System 1 is a domain controller. To edit the password the NTDS file needs to be modified. Or try and boot into "Active Directory recovery mode" then the "local" administrator account can be used.
That was definitely some enthusiast's computer. Lots of nerd-stuff in there. Loaded with pirated music, various admin tools, software dev tools including odd stuff like qbasic. I guess maybe they also ran their business out of it or maybe was part of a homelab for learning network administration on and probably had other computers in their home and shared the media to. Would've been pretty slick to have something like that like a NAS serving media around the house back in the early 2000s.
Thanks! Wow, it’s really been that long since my Windows admin days. Didn’t even occur to me it would be a DC. Been even longer since I’ve interacted with DSRM. Got into the habit of just burning down troublesome DCs, spinning up new ones and seizing FSMO roles (followed by obligatory metadata clean-up). That makes the choice of case even more strange!
I still play as a Sysadmin on a regular basis(read: 5 day's a week). I only have a couple of small AD domains under my management. Chemical industry so plant control is separate from corporate. Corporate AD is managed at the corporate level.
kop spijker, why you need that ?? Why is he needing this old crab, running what on it, Cubase, is he any creative ? Show why you need it before you do the housewife cleaning crab !
The Maxtor is essentially Quantum's last designed drives prior to Maxtor's takeover. The D540X and D740X were the spiritual successors to the last Fireballs (D540X replaced Fireball, D740X replaced Fireball Plus), and likely would've been named such had there been no buyout.
0:18 I swear they tried making an unofficial PC in a Power Mac G3 Blue and white style 13:20 These ARE Quantums, just made right after Maxtor bought them. These are pretty reliable drives.
0:40 Hey, I know that guy! These cases get talked about a lot for how few are documented, so seeing any of them in the wild is fun and seeing you have one in the shop is a real treat. Thanks for taking in some of my wild goose chase ramblings.
Maxtor acquired Quantum in 2000. I had a Maxtor drive that looked just like that; when it failed, it identified itself as a Quantum Fireball during startup because sector 0 was inaccessible and that contained the model information.
The P6 connector or AUX connector was used on some early P4 and late P3 boards. It adds extra 5V and 3.3V power. It isn't something proprietary, you can find these on some consumer power supplies.
This video hits all my nostalgia points. My last Mac was a "bondi blue" iMac similar to the first case, and the first PC I built was a harvesting a bunch of components from an HP that had died into a custom case to save some money, like the second PC. I love how nerdy you are. You definitely have more nerd cred than me - I never got into Linux much, and I definitely wasn't messing around with a Windows user config in Linux to try and get a login! I wish I knew more of your story.
Ahh just when I thought I could go straight to bed after walking home from a BBQ... couldn't possibly sleep knowing there's a Miketech video I haven't watched yet !
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 🇬🇧
agreed. I dragged my feet and did not move past windows 2000 until at least 2007, on my work laptops as well as my home machine. IIRC it was COD4: Modern Warfare that finally made my switch main pc over to xp.
@@TheRaker1000 I skipped over it from 98 to XP in 2004. I did mess with 2000 a bit. It was neat. Kinda a cleaner XP. By that point though I was putting Linux on secondary PCs. Had a bit more useful longevity while 2000 was just getting less and less compatible.
98SE is what I started with as a child child, but my favorite time with Windows will always be the 7 era. The last "real" version of Windows before Microsoft decided privacy no longer matters. 7 carried me for at least 12 years.
The 2000 server was a domain controller. To clear the domain admin password the NTDS needs to be cleared, or another account with top level admin rights should be able to reset it. It comes down to how the group policy was setup on it. AD recovery might help, but it's not always guaranteed to help with a password reset.
Oh what a week!! We got a This Old Tony video the other day and now one from MikeTech!!! YES. I may have squealed a little bit when I looked at my feed notifications!
I had the Antec Gemstone case back in 2000 and I kept it until 2003. The 92mm fan duct was not super effective, and the sleeve-bearing fan failed on me once. I still have the ABIT BM6 motherboard, 256MB RAM, and PII-Celeron that was in that machine, but they now live in an In-Win A500 which is also period correct.
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.
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.
Another great video! I like the purple it’s different. They are both cool looking. I like the second system best. The way it looks appeals to me. It was funny how the second one spit the disc out. Just like a petulant child who reluctantly has to hand over something. You just know they will toss it at you! I love your videos! Right now sitting here watching them is helping while my spine heals.😊
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.
the reason the maxtor looks Quantum is because In 2000, Maxtor agreed to acquire Quantum’s hard disk drive group... so it probably is a Quantum design... so i suspect that drive is at least older then 2000 post Quantum Acquisition
oh well, 3.3V - I am used to using comma as decimal separator, because in Poland we are using. of course in English it should be point instead a comma :) we don't use commas with large numbers, just space (i.e. 123 456 789 instead of 123,456,789), habits haha
I had exactly that case for my 1999 PC build, except it was purple. The go handle was really handy when trekking to friends' houses for Unreal Tournament.
Love this channel. The pacing and narration are on point, and your care and skill with handling vintage electronics are top notch and just simply a joy to watch. Thanks again, Mike!
I appreciate just how far you went to snoop on that dual processor machine's hard drive. Must have had a lot of time on your hands this time. Some lovely looking cases honestly.
Just to clarify, here's how it went: Quantum was gobbled up by Maxtor. Maxtor, in turn, was gobbled up by Seagate. It was just about an identical turnout to the Digital Electronics Corp > Compaq > Hewlett Packard acquisition chain as to who owned what.
I remember chassis #2 vividly. Built SOOO many low-range computers (mostly Durons and Semprons) in them back in the day. They had a little bit of dazzle for a cheap chassis, but they felt like they were made out of (poorly) recycled Diet Rite cans. Also, I swear that floppy drive shed almost as much as my dog does...
You seem surprised at the choice of case many times in the video. I had one of these cases because it was kind of funky looking but more so that it was literally the cheapest case you could buy at any computer parts store. They probably just needed a cheap case to throw their server parts into
I used to have one of these exact cases!!! Specifically the beige one. Mine had a reused Compaq Deskpro motherboard with a Pentium III in it and I used that from, I wanna say, 2002 all the way to 2010. Crazy how durable these were. Kind of crazy, but otherwise really cool seeing it here in a MikeTech video :)
I only like the Aptiva, the rest i should trash. We only keep the nice models here, upgraded the Aptiva to Q9650, faster DDR3, it plays modern games on 1080p, most is original.
By the way, that P6 connector was used to provide additional power to boards before the extra 4 pins were added to the ATX standard. I have a Supermicro board where you can either use that P6 or an extra 4 pins. This was somewhat common in socket 423 P4 boards.
I used to have one of those blue plastic cases. I took one of the side panels and removed the tin shielding. Then cut a hole and mounted a fan. No idea why as even with the metal plate removed you cannot really see inside the case.
9:12 IPA solution stays longer in glassy bottles. Mine has been in the bottle for 5 years now but I lost about 30% of the IPA from the plastic bottle and only after 1 year of storage
Blue computer was awesome,basically a dual core Pentium 3 with almost 2 ghz total in its time was a monster. The Antec case is extremely similar to a Compaq computer of mine. The faceplate is very similar in button and fdd cutout placement and the little square thing from 37:25 just has a Compaq badge sticked inside it. Same hard drive cage and same plastic front cooling fan shroud,back of the case also has the same cutouts and hole design. I'm gonna guess Compaq used some cases from Antec too
Hey, Mike, that 965 P4 board is a graphics powerhouse. That's why Intel called it Extreme Graphics 2. Ha ha. Another great video, Mike! Glad to see you back.
I think I remember hearing about that type of POST corruption, I think it had to do with some of the trickery done to display things like the energy star logo not being fully supported by the graphics card.
Yeah the Trident TGUI9440 is one of the very first PCI video cards ever produced, and isn't SVGA compatible. It's plain VGA with some GUI acceleration extensions targeting Windows 3.0/3.1. Very, *very* out of place for a computer running Windows 2000.
With regard to System 2's case having AT compatibility: after the ATX standard took over, there were AT form factor motherboards with ATX style power control made, especially for legacy/industrial support. I have dealt with a fair number of "Raptor" AT motherboards with 1Ghz P3s. Fast, but fragile board construction.
"let's get them set up with a *sane* amount of thermal paste" Mike never shows what a "sane amount of thermal paste" would look like. I'm guessing it is the only way to prevent endless comments about it being the wrong amount, no matter how much he uses.
Just be safe. Apply it to the pins and to the sockey and enough to cover the cpu side and apply some to the socket side. Record this and insert it into the video whenever applying compound in future videos.
I have the Gemstone for my PIII. It's a fun case, and it's in pretty good shape. However, it doesn't have the handle on top, which must mean there were several iterations.
That Win2000 machine was most definitely the domain admins machine. In control of the domain, policies and unlogged internet access. Really needed that dual cpu that the boss signed off on.
Heh heh, what a cool old system! Right around the same time that was popular, I built a 'server' system up with a dual 939 socket mobo and a pair of AMD Opteron 148's (2.2 ghz. single-core). Surprisingly, with Win 2K, it was one of the fastest systems I had back in the day, and I eventually tricked it out with a liquid cooling system that had water blocks for both the cpu's AND the GPU (can't remember the model), but I think it was an early Radeon R400? Anyway, I used that system for close to 5 years before a nearby lightning strike, sort of neutralized the whole thing!😱
I had that Antec Gemstone (or alias thereof) which looked pretty much identical to this one. I assume it was cheap, and it looked novel for the time. I'm not sure if mine had no mounting point for an intake fan, or I didn't install one, but it had poor airflow, and the blower fan was crucial. That fan died after a year or two, with a strong burning odor. (Bad luck or it needed cleaning?)
With the right graphics card the first computer would be a great retro gaming computer; dual CPU's, ya' don't see that everyday! For the heatsinks and the fans I always run them under the tap in the sink to clean them, done it many times and never had a problem yet. For motherboards, and peripheral cards I use a spray bottle of Isopropyl alcohol to clean them, I hold them over the sink and give them a good soaking, it works great and doesn't damage any parts, just need to let it sit overnight to dry. Fans I always lube the bearing, you have them off anyway, that's the time to do it.
Well Mike, the UA-cam 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....
The dual-CPU Win2K Server is lovely. The weird choice of case makes it more so. You can boot the Server OS into AD Recovery Mode and you might need to demote it to gain access to the local user accounts. You should revisit it on the next video. Its a nice relic of a good time when you could start to replace NT4.0 and I'm pretty sure I used this to migrate to TCP/IP from IPX/SPX too. Anyone else?
OMG, It has been forever, or so it seems. Glad to see you are still playing guitar hero cleaning CPUs. Antec make some nice, heavy duty cases. I have one with odd adapters to mount hard drives and media players. That one would look good with some LEDs to make it glow nicely while listening to some Yamaha enhanced CDs.
System 1 is a domain controller. To edit the password the NTDS file needs to be modified. Or try and boot into "Active Directory recovery mode" then the "local" administrator account can be used.
That was definitely some enthusiast's computer. Lots of nerd-stuff in there. Loaded with pirated music, various admin tools, software dev tools including odd stuff like qbasic. I guess maybe they also ran their business out of it or maybe was part of a homelab for learning network administration on and probably had other computers in their home and shared the media to. Would've been pretty slick to have something like that like a NAS serving media around the house back in the early 2000s.
Thanks! Wow, it’s really been that long since my Windows admin days. Didn’t even occur to me it would be a DC. Been even longer since I’ve interacted with DSRM. Got into the habit of just burning down troublesome DCs, spinning up new ones and seizing FSMO roles (followed by obligatory metadata clean-up). That makes the choice of case even more strange!
I still play as a Sysadmin on a regular basis(read: 5 day's a week). I only have a couple of small AD domains under my management. Chemical industry so plant control is separate from corporate. Corporate AD is managed at the corporate level.
kop spijker,
why you need that ??
Why is he needing this old crab, running what on it, Cubase, is he any creative ?
Show why you need it before you do the housewife cleaning crab !
I just want to point out that your channel has by far the best thumbnails in the whole platform, Mike! 😉💪
The Maxtor is essentially Quantum's last designed drives prior to Maxtor's takeover. The D540X and D740X were the spiritual successors to the last Fireballs (D540X replaced Fireball, D740X replaced Fireball Plus), and likely would've been named such had there been no buyout.
I like how he thanks the optical drives for returning the disk.
Same!
Because some don't or the drive a has fit
That behavior must be encouraged!
it's always a nice day when MikeTech uploads
System 1 is a domain controller. The SAM database is not used unless it is booted into "Active Directory Restore mode" via the F8 menu.
32:18 came here just to see if anyone commented DSRM 😂
@@therealalby7549 The joy of being a sysadmin😅.
0:18 I swear they tried making an unofficial PC in a Power Mac G3 Blue and white style
13:20 These ARE Quantums, just made right after Maxtor bought them. These are pretty reliable drives.
0:40 Hey, I know that guy! These cases get talked about a lot for how few are documented, so seeing any of them in the wild is fun and seeing you have one in the shop is a real treat. Thanks for taking in some of my wild goose chase ramblings.
Maxtor acquired Quantum in 2000. I had a Maxtor drive that looked just like that; when it failed, it identified itself as a Quantum Fireball during startup because sector 0 was inaccessible and that contained the model information.
I'm heating up some breakfast and of course I pause right at the most suspenseful moment thus far at 18:54 lol.
The P6 connector or AUX connector was used on some early P4 and late P3 boards. It adds extra 5V and 3.3V power. It isn't something proprietary, you can find these on some consumer power supplies.
The panda icon is from Panda Anti-virus. Neat dual p3 build, too bad it used a via chipset.
This video hits all my nostalgia points.
My last Mac was a "bondi blue" iMac similar to the first case, and the first PC I built was a harvesting a bunch of components from an HP that had died into a custom case to save some money, like the second PC.
I love how nerdy you are. You definitely have more nerd cred than me - I never got into Linux much, and I definitely wasn't messing around with a Windows user config in Linux to try and get a login!
I wish I knew more of your story.
Mike makes great videos.
i had this exactly translucent imac style case in the beginning of the 2000s. i LOVED it. it survived even a burning house
Return to us Mike! We miss you!!!!! 😔
Ahh just when I thought I could go straight to bed after walking home from a BBQ... couldn't possibly sleep knowing there's a Miketech video I haven't watched yet !
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 🇬🇧
Hope you come back soon Mike with another video - but I know life gets in the way...
Windows 2000 was my favorite OS....or at least the one I remember using the longest on so many different machines in my office.
agreed. I dragged my feet and did not move past windows 2000 until at least 2007, on my work laptops as well as my home machine. IIRC it was COD4: Modern Warfare that finally made my switch main pc over to xp.
@@TheRaker1000 I skipped over it from 98 to XP in 2004. I did mess with 2000 a bit. It was neat. Kinda a cleaner XP. By that point though I was putting Linux on secondary PCs. Had a bit more useful longevity while 2000 was just getting less and less compatible.
98SE is what I started with as a child child, but my favorite time with Windows will always be the 7 era. The last "real" version of Windows before Microsoft decided privacy no longer matters. 7 carried me for at least 12 years.
The 2000 server was a domain controller. To clear the domain admin password the NTDS needs to be cleared, or another account with top level admin rights should be able to reset it. It comes down to how the group policy was setup on it. AD recovery might help, but it's not always guaranteed to help with a password reset.
The first brand new hard drive I bought was an 80GB Maxtor Drive. Oh the memories...
Yay Mike Tech!!! And it's a big one!! Happy Saturday everyone
I enjoy seeing old PCs. Great video.
That dual pentium 3 system is a a gem, I'd hold onto it.
Good video. True those sacrificial drives have lasted a long time. I remember them. Cool, thank you.
Oh what a week!! We got a This Old Tony video the other day and now one from MikeTech!!! YES. I may have squealed a little bit when I looked at my feed notifications!
my first build was in an Antec Gemstone Sapphire, just like that one. Still wish I could find one in decent condition
I had the Antec Gemstone case back in 2000 and I kept it until 2003. The 92mm fan duct was not super effective, and the sleeve-bearing fan failed on me once. I still have the ABIT BM6 motherboard, 256MB RAM, and PII-Celeron that was in that machine, but they now live in an In-Win A500 which is also period correct.
I still have one of those gemstone cases! Same color as yours, houses my scrap built 98 machine
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.
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.
i would love to see you do a series on maxing out these old pcs the dual cpu system would be amazing maxed out 🥰
Another great video! I like the purple it’s different. They are both cool looking. I like the second system best. The way it looks appeals to me.
It was funny how the second one spit the disc out. Just like a petulant child who reluctantly has to hand over something. You just know they will toss it at you!
I love your videos! Right now sitting here watching them is helping while my spine heals.😊
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.
You made my beige soul happy. Thank you.
Quantum was taken over by Maxtor. That drive is just the last of the Fireball series that was rebadged to Maxtor shortly after the takeover.
Hey ,Mike!!
The mouse was probably the com one!!!
I used to call those style of cases Tuxedo cases. I had one that was black and white so it really did look like a tuxedo.. or maybe a penguin. 😁
the reason the maxtor looks Quantum is because In 2000, Maxtor agreed to acquire Quantum’s hard disk drive group... so it probably is a Quantum design... so i suspect that drive is at least older then 2000 post Quantum Acquisition
Another interesting video about old PCs. Thanks, Mike. Greetings from Poland . 🤩🤔
47:40 that is a connector called AUX, used (I guess) only with early P4s. It delivers 3,3v and 5v and it was something like 4-pin 12V today.
oh well, 3.3V - I am used to using comma as decimal separator, because in Poland we are using. of course in English it should be point instead a comma :)
we don't use commas with large numbers, just space (i.e. 123 456 789 instead of 123,456,789), habits haha
I had exactly that case for my 1999 PC build, except it was purple. The go handle was really handy when trekking to friends' houses for Unreal Tournament.
Love this channel. The pacing and narration are on point, and your care and skill with handling vintage electronics are top notch and just simply a joy to watch. Thanks again, Mike!
I appreciate just how far you went to snoop on that dual processor machine's hard drive. Must have had a lot of time on your hands this time. Some lovely looking cases honestly.
Another great vid Mike 👍🏻 Look forward to the next vid. Cheers 🍻
That imac style case was made by Sunte, in Germany. It came in black, blue, purple, green and a few others. I still have a black one
Sorry, made a typo. It's Suntek
All purple is necessary. 💜
Just to clarify, here's how it went:
Quantum was gobbled up by Maxtor. Maxtor, in turn, was gobbled up by Seagate. It was just about an identical turnout to the Digital Electronics Corp > Compaq > Hewlett Packard acquisition chain as to who owned what.
I remember chassis #2 vividly. Built SOOO many low-range computers (mostly Durons and Semprons) in them back in the day. They had a little bit of dazzle for a cheap chassis, but they felt like they were made out of (poorly) recycled Diet Rite cans.
Also, I swear that floppy drive shed almost as much as my dog does...
You seem surprised at the choice of case many times in the video. I had one of these cases because it was kind of funky looking but more so that it was literally the cheapest case you could buy at any computer parts store. They probably just needed a cheap case to throw their server parts into
Thanks Mike, you be my fav utuber! 😊
I used to have one of those Yamaha 16x burners. Neat about the dual processor board hiding in there.
I used to have one of these exact cases!!! Specifically the beige one. Mine had a reused Compaq Deskpro motherboard with a Pentium III in it and I used that from, I wanna say, 2002 all the way to 2010. Crazy how durable these were.
Kind of crazy, but otherwise really cool seeing it here in a MikeTech video :)
The Aptiva is nice
I use that exact Aptiva case as my daily driver. Modern stuff fits in it like a glove and the thick steel keeps everything nice and cool
I only like the Aptiva, the rest i should trash.
We only keep the nice models here, upgraded the Aptiva to Q9650, faster DDR3, it plays modern games on 1080p, most is original.
38:00 cool and fresh
By the way, that P6 connector was used to provide additional power to boards before the extra 4 pins were added to the ATX standard. I have a Supermicro board where you can either use that P6 or an extra 4 pins. This was somewhat common in socket 423 P4 boards.
This case has a couple of a holes down here…
I lost it after that lolololol
The thermal paste on those P3s remind me of that South Park episode where Randy spends some private time with the Internet in Californie.
Back with another video with the most handsome, buff nerd on UA-cam.
I used to have one of those blue plastic cases. I took one of the side panels and removed the tin shielding. Then cut a hole and mounted a fan. No idea why as even with the metal plate removed you cannot really see inside the case.
If nothing else, can you store beer in them? I'd be inclined to gut the case and see how many Molsons would fit. 🙂
50:46 Just a heads up, if you run "vblank_mode=0 glxgears" it won't sync to vblank... in case you wanted to get the raw fps.
9:12 IPA solution stays longer in glassy bottles. Mine has been in the bottle for 5 years now but I lost about 30% of the IPA from the plastic bottle and only after 1 year of storage
Oh come on! You know where that 30% went. You mixed it with orange juice to see how it would taste! 🙂
Too bad idea. That if i have +100% healt, then maybe. Isopropyl alcohol is to toxic to drink.
IPA - Isopropyl alcohol is Toxic and Not Drinkable. Too bad idea.
@37:26 Add some of Techmoan's "oooo yeah, take it off" music to this chapter and it'd be perfection :-P
Blue computer was awesome,basically a dual core Pentium 3 with almost 2 ghz total in its time was a monster. The Antec case is extremely similar to a Compaq computer of mine. The faceplate is very similar in button and fdd cutout placement and the little square thing from 37:25 just has a Compaq badge sticked inside it. Same hard drive cage and same plastic front cooling fan shroud,back of the case also has the same cutouts and hole design. I'm gonna guess Compaq used some cases from Antec too
That first system is definitely a domain controller.
hey man i just want to thank you for all these in depth videos but i was just wondering, what do you do with these systems after you restore them?
Should open the dead PS and show the spewing caps - lol -.
Hey, Mike, that 965 P4 board is a graphics powerhouse. That's why Intel called it Extreme Graphics 2. Ha ha. Another great video, Mike! Glad to see you back.
That old trident is prolly putting out a low resolution on the system test screen like 240 or 312 that your newer monitor cant deal with properly.
I love those indigo/teal cases from the late 90s.
Peely goodness 😂 love it
I just recently sold a PC in an identical case to that blue and white one. It was set up to triple boot DOS, Windows 98, and XP.
did you got money for it ???
Loving exploring these old machines. Interesting case designs. I’m curious what basic programs were on there.
put a bar across the handle screws give it more support
I think I remember hearing about that type of POST corruption, I think it had to do with some of the trickery done to display things like the energy star logo not being fully supported by the graphics card.
Yeah the Trident TGUI9440 is one of the very first PCI video cards ever produced, and isn't SVGA compatible. It's plain VGA with some GUI acceleration extensions targeting Windows 3.0/3.1. Very, *very* out of place for a computer running Windows 2000.
Starting my Saturday with a MikeTech video and coffee. ^___^ Happy camper over here. 🏕️
I'm near certain that blue one is what I had my K6-2 in, except it was purple instead of the blue. Very similar to that one at least.
Good fun, thanks for sharing, Mike!
I LOVE it!
Both systems are still good.
The Pentium 4 HT is still useable for most retro PC games.
With regard to System 2's case having AT compatibility: after the ATX standard took over, there were AT form factor motherboards with ATX style power control made, especially for legacy/industrial support. I have dealt with a fair number of "Raptor" AT motherboards with 1Ghz P3s. Fast, but fragile board construction.
I used to refurb donated computers, many in the PI-III range. I came across more than a few of those on systems donated from businesses.
I love your videos!
"let's get them set up with a *sane* amount of thermal paste"
Mike never shows what a "sane amount of thermal paste" would look like.
I'm guessing it is the only way to prevent endless comments about it being the wrong amount, no matter how much he uses.
That's exactly why he doesn't show it.
Only TronicsFix knows what the "perfect amount of thermal paste" looks like. This is UA-camr tech canon.
@@LabCat *awe noise sounds, and sparkles float across the screen*
Engagement is engagement to UA-cam. Better to show the thermal paste application fully because it will drive people to keyboard warrior down here.
Just be safe. Apply it to the pins and to the sockey and enough to cover the cpu side and apply some to the socket side. Record this and insert it into the video whenever applying compound in future videos.
I have the Gemstone for my PIII. It's a fun case, and it's in pretty good shape. However, it doesn't have the handle on top, which must mean there were several iterations.
That Win2000 machine was most definitely the domain admins machine. In control of the domain, policies and unlogged internet access. Really needed that dual cpu that the boss signed off on.
Heh heh, what a cool old system! Right around the same time that was popular, I built a 'server' system up with a dual 939 socket mobo and a pair of AMD Opteron 148's (2.2 ghz. single-core). Surprisingly, with Win 2K, it was one of the fastest systems I had back in the day, and I eventually tricked it out with a liquid cooling system that had water blocks for both the cpu's AND the GPU (can't remember the model), but I think it was an early Radeon R400? Anyway, I used that system for close to 5 years before a nearby lightning strike, sort of neutralized the whole thing!😱
Not only does that PSU have a smart fan, but it's also a doctor. 🤣
I had that Antec Gemstone (or alias thereof) which looked pretty much identical to this one. I assume it was cheap, and it looked novel for the time.
I'm not sure if mine had no mounting point for an intake fan, or I didn't install one, but it had poor airflow, and the blower fan was crucial. That fan died after a year or two, with a strong burning odor. (Bad luck or it needed cleaning?)
Im sure original owner is happy that he preserved peeling experience for you, I hope it was worth it for him. Must have been looking at it for years.
Man that P4 must get hot. I think that is the 2-thread version. So those chips are sort of special. I have one around here somewhere.
Then you won't need to buy a space heater.... or maybe two of them. 🙂
Oh wow. I had one of those cases back around 2008-ish I think? I used it to build my home server. ^_^
13:16 IIRC, Maxtor bought out Quantum at some point. That drive indeed looks like a Quantum Fireball that was rebranded.
It was in 2000, it's indeed just a Quantum with a Maxtor label.
The second PC front leds when it's on looks like Atom from Real Steel.
43:46 That made me laught way too hard.
This completed my saturday!
With the right graphics card the first computer would be a great retro gaming computer; dual CPU's, ya' don't see that everyday! For the heatsinks and the fans I always run them under the tap in the sink to clean them, done it many times and never had a problem yet. For motherboards, and peripheral cards I use a spray bottle of Isopropyl alcohol to clean them, I hold them over the sink and give them a good soaking, it works great and doesn't damage any parts, just need to let it sit overnight to dry. Fans I always lube the bearing, you have them off anyway, that's the time to do it.
Well Mike, the UA-cam 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....
The dual-CPU Win2K Server is lovely. The weird choice of case makes it more so. You can boot the Server OS into AD Recovery Mode and you might need to demote it to gain access to the local user accounts. You should revisit it on the next video. Its a nice relic of a good time when you could start to replace NT4.0 and I'm pretty sure I used this to migrate to TCP/IP from IPX/SPX too. Anyone else?
OMG, It has been forever, or so it seems. Glad to see you are still playing guitar hero cleaning CPUs. Antec make some nice, heavy duty cases. I have one with odd adapters to mount hard drives and media players. That one would look good with some LEDs to make it glow nicely while listening to some Yamaha enhanced CDs.