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Thank you Toshiba, for your valuable two minute contribution to this channel. You will be missed.
Seems like a heat problem. Probably needs a good clean
didn't toshiba make the ipod hard drives? oh you mean that laptop in particular...
@@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
Maybe the software killed it 0_0
We just witnessed the birth AND death of a new contender in the DankPods universe in the span of 3 minutes
at least it made its presence heard (as that sideways laptop CD-ROM reader rattled like hell)
😂😂😂😂
It's most likely just bad stinking dust accumulated in the thermal paste and the inside the PC in general, cooking it from the inside
The DPCU Dankpods Cinematic Universe
We also seen the death of the Eepc, I blame hot wheels
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.
With James having a new channel on his own, I would love to see it as well
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.
Yeah that thing was going thermo. Probably needs new paste and the heat sink cleaned
3:46 “Windows Vista: Can’t Even Run SOLITAIRE”
-Joel
We should hold a funeral for the Toshiba/EEPC duo. They both served us all with nothing but the fastest performance. Rest kings
A moment of silence please for our lost brothers...
A viking funeral seems apropos.
BRO IT JUST GOT HEATED!!!
"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"
*EEPC was a life saver*
I didn't know it was possible to skip MP3 files like a CD. It's like the nugget was pre-gritted
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.
I guess its so much of a potato that even the low bitrate of an mp3 is too much. Quite an amazing feat for 2012.
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
I have some Chinese card for my ipod and it skips mp3 if I use rockpod.
Hot-Wheels MP3 Player: Pre-gritted for your convenience
Seeing the patron list grow so much just over the past year is low key heartwarming
It really is. Man’s making a killing over there and deserves every cent of it 🥰
He really does deserve it all ❤
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.
Can confirm, I have a very similar Toshiba here (also came with Vista!) of a slightly different model, and mine also overheats in that orientation.
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 😂.
where i can find it
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
@@kyria_kous something tells me it game over anyway lol. straight in the bin and on to the next nug
i have an old Satellite sitting around and the hinges broke themselves like a Nintendo DS
Is it _really_ that dumb? Is it from before the age of CPUs that are able to thermal-throttle to preserve themselves?
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)
@@eugenenalpin6058 Its not dumb though? It's literally shutting off to prevent the heat damage from having little to none cooling.
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.
I legitimately didn't know you could make an mp3 stored in solid state *skip.*
Literally how.
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.
I had a MP3 player that legitimately skipped on the songs, I think the storage was genuinely failing
this is the content creator that I get genuinely excited for a new video
Same
🧢
same here my guy.
For real. I open my CZcams 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!
SAME
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.
An trophy
@@outsider344 atrophy
Even the laptop was exuding nugget energy. Must be contagious.
This actually connects to my favorite Wade quote; "'Course [the SpongeBob nugget] has skip protection. When was the last time your flash drive SKIPPED?"
7:22 first time i heard this song continue
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 😅
yep, and MSI stands for Microsoft Installer, an executable format like exe
As a former application packager this speaks to me
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
Unless it is slipping my mind, what would be the TW msi file? EDIT: It is a Taiwanese-localized Chinese file.
@@BoganFromBama that’s Taiwan, which is traditional Chinese
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.
Here's an idea: The PC dying while it was transferring files corrupted the flash memory. Nice one Toshiba.
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.
@@BottomOfTheDumpsterFire It Just didn't wanna die alone! :D
Tbh tho, I doubt that, considering it was only coying Files to the Laptops hdd
I am surprised and delighted to find actual answers here in the comments. Thank you knowledgeable one
No, it definitely seemed like an overheat and I bet the exhaust vent is on the rear which was suffocated by the laptop being on its back/side.
6:09 You can never replace the Eee PC.
7:47 that’s literally me doing a group project
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! 😬
As a man who has made a lamp or 2, a speaker lamp wouldn't be that bad, especially if you could connect it to an Echo or Google Home
I would like to see the heaps of mini-USB cables in Wade's possession at some point. A big mountain of black tar. Licorice. Beautiful.
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.
I would've went crazy for this as a kid! I was growing up during this era, and it's almost surreal how fast that past went.
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.
"Oh, I'm glad there's a toucan here."
Truer words have never been spoken 🙏
I said that exact same phrase, once.
I love how Wade makes us look at things we otherwise would never want to look at
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.
3:04 Chris Pratt started reviewing the nugget
A true quality character arc comes to an end this episode and I am glad to have been here for the whole thing
5:46 if a lap top dies so quickly the heat sink is probably too dusty. you can clean it up and it will work much better
I have never heard an mp3 skip like that, that's incredible
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
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.
4:17 The 1.0 is a default score. The rating test has never been run on this device, so it just shows that. That's why it says Unrated at the end of that section.
Yeah, this is one of the worst videos Wade has ever made.
Edit: It gets worse. He looks at the experience rating on the Aftershow and doesn't refresh it despite the laptop screaming it had new hardware.
@@Flyingpapaya I enjoy watching him talk about headphones and mp3 players, but anytime he says anything about computers it becomes painful to watch. It is clearly not his area of expertise, which is fine, but the amount of confidently incorrect pc info really hurts the enjoyment.
Yeah I have to agree, it's painful as a Tech.
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.
3:39 Windows vista was a good operating system apart from the fact that you need it like 1.5 to 3 times the power to do the same thing good
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
hey fellow hl2 enthusiast
7:53 and you laughed at all the nuggets with mp3 skip protection.
I'm glad to finally see justice here
4:30 when my cd drive gets upset and it wont shut up i just hit it with a cup or a screwdriver or anything elese untill it shut up
2:18 Phew! It's compatible with my Windows 98 Hot Wheels PC 😂
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
8 would've been "okay" if it wasn't designed like a fucking phone
Yeah. I had a decent computer and completely skipped over 7.
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.
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
why would it be overheating just by booting up and trying to load a disk?
@@bastian_5975 because heat is heat.
@@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 the CPU overheats because the heat can't go anywhere
@@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
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 love how it comes with a mini USB cable with a ferrite on it to reduce intererence and then just corrupts anything you put on it
8:58 that is one disobedient nugg
Brothers and sisters rejoice! It's the Australian man that yells at nuggets!
Praise Frank 🐍
not only at nuggets, also into nuggets!
1:21 that’s what she said
Nice
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
at this point you should make an mp3 player
unironically would pay to see that
He technically did, but I don't think you mean what I'm referring to.
@@Schnort The ShrekPod
>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.
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.
Time to open up and fix it.
3:16 upgrades people upgrades!
This made Craig look like a great deal.
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.
@@resneptacle Normal mache ich auch die Comments auf Englisch xD
@@kiyoshi_the_devil Du wolltest nur Mal auschecken, wo die Deutschen sind, lol.
@@Niko-SZ Ein Check hin und wieder kann ja nicht schaden :D
Dankpods is truly an international phenomenon
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.
This might be my favorite video to date! Thanks for doing what you do Wade :)
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.
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.
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
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!
Would that make it the nuggetx?
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.
More and more channels I watch and even podcasts I listen to have mentioned this channel, from Cathode Ray Dude, to just yesterday WTYP. I love it!
I heard Alice say "nugget" and just knew she watches Wade's content
@@deusteapot117 right?
It’s like I have this big group of mutual parasocial friends 😂
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.
Haha, I just said basically the same thing.
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.
What a rollercoaster of emotions in this one, truly a wonder for the eyes.
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.
2:02 "Plug your Ears, and Enjoy" is basically saying "this device goes hard🔥🔥ON MUTE🔥🔥🔥💯‼
The fact it doesn't come with a hotwheels car says enough about the quality of the nugget
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.
Another certified DankPods classic, luv u Wade
At least it was honest and said AMV and not 'MP4' like every other nugget at the time
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
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.
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.
Another piece of art from this guy. You never fail to not disappoint us with your godtier content.
Keep up the good stuff!
🤖🥱
@@oshkiv4684 i'm not a bot
@@Davedave590 speaking with bot-like speech patterns doesn't help your case m8.
edit: added speech.
@@generallyunimportant I'm a human namuh a m'I ⬅️ read it backwards M8.
literally a bot lmao
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.
6:00 "You piece of chocolate"
10:08 my mother about me
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.
i too am glad you remedied the situation
My dad's not a programmer professionally or anything, I he just likes computers, and he still hisses noticeably whenever he mentions "visssta."
I’ve never been into tech or known much about it, but these videos are so entertaining it’s brought me into the wormhole
I think my favorite thing about all of your videos is seeing Frank at the end. I love it
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
NO NO NO NO EAT THE PAIST THEN POOP THE PAIST BACK IN THE LAPTOP
@@VitaTheMerm
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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.
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
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.
I have a Toshiba a105-s2061 I bought in the early 2000s that still works. Things a trooper.
5:39
probably needs new thermal paste.
also, imo, keep using it but disable wigets
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
even after a long day dankpods will always chill you out and make ya' happy
I love how the Hotwheels player killed the E-PC's "Successor"
You know what's funny, I knew the year of this nugget from the packaging, because in 2011 that was when that design for Hot Wheels came out
I just love how that laptop just stole the spotlight for this whole episode
well of course it did, with the format error on the mp3 player meaning there is not much you can really do with it
My friend: *Tells me the characters in the anime*
What I hear: 4:39
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.
Hey Dank, nothing to do with the vid but I just wanted to say that watching your vids inspired me to go to a headphone shop and try some HD600s. Gotta say that I was underwhelmed at first, but the more I listened the more I would pick up on the little details and textures of the music. I was, honest to god, almost in tears by the end. Didn't buy them cause I don't have the money yet (but I will!), but afterwards I was left thinking about how much of the experience I was able to enjoy and connect with exactly because I'd heard you talking about it so much. Paying attention to the snares, kicks, synths, bass and all those things was so much easier when I was able to build on your teaching to identify them. I always thought you were a fantastic educator but only the best can do what you do - nurture interest and appreciation to a subject to awaken someone's natural, totally self propelled interest in it.
I believe every company has made a nugget at some point now
Now I want to know if macces has made a mcNugget nugget
What is the obsession with toy brands making trashy MP3 players? I swear all these kids brands have their own MP3 😭😭😭
I did also have Majorettes, i still love them, the more faithful to a ral car the more i love them.
man, you're really talented to make videos reviewing crappy mp3 players this entertaining. one of my favorite channels
Finally a better eEEPEECEE
5:25 * T H E D I S A S T E R*