Laptop from a Dumpster - can I restore it?

Hi everyone thank your time, In this video I restore ASUS K52J Laptop that was found in a dumpster. I did not believe that this laptop will work but the laptop turns to be okay, it's rare something like this. But I have one more thing that I got together with the laptop, but that is going to be in another video.

✔️Disclaimer: I Done this project for personal use only, not for sale or any other distribution now or in the future. Also, personally I do Not sell any components, other hardware or software.

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[maurosantos]

Very satisfying to see another machine saved form destruction.

[nikolaszisoudis]

I abaolutely love dumpster driving. I am dumpster diver myself. Kepp up the great work!

[iRedMCYT]

The case is too much broken

This video is the most relaxing tech video I’ve watched… I think ever.

[watercannonscollaboration]

18:48 that flicker might be because the display brightness is adjusted with PWM on those lowered brightness levels. Great to see the whole process to get this laptop running again

[kalangototal]

Finding something like this here, in Brazil, would be the same as finding gold thrown in the trash.

Here we generally take what we can and fix it, and generally, it comes in the worst possible state, and without working, and we try to keep it working until the machine can no longer handle it.

currently, my setup is a samsung np270e5e intel celeron 847, DDR3 8GB and it was also possible to fix it, it's not complete, it's basically just the case and the motherboard, but I was able to fix it and it's working fine.

Excellent work with the restoration of this equipment, good job.

[colinwheeler]

Enjoyed that it takes me back when I was a field engineer repairing laptop s with similar and more complicated problems every day I miss the satisfaction but sadly I am retired now 25 years was enough look forward to your next video

[ravn-zxvz]

this is Asus x52. i have the same but with lower specs. i5 and 513 video card. it works perfectly fine today with windows 10

[omarfmarquezs]

Absolutamente un gran trabajo Andrew, tu canal es increíble como siempre, aprendí mucho sobre restauración de equipos contigo.

[firefoxclub]

These trash laptop have better specs than my current laptop

[sebastian]

I have a similar laptop (Compal NCL60) that came with Core I3-380M CPU and 4G of DDR3 RAM when I bought it around 2011. After upgrades, and yearly cleaning, I had to retire it because its keyboard started to fail. With its final configuration (Core I5, 8G DDR3 RAM), it performed very well with Windows 7 Pro x64 until last year when its keyboard failed. Sadly, I can not find a suitable keyboard and to use it with a USB keyboard makes no sense, so I retired it until I would repair it. Even being old, first gen Core CPU, HM55 chipset, integrated Intel graphics, performed wery well; I was able to browse the internet, watch Youtube, play old-ish games.
I am glad you save it.

[derricknyakundi]

Very professional. Nice work @Cat and Andrew

[leangxd]

Hello brother, good yo see you again
Good video
Really nice restoration

[DyJUSTO]

Great job Andrew, like always, 5 stars! Congrats!

[VIDSInsight]

Nice video, Andrew! Your computer passion and the soundtrack music is a good combo!👍

[drcybr]

Back in school I was dumpster diving with a good friend after school. That was about 5 years ago. You were able to find such good stuff, like MacBooks, modern phones or decent PCs. Today there are too many people dumpster diving here in Germany (even if it is illegal, but no one really cares). If you find a nice PC it was taken apart already and everything good is long gone. But you sometimes still find nice stuff like Bose bluetooth speakers (I have found two already).

[michaelthompson]

Coming in clutch Andrew using an Nvidia cloth to clean an AMD Radeon GPU based laptop 💻 😅😂🤣😅🤣🤣!
Awesome video once again my good sir 😇🥰🤩👍

[ajwadh_ahmed]

your all restoration videos makes me satisfied

[김준수-iu]

your restoration always make me relaxed

[Helifax]

From Dumpster to Glory! Marvelous work!

[baldomar]

I love these videos of yours Andrew, I really enjoy them