The Motherload of Dell Latitude D600 Series Laptops!! Let's test them out...

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 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...

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 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.

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.........

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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!

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.

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

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

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'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.

YOU COULD DO THE WINDOWS 11 THROUGH RUFUS

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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!

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

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

And You Should Pull Off T9300 And Put On You D630

to unlock unplug battery plug back in presto

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Oh,i had D600,nice one it was.

This makes me want to get back into my dad's Fujitsu Lifebook which is of similar vintage. I upgraded the RAM to 4(?) GB and gave it an SSD. It currently has Windows 10. I think I had considered replacing the CPU but never did. Until a couple years ago my dad was using it run Quicken and check email, but now it's buried under piles of stuff. Thanks for the inspiration.

Advanced troubleshooting...
Remove CD/DVD drive, remove audio and trackpad cable from palm rest that connects to motherboard...Disconnect antenna from Wi-Fi card and remove Wi-Fi card, also remove modem card and bluetooth card...Also remove battery...Hook up to external monitor...If nothing on the screen swap memory from one bank to the other and put in a lower ram stick...If still nothing on the screen, replace CPU with a known working CPU...And don't forget to remove cmos battery for 30 seconds...One last trick, swap a known working keyboard to see if that is preventing it from starting up...
I know because I have several D531 laptops that I leave on all the time...Sometimes a device gets stuck in memory and shuts down the computer...

I have a Dell precision m4300 that is I think a rebranded d620 with a different aluminum lid? Not sure but I have it and its design is very similar to the D series shown in this video. The keyboard on mine feels awesome and it's one of my favorites. I upgraded mine from 2gb to 4gb of ram and from a core 2 duo t7500 to a t7700. It's currently running vista on its original hard drive. Mine is also in pretty good condition. Although I wish I could get the Quadro graphics to work on Windows xp.

It's been awhile since you put a video out, I hope everything is ok there. If you look at your views, you'll see that vintage tower pcs get the most---I too wouldn't mind seeing a new video on one of those. I hope your holidays season is awesome :)

Still waiting on that Vista on IBM NetVista PC video...

Can anyone help? Mine d600 doesnt show display but the disk spins up and lights turn on but nothing much else