Teardown, test and repair of the Acer Aspire 575LB. Also, I went on an adventure!
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- čas přidán 16. 05. 2024
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In this video we're taking a look at this funky teal Acer Aspire 575LB system. What's inside? Why teal? Is Acer OK? We'll try to find out.
Bonus: I've been doing some strange and exciting things the last two weeks. Stay tuned until the end of the video to find out what!
0:00 Intro
0:20 System 1 Tour
1:13 Disassembly
5:25 Repairs and testing
7:56 Testing
14:12 Kbd repairs and cleanup
17:37 Kbd testing and mouse cleanup
19:00 Case cleanup and verdict
19:42 VCFMW Adventures!
21:36 E-Waste Adventures!
Quite a different system. And nice standard parts apart from the motherboard. Also great seeing you at VCF and I can't wait to see more about the new haul. Content overload!!!
It was absolutely awesome to hang out with you again. I can't wait until next time! VCF Midwest is every bit as legendary as everyone was telling me.
Well I've always heard that one should buy in bulk whenever possible. I'm trying to make that concept work for retro computers LOL.
@@miketech1024Yeah i hear that a lot, when it comes to ewaste places, you have to buy the lot, otherwise they dont want to sell to you.
This channel has rapidly become one of my comfort channels :D Your videos are excellent :D
Thanks!
this channel is one off my favourit or as we say in swedish "favorit kanal"
FINALLY you did part of a video in tank top :P
Next vid, no tank top 😏
There was no way I was changing out of gym clothes in this heat LOL. Summer lasts until mid-December here in this part of Florida.
@@miketech1024 understandable. Stay hydrated ❤️
Side note, please be careful having those giant guns around those innocent PCs! 💪
A geek who’s both extremely hot and cute. What an irresistible combination 😍 love these videos! The care you take in repairing these systems which are more rapidly vanishing, preserving awesome tech history whilst making very interesting and entertaining content. Thank you!
Mike, forgive me, but those guns of yours are very distracting in a good way. Looks like your workouts are working great everywhere on you. Woof!
Handling old hardware requires big guns, those machines can be heavy!
Man, you are living my dream. Despite being born too late to experience the era in full, PCs of the 90s are absolutely fascinating to me.
We are watching history, one that is just as important as anything else from our past. In a way, to watch this, is to time travel.
Wow!! I absolutely respect you for having more then 400 computers like pc’s & laptops. For me, you’re the biggest collector of computers ever!!! Let’s all clap our hands for this wonderful man having so much computer systems in his collection!!!👏👏 Well done!
Another e-waste haul? With macs? Yessssssss! Cannot wait!
It's like watching Henry Cavill slide the case open, pardon my thirst 🥵
ALi is Acer? Did not know that. You learn something new every day!
I remember being jealous of my neighbor system like this back when I was a youngster.
Man I wish there was a place like this mystical Franklin E-Waste where I live!
I remember selling those Acer computers in 1995-1996. Acer referred to the color as Emerald Green. I also recall Acer used purple accent colors as well.
That 2nd haul has some gems for sure. especially that Presario 5000 and Mac G3. I think I saw an IBM Aptiva in there as well. Can’t wait to see them.
It is indeed an Aptiva!
Vintage Computer Chad delivers yet again.
Dude, you are living my dream. I had to let go of all my old computers when I married and looking back, I should have stayed with the computers.
Wow, a blast from the past when Acer made well designed and robust computers...
That is, at least, a great looking system. The monitor must be a sight to behold. Seeing that new haul of systems gave me tremors. I would lose several days sleep because i couldn't keep my hands off of them. Very looking forward to looking into them (esp those two old iMacs).
Thank you for rescuing another huge amount of computers from being recycled. Not many people can do this in such a large quantity. The more of these things getting a second lease on life, the better. Good for the hobby and the planet.
That is the only correct way to write a date, I wish everyone used that format YY/MM/DD
Mike should totally do some squats with those heavy PCs.
Mike's back !! Great vid as always bud. TEAL - Hmm...
In '97 I worked a local computer shop. We got in a black case, and sold it the day we received it. For a few weeks the guy who bought it would stop in, asking if we received any black keyboards that would go with it.
One of my middle school teachers had a similar system she purchased for her classroom and it sat on her L shaped desk she made from two older teachers desk. Her classroom was a hodgepodge of mis matched furniture and desk other teachers didn’t want anymore. She called it sporadic function design. She was a rather odd person but a great language arts teacher. The it guys didn’t like her too well because she had wrapped the school computers in various loud colors/patterns of contact paper. Most of her furniture was painted in various highlighter shades of green, yellow, blue and pink.
I also remember she drove an old Volvo wagon that she would let her classes paint on it with finger nail polish, everyone including me had a tiny spot assigned to us for our artwork on her car.
She sounds like quite a character!
Sounds like a cool ass person
She was indeed a character and cool ass person. I sadly just learned she passed away a few years ago after looking her up on Facebook. In my humble opinion the world lost a beautiful soul and fantastic educator.
Mike is such a cutie pie. I just wanna scoop him up and squeeze him.
0:21 yeah it looks very nice.
7:45 I can't hear the word "paint brush" without thinking "Guybrush". Threepwood even.
Very happy with this PC! Looks great.
21:05 "You take my self, you take my self control"
Wow, that was my first PC. Pentium 90, added two more memory sticks and doubled the video memory using a socket on the motherboard. The monitor, which continued with the crazy ventilation holes was somewhere between 12 and 14 inches and had small speakers built in. IIRC the sound card was a SoundBlaster 16. It came with about a dozen software cd's, half of which had to go into DOS mode to run. Eventually added a US Robotics modem, a 25 pin SCSI card and a scanner, and replaced the P90 with an overdrive chip. It was actually a well built, stylish, computer. Good times.
Looking forward to seeing the macs
Imagine future archeologists looking at our devices like this.
What a vision in Teal! Teal was everywhere in the 90's. I loved teal, and still hope that it makes a comeback some day!
Exactly and Maroon or however you call this dark red cherry colour.
Being told to wait for the end grinds my gears. Then I got to the end and was filled with joy. Keep on truckin!
I can tell you that the Toshiba T1960CT will need a couple capacitors replaced, as I also have a T1960CT and it has the exact same problem.
I’ve a 486DX4/100MHz version of this computer from September 28, 1995. The original 540MB Fujitsu HD is still working with the original OS. I maxed out the memory at 34MB. I also maxed out the cache at 256KB. I still have the original sound card and modem.
Acer called this color emerald green.
I found it at a thrift store for $3.15 in 2017.
Glad to see the return of the rubber ducky
Things just weren't getting as clean without him!
This Acer aspire was my first computer, I got the whole system but my spec was Pentium 133MHz 16mb RAM and 2gb HDD. The missing card would probably be a sound/modem. One thing to note is that these came with their own kinda OS built in its called Acer desktop and its there with a paper airplane icon on the windows desktop...mine also came with tyrian...great game. This takes me back, there was also a tower version of these...this computer really did frustrate me though...the CD ROM was so picky about discs that it would read.
You're living my dream lol Love the videos. I search thrift stores looking for old PC's to fix
Cleaning the keyboard in watery soap with a rubber ducky, that feels like a nod to Odd Tinkering maybe? Great video!
Can't wait to see the video on that Gateway E-3400 that is in the far left of the final shot by the bottom left corner of the imac G4 screen. Fun little Pentium III based business machines. Just be careful when tearing it down as it's molex plugs like to get a death grip on whatever drive you plug them into and given it's very compact form factor, it's very easy to bust your knuckles open on the case when they do come free.
Watching your latest video has become one of the first things I do when I get home from work on Fridays. It's effectively sofa to CZcams to MikeTech, on the double. Keep up the great work, and thank you.
I remember seeing these at sams club in the 90's and man they looked great. I always wanted one.
Great video. Thank you
Awesome, even more systems🤗
Nice video as always!
Was looking forward to another great vid! Congrats on that new haul, looks like a ton of great systems, can't wait for more!
Awsome. Thanks
That system just looks sweet!
Humongous was software for kids--Fatty Bear, Putt-Putt, Spy Fox, lots of others. Pretty entertaining games for little kids.
Great channel, keep up the good work.
I'm glad someone thinks to give the keyboard a rubber duckie while it gets a bath!
Mike, your content and delivery is stellar. Keep up the good work.
Awesome
As per the norm great video!
9:40 This is the Humongous Entertainment catalog from 1995. This was when the catalog at the time was known as "Humongous Entertainment Interactive Catalog". It can be seen on games such as Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo, Let's Explore the Jungle, Let's Explore the Airport, and Let's Explore the Farm. It's also seen on the 1995 re-releases of Putt-Putt Joins the Parade, Fatty Bear's Birthday Surprise, and Putt-Putt Goes to the Moon.
yay a VIDEO i missed you last week.. /hugs
This was my first experience with Humongous games. I have fond memories of the airport
Keep em coming, your one of my weekly favorites, informative, entertaining and very talented ;-)
we all start with the ball too, mike
So glad I found your channel! Love your content!!!!
I'm just watching all your videos after finding your Vectra video and ai have to say, you seem to be hella lucky to have all your Dallases socketed. All mine were soldered and were a pain to get out, even with a vacuum desoldering station. Great video as always, waiting for some of the older older systems 😁
this channel is amazing i subbed at around a 1000 subs and its grown so fast and its only the beginning
Congrats on the latest haul! Look forward to seeing some of these boot up, especially the Macs. ;)
very funky device!
Well-made machine, and well-cared for in its time ❤
I've missed a fair few of your recent vids, sorry. Is good to sit back and watch again... always you manage to make these both entertaining and relaxing. Great work. And one of the rubber duckies is back!!! Yay!
You so lucky. Nice haul.
Great job! Greetings from Steven from the Netherlands
That case is gorgeous. And it has a lot of speed holes :D
OMG i love the rubber ducky
Wow that Acer is so cool! I love the way it looks. Glad you could get the esc key repaired. I’m looking forward to the repair on the broken laptop. It will take me back to the shell of a laptop you transformed into a working laptop. Your skills blow me away. I knew you couldn’t attend an event without bringing something back. I like the mouse that attaches to the 486 laptop. Anything you have that is 486 related reminds me of the 486 rebuild you did when you were 8. I hope to see the 486 laptop in person. I missed your video last week but looking forward to the content based on the room full of computers you acquired this time.
Cleaning tha ball mouse ,or maaan, this is bring back some memories!!!
About that Toshiba laptop - my gess is that it MIGHT be a some kind of control pc for industrial machinery.
And about that second haul- please start with full-towers!!!
OOOH i cant wait for your mac videos
I'm excited to see the video where you restore that busted Toshiba!
Can't wait for your Mac videos. Should be interesting. 😊
I have vivid memories of walking through a Future Shop (Canadian electronic store) and seeing this exact green Acer computer. It seemed so crazy and outlandish at the time - anything but beige was unheard of.
Replenishment!!! I wish I had room for all those systems in my house. 👍
I reckon the date code on the back of that Acer translates to November 21, 1995.
Excelent video. That case you pointed at the end was exactly the same one we had at home as our first PC (386 I believe). 🤗🖥️
Just seen my compaq presario in the pile, loved that compo!! crt was amazing, used it in 4 other systems, after the main base was not upgradeable, which is what got me into building my own. great vid look forward to the new/old pile
It seems we suffer from the same illness: Love of '90s laptops!
So excited to see you tear into the next e-waste haul!
Absolutely loving these videos. Thank you!
Nice Odd Tinkering reference!
That chassis style of Dell Trinitron has got to be my absolute favorite! I have a 17" in great shape here that goes with my Windows XP setup. Nice save!
oooh sunflower imacs!
This model was my first computer! I got it from a family friend that was upgrading their system. I used to play on it prior to their upgrade and asked if I could have it. It had the matching mouse, keyboard, monitor, and speakers too. I knew next to nothing about computers when I got it so I didn't dare open it up in case I broke it. I lost track of it many, many years ago and I wish I could find it again. Thanks for exploring this one!
I had that exact model Travelmate back in the day. Also had the expansion/docking bay with the CD ROM. It was a huge package, had its own separate battery, and made the whole thing very heavy.
But hella nostalgic and I can’t wait to see you work on it.
And we got some shade of Teal...
It looks like it tastes like mint. I have confirmed from outside sources that it doesn't though.
@@miketech1024 🤣🤣🤣
That hard drive deceived you by 'acting' clunky by then passing without any actual bad sectors. Looking forward to the many many videos to come!
Very Stylish. Not just a beige box.
My Mom and Dad both had a TI Travelmate 4000m back in the 90s. Rock solid machines and the TFT active display was so nice to have. They even had the dock, which had a cdrom drive attached to the scsi port on the rear of the machine. I regret letting those go back in the 2000s
Awesome haul at the end, looks like your ready to open your own store
At this point it could be a matter of survival. 🤣
I hope you can find a matching monitor for that system! Pretty nice condition I say!
By connecting new battery to RTC you should disconnect the old one. Otherwise there is a risk that the old battery wil drain the new one.
I had an Acer just like this one about 20+ years ago *with* the matching monitor, but I didn't keep it for long. Nice find in the free pile at VCF Midwest! It was great meeting you there, but my only regret was not taking a selfie with you. (I was the vendor with a handful of PCs for sale on a table and pictures of clone boards taped to an Apple monitor.)
Mike! It was great meeting you at VCFMW. Hope to see you again next year.
It was great to meet you as well! I definitely plan to make VCFMW an annual trip. Next year I'll probably have to bring a truck because there was just so much I wanted...
This brought back some memories. Acer had some unique design language going on in the 90s. A family friend had a later mid-tower Aspire system with a similarly sculpted front panel. The side panels and monitor had the same funky ventilation hole design. It was darker in colour- almost black, but with a hint of teal in certain light. It had an AMD K6 233MHz and SDRAM. I was "tech support" in the early/mid-2000s and it was pretty fun to work on, though the upgrade to Windows XP asked an awful lot of it. It eventually got replaced with a Socket 754 Sempron-based system.
I had a couple of these. I Trash picked one in the early 2000's complete with Monitor and all. I credit it for getting me into the hobby. Decent for their time. Real lookers especially the Black one with matching monitors. My High School Library had these same machines. I remember the frustration going from Middle School Mac's to High School PC's lol
Hi Mike, it was great to meet you at VCF Midwest. Nice repair, looks like a very exciting 2nd haul there, congrats on getting that!
Thanks. It was great to meet you as well!
I had one back in the day... I want one again SO BAD... mine was a Pentium 120MHz... The sound card was a Crystal if I recall correctly!
20:21 Nice tie-in with the main subject of the video, a TravelMate laptop made by TI, before TI's notebook division was bought almost 3 years after by, well, Acer. Still in use today, that laptop lineup name rivals ThinkPad in its longevity, though we might say it feels more... mundane?
Those Aspire with the bundled monitor were quite the sight back then, I remember asking my dad every time to get one each time I saw them on a local computer store but we went with a boring looking Epson PC :( Also, I remember that version of the MS Entertainment Pack! I spent hours and hours playing skifree and rodent's revenge.