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LGR - Repairing The Barbie Computer (Patreon)

Published:
2016-02-24 05:45:05
Imported:
2021-03

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And now for something rather different. A video log of my process repairing the Mattel Barbie PC!

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LGR - Repairing The Barbie Computer

Uploaded by Lazy Game Reviews on 2016-02-24.

Comments

Anonymous

Wow I'm the first person to comment. I feel special. And baking a motherboard?! Wow! I had never heard of that. I thought you were just being a goof because it was trashed haha. Now I know about reflowing and that's awesome. I love the hardware videos!

Anonymous

You surprise me. Re-flowing isn't something I thought I would ever see on a gamers channel. My respect for you increased. Now you just have to tear down the broken power supply and swap out all the capacitors.

Anonymous

Doom II on a Barbie PC. Truly the only way the game was meant to be played. And while I can appreciate fitting all the major components in a small form PC, trying to repair/replace parts is a freaking headache. Taking out 3 or 4 items just to get to the one thing you want to replace? No bueno.

Anonymous

Nice, what sort of marinade do you like to use for your mobos? I like a nice balsamic and garlic, personally.

Anonymous

Ah i miss the win98 login sound, i really need to reconfigure my win10 so its more win98 likey

Anonymous

WOW! Never heard of re-flowing. Learned something new!

Anonymous
>>1406873

I think Duke 3d would been the more funny of choices but that just me.

Anonymous

Ye gods ! Internet connection sharing, what a nightmare.

Anonymous

Your mouse cursors seem to have beards.

Alyxx the Rat

I've vaguely heard of the "baking motherboard" procedure from some hardcore computer enthusiast friends but seeing it in action is still baffling. It just... works. And fucking props to you for managing to get it working again with that case design. Would've driven me insane for sure, I'm used to tower computers and ATX standards...

Anonymous

I'd love to see you do a series on repairing computers.

Anonymous

Great job.

Sabrina

Clint 1, Barbie 0. It should minus 100, because this computer model is the crappiest thing you've delighted us with. Good work!

Anonymous

0/10, didn't have custom Barbie-themed startup sound. =P Also, gotta love the name you gave that thing's hard drive.

Runefox

I bet that machine doesn't actually have a MIDI chipset at all, and the Hot Wheels is the same way; The driver for the Hot Wheels' sound card probably installs a basic softsynth / hooks into Windows' Roland-based MIDI driver. I'd be interested to see if it works in "pure" DOS mode. Either way, I'd love to see more repair logs / cleanup logs like these for the old computers you collect. Even if there's not much to it, seeing the guts and how they worked is a ton of fun.

LazyGameReviews
>>1408440

You are correct, it has some software settings for Sound Blaster emulation in the control panel! Doesn't play sound in DOS mode at all :)

LazyGameReviews
>>1407965

Haha, glad someone noticed the hard drive! The computer description is also "PressThePressThePressThe"

LazyGameReviews
>>1407245

Tell me about it. Had to hook up an Internet connecting sharing network thing in high school on the Windows 95 computers once, it was AWFUL

LazyGameReviews
>>1406823

I'm thinking about it, just because it'd be good to have a spare. But then again, working spares are super easy and quite cheap to find online, I was able to source three of them when rebuilding these!

Anonymous

I'd have taken that 2032 battery out before sticking it in the oven :)

LazyGameReviews
>>1408975

As you can see in the video where I showed it in the oven, I absolutely did :) Putting a battery in an oven is a clear recipe for disaster..

Eric Christopher

During the mid 2000s there were some all-in-one PCs that were about as good.

Anonymous

Loved this video. I really hope a video on the two comes soon!

Anonymous

Loved the video Clint, good to see you get your hands dirty...

Anonymous

Barbie is gonna be so happy you fixed her computer. Now you have to review every single late 90s Barbie PC Game.

Lindsay Michelle

Your voice is so relaxing, especially hearing it after the super chaotic day I had. I like your rambling videos in general because it brings that out in you the most, I think. Even when you swore and bleeped it out -- that at least made me laugh even if interrupted the chill mode of the video. XD But really, you could read the dictionary (or to be even more retro, a phone book) and I'd probably be relaxed even from that, haha. :)

Anonymous

HGR - hard-working game reviews!

Anonymous

Only you can make repairing a PC interesting. Nice job.

Anonymous

Wow that was incredibly interesting

Anonymous

omigosh you actually got one!

Anonymous

Did you leave the fan with putty or did you switch it out?

Anonymous

Fresh baked motherboard > Fresh baked cookies

Anonymous

Clint, watching this made me want to build a Win95 (or3.3.1) just to remind me how easy it is now :D

Alessandro Perlini

Well, I didn't know anything about that "baking" process... When you put that motherboard in the oven I thought "well, he surrended in a funny way" but then I was like "WHAT?". The things you can do with this technology will never cease to amaze me. Great stuff, sir.

Anonymous

I hope you don't use that oven again after reflowing the soldier because the lead can release chemicals that can cause you to get sick or poisoned.