26:26 I assume you said Toshiba without meaning it, mixing things up just for a moment, but of course TravelMate has been an Acer model range for a long time, and yes, TI sold its mobile computer branch to Acer in 1997.

I owned an 15" Inspiron from about 2007-2011 (through my time at college). I think it died shortly after I graduated and I wasn't savvy enough at the time to diagnose what happened. It was cool to see a very similar model (also had the black cover on the top but I think it was a bit different I/O around the keyboard. I distinctly remember having to go to IT at my University to figure out how to get wifi to work (same switch this one has) because it was still new to me at the time (both the laptop and wifi).

Oh,i had D600,nice one it was.

Great video as usual! I'd personally love to see you combine the best bits of them all to build the best machine you can from them.

i would do both make one really good one and with the leftover parts make as many as i can of the others at least functional even if they wont look amazing

sadly those commonly had faulty nvidia video chips that's might be the problem the first test.

Nice. I used a $50 D620 my first 2 years in college back in 2014 to get me buy when my laptop my parents bought me croaked. Core 2 Duo T7600 (later upgraded to a T9600 which fried the motherboard) 4GB ram and I started on a 160GB hard drisk but largely used a 120GB PNY ssd in it. I had a dual boot with Windows 7 + Windows 10 for awhile, and just as I started into Linux (and ran the Windwos 7 plus linux dual boot) I upgraded the CPU and fried the motherboard... nvidia graphics of DOOM! overheated and it was unfortunate. I had all the options for mine though due to buying alot of parts machines - bluetooth, fingerprint reader, cellular, webcam, higher res screen the works. I remember a kid using it in shop and trashed my keyboard while typing in with greesy gloves and he was scared I would be mad.... I just poped my keyboard off, tossed it in the trash and hooked up a USB keyboard - told him to keep working. When I stopped by the university surplus I picked up another parts rig that I used to fix that one and repeat.

looks like the realistic was made in 1985

Nice video! I have one D630 Core Duo.( Not a Core 2) This one miss the some parts, but still running with a 32gb ssd and XP and i use for led panel programming with RS232.

1 month later... Found an HP Pavilion Elite desktop while thrifting last summer it's waiting for it's turn to become a project (hopefully in the new year) Paid $50 for mine plus keyboard, this odd scroll bar mouse thing (forget its name) a HP monitor and odd and end cables. Mine is a pavilion elite 9700 series with a Core 2 Quid 8200 8gb ddr3 ram (all OEM ram) a ATI OEM graphics card (forgotten the model). The plan is to rebuild it as a XP/7 duel boot early 00's gamer rig with a Cool Master N200 case from Amazon, a EVGA Geforce 560ti and Audigy FX v2 from FB Market place, and a USB 3 card also from Amazon. The machine well get a optical drive but not its OG one, the one that ether came with it or was a replacement is a rebadged samsung sata lightscribe drive with a digital cd audio header (Not concurrently but I'm sure I'll find something worth of it) XP well go onto a 1TB WB 128mb cache laptop drive and 7 on a SSD (the case has a pair of 2.5" mounts behind the back side panel) No light kit planned but well be using blue LED fans should give it a nice old school look. Oh and I think I can reuse the HP cases card reader via the Cool Master cases floppy drive slot (For my DosBox SD Card) first thing of course well be replacing the thermal paste with a thermal pad can't have the CPU easy bake oven it's self lol

hey theretrorecall what a great haul ! I hope you are feeling better . having covid sucks! one tip i can suggest is to make a backup copy of the Windows 7 CD set and use the copy to do daily installs . that way the original discs stay in good shape and usuable. just a suggestion. great video and good luck .

to unlock unplug battery plug back in presto

And You Should Pull Off T9300 And Put On You D630

AND These D600 Series Has 2 Ram Slot First Under The KeYbOaRd And Second Under The Laptop

Why These Latitude Has 2 COA Sticker, 2 Old COA 2 New COA?

Make the best computer you can out of the parts you got, that´s how I been doing it with computers since mid 90s to get even usable computers myself. you should see the most actively used laptop I got, an HP Pavilion G6 i3, the keys are not even worn on that, it has mirror finish on the keys! with glass smooth surface. you can even read text on the screen by looking at the correct angle of that now shiny keyboard!

I got 3 D610s from the trash bin, and it appears that I can save two of them. I can max out the processor at a Pentium M 780 (2.25 GHz) and the Memory (2 GB of DDR2-533). For the drive, it takes the old Parallel ATA, so I picked up an adapter and it seems to work. Now I'm trying to get Windows 7 pro to activate! (In theory, it can handle Win 10, but it would be so slow) Now just need to replace the CMOS battery.

Who needs some old Centrino Duo book ? Keep them as a museum ? Nice you have enough parts to keep the original alife ;)

I think you should try to restore each machine and what's not really working, it will serve as parts.

Honestly I would love to see if each these machines can be restored if possible. The Dell Latitude D600 Series are just amazing laptops and I would love to share as many these with future generations. I used to have a D630 and a D830 and they were just outstanding machines. I loved those machines and I wished I kept them but I had to give them back when my company was upgrading to the ThinkPad T420. I recently obtained Dell's competitor, the ThinkPad T61 which works but needs a new fan. Good luck with the BIOS passwords as those were a complete nightmare to remove and also LCD screens that have a pink or yellow hue to them is usually a sign that either the CCFL bulb(s) or the inverter board are going out. I had to replace the CCFL bulbs on a Dell Inspiron laptop due to the pink hue.

I had a dell vostro 1000 laptop not working correctly just powering on then no screen tryed out all the memory and still nothing working. A member of the public on the Freecycle site given me these. When I got them I had to rebuild the whole thing lots of piece of laptop parts everywhere what fun that was. Thanks again Paul

Amazing Dell Laptops I got windows 10 on there and no problems awesome model

I think you should do a combination of restoring as many as possible, but for the BIOS locked one you might be able to reset it by removing the battery and then powering it on without the battery. If that does not work you might be able to replace the BIOS chip as they should be readily available, but ensure its for the same exact model. I mentioned in a previous video that I was getting a laptop from my Dad where the keyboard was having issues with some of the keys. I picked it up yesterday and it's a Toshiba Satellite C660-10D with an Intel T4500 2.30GHz dual-core CPU that's from 2010, and did originally run Windows 7. When I changed the HDD back in 2019 after the old one was not working properly I must have upgraded the RAM as it's got two 2GB DDR2 sticks. My Dad even still had the user manual for it which surprised me. So I took out the HDD as it's got his private info on it. I'm gonna look up what I can upgrade the CPU to, and see if I can get some 4GB DDR2 laptop modules if they are available, and probably put in a 256GB SSD. I won't do that until I can find a replacement keyboard. I'll also have to search the web archive to see if anyone has uploaded the Windows 7 Home Premium restore disks to make it easier to restore the system as I never created them when my parents got them. As always another great video, and look forward to the next.

You can remove the bios password by using bios-pw. if you google it its quite easy to find. For some reason Ive tried commenting on this a few times to try tell you that site but it just doesn't post for some reason or goes away within a minute.

For work I refurbished a Siemens centrino duo, for backup PC an print label. With mint and suspend to disk boot in 30-40 second. I changed bios battery only. It's slow but work. Only problem a error to network card, but work. And SO see only 3 gb of 4 of ram. I not spend much time for it. For me core duo is usable, but I suggest buy it, with same money can buy 1 or 2 gen

YOU COULD DO THE WINDOWS 11 THROUGH RUFUS

I've also been given a few Latitude, Inspiron and Precision laptops that used the modular D/Bay system. I've had a Latitude D600, D610, D630, D810, Precision M60, M70, and an Inspiron 8600. I've since sold those laptops, and really liked the build quality.

I used to have a Dell D430 which was basically the "ultrabook" version sans the optical drive and while I loved it that thing got so insanely hot all the time and would throttle like crazy, tried replacing the thermal pads and fan, cleaning out dust etc but nothing! Maybe i'll pick up a D630 for funsies to play around with

I have about 30 of these and I just love how durable they are.

You should be able to remove the CPU from the one with the locked BIOS and put it into one of the others as an upgrade, since they are all the same series.

I use to have a D600 but not any more but I do have a D820

The Dell Latitude D6x0 series machines are some of my favorite. My main laptop up until earlier this year was a Dell Latitude D610. I loved that machine, the layout and feel was perfect. I got that machine from my elementary school in 2014 and used it on a daily basis for over a decade and it never let me down. I wasn't nice to it either, it got thrown into bags and tossed around quite a bit. Sadly, a few months back the motherboard gave out on it, but it certainly was the best laptop I have ever had. I would buy another one, but at this point they are considered "vintage," and are going for more than I want to pay for a 20 year old laptop that I would probably only get a few more years out of before having to get something more powerful. I am currently using a Thinkpad T60 as it is a similar size and has a 4:3 display which I much prefer to 16:9, but the rubberized coating on those bothers me because it is so easy to mess up.

You definitely need an SSD for Windows 10. Good to see at least 2 of them are working & bootable. I'd like to see those onboard diagnostics going!

I'd love to find a few spare Inspiron 6400 for parts etc for my two machine's

That D620... its the same problem as mine and it was with the Nvidia GPU that died :|

I hope that all of these don't have the Nvidia BGA video chips that were the subject of a class action suit a while back. They really are hit or miss. I have a D620 with an Intel i810 that is just rock solid. (I also have two Precision M4300 laptops, which are based on the D830 chassis. One of them has a bad GPU...) Batteries, keyboard, case plastics, and other parts are still available for these if you know where to look... (search parts-people ). I used to support a fleet of D6xx and D8xx laptops for engineering applications that required serial (RS-232C) comms. They are generally very easy to tear down and repair once the problem is identified. (I have the Dell service manuals on file if you have trouble finding them.) Stay away from the D400-series unless you know where you're getting your parts (they have a really oddball configuration... a 1.8 inch hard drive, just for starters...) If you have a D620 (the 32-bit little sister), it can be upgraded to 64 bit by a processor upgrade. The T7500 Core2Duo is a drop in replacement for the CoreDuo on the D620. Password resets? You might try bios-pw.org/ ... You will need the unit's serial number/service tag. That orange-ish screen may be having an incipient backlight failure... (Backlight replacement is tricky, and involves soldering/desoldering, a fine blade X-acto knife, and some foil tape. Much simpler to just replace the panel... hopefully replacing a 1280x800 with a 1440x900 super-bright.) When you get a black screen like that, use a flashlight on the screen to see if it's displaying but the backlight has failed. Reflected light will give you a dim but readable view of the screen. Get in the BIOS and set it to duplicate the screen by default - then your external monitor should work if the GPU is not shot. The battery has a charge and condition indicator built-in: press the button and look at the LEDs. Hold the switch while you're looking and they will eventually go out or show a different number of LEDs that indicate the battery's condition (the fewer LEDs lit when the shift occurs, the better the battery condition).

My Inspiron 600M had an internal battery, and thankfully my Lenovo X220 has the battery at the rear, helpfully elevating the keyboard LOL After six years, in 2010, I replaced the 600M's backlight and inverter via ebay for $28 CAD.

Nice video I have a dell latitude D505 and a D510 and a D610 I have done a few videos on the D505. They are very solid laptops

Parts computers are useful and you could probably make two complete and working laptops from that job lot, hopefully the more powerful CPUs., will be transferable.

I have a d600 its one of my all time favorite laptop upgraded it to 2gbs of ram for windows xp its more than enough , it dose need a new battery though

I would restore one to top specs and try to restore one or two more with the other parts

I used a D630 for work, liked it so much I bought my own for personal use, then found a matching dock at Goodwill. The display was great, better than other laptops I'd seen available back then.

hirens boot cd can unlock the bios.. and if not you can reflash the bios that will delete the bios password !!!

I used to repair and resell Dell laptops I bought from eBay, I learned how to bypass the BIOS lock. Every one I got, there was no hard drive.........

I see Dell Latitude D6*0 in the title, I give like. Also, I would go with #2 and put the better CPU and RAM on it.

The 630 has a firewire port and the 620 does not, and the firewire port is next to the headphone & microphone. That's how you can tell if it's a 620 or a 630 without even opening the lid.

I always considered the immediate follow on to these laptops to be the pinnacle for Dell easy serviceability. the E6400 and E6410. They put both ram slots on the bottom, and they made the whole bottom open up with one screw, both ram slots were on the bottom, they still had drive bays, removable batteries, etc.. by the time you got past the E6420 and E6430 dell started going backwards, removing features and discontinuing accessories in the name of making the laptop smaller and lighter...

Googled "how to bypass bios password" and Dell was the first result. LOL! I'm confident you can find a way around/through that though. It would be cool to see a video of you harvesting parts to build a fully functional laptop. I bet that last one with the bad monitor has a bad cable because that's exactly what my Dell laptop did.

I really love the old 16650 UART 9 PIN SERIAL PORT hardware The best are the laptops with a USB port that will boot from USB A CD or DVD drive will work in a pinch too Being able to boot into real MS DOS 6.22 is critical For any two-way radio made before the late 90s, you need a real hardware serial port and the ability to boot DOS and run the Radio Service Software to program them And the Kenwood HTs and mobiles and the Motorola HTs and mobiles are solid like tanks. Even 35 years later they still work solid And with the adapters, you can take an IBM Thinkpad and get a docking station and have 2 serial ports and USB ports and other ports. The biggest issue was when I first bought them they didn't make any new PCMCIA hard drives any more. About 2 years after I bought them, and I was able to boot using USB to DOS, but I saw what they advertised as new Toshiba PCMCIA hard drives They look brand new. I think they are 40 GB But then I saw an M.2 SSD to PCMCIA adapter It has a PCMCIA connection on the one side to plug into the laptop and the other side was an M.2 slot and I put in a 128 GB M.2 SSD and I was able to boot using the Windows 7 32 Bit install DVD. It was a special version that I think is for embedded industrial applications, like I saw this version in a coal fired power plant that originally ran Windows 3.1 and 95, 98, Me, XP, Vista and finally they were using Windows 7 when they shut down. The hardware they were using was 32 Bit I saw grocery stores that used a lot of parallel and serial cables through the store and they needed 32 Bit OS The XPe version is what I saw on a 1 GB CF card in one plant. The used to call these versions embedded and were on CF cards or other special cards or drives. One system used PCMCIA hard drives and they would just swap them for upgrades. I don't know if they made a Windows 8 or 8.1 32-bit OS I know getting the Windows 7 32 Bit OS was not easy. I was able to copy the directories from the power plant panel USB and screen keyboard. I remember MS said XP would be the last 32 Bit OS, but they made Vista and Windows 7 Most of the older laptops that had the 9 PIN hardware serial port were 32 Bit Because of the way the hardware is in the radios and the way the serial port queries the radio, you can't use a USB to 9 PIN serial adapter I have never seen anyone go through the work to see what hex code is actually being sent out to the radio It uses the mic and speaker to communicate and the cable has a special chip, maybe a TTL converter, that takes the serial commands and prompts and send the data to the radio, slowly. One of the issues is that the DOS software only allows you to select port 1 or 2 and they have to be the 3F8 or 2F8 and IRQ 3 or 4 that matches the DOS default. The other big deal is that it must be a clean DOS boot For whatever reason the software will not run using DOS on top of XP or anything else. When I was programming the radios every day in the 90s I had the awesome Boot Magic and Partition Magic with PQ Boot I had 8 different partitions with the DOS boots and Win 3.1 and 95 and 98 and 98SE and a couple drive D for the different DOS boots I was able to boot 98SE and get files from the server and load them into a D drive to be able to run them in DOS Partition Magic and Boot Magic were really great. I used them a lot. I have brand new Kenwood TK-250 and TK-350s My biggest issue is that they have not made the KDM-7 DTMF keypad kit in 30 years and I really need them. I bought 3 from Italy and 1 didn't work, not sure why. I installed the second one and it works great and the 3rd one I have hoping I can find a PCB creator and 3D printer that could duplicate the keypad and the film PCB that has the pads the keypad pushes to make the DTMF work.

1. There is a program that will show you the BIOS password. You can Google it. 2. That 1st laptop (if it has Nvidia video) probably has a bad motherboard. You can look up the service tag on Dell's website and see what motherboard it has. 3. D600 = Pentium M with 855 chipset, D610 = Pentium M with 915 chipset, D620 = Core Duo/Core 2 Duo with 945 chipset, D630 = Core 2 Duo with 965 chipset, E6400 = Core 2 Duo with 45 chipset.