LOL! love the teardown.... I've done this on plenty of these, the old P4 systems.... used to hate these units because I tried to reuse the case and it just was too small and old! I wound up scrapping out all these units and just saving the hardware and fans.... and the PSU.... which can barely be used in 2021! the chassis wound up in the trash along with the floppy drive! love your video!
With the interior of the case emptied out, the next thing to do is put all new parts in it. A gaming -microATX motherboard, a high-end CPU, an NVMe SSD, a Noctua CPU cooler, RAM memory, a Blu-Ray drive, an SD card reader, a Noctua fan in the back, and a gold certified power supply would make this desktop a sleeper build.
I see you have absolutely no clue. The cable was twisted to distinguish between floppy drives a and b. If you connected a drive with a straight cable it was always drive b so you had to use a twisted one even if you got only one floppy drive.
I just bought a Diminsion 2400 from Goodwill for 10$ and it's only missing the RAM, Hardrive, and power cable. All of which I can buy from the same Goodwill for around 13$.
Thank You.. As a Tech I have not worked on system like this in years. and was having to re-solder the video connection to do so means removing the motherboard had it striped all the down except for the cpu and the board would not budge. After watching your video I seen why. Thank You I thought it might be under the heat sink but didn't want to remove it because of the old plastic clips an run the risk of breaking them if I didn't have to. Just completed the repair 100% up and running. Thx again.
Did you, by any chance note the distances between the mounting (screw) holes for this motherboard? I'm tryin' to measure this for the moment. (A matter of establishing (non-) compatibility with other ATX cases). It's a bit cumbersome on a working one, hence my question.
Vid helped a lot with tear down. Dust build up is insane. Currently hoping i can upgrade some of it for roommate. Need to clean first though... lots of cleaning...
That 2.4ghz northwood celeron isn't too bad... Not exactly aged well, but it at least doesn't constantly stall like the celeron d. Its _actually_ usable.
I have one of these and it turns on but the screen is not displaying it just stays black ??? There's the ABCD lights on the back that should be all solid green but my A&C are solid yellow??? Anybody know what's going on? PLEASE HELP, thanks🙏
Get a water cooler for your dell and take out the hard drive holder. Place a 120mm radiator there. replace the power supply with a modular one and place a 92mm fan on the back at the top. Find a cheap SSD to replace the HDD. It can work!
LOL! love the teardown.... I've done this on plenty of these, the old P4 systems.... used to hate these units because I tried to reuse the case and it just was too small and old! I wound up scrapping out all these units and just saving the hardware and fans.... and the PSU.... which can barely be used in 2021! the chassis wound up in the trash along with the floppy drive! love your video!
That's probably where my 2400's floppy drive is going, as it is a very """" fine specimen"""" and in """" perfect working condition"""".
With the interior of the case emptied out, the next thing to do is put all new parts in it. A gaming -microATX motherboard, a high-end CPU, an NVMe SSD, a Noctua CPU cooler, RAM memory, a Blu-Ray drive, an SD card reader, a Noctua fan in the back, and a gold certified power supply would make this desktop a sleeper build.
The cable for the floppy drive is slightly twisted inside to help differentiate between floppy cables and hard drive/optical drive cables.
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I see you have absolutely no clue. The cable was twisted to distinguish between floppy drives a and b. If you connected a drive with a straight cable it was always drive b so you had to use a twisted one even if you got only one floppy drive.
Damn! That io shield took one hell of a lick and didn't even get a dent!
I just bought a Diminsion 2400 from Goodwill for 10$ and it's only missing the RAM, Hardrive, and power cable. All of which I can buy from the same Goodwill for around 13$.
Thank You.. As a Tech I have not worked on system like this in years. and was having to re-solder the video connection to do so means removing the motherboard had it striped all the down except for the cpu and the board would not budge. After watching your video I seen why. Thank You I thought it might be under the heat sink but didn't want to remove it because of the old plastic clips an run the risk of breaking them if I didn't have to. Just completed the repair 100% up and running. Thx again.
Should you put the computer parts back to the way it started and can I take it home for free?
Did you, by any chance note the distances between the mounting (screw) holes for this motherboard? I'm tryin' to measure this for the moment. (A matter of establishing (non-) compatibility with other ATX cases). It's a bit cumbersome on a working one, hence my question.
I wanted to upgrade mine, but they command quite a bit on eBay. I decided to tear down my old Viscom V2 Premiere, and turn it to a sleeper build.
I have a pentium 4 model
Firez me too
Yeah it’s decent but I’m upgrading to i3
i have one of these and i still cant get the green heat sink clips off
how do you even do it
What sorcery did you just use to open it? I'm still struggling to get my pannel off! xD
Try seeing if there’s like a black pull part on the back of the top, if so then pull on it while pulling the side panel
@@farhanornob1280 exactly
@@farhanornob1280 obviously you have never owned this pc
can I take it home please?
12:40 That's an old ide connector
Vid helped a lot with tear down. Dust build up is insane. Currently hoping i can upgrade some of it for roommate. Need to clean first though... lots of cleaning...
Still using the case for a C2D e7400. I replaced everything but the case, looks nice.
That 2.4ghz northwood celeron isn't too bad...
Not exactly aged well, but it at least doesn't constantly stall like the celeron d. Its _actually_ usable.
If you boot from a ssd drive, it is actually pretty fast running win xp. Get a pta to sata adapter!
got given one on freegle and it was packed to the top with dust and there was no hard drive or floppy disk drive and only 1 stick of 1gb ram
I have one of these and it turns on but the screen is not displaying it just stays black ??? There's the ABCD lights on the back that should be all solid green but my A&C are solid yellow??? Anybody know what's going on? PLEASE HELP, thanks🙏
I couldn’t open it
I have one of these and want to reuse the case for my old 4790k setup.
Get a water cooler for your dell and take out the hard drive holder. Place a 120mm radiator there.
replace the power supply with a modular one and place a 92mm fan on the back at the top. Find a cheap SSD to replace the HDD. It can work!
12:41 it's parallel ATA.
Or it's ide I get confused :/
Thanks
*-Opens disk drive-** THERE BETTER BE ROLLLER COASTER TYCOON IN THERE*
I have one from 2005
I just tore my down today I couldn't remove the hard drive or the disk drive but very fun 😀😀😀😀
Numberblocks Band (June 6 2020)
Best retro computer it can run windows 3.11 and 98se
That was a 56k dial up modem! You are too young for it and floppy disk, lol.
Can I have the psu if you don’t need it