HP Elitebook 6930p laptop dump find

[@Flexkopf14XD]

Really ironic that the previous owner put a Greenpeace sticker on this thing :D. Good Job rescueing it.

[@eduardoavila646]

Well, its processor is 25w in stock config, most processors were at 35-45w. It was kinda ecological to the age

[@Time4Technology]

The "not in committed state" message means that the motherboard was either replaced and not properly branded or the laptop was accidentally shipped from the factory without having it's motherboard branded, something that rarely happens.

[@JonasKvale]

I think its crazy how people throw out perfectly good 'junk', or a lot of the time not as much of a piece of junk as a finder might discover.. A lot of people throw out computers with maybe a HD error or another flaw, and don't realize how important some parts can be. RAM, HD, screen,...

[@AndyinMokum]

That was an awesome find. I have two of the same model with the Core-2 Duo CPU at 2.40GHz. I bought them for €50 each with the docking stations from my wife's work. The IT department was upgrading all the office laptops to models running i5 and i7 processors. These older HPs were now redundant. They both have 4GB of RAM. By the way, the default RAM slot is under the keyboard. It's not hard to get to and upgrade to a 4GB card if you want. You just loosen 3 screws underneath and remove 4 retaining clips on the keyboard. The motherboard will see a max of 8GB RAM, 2x4GB cards. I've removed the optical drives and replaced them with hard drive caddies. Giving the machines two drives. They both came with fresh installations of licenced Windows 7. This is been nuked on one machine. That's running a Linux desktop distro, Manjaro 16.06.1 JWM 64-bit (Testing repos). It's just for a bit of fun while I wait for two new 1TB HDDs to arrive. Manjaro is installed to a 60GB SSD with a 160GB HDD as a /DATA partition and for swap. It goes like rocket on this laptop. Linux really runs like a champ on this model of laptop. The laptop's final function when the new HDDs arrive, is going to be a home server. It'll be running Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS 64-bit headless with remote access using DDNS. I think It'll make a great little server. You already know how quiet the thing is. It'll sit next to the router, quietly doing its thing. I'm really looking forward to putting this together and have it up and running. The other laptop is going to have Windows nuked too. I've no use for it. It'll be fitted with the 60GB SSD and a new 250GB HDD. It'll have Peppermint 7 64-bit installed on the SSD and the 250GB HDD will be used for a /DATA partition and swap. That's going out to my elderly mother-in-law in Bulgaria. She already has a little Acer Aspire One D250 running Peppermint Six. She loves that and now wants a beefier machine with a 14.1" screen. I'm sure she's going to love Peppermint 7 on this great little laptop. Yeah, you really found a little gem with that machine.

[@lmull3]

what a find! pretty awesome if you ask me

[@vwestlife]

Kevin Bragdon It was at a company which does electronics recycling for the county I live in. I found it in a pile of junk that other people had dropped off in their parking lot.

[@WhyWePlayTruckSims]

My dad has a slightly similar Laptop to this one, but it's kinda funny to look at because it has a phone modem AND HDMI, so it was sort of between recent technology and old technology. It has a Core 2 Duo, 4gb DDR2 and some 256 mb graphics card. It was originally running Windows Vista but I installed Windows 7 Ultimate and it's pretty good.

[@anndooley7314]

Nice little chap he may have been messed around with but he's still a fighter!

[@wildbilltexas]

You lucked out with the laptop and the stereo. Still I'd take apart the laptop and give it a good cleaning.

[@JeffreyYS]

I used to own an HP EliteBook 8540p. I really liked it. It had many features, such as the ability to burn data onto RW drives. It was a prized possession of mine. I still use it sometimes today.

[@potatomaster9324]

4:50 "Registered to Steve Jobs Apple Computer Inc" LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

[@Techlin-xn7ji]

he likes doing that joke for the registration name.

[@nik123true]

I noticed that too lol

[@faisal30867]

I laughed too hard! Haha!

[@xxtoxicpixelxx7437]

Haha it's not even a apple computer, it's Windows

[@ComeAndPlayWithGames]

+Julius Ford Welcome to the joke lol

[@firewire9015]

Reminds me of the time I got a ThinkPad T420 laptop... I received it with a failing hard drive (Which was a Seagate 7200rpm, ran for 2 years, 8 months, and 6 days). USB booting was an absolute pain, because it doesn't work with some flash drives at all. The heatsink was clogged full of dust, so I cleaned that out, once I could separate the fan from the thing. The screws are a no-brainer, but the tape is a pain. I did eventually install a new hard drive, and it now has 16GB of ram instead of the 4 I received it with. The laptop is now working probably better than it did from the factory. The battery has lost 2/3 of it's original capacity, but that doesn't bother me.

[@JonnyInfinite]

Lightscribe is really cool, you can do some really awesome designs with that

[@RiasatSalminSami]

JonnyInfinite Yeah. Too bad it extinct and Physical disks itself is extinct on PCs now D:

[@SebisRandomTech]

Are you going to make a video of the stereo?

[@MrBiky]

4:51 Registered to Steve Jobs Apple Computer Inc. LOL

[@SMAAAASHTV]

Ha ha, that was my favorite part!

[@niallasher2322]

MrBiky I'm surprised that didn't set off a secret killswitch...

[@yomamastacos2123]

I think he sets it to that. I've seen it many times before.

[@rogeliolopez2190]

I like how he does it to most if not all of his computers

[@Rustbelt_Research]

Nice find man! I used an Elitebook for years and really liked it! That thing should be able to install windows 7 Without a Hitch, and I highly suggest you do that!

[@vwestlife]

I would, but I don't actually have a copy of Windows 7. (If anyone wants to send me one, feel free!)

[@NJRoadfan]

vwestlife I got one here if you want it. Windows 7 DVD with SP1.

[@KoenOnbekend]

vwestlife You can get clean .ISO's legally from Digitalriver. You will need a serial number though.

[@Rustbelt_Research]

vwestlife I Just sent you some stuff.. Check your inbox mate

[@JoshuasRecordings]

Dylans VitaReviews What brands of laptops? If it is an OEM key I doubt it will work, or only work on a certain device.

[@jukpulfer]

I don't know, I really like your sense of (kinda dry) humor. "Lights up like a christmas tree" - "Registered to Steve Jobs, Apple Inc."

[@lineartechbd1600]

I got you beat. SOme guy advertised on craigslist a laptop 'for parts'. It was a lenovo t61 dual core, ssd, 4gigs ram, hd screen card reader 15.4" laptop with a dvd burner. I opened it up while I was driving it home and it turned on. It works fine and has a legal copy of win7 64 bit. To this day I don't know why this guy gave it away but I am not complaining. It even came with an extra keyboard and optical drive.

[@NJRoadfan]

You literally can't buy a laptop like that anymore. They got rid of things like firewire and Expresscard slots in the new ones. The SC slot is for a Smartcard for use with two factor authentication. Honestly, just throw Windows 7 on the machine. It likely has the OEM SLIC markers for it in the BIOS being that its from 2009 so activation isn't a problem.

[@flyingbanana4179]

Ikr, thank god I bought this before they stopped selling it.

[@LTMedia]

Do you think we could see a video of all of your computers in depth? I am the kind of person who likes those kind of videos.

[@EnidAgnusDei]

That is tidy, it really looks well made and love the fact it aint plastic very nice find.

[@Computist40]

For anyone that wants to know the song at 5:37 it's called Valerie by Steve Winwood

[@wildbill23c]

Damn you are lucky. 1. I don't have a recycler anywhere close...and 2. If I did here in Idaho they would charge you a fortune to take something like that.

[@Gravarty]

I recently found a HP laptop (NC6400) in good condition. It didn't work at first but then i noticed that the charging port was loose, so i soldered it back on and now it works perfect. I also upgraded the RAM, CPU and replaced the HDD with a SSD. It's running Windows XP Pro with all updates (including POS) and it's great! I'll definitely keep this thing.

[@opasimmer6577]

Yes it is called Smart Card. But some of them has a similar slot but looks like a finger print reader.

[@davidlister370]

That was a very appropriate song to be playing on that particular Hi-Fi, suited the age well haha

[@blueflaem3239]

Wow, we had those at my old school. They said one was 'broken' so I asked the library teacher if I could have the broken one; it wasn't broken, somebody (me) took out the RAM and it wasn't starting (for some reason it had no RAM in the motherboard). So I got a free laptop from my school.

[@gentuxable]

Yeah, hope you'll find a job and get to pay higher and higher taxes because younger yous made the school equipment more and more expensive for their own profit... there's no bargain but someone has to pay it anyway.

[@FirstNameLastName-kt3zn]

BlueFlame Congratulations on stealing a laptop.

[@Sutekh94]

Nice find! I wish I could find stuff like this at my local dumps.

[@nerdywolfi]

Those errors on the beginning just mean that the HP technician who replaced the mainboard didn't enter the serial number yet (unfortunately you need a special DOS tool which I don't have - but I saw a HP technician use it after replacing the motherboard of my EliteBook 8440p, OnSite warranty service contract ftw :) ).

[@Tharrigan620]

which recycling center did you get this from? I have been wondering if there are any recycling centers in central NJ that are willing to let people take electronic "waste", or if they'd all be concerned with some hacker getting people's personal data. My local dump is Pill Hill, not sure if you are familiar with them or their policies, but I'd love to just go in there and see what I can find..

[@johnnyjimj]

Great Find! You must be from a large wealthy town, the junk we have at our recycling center barely qualifies as recyclable, heck people stop by and lift old tvs right from the curb here ;-)

[@ifragisk]

the battery was likely charged because before they threw it out they probably turned it on to check for files or something (e.g. spent time formatting the drive), and might have left it plugged in for some time to do that.

[@AbandonedMaine]

The nicest thing I found at the local recycling center in the Oakland area was a binder machine which we got a lot of use out of. A working laptop has to beat that though. What luck.

[@nintendoatarikiller]

Nice find. It's a christmas miracle.

[@SimpleCarGuy]

how do i find out of these recycling places? That's a hell of a find

[@animation1697]

You're so lucky to have a recycling place in your state :(

[@SudosFTW]

The video issue could also be from the GPU itself-- if it's the ATI-based 6930p, it's most likely that indeed, but I doubt it seeing as it has a Centrino sticker (Centrino being the umbrella term for a laptop with an Intel CPU, GPU, and wireless card.) seeing as we (NJ) did just get some rain, I'd expect it to have been moisture or some other liquid. a suggestion is to check Intel's site for the up-to-date drivers for the 4500M HD and wireless card installed, assuming that the card is Intel as-per the Centrino sticker. that'll hold it if it's going to be running XP well past the EOL date, and will enable GPU decoding of videos, including Flash and 1080p KZbin videos... the HP-supplied XP drivers do not. on a closing note, I am extremely jelly of the P8600 in there. not only does it have a bumped-up FSB compared to the T8300 in my D630, but it supposedly runs cooler doing tasks related to virtualization because of that FSB bump from 800MHz. Lucky!

[@v3xman]

It looks very similar to my HP Elitebook 2540p which I'm using (complete with that popup light at the top lol) except I have an i7 and this one's a Core2Duo.

[@jonvincent5158]

Have you fixed the errors? I noticed when you were in the System Information screen it didn't show any sign of a serial number. The Elitebook BIOS allows you to modify the motherboard's serial number, so your serial number error could be pointing to the number not being in the BIOS.

[@animerror]

I wish to find a laptop like that. IL really need it for my collection.

[@connorm955]

Millions of affordable laptops on ebay. i bought many "for parts or not working" and i've only ended up with one bad laptop.

[@terryallen4407]

Nice find, especially if you found it in 2013! I've had 2 since 2009 and one has been maxed out to 8gb or RAM and an Intel Extreme CPU. It has also since been updated to Windows 10 around a month ago (free upgrade). I have better laptops, but i still use my 6930p! Intel Extreme CPU x9100 @3.56GH, 8gb (2x4) PC6400 RAM , 256gb ATI 3450, WXGA + 1440x900 Display, 240gb OCZ SSD and still running strong! That's really a nice find if you know what to do with it! Rock on brother!

[@mss2981]

hey, you have 6930p now?

[@flyingbanana4179]

I have the same computer but with windows 10 lol. But I wonder why someone would throw out this computer? I had this for almost a decade and it still works fine.

[@SebisRandomTech]

What model ThinkPad is that?

[@UnrealOG137]

+Sebi's Random Tech Thinkpad X60

[@elektron2kim666]

The error is from a hardware replacement that violates Windows/HP OEM rights of the default configuration.

[@gfunkmoney06]

@vwestlife -- is it common to be able to pick up items at electronics recyclers? It seems the ones around me resell the stuff themselves so they don't allow individuals to come in to pick up items, only drop off.

[@johnsmith-sp4jj]

Greet score! I have a 2540p and absolutely love it. They where made very well imo. Only mod I did to mine was add a 160gig intel ssd. Good luck with yours!

[@cogsinister100]

Thats a great laptop to find in the trash.

[@eIucidate]

So was it really a case of it getting rained on and needing the water to evaporate?

[@AshtonFennel]

I used to get a bunch of stuff from the recycling center in town. My best finds were two Dell Optiplex 740s and a Thinkpad T43. The Dells worked, Thinkpad did not. But I managed to fix it (basically just bought a whole nother Thinkpad). They eventually told me I couldn't take stuff out anymore. And now when I take stuff there (dead laptops, LCD screens, stuff I can't repair, etc) they hurl it against the metal wall of the dumpster. I guess that's their method of keeping me from getting nice things for free.

[@vwestlife]

At this place, people just leave stuff in the parking lot... so it's a matter of getting to it before the employees do.

[@mcdonkeylips]

I like it accurately detects the centrino as a pentium III

[@joshstacey497]

I use the step up the EliteBook 8440p for work. I did upgrade to a Solid State and 6gigs of ram and Windows 7 Pro 64-bit and cleaned the fan just last saturday. going strong and working like a brand new one. But for SQL and dameware don't need much.

[@windowsuser321]

You still have this laptop today? Did you ever figure out what was causing the errors?

[@alynicholls3230]

hp and compaq laptops sometimes hide the stock ram under the keyboard. its worth a look for the sake of a few screws and or slide clips

[@LunaMizuki8806]

I showed my dad the end of this video and he really thinks that turntable/radio/tape player is really cool. My dad no longer has a turn table but he has dozens of records.

[@LightTheUnicorn]

The Acer laptop I'm using as a desktop now had similar problems, but with MUCH worse screen garbage (Think screwed resolution, completely unreadbale with lines and blocks), wouldn't boot and would shut itself down even in the BIOS, turned out to be the hard drive doing something extremely crazy as it made a fine desktop machine do a similar thing! Replaced the drive and gave it a few hours and good as new, technogy is odd at times ;)

[@Nobosnodo]

Very nice stainless steel on the outside.

[@jokerash]

the second memory sodimm is behind the keyboard. on the back you have 3 screws with a keyboard signs near them, unscrew them and gently raise the keyboard.

[@johanhugg2034]

Wow what a find.. jealous!

[@skchen83]

On the video issue: from that generation, the problems were not from the ATI chips. The cracked joints on the BGA were from the previous generation, Pentium M. The Core Due/Core2 Duo era, the GPU problems came from nVidia.

[@martijnvanzanen4075]

I"ve bought yesterday the hp compaq 8710p. (from 2007) Because it was cheap, Fast, (Intel C2D T9500) Best mousepad ever!

[@retrox684]

I assume this shipped with 7 but who used a modem in 2009? And with 4 gigs of ram 7 would work nicely that would be a good web browsing machine

[@Dan-TechAndMusic]

Those errors might be related to the vPro system, which has security functions that might have been setup in a wrong way.

[@TylerStartz]

Wow, nice! As much as I strongly dislike HP, this seems reasonably nice. Fabulous find!

[@makotovrc]

On these old HPs, the second DIMM slot is under the keyboard. You have to unscrew the screws labeled with a keyboard on the bottom, undo the latches on the keyboard and pull it a bit hard (the clips are strong, beware !)

[@craggercragger8989]

Hello dude. Download HP Softpaq downloader - it will get all the drivers for you and install them (albeit slowly as there are a lot of drivers for these elitebooks, I have the 8440p) I can see you've already cornered the drivers problem, but its worth knowing in case you upgrade the OS to 7 or need to format/reinstall XP. The other ram module will be underneath the keyboard - unscrews from the bottom of the laptop and then there will be some little notches you just push toward the hinges and the keyboard lifts out. That is how my 8440p is. Nice find - I rate my Elitebook as highly as my Thinkpad, nice solid machines :)

[@WeatherSTARIII]

Nice find! I would love to see more on the Soundesign stereo too. It also makes me wonder why would anybody throw out any electronics that still works? That's wasteful.

[@raymondleggs5508]

would you reccomend installing unbuntu (linux) on a HP laptop? my old laptop is screwed up and I dont want to pay for the winmdows XP startup disc (obsolete as hell)

[@augustii.8904]

I wonder if you still have this laptop and'd sell it...

[@coondogtheman]

Nice score on the laptop I'd like to have one that nice. I have an older Toshiba satellite with a 1.7 ghz processor and now 2GB of ram It works good enough for me but can't run any of today's games on it.

[@FeedBackMain]

so lucky! i hope it works fine now. without garbage ch. regards

[@mraiwa1000]

Whoa! That is one fancy laptop! Is it for sale? Looks like it would have came with windows 7 or windows 7 starter (or what ever you call that)

[@mikemoyercell]

Until you started making progress to me it kinda sounded like someone replaced a vital part on the machine without updating the "feature byte" AKA lingo for stupid HP garbage.

[@colejackson6396]

Man, those laptops can sit for like 5 hours if you aren't doing anything too intense. I used one of them for one of my school projects, and I didn't have to charge it for about 4.5 hours.

[@TheWhiteWolfDog]

its amazing how people throw away shit that works. i found a dell gx520 at our recycling center, took it home added a working hard drive put a dual core pentium d in it, installed windows 7 ultimate, and it worked like a charm, however it looked like it sat outside in the rain many times, and you had to go into the boot menu manually to get it to boot into windows. But nevertheless it worked fine without any errors

[@compaqdeskpro5770]

I like the old bulky huge Elitebooks, I have an 840 G1 my work issued me and its fine and surprisingly durable, but it doesn't have that quality heft the 6930's and 8440's. By the way, I bet the magnetic latch doesn't work in that, they always break.

[@onlogica]

And now you saved the laptop do you have a destiny for it other then collecting itas number xxxx?

[@vwestlife]

I already have a new owner for the laptop.

[@ryanravencaller]

My school has those and I love them! The factory OS. is Windows 7

[@droolerdork]

Watching your videos makes me want to go scavenge an electronic recycling place.

[@WaybackTECH]

The invalid serial number can be due to a motherboard being replaced because you have to program the serial number and model # and a bunch of other crap. Something like a DMIEDIT tool would do it, however there are special HP dmiedit tools you have to hunt around for specific models for it to program the serial # usually only HP Techs are supposed to have these but you can google them and usually find nice people who have uploaded them.

[@stormgirl09]

that looks like a pretty decent laptop and it isnt really that that old...i wonder why someone would want to get rid of it...

[@leonvdd]

Recycling center??? That's my laptop!!!

[@tlrpltz]

What recycling center does he go to!?

[@jamesjeagar5691]

In Britain we can't pick stuff like that up from a recycling center now, shame really.

[@smallenginedude71]

i bet you it has a radaeon gpu. i had a similar issue on a asus laptop. the chip completely failed. no picture at all.

[@DanielGomez-bn4yc]

+smallenginedude71 it is a radeon

[@smallenginedude71]

Daniel Gomez YUP!!

[@joeyplays9443]

Actually there is another SODIMM under the keyboard. It's weird. They put one SODIMM on one side, and another on the other side. So if you wanted to upgrade to the full 8 GB of RAM, you have to remove the keyboard for one of the SODIMMs.

[@MixShadowlight]

My school had tons of these, all working in perfect shape although some would really sqeak like mad when you move the hinges. These laptops often have hinge problems as well as wireless card issues lol. lightscribe drives are common for this particular model though.

[@pcross84]

Why would someone dump something like this? The specs are similar to the computer I use everyday for graphics design, 3D modeling, and webdesign.

[@archechme]

because it's fucked! did you even watch the video?

[@brennandaugstrup894]

it would be an easy fix, I got an elitebook 8440p with a core i5 for FREE as well

[@starfrost6816]

Bjork Vlogdok well if it was fucked it wouldnt work.

[@Racecar564]

Very nice find!

[@PeptoBismolPone]

how do you get these laptops form the recycler you just dig in or ask them to look like what would i say to look around and be able to bring some home with me?

[@vwestlife]

Each recycling center has different policies.

[@Lollllllz]

the motherboard has to have its serial no. programmed into it with a dmi tool by hp .either its a motherboard replacement or it has been wiped.I always drool for elitebooks especially the dreamcolor ones.this video reminds me of p4 vaio laptop we have it would only blip its fan for a second when we first got it and it sorta fix itself and nowadays it would only need to "warm up" if you not use it for extended periods of time

[@PotatisKnug]

That a fast little guy.

[@weasel2htm]

If you need a hard drive cage for that, let me know, I might be able to find one in the bone yard. Major score though!

[@vwestlife]

I stuck in some cardboard to keep the hard drive in place. Good enough for me. :-)

[@我-r9t]

Why not run it with Windows 7 since it has 2048 MB of RAM?

[@leonvdd]

Its a core 2 dual 2.26-2.27ghz 160gb HDD and near the webcam is a light

[@NomadColossus]

Ghost in the machine!

[@pcross84]

And it's so clean!

[@SparksFox]

Looks like it's a more advanced version of my HP Compaq 6910p; and yes, the other RAM slot is under the keyboard.

[@HFkepley9312]

EliteBook is HP's mobile computer business line. the reason for the error could be the anti-theft technology of the BIOS if the system board was being replaced or repaired by HP and not putting on the serial number. The reason is common to HP Notebook PCs with the HP Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) beginning in late-2008, if the service technian not putting in the new serial number. the only way to repair the error is contacting HP . the smart card slot is used by businesses for ID's as a long in device instead of using passwords

[@idellhpcompaq]

Epic find!

[@SuperFirish]

Don't you love how a perfectly working machine was thrown away with a greenpeace sticker on it?

[@SuperFirish]

***** Do regular recycling centers in america have the proper equipment to recycle things like gold and batteries? (no insulting tone intended)

[@bigjeef1484]

I got a very similar model, and it was an amazing computer