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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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
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.
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 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 🇬🇧
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 !
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.
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.
"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 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.
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.
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!
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 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.
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!
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.
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?
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.
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...
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....
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Guess I must share. I have two of those blue cases. One has a Hp system in it with HP 428 pin board. Bought used for $35 15 years ago. The other a got new 20 years past. with a matching ps2 key board. Been empty for a long time.
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
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.
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!😱
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
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
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 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!
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 just want to point out that your channel has by far the best thumbnails in the whole platform, Mike! 😉💪
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😅.
it's always a nice day when MikeTech uploads
The panda icon is from Panda Anti-virus. Neat dual p3 build, too bad it used a via chipset.
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.
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.
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.
That dual pentium 3 system is a a gem, I'd hold onto it.
Return to us Mike! We miss you!!!!! 😔
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.
I'm heating up some breakfast and of course I pause right at the most suspenseful moment thus far at 18:54 lol.
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 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
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.
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.
All purple is necessary. 💜
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 🇬🇧
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 !
You made my beige soul happy. Thank you.
Yay Mike Tech!!! And it's a big one!! Happy Saturday everyone
i had this exactly translucent imac style case in the beginning of the 2000s. i LOVED it. it survived even a burning house
I enjoy seeing old PCs. Great video.
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.
Hope you come back soon Mike with another video - but I know life gets in the way...
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.
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
i would love to see you do a series on maxing out these old pcs the dual cpu system would be amazing maxed out 🥰
"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 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.
That first system is definitely a domain controller.
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.
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. 😁
This case has a couple of a holes down here…
I lost it after that lolololol
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!
Good video. True those sacrificial drives have lasted a long time. I remember them. Cool, thank you.
@37:26 Add some of Techmoan's "oooo yeah, take it off" music to this chapter and it'd be perfection :-P
Hey ,Mike!!
The mouse was probably the com one!!!
The thermal paste on those P3s remind me of that South Park episode where Randy spends some private time with the Internet in Californie.
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.😊
Another interesting video about old PCs. Thanks, Mike. Greetings from Poland . 🤩🤔
The second PC front leds when it's on looks like Atom from Real Steel.
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.
'A holes' got me
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 vid Mike 👍🏻 Look forward to the next vid. Cheers 🍻
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.
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!
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.
Back with another video with the most handsome, buff nerd on UA-cam.
I still have one of those gemstone cases! Same color as yours, houses my scrap built 98 machine
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?
38:00 cool and fresh
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 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.
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...
Starting my Saturday with a MikeTech video and coffee. ^___^ Happy camper over here. 🏕️
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....
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'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.
Happy pride... and glad to see a video early this month... ❤
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.
Thanks Mike, you be my fav utuber! 😊
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.
I love those indigo/teal cases from the late 90s.
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.
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.
At least most heatsink compounds aren't electrically conductive.
I LOVE it!
Both systems are still good.
The Pentium 4 HT is still useable for most retro PC games.
I used to have one of those Yamaha 16x burners. Neat about the dual processor board hiding in there.
Not only does that PSU have a smart fan, but it's also a doctor. 🤣
Should open the dead PS and show the spewing caps - lol -.
You can put a colorful mask over that beige soul, but the soul is always visible through the cracks. #existentialthoughts
For anyone reading, my point is, just be authentic.
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 ???
Good fun, thanks for sharing, Mike!
I love your videos!
Peely goodness 😂 love it
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.
Bring back memories building, selling these systems.
OOo crap, I'm old now.....
put a bar across the handle screws give it more support
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.
Vintage PC, old school 😂😂😂
Guess I must share. I have two of those blue cases. One has a Hp system in it with HP 428 pin board. Bought used for $35 15 years ago. The other a got new 20 years past. with a matching ps2 key board. Been empty for a long time.
Yar PC 1 flying that pirate flag.
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
Oh wow. I had one of those cases back around 2008-ish I think? I used it to build my home server. ^_^
ya first system def a server...screamed that when you turned it around, and popped that side panel..
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.
That messed-up startup screen looks like Breakout on the Apple //e
This completed my saturday!
"not a dumb fan".......lol. :))
The Aptiva is nice
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!😱
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. 🙂
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
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.
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.
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