Those AcBel PSU's dropped like flies. I had my fair share of these to service. A weird departure from the good PSU's they made for hard service/workstation applications. These inspirons were built to a price and I guess they just decided to offer PSU's to reflect that. I noticed in my personal findings, that "white snot" they used to reduce tension and vibration between various capacitor clusters over time becomes conductive. That or just using capacitors with supremely sub-par electrolyte or inadequate temperature thresholds did them in. In case you're curious, these PSU's can be found for mere dollars on eBay if you're interested in putting an actual replacement in. I found these form factors( dell or otherwise) to be shoved in a lot of those desk cubbies that were very popular in the 90's when systems were actually acceptable to put in there. Really any small space people would put these. The mentality being that they're small and able to fit. Recirculating the very air that they just exhausted. Only on a couple of occasions have I seen boards fail in units like these. Looking at it, its either an Intel or a Foxconn board. While neither of them were good in any capacity in this form factor, I'd take anything over the Foxconn jobs that they had the audacity to use. I have a "tower" inspiron sitting around. Significantly newer. But it's interesting how much the cosmetics did not change on the glossy faced inspirons. That one still works somehow. I'll write that down to record a video of that too. I forgot I had it.
The AcBels for consumer equipment, yeah, there were a couple that went bad here and there. But it wasn't too too often. Never under warranty. These smaller ones, well maybe they did because no good ventilation. I don't know what kind of board is in this one; it's got a strange BIOS, very plain for a Dell, but it is what it is. It seems to work fine, it's got an Intel processor and Intel graphics onboard, for what that's worth. I'll definitely be showing an autopsy of the old supply going forward.
Yes, that's because there is another machine named "HEMROYD". That misspelling is a take on the last name of the person who gave those machines to me. He also could be a pain in the power supply!
A machine that takes DDR2 deserves to be put in the trash. I bought a board back in 2010 for my first build. Finding a 4gb stick of ram is impossible. I use it for a media server, and very light tasks.
Trash? No way, that's NEW for around here! Actually, no, my old Pentium 4 took DDR2 if I recall. But it's still got a faster processor. As you'll see as this series progresses, I don't actually need much machine. Everyone else all high and mighty with their octacore chips and 128GB of RAM, please. I remember when having 128MB of RAM made you king of the hill, and that was only 30 short years ago. Sadly, I also remember when having 128KB of memory made you king of the hill.
@@jaykay18 With the very board I mentioned it is a dual-core cpu. With less than 2gb of usable memory it can barely handle playing a youtube video with another tab open with something up on it. I don't get the appeal of slow legacy computer stuff. I messed with that stuff for far too long, 2010 was the end of that, and than 9 to 10 years later I did a new build. 16GB of memory. It can breeze through video editing, and zap your backlog. Having low memory just means the hard drive will grind away continuously and the system will be incredibly slow.
@@240Volts My Pentium 4 machine had 4GB of memory, but could only use 3GB. That didn't like playing UA-cam videos. The replacement machine, no problem, breezes right through. As for the backlog of videos, they are not videos that need to be edited, they're been edited and uploaded, just not made Public yet. I post one to two videos a day. My video editing rig, about the same specs as this, can get through anything without the hard drive grinding away. Throw it two videos to edit at the same time and both take forever to get done. I've always had old hardware and will continue to. Computing only gets worse as the years go on. So I hold on to whatever I have, and can, as long as I can. I had to growing up because my father was so cheap. I don't have to now, but choose to, because too many people get rid of their computers far before their time. Old computers are never obsolete, but they can be obsoleted when new software won't run on them any longer.
@@jaykay18 Fair enough. Some things I miss is the old PCI slots. I agree unnecessary software upgrades obsolete computers and applications, like linux has recently done. Dependency hell, and applications are too old because of too much new-ness. Had to put windows 10 back on, but at least I got to install it clean after how many years. Too bad windows 95 and 98 aren't useable. I always used window washer program and would delete the registry after uninstalling it, restart the PC and install it again. Wink wink.
@@240Volts Oh yeah, there were tons of PCI cards made over the years. Lots of cool stuff. For that matter, there were some pretty cool old ISA cards made back in the day too. Dependency is one of the reasons one program I use stopped working. That is pretty much what did that one in. Other program, basically requires a 64-bit processor and I don't think that Pentium 4 chip supported that. I read some of the latest ones actually did. That machine was really at the end of its rope as will be evidenced when I get to it (still need to record that). I never liked 95. 98 was what 95 should have been. Never used 2000 much but XP was the deal. One of the most stable operating systems, everything just worked and worked well, and it ran great on just about anything. When Vista came along it was a disaster, but 7 is what Vista should have been. Days are very numbered, but 7 is still hanging on.
Those AcBel PSU's dropped like flies. I had my fair share of these to service. A weird departure from the good PSU's they made for hard service/workstation applications. These inspirons were built to a price and I guess they just decided to offer PSU's to reflect that. I noticed in my personal findings, that "white snot" they used to reduce tension and vibration between various capacitor clusters over time becomes conductive. That or just using capacitors with supremely sub-par electrolyte or inadequate temperature thresholds did them in. In case you're curious, these PSU's can be found for mere dollars on eBay if you're interested in putting an actual replacement in. I found these form factors( dell or otherwise) to be shoved in a lot of those desk cubbies that were very popular in the 90's when systems were actually acceptable to put in there. Really any small space people would put these. The mentality being that they're small and able to fit. Recirculating the very air that they just exhausted. Only on a couple of occasions have I seen boards fail in units like these. Looking at it, its either an Intel or a Foxconn board. While neither of them were good in any capacity in this form factor, I'd take anything over the Foxconn jobs that they had the audacity to use. I have a "tower" inspiron sitting around. Significantly newer. But it's interesting how much the cosmetics did not change on the glossy faced inspirons. That one still works somehow. I'll write that down to record a video of that too. I forgot I had it.
The AcBels for consumer equipment, yeah, there were a couple that went bad here and there. But it wasn't too too often. Never under warranty. These smaller ones, well maybe they did because no good ventilation.
I don't know what kind of board is in this one; it's got a strange BIOS, very plain for a Dell, but it is what it is. It seems to work fine, it's got an Intel processor and Intel graphics onboard, for what that's worth. I'll definitely be showing an autopsy of the old supply going forward.
Yeah, would definitely like to see the inside of that PSU too! 👍👍
@@arthurmann578 No worries, coming up!
Named the PC "Hemorroid 2!" That made my day! 🤣🤣😂👍👍
Yes, that's because there is another machine named "HEMROYD". That misspelling is a take on the last name of the person who gave those machines to me. He also could be a pain in the power supply!
Power supply deader than Elvis and I ain't kidding ya.
The difference is, I do an autopsy, safely, and explain HOW and WHY it died.
@jaykay18 right right!
A machine that takes DDR2 deserves to be put in the trash. I bought a board back in 2010 for my first build. Finding a 4gb stick of ram is impossible. I use it for a media server, and very light tasks.
Trash? No way, that's NEW for around here! Actually, no, my old Pentium 4 took DDR2 if I recall. But it's still got a faster processor. As you'll see as this series progresses, I don't actually need much machine. Everyone else all high and mighty with their octacore chips and 128GB of RAM, please. I remember when having 128MB of RAM made you king of the hill, and that was only 30 short years ago. Sadly, I also remember when having 128KB of memory made you king of the hill.
@@jaykay18 With the very board I mentioned it is a dual-core cpu. With less than 2gb of usable memory it can barely handle playing a youtube video with another tab open with something up on it.
I don't get the appeal of slow legacy computer stuff. I messed with that stuff for far too long, 2010 was the end of that, and than 9 to 10 years later I did a new build. 16GB of memory. It can breeze through video editing, and zap your backlog.
Having low memory just means the hard drive will grind away continuously and the system will be incredibly slow.
@@240Volts My Pentium 4 machine had 4GB of memory, but could only use 3GB. That didn't like playing UA-cam videos. The replacement machine, no problem, breezes right through.
As for the backlog of videos, they are not videos that need to be edited, they're been edited and uploaded, just not made Public yet. I post one to two videos a day.
My video editing rig, about the same specs as this, can get through anything without the hard drive grinding away. Throw it two videos to edit at the same time and both take forever to get done.
I've always had old hardware and will continue to. Computing only gets worse as the years go on. So I hold on to whatever I have, and can, as long as I can. I had to growing up because my father was so cheap. I don't have to now, but choose to, because too many people get rid of their computers far before their time. Old computers are never obsolete, but they can be obsoleted when new software won't run on them any longer.
@@jaykay18 Fair enough. Some things I miss is the old PCI slots.
I agree unnecessary software upgrades obsolete computers and applications, like linux has recently done. Dependency hell, and applications are too old because of too much new-ness. Had to put windows 10 back on, but at least I got to install it clean after how many years.
Too bad windows 95 and 98 aren't useable. I always used window washer program and would delete the registry after uninstalling it, restart the PC and install it again. Wink wink.
@@240Volts Oh yeah, there were tons of PCI cards made over the years. Lots of cool stuff. For that matter, there were some pretty cool old ISA cards made back in the day too.
Dependency is one of the reasons one program I use stopped working. That is pretty much what did that one in. Other program, basically requires a 64-bit processor and I don't think that Pentium 4 chip supported that. I read some of the latest ones actually did. That machine was really at the end of its rope as will be evidenced when I get to it (still need to record that).
I never liked 95. 98 was what 95 should have been. Never used 2000 much but XP was the deal. One of the most stable operating systems, everything just worked and worked well, and it ran great on just about anything. When Vista came along it was a disaster, but 7 is what Vista should have been. Days are very numbered, but 7 is still hanging on.