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Hacked into Andys forbidden emocore skramz pc hahaha ahhh 2010s...

Hello @MikeTech are you ok? When there will be a new video? We're waiting 😄

You have no idea how many of these videos have played in the background while I work, with me chuckling when I hear you dealing with old familiar problems. From one Mike to another, thank you sir. Side note: Peelander-Z was right.... "So many Mike"

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The second one with large PSU, it has variable speed on the fan, and it speeds up and down based on the current consumption, which is really, probably on the 3.3V, which is actually pretty clever to anticipate the heat removal demand. A bit ackward supply indeed.

Vectra .... may preferred choice when picking a computer at the computer room to do my work, it was more like the second one, 166Mhz (no MMX). What a machine, all the clone around hung from time to time ... as you would expect from 95 and 98, whe HP .... it was way more stable. Many yeard later I managed to get one. ... 99% of them have been dumped, as they werre uses in offices. Hard to see one of plain brick at the home. Got a second one, loaded with 128MB, 4 x32 dimms and XP ... LOL. Savage. I used the second as parts and spares since case was totalled. AT one poin bought an IDE to SATA adapter (Marvell chip) to fit an SSD. No much difference at all, since it worked only in PIO mode. Fitting the 128GB kingston was another issue, since BIOS only allow 8.4G. I used Dinamic Overlay SW. A copy licensed to Seagate. OF course the main drive wasnt a Segate, but the SW would let to operate if you have a Seagate as slave. So I grab a Seagate and the SW enabled to install the overlay SW on the kingston. After that I put a mechanical, because, this is how is meant to be.

ATX in 1996? Wow

Well Mike, the RUclips monster has come knocking again, and it wants to know if you'll have another video for us soon? Perhaps something in a tasty vintage tower? Everyone loves a good Pentium II....

That heatsink setup is prettying interesting.

AT connectors and Slot 1? Heh

If you ever sell that inwin q500 (or another one) tho i'm definitely interested lol :p

spider, must be a web expert

Hey Mike, I've been curious about finding and collecting vintage and retro computers and I've been wondering about where you find these machines at. I've scoured all of my local thrift stores and no luck. Well actually no luck on any computers for that matter. I'm going to see if I have any e-waste centers in my area but any other suggestions on where I can find such a machine? Thank you in advance

My case is in very bad shape and needs to be painted, anyone know if You can buy the right color of paint?

IE was the long-standing default browser on Macs since the 90's. Safari was only introduced starting with Panther, and took some years to fully catch on.

My brother had this same tower and Medion laptop from ALDI in Australia. Also, use a mechanical pencil with no lead in it for bent CPU pins.

I spent my last birthday picking up some vintage Celestion SL6 and Bowers & Wilkins dm4 speakers. Can't beat having a good hobby!!! 😁😁

The area beside the Socket 4 is probably for a maths coprocessor

Micron and Dell just used the same chassis, the Palo Alto ATCX, in both cases with custom front bezels.

You know, Mike, these processors must have been beasts to use back in the day. Imagine having that kind of Pentium Pro power to use on a daily basis!

The Hard Drive LED did flicker just after: 48:40, The Power Lead probably just needed switching round on the Header Pins and the LED should have lit up then! 🙂 Anthony - Birmingham/UK 🇬🇧

I have seen corrupted characters during POST before on a display it is due to the monitor being in a non standard mode for that graphics card to display (either resolution or refresh rate) meaning it don't support it. However like you have seen it will sort itself out once you boot into windows. I also thought it was strange the first time I seen it. Sometimes computers can do some quirky things.

Thank goodness for modern pc's.

Those are some pretty futuristic cases for the late 90s

😢😢😢 indeed a retro paradise

Interesting as usual, thanks!

That tag on the speaker is from Escorts Kubota Florida Division which is a company based mainly in India with some divisions around the world and they manufacture agricultural machinery, construction machinery, material handling, and railway equipment. So that looks like a company machine used by them might have been for POS or Accounting purposes.

mezmerizing, outstanding work! thank you a lot for this video, I learned a lot - I got such a case kinda AT style (with normales 5,25 drive bays), with the large power switch, was a 286 computer once, but now its an 166 mmx multi os time machine! I love it! thank you again!

Great troubleshooting, with unexpected assembly programming! During the first low level formatting, the system reported 2 diskette drives, when only one floppy disk drive was connected.

were you at VCF SW? ... will you be posting a video of it if you were? keep up the good work.

Where do you get all your old computers because I'm not paying 200 for a old 486 PC off ebay

I think you got lucky in that Antec power supply, by far my favorite from the 2000's. Rock solid and run forever. The Trident card while being old is another very reliable card and works on just about any system (an outstanding DOS card). I still use one just like it to test systems on my bench.

Strange and unusual position for the power supply.

I remember Aldi having pcs and laptops in store over the years. They were in the glass display case along with the other random special buys

For being a "younger" guy you sure know your PC history. I have been in the PC world since the late 80's early 90's you know the early era machines quite well. I love that iMac knock off case ... would you sell it?

I love ur vids can u try to post more often

That messed-up startup screen looks like Breakout on the Apple //e

I cannot believe you are bringing back the inner nerd of the early 00s I was lol

I agree with you about the soundcard lol

The Willamette pentium 4's always reminded me of the Northwood Core Pentium 4's slapped onto an interposer. You can perfectly fit a Northwood Pentium 4 right on top of that heatspreader on the Willamette. Also NMB Technologies Corporation is a MinebeaMitsumi Group company makes mostly computer components fans,power supplies etc. as well as industrial electronics.

Can someone make a video of how to make a ms-dos startup disk floppy with cd-rom support

Yech barracuda hate those drives

I swear the makers of all those weird to open hp 2000~ pc cases, were the same that made the pt cruisers window controls location.

I had that gemstone case back in the day with a K6-2. It's made by Sunon Suntek (STK-7618) and came with a beige front panel amd handle to swap with the translucent one. I actually did take the metal off the side panel.

that extra slot is for a video accelerator card. diamond made one that I know of...I used to own it

You can repin those DuPont headers to match any header layout

Another great vid Mike 👍🏻 Look forward to the next vid. Cheers 🍻

My first computer was a Vectra VLi! It had a Slot 1 500 MHz Pentium III, 384 MB PC100 RAM, and a 20 GB Maxtor HDD running Windows 98. …In 2003. I had to finish assembling it and install Windows myself (with some help from Dad, as I was 9 at the time).