I really like how you edit those videos and even how you approach it. You cut to the chase and just go for it without 20 minutes of explaining stuff and do a 30 second teardown! I really like that!
It's a Biostar M5ALC board. It does look pretty good aside from the ALi chipset. I've had bad luck with those and stability in Win98 (esp with AGP cards) but hardware of this era can be finicky in general. Prefer VIA MVP3 boards myself. Would make a pretty overkill DOS rig though.
No notes whatsoever. You even know when it's time to stop the repair before you throw good time after bad. You're nailing these videos -- keep up the great work!
Every episode, I will learn from you. As always, you talk nicely. Greetings from Poland . Co odcinek , to się od Ciebie nauczę . Jak zawsze fajnie opowiadasz . Pozdrawiam z Polski .
I used to hoard as many computers as you do, my local recycling center was pretty chill and let me pick stuff. I have kept at LOT. Such a fun thing to do, you never know what you gonna get. I remember one PC cas that was heavy, and it felt like there was loose stuff in it. When I opened it, it was full of CPUs, RAM stick and loose chips of all kinds. Like a treasure chest. One thing I often find is CDs in the drives, and sometimes it's retail games.
I did watch a video on YT about the best way to apply thermal compound to CPUs. It shown that spreading it out like that is not the best way because air can get trapped. The best way to apply it is to let the heatsink spread it out for you.
Hey man, I just wanted to say that I really appreciate what you're doing here. Your repair techniques are top notch--I was an electronics tech in the Navy (with Miniature and Microminiature electronics repair certification) and it's always nice to spot others so well-versed in the field in the wild. One tip I might have is to invest in multiple soldering iron tip sizes--the one you used to replace the cap, though it got the job done, was a bit on the larger side. They are pretty cheap on Amazon these days (I think I got a dozen or so different tip sizes for my Weller for less than $20). Cheers and thanks again from someone who has been actively involved in computer building/repair since the late 90's!
RIP retro systems may your spare parts live on in other systems! Another great video ahh for Friday mornings! Have fun at VCF midwest and control that urge to buy lol. Have s safe trip!
The PC that you looked at, with the missing agp slot, That card can be retrofitted with an agp slot. The bios May need to be updated depends on the rev of it. I did one for my dad, before he passed away.
That third P4 system, I use the version of that board with AGP for my late 98/XP rig (P4P800-VM). It's actually a very capable board for a late era 98/XP dual boot rig since that 865 chipset is surprisingly stable in 98. Even gives me full USB2 mass storage speeds no problems which is usually a stickler for 98 and later boards like this. I wonder too if you could solder an AGP slot onto it and if it'd actually work. The 865GV chipset does support AGP, the only hurdle I can think of is BIOS support - but maybe flashing it with the BIOS file for a different board would remedy that.
Mike awesome as always, awesome tip about using the desoldering alloy as I'm a novice at soldering so it will definitely come in handy, I laugh as you post regularly on Fridays, two of my other favorite computer channels -Phils Computer Lab and LGR have also started posting regularly on Fridays after sporatic upload schedules just as your subscribers count grows, maybe just a coincidence but I at least like to think you had something to do with them getting off their duffs and back to work😂
CyberMax was a marque of Fountain Computers based out of Somerset, NJ. They also sold machines under the Quantex, Pionex, Pionex Elite, and Inteva brand names. I was working at a PC shop at the time and we were selling Pionex Elite machines to customers. The cases were exactly the same as that CyberMax, just a different front panel attached to them. The hardware configurations were similar too. They loved Biostar and FordLian/RedFox boards.
31:30 Yes, that card reader was cut out of a mid-2000s HP Pavillion. I happen to have one at arm's reach as I'm watching this! Color, layout, shape (except for the snapped missing chunk on the right 🙃), and font are an exact match.
23:30 cool case, too new for my liking but apperciate the break down and run down on it! thanks again for all these videos Mike and sorry for so many comments !
I wonder if Rosewill made that third case. Rosewill being Newegg's inhouse brand. I bought one of their cases once. Paper thin steel like material that would bend if I you looked at it wrong.
I know exactly what happened to cause the frankensteined system 3. An HP desktop board had it's southbridge die and they harvested what they could for the cheapest possible fix. I've done something similar for customers in the past, except I've never hacked up a card reader to shoehorn in a new case.
That second system... I had a couple generation machines in those cases When I saw you grab that from panel I was so worried, those damn things needed quite a pull even brand new hehehe Edit: Forgot to add that, for cleaning contacts on cards and RAM sticks and stuff, pencil eraser. My father gave me that trick over 20 years ago, still as relevant today :)
About power supplies from the early 2000s, they usually are made to deliver more power on the 5V rail than modern ones, so you can't use some of the more power hungry graphics cards without a ridiculously overrated modern power supply. Therefore those old ones might just be worth trying to fix.
I always get a kick out of the "de-dusted" phrase. Would that not mean that you are 'adding' dust to the system. As in "Hey, I'm tired of dusting all the furniture in the house. I'm going to start de-dusting the furniture instead." No? Just never heard anyone say "de-dusted" before and that's the first place my mind went. Nice job on spotting those bulging caps on the first system. I was yelling at the screen when you first opened it the showed the board and was going to comment, but of course you noticed. I am in the "cracked/bad BGA issue" bandwagon with the chipset regarding the motherboard not working. Good job, regardless.
For the S2, take the battery out, let it discharge for a few secs, ans try to power it up again. Sometimes a low battery hangs the rtc and the bios code freaks out.
If you see LGR (Clint) there at VCFMidwest, definitely say hi! He likes what you do, and I'm sure you've seen his stuff. Have fun, stay safe and good travels!
Another good video. And I was wrong about never having seen an 'Enlight' PC. I updated one of those for my brother's girlfriend about 12 years ago. Like you, I'm a fan of COMPAQ computers. My first PC was a COMPAQ Deskpro 4000, with Pentium 120, which I upgraded to 166 MMX. It had EDO Ram. 64 kb.
just saw your channel by accident, but wau didnt get here .. pure awesome video and nice tips on most components what, how and where .. hope to see more of this kind of videos in the future on how to maintain pc computer hardware
Love your video's. Had a "Escom" P90 back in the day. Mum had to carry it herself all the way up the High Street! Love to see another some day. Had OS/2 Warp with Win 3.11 built in.
Cool finds, that Gigabyte board could be useful as a sort of bridge between new and old if it works, could probably run XP just fine. Could be fun to try to add an AGP slot to that board, it doesn't have much value without it.
That usb card reader came from an hp system I just did a similar thing after it died recently 26:32 they cut off the rest of the curved part that was designed for the dumb curved faceplate gotta love up cycleing and it works great too.
The hard drive failed within a month and I had to sent the whole PC back to have it replaced. Then one of the SIMM slots came off the mother board when I tried to upgrade the RAM. Both times they covered the shipping and repairs. It worked great but I never got to use the fancy new VESA slots. @@keithbrown7685
Btw,you CAN add AGP. But,it would be a LOT of work,and you would need to find configuration resistors. And not only that,it could be missing all the ICs, needin' to drive the AGP.
On that board, for AGP to work you'd need to replace the chipset too. The 865GV has the AGP port fused off in hardware, it's integrated extreme graphics or PCI only. ASRock and some other vendors did make 865GV with an AGP slot, but that's actually wired through PCI.
It does help give a sense of the PC's history... what left, what came in its place, what changed for the worse (such as the case quality). Imo, the most interesting PCs, though they seem to be rare, incorporate as much of the old and new as possible. Everything is a testiment to what changed and what wasn't coming back, like the 5 1/4 drive. Also, the advent of SATA and PCIx, the departure of AGP. Other things, too, but you see what I mean.
I know this video is a couple months old, but I didn't see any comments about the date code. That's called a Julian date, it's a combination of year (09) and days since the start of the year (335), so it was manufactured December 1, 2009.
Card reader in system 3 was chopped out of a HP/Compaq Presario SR1500NX or similar. (I have one I'm trying to get working for windows XP gaming right now.) Oddly none of the other parts look like they're OEM
interesting to see something newer in the pile. for those modems i kept finding them too and it was the first thing to pull out and throw them aside without even testing them but thought one day ill do something with them...and that day has yet to come. i easy have 20-30 of those modems and still wondering why im keeping them. maybe time to send them. for hard drives id rather get more sata ones. i already have too many ide ones and i rare use any of them and i dont need any more of them for my od old pc tinkering. but could easy find uses for sata ones. i did have a place i got piles of drives (lucky got some 500, 1tb and 2tb ones) quite a few had bad sectors or be totally dead but still plenty good ones that were healthy. sadly that place does not get rid of them as much and when they do they smash them up so there no good for anything apart from salvaging magnets etc. and i already have more than need. so if there smashed i don't even bother taking them. guess no more free drives for me :(
If you add a case like system number 2 has to your collection... Here's a valuable tip from my years of experience- *Remember to pick up this case by the left & right sides & NOT the front & rear.* You can pick up pretty much ANY other PC case from the front & rear but.... *Not this one* I'm🤣now... But was😭back then...
Stumbled across your channel when searching for IBM videos.. love your enthusiasm! Where do you store all your finds? I need to limit my PC gear to IBM branded only due to limited space.
i got a wierd samsung dvd drive which the tray dosent comes out. i opened it it was clean inside but the tray is actually hitting the lens mechanism for some reason and i had to cut extend part from lens bottom side and after that the drive worked fine.
I would definitely remove the CMOS battery out of that socket 775 motherboard. Out of all old socket 775 motherboards I have worked on, the vast majority were "repaired" by clearing the CMOS and reseating components, and the voltage on that battery is low enough that I don't trust it.
That first motherboard…. Capacitor plague has taken its toll on that thing. The best way to get rid of issues with system not booting is to pull all the electrolytic caps, and do some ESR and capacitance testing on all of them (need to pull them out for accurate readings) As for replacement capacitors, while ideally one would want exact value replacements, they aren’t often available or common, so for testing purposes one can use capacitors with an equal or higher capacitance rating and equal or higher voltage, as well as operating temperature rating if applicable. Of course, the prudent thing would be to replace that capacitor with the correct rating and values as soon as reasonably possible, but there should be no issues as the capacitor will only charge up to the circuit’s supplied voltage and no more - it’s not an inductor or voltage ladder.
With a computer running Windows Server and having both a dialup modem and ethernet adapter, and an ATA, it is possible to get old computers onto the internet without actually having dialup service.
They’re made by a company called Enlight. These were some of the best cases of the time. They were also among the first to feature the easily-swappable drive caddys/rails.
Wow the spec is pretty high end for the No. 3 PC in its era. Back in 2000s, my home PC only has 256mb RAM. I didn't get to use a faster PC until i built one in 2008
Gotta point out that recap on the M5ALC - you forgot to replace the bigger puffy cap next to the one you soldered in :) But to be honest - the fact that the board POST'd only once tells me you might need to replace them all and test again. Chances are a full recap should bring it back alive.
14:20 I wonder if the manfactuer or technician who made that ding was like "oh well, no ones going to see this anyways" boom come a decade later, it's on youtube for the world to see haha : )
You've convinced me to try that desoldering alloy, I have a Gigabyte board with 23(!) bloated caps. Do you use a separate iron tip for it to avoid contamination or just lots and lots of cleaning when switching to soldering the new parts in?
I use the same tip. A brass solder sponge is sufficient for cleaning it off before final soldering. The minute amount left after cleaning won’t cause a problem.
I think that first board had a bad cap. One world of advice. If you ever find a socket 478 or what not with bad caps on the motherboard. Check the PSU for bad caps too.
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Your videos combine two of my favourite things, vintage tech and big arms. 😈
I really like how you edit those videos and even how you approach it. You cut to the chase and just go for it without 20 minutes of explaining stuff and do a 30 second teardown! I really like that!
"Speed Holes!" LOL! Love it!
Mike, your sense of humor cracks me up. Gremlins indeed!
Yay - my Friday afternoon again is complete with a MikeTech awesome video!
Mike has to be the most wholesome retro youtuber I ever seen.
I worked at a local computer store from 1999-2001. Your system 2 case I sold SO. MANY. of them. One of my favorite cases with plenty of room.
I really like that SS7 board!
* mATX
* ESS Solo-1
* Super Socket 7
* AGP + PCI + ISA
Full bang in small form factor!
It's a Biostar M5ALC board.
It does look pretty good aside from the ALi chipset. I've had bad luck with those and stability in Win98 (esp with AGP cards) but hardware of this era can be finicky in general. Prefer VIA MVP3 boards myself.
Would make a pretty overkill DOS rig though.
This one is definitely worth the resurrection effort!
Allways a good day when MikeTech telling us up about vintage computers :)
YEAH, Mike's back !! _TSST_ 😂😂
The extent of your knowledge is incredible, nice video once again.
I love how much of a handyman you are with repairing this stuff. It's really interesting to watch.
No notes whatsoever. You even know when it's time to stop the repair before you throw good time after bad. You're nailing these videos -- keep up the great work!
You deserve a sponsorship for DeoxIT at this point.
13:53 that's the newest system iv seen you take apart
It felt weird. Eww, SATA!
@@miketech1024 ya m.2 is way better
8:10 thank you for using the proper amount of thermal paste.
Every episode, I will learn from you. As always, you talk nicely. Greetings from Poland . Co odcinek , to się od Ciebie nauczę . Jak zawsze fajnie opowiadasz . Pozdrawiam z Polski .
I used to hoard as many computers as you do, my local recycling center was pretty chill and let me pick stuff. I have kept at LOT. Such a fun thing to do, you never know what you gonna get. I remember one PC cas that was heavy, and it felt like there was loose stuff in it. When I opened it, it was full of CPUs, RAM stick and loose chips of all kinds. Like a treasure chest.
One thing I often find is CDs in the drives, and sometimes it's retail games.
I did watch a video on YT about the best way to apply thermal compound to CPUs. It shown that spreading it out like that is not the best way because air can get trapped. The best way to apply it is to let the heatsink spread it out for you.
The paintbrush and sewing needle were excellent ideas! Definitely going to put those in the ol' bag of tricks.
Hey man, I just wanted to say that I really appreciate what you're doing here. Your repair techniques are top notch--I was an electronics tech in the Navy (with Miniature and Microminiature electronics repair certification) and it's always nice to spot others so well-versed in the field in the wild. One tip I might have is to invest in multiple soldering iron tip sizes--the one you used to replace the cap, though it got the job done, was a bit on the larger side. They are pretty cheap on Amazon these days (I think I got a dozen or so different tip sizes for my Weller for less than $20). Cheers and thanks again from someone who has been actively involved in computer building/repair since the late 90's!
I appreciate the use of an AOL disk
Dude thanks for posting this today. IT work this week has been dragging on me.
RIP retro systems may your spare parts live on in other systems! Another great video ahh for Friday mornings! Have fun at VCF midwest and control that urge to buy lol. Have s safe trip!
The PC that you looked at, with the missing agp slot, That card can be retrofitted with an agp slot. The bios May need to be updated depends on the rev of it. I did one for my dad, before he passed away.
That third P4 system, I use the version of that board with AGP for my late 98/XP rig (P4P800-VM). It's actually a very capable board for a late era 98/XP dual boot rig since that 865 chipset is surprisingly stable in 98. Even gives me full USB2 mass storage speeds no problems which is usually a stickler for 98 and later boards like this.
I wonder too if you could solder an AGP slot onto it and if it'd actually work. The 865GV chipset does support AGP, the only hurdle I can think of is BIOS support - but maybe flashing it with the BIOS file for a different board would remedy that.
An AGP mod would be an interesting project!
Mike awesome as always, awesome tip about using the desoldering alloy as I'm a novice at soldering so it will definitely come in handy, I laugh as you post regularly on Fridays, two of my other favorite computer channels -Phils Computer Lab and LGR have also started posting regularly on Fridays after sporatic upload schedules just as your subscribers count grows, maybe just a coincidence but I at least like to think you had something to do with them getting off their duffs and back to work😂
I mean you just use any type of solder and it should work almost as good, if not as good.
@@beardsntools It can be done with regular leaded solder, but it’s much easier with the alloy. It’s almost unbelievable how well it works.
CyberMax was a marque of Fountain Computers based out of Somerset, NJ. They also sold machines under the Quantex, Pionex, Pionex Elite, and Inteva brand names. I was working at a PC shop at the time and we were selling Pionex Elite machines to customers. The cases were exactly the same as that CyberMax, just a different front panel attached to them. The hardware configurations were similar too. They loved Biostar and FordLian/RedFox boards.
Thanks for the info! So they were bigger than I thought.
31:30 Yes, that card reader was cut out of a mid-2000s HP Pavillion. I happen to have one at arm's reach as I'm watching this! Color, layout, shape (except for the snapped missing chunk on the right 🙃), and font are an exact match.
23:30 cool case, too new for my liking but apperciate the break down and run down on it!
thanks again for all these videos Mike and sorry for so many comments !
Comments are good! 🙂 The algo likes them.
I wonder if Rosewill made that third case. Rosewill being Newegg's inhouse brand. I bought one of their cases once. Paper thin steel like material that would bend if I you looked at it wrong.
aw yeah buddy. early morning miketech. this + coffee = comfy mornin.
I know exactly what happened to cause the frankensteined system 3. An HP desktop board had it's southbridge die and they harvested what they could for the cheapest possible fix. I've done something similar for customers in the past, except I've never hacked up a card reader to shoehorn in a new case.
That second system... I had a couple generation machines in those cases
When I saw you grab that from panel I was so worried, those damn things needed quite a pull even brand new hehehe
Edit: Forgot to add that, for cleaning contacts on cards and RAM sticks and stuff, pencil eraser. My father gave me that trick over 20 years ago, still as relevant today :)
11:23 me too, beautiful case.
Yay... mystery machines... meanwhile i wanna start an SI with that name
Stumbled into your channel a few weeks back. Videos are awesome!!
So Much Fun Recycling Computers! the last chassis is a keeper in my opinion!
I always enjoy your videos. One thing that really stood out to me was the POST analyzer card. That was pretty neat.
Awesome video! Looking forward to seeing you at VCFMW!
See you there! 🙂
About power supplies from the early 2000s, they usually are made to deliver more power on the 5V rail than modern ones, so you can't use some of the more power hungry graphics cards without a ridiculously overrated modern power supply. Therefore those old ones might just be worth trying to fix.
i do have few old computer. i like collecting them. brings back my highschool memories. also they are not much left most of them are scrapped.
Yay! Another video! This is a blessed day!
As a German I appreciate your pronunciation of Knoppix!
I always get a kick out of the "de-dusted" phrase. Would that not mean that you are 'adding' dust to the system. As in "Hey, I'm tired of dusting all the furniture in the house. I'm going to start de-dusting the furniture instead." No? Just never heard anyone say "de-dusted" before and that's the first place my mind went. Nice job on spotting those bulging caps on the first system. I was yelling at the screen when you first opened it the showed the board and was going to comment, but of course you noticed. I am in the "cracked/bad BGA issue" bandwagon with the chipset regarding the motherboard not working. Good job, regardless.
26:28 looks like it's from a mid 2000s Compaq machine. I did similar endeavors at one point..
With all the 56k modems u've got you can start a retro ISP
I’ve thought about starting a BBS. There are so few actual dial-in BBS systems now.
@@miketech1024 that could be cool I’ve only been on a few BBS but non that I’ve ever actually had to dial into
Friday saved🎉 Nice systems!
For the S2, take the battery out, let it discharge for a few secs, ans try to power it up again. Sometimes a low battery hangs the rtc and the bios code freaks out.
If you see LGR (Clint) there at VCFMidwest, definitely say hi! He likes what you do, and I'm sure you've seen his stuff. Have fun, stay safe and good travels!
Another good video. And I was wrong about never having seen an 'Enlight' PC. I updated one of those for my brother's girlfriend about 12 years ago. Like you, I'm a fan of COMPAQ computers. My first PC was a COMPAQ Deskpro 4000, with Pentium 120, which I upgraded to 166 MMX. It had EDO Ram. 64 kb.
its good to see those floppy drive still works. i have like 5+ drives all dead condition.
i had a motherboard i put new cmos battery in and it worked so i would try the first one you tried
And we got some kind of hoard of retro parts 😉
27:30
Darn still no sparks or hard drive splatter lol
That day may yet still come!
@@miketech1024 Perhaps you could get one of your 3dfx cards to put a voodoo curse on the drives? 😈
@@miketech1024 And I for one will be here when it happens!
just saw your channel by accident, but wau didnt get here .. pure awesome video and nice tips on most components what, how and where .. hope to see more of this kind of videos in the future on how to maintain pc computer hardware
9:08 that beautiful µATX Super Socket 7 Board with ALI Chipset.
I see a "slightly" discolored Coil, right next to the Cap you replaced.
Love that you apply thermal paste with a guitar pick
Awesome video!😊
Love your video's. Had a "Escom" P90 back in the day. Mum had to carry it herself all the way up the High Street! Love to see another some day. Had OS/2 Warp with Win 3.11 built in.
You should put that mobo with the gremlins in the oven for a quick diy reball of sorts ! Lol
Would love to see a AGP slot mod, I have quite some computers with no slot in storage at work.
Cool finds, that Gigabyte board could be useful as a sort of bridge between new and old if it works, could probably run XP just fine. Could be fun to try to add an AGP slot to that board, it doesn't have much value without it.
Dude with arms like yours, you can crumple sheet metal like tin foil!
9:40 you know you love to see it Mike! : )
That usb card reader came from an hp system I just did a similar thing after it died recently 26:32 they cut off the rest of the curved part that was designed for the dumb curved faceplate gotta love up cycleing and it works great too.
My first PC was a 1996 Cybermax 486DX2. It was one of those brands that were heavily advertised in Computer Shopper.
And how was it when you finally got to try it at home?
The hard drive failed within a month and I had to sent the whole PC back to have it replaced. Then
one of the SIMM slots came off the mother board when I tried to upgrade the RAM. Both times they covered the shipping and repairs. It worked great but I never got to use the fancy new VESA slots. @@keithbrown7685
seems like they got rid of that last computer a few months after Windows XP's expiration date
They stayed more current than some companies!
first motherboard might have an issue with BGA solder balls under the chipset.
Hey Cutie, with all your new modems you should build an ISP or BBS for fun! Haha
Btw,you CAN add AGP.
But,it would be a LOT of work,and you would need to find configuration resistors.
And not only that,it could be missing all the ICs, needin' to drive the AGP.
On that board, for AGP to work you'd need to replace the chipset too. The 865GV has the AGP port fused off in hardware, it's integrated extreme graphics or PCI only.
ASRock and some other vendors did make 865GV with an AGP slot, but that's actually wired through PCI.
That Gigabyte G41 mobo is a great one. I still have 2 systems running with them Mike!
Hey Mike, did you try re-seat the bios rom chip on that first motherboard ?
are these from the Franklin E-Waste haul?
Yes.
Is it weird that the card reader is the most interesting part of this video for me?
It does help give a sense of the PC's history... what left, what came in its place, what changed for the worse (such as the case quality).
Imo, the most interesting PCs, though they seem to be rare, incorporate as much of the old and new as possible. Everything is a testiment to what changed and what wasn't coming back, like the 5 1/4 drive. Also, the advent of SATA and PCIx, the departure of AGP. Other things, too, but you see what I mean.
I know this video is a couple months old, but I didn't see any comments about the date code. That's called a Julian date, it's a combination of year (09) and days since the start of the year (335), so it was manufactured December 1, 2009.
Card reader in system 3 was chopped out of a HP/Compaq Presario SR1500NX or similar. (I have one I'm trying to get working for windows XP gaming right now.) Oddly none of the other parts look like they're OEM
you did not mention the size of that voltage regulator heatsink.
There he is
interesting to see something newer in the pile. for those modems i kept finding them too and it was the first thing to pull out and throw them aside without even testing them but thought one day ill do something with them...and that day has yet to come. i easy have 20-30 of those modems and still wondering why im keeping them. maybe time to send them. for hard drives id rather get more sata ones. i already have too many ide ones and i rare use any of them and i dont need any more of them for my od old pc tinkering. but could easy find uses for sata ones. i did have a place i got piles of drives (lucky got some 500, 1tb and 2tb ones) quite a few had bad sectors or be totally dead but still plenty good ones that were healthy. sadly that place does not get rid of them as much and when they do they smash them up so there no good for anything apart from salvaging magnets etc. and i already have more than need. so if there smashed i don't even bother taking them. guess no more free drives for me :(
Awesome video! What temperature was your soldering iron at when you replaced the capacitor?
For system 1, your intermittent POST could also be due to a broken trace briefly connected by PCB flex. Sounds weird but I've run into it before.
If you add a case like system number 2 has to your collection... Here's a valuable tip from my years of experience- *Remember to pick up this case by the left & right sides & NOT the front & rear.*
You can pick up pretty much ANY other PC case from the front & rear but.... *Not this one* I'm🤣now... But was😭back then...
Stumbled across your channel when searching for IBM videos.. love your enthusiasm! Where do you store all your finds? I need to limit my PC gear to IBM branded only due to limited space.
Thanks! Currently my garage is the storage area/shop. The keepers get moved into my computer room.
i got a wierd samsung dvd drive which the tray dosent comes out. i opened it it was clean inside but the tray is actually hitting the lens mechanism for some reason and i had to cut extend part from lens bottom side and after that the drive worked fine.
Interesting video, like!
I would definitely remove the CMOS battery out of that socket 775 motherboard. Out of all old socket 775 motherboards I have worked on, the vast majority were "repaired" by clearing the CMOS and reseating components, and the voltage on that battery is low enough that I don't trust it.
I had a CyberMax PC back in the early 2000's maybe late 90's Slot A Athlon.
That first motherboard…. Capacitor plague has taken its toll on that thing.
The best way to get rid of issues with system not booting is to pull all the electrolytic caps, and do some ESR and capacitance testing on all of them (need to pull them out for accurate readings)
As for replacement capacitors, while ideally one would want exact value replacements, they aren’t often available or common, so for testing purposes one can use capacitors with an equal or higher capacitance rating and equal or higher voltage, as well as operating temperature rating if applicable. Of course, the prudent thing would be to replace that capacitor with the correct rating and values as soon as reasonably possible, but there should be no issues as the capacitor will only charge up to the circuit’s supplied voltage and no more - it’s not an inductor or voltage ladder.
Could that case be aluminum per the weight and flimsy feeling?
when you find a use for that modem - i can send you a few more
I would like to now what Linux distro you were using to test those hard drives.
With a computer running Windows Server and having both a dialup modem and ethernet adapter, and an ATA, it is possible to get old computers onto the internet without actually having dialup service.
Scrolling through the UA-cam feed I'm sometimes confused. Is it about fitness or vintage computers😅?
What do you call that case, "in-light"? That is the case of my first PC back in 2000, a PIII 600 :)
They’re made by a company called Enlight. These were some of the best cases of the time. They were also among the first to feature the easily-swappable drive caddys/rails.
Wow the spec is pretty high end for the No. 3 PC in its era. Back in 2000s, my home PC only has 256mb RAM. I didn't get to use a faster PC until i built one in 2008
Gotta point out that recap on the M5ALC - you forgot to replace the bigger puffy cap next to the one you soldered in :)
But to be honest - the fact that the board POST'd only once tells me you might need to replace them all and test again. Chances are a full recap should bring it back alive.
It’s one of the 1500uf caps which I didn’t have a replacement for. Let’s hope the caps are the only issue. BGA soldering gives me anxiety.
14:20 I wonder if the manfactuer or technician who made that ding was like "oh well, no ones going to see this anyways"
boom come a decade later, it's on youtube for the world to see haha : )
You've convinced me to try that desoldering alloy, I have a Gigabyte board with 23(!) bloated caps. Do you use a separate iron tip for it to avoid contamination or just lots and lots of cleaning when switching to soldering the new parts in?
I use the same tip. A brass solder sponge is sufficient for cleaning it off before final soldering. The minute amount left after cleaning won’t cause a problem.
I think that first board had a bad cap. One world of advice. If you ever find a socket 478 or what not with bad caps on the motherboard. Check the PSU for bad caps too.
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