, this will be very lucky and best holiday for me. Thank you very much and I will still continue to be one of your avid fan no matter what! I love you and your videos! :)

Wow I think this is one of those entry level laptops back in the day if it really is from 1999. All laptops coming out in 1999 are supposed to feature a MMC-2 connector supporting the faster pentium II or even III. But at least good to see these older satellite models have some quality in them unlike the wide-screen ones since 2005

I have the exact same laptop working up to this day. Mostly as running a terminal emulator to administer all home servers.

Came for the laptop restoration, came again for the Cold Ones t-shirt.

Nice T-Shirt i'll drink a cold one to that!

if i had a laptop like this i would show up with it in my zoology class just to see the looks on people's faces

Another great video this time by cucumberdude. Thanks for the nostalgia

Love your content

keep up the good work !

I remember a movie where a Toshiba laptop very very similar to this one plays a 'big role". I also remember the strange operating system in the movie with green lines of text and a dim sound when the text was filling the screen, line by line. Also there were some 3d-lined vector graphics visualizing, what was happening. I just don't remember the name anymore, had in on VHS.