Let's teardown and test some GIANT vintage computer systems! From the Franklin eWaste haul!
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This is the second batch of systems from the massive Franklin eWaste haul. These retro computer towers are absolutely MASSIVE! Let's tear them down and see if we can get them working!
"eardum abuse" earned a thumbs up and subscription! That audio card and expansion module are still worth quite a bit of money.
And that caddy optical drive as well, it could probably go for over USD$100 if it still works.
Although these parts are interesting, they're not interesting enough to be spending that money on anything not modern to upgrade my technology.
Old parts should stay cheap because of how much maintenance and repair is often required from their use. Otherwise they sit there just to be looked at. Which might as well just be an empty shell at that point.
Old parts are often scalped for nostalgia. You can find tons of them still, especially these ones in particular. They aren't that old.
Man this guy is cool.
Love the old hardware and the overall chill vibe. I can't imagine the amount of time that was spent on these recent videos.
Maybe small amount, since it was made by AI and the guy is a deepfake. Everybody terrified here?
That Yamaha card is a testament to the fact that when audio is good, it stays good forever.
Yamaha DS2416+Yamaha AX44, great find.
It is still some very capable hardware even by today's standards!
You're brave to be wearing a nice watch when you're poking around in PC cases, I've scratched the heck out of far too many watches on janky pc cases over the years! 🤭 Thanks for another interesting video Mike!
Thanks! The stainless steel does get scratched sometimes, but it's easy to polish. It does have the sapphire display which is incredibly scratch-resistant. Had my sapphire Series 0 Apple Watch since launch day all the way up until last year. The display was still absolutely flawless!
But why the rainbow brigade?
@@goodecheeseburgers6320 But what could ever be wrong with having a wallpaper designed by mother nature herself? It looks quite nice! Whatever you choose to interpret from a rainbow is entirely up to you... I just think they look pretty 🌈
@@goodecheeseburgers6320Why not? Nothing wrong with colors.
@@goodecheeseburgers6320Found the snowflake who ironically calls others a snowflake 😂
Mike, I already thought you were cool as hell, and then you had to bust out the electric guitar and shred...
And now you're on a whole new level of Awesome!
Loving your channel, bud. Keep up the amazing work. It's been so fun watching you rip into that computer lot you bought!
Thank you so much!
There is some wonderful old tech in those three towers. The Yamaha card must have been quite an investment at the time. What a find! I thoroughly enjoyed this video. Keep up the great work on the channel Mike
Thanks!
Yeap.
Maybe, it's would be a cool idea to combine 2&3 towers,creating some powerful beast.
My co-worker did the design for the Yamaha AX88 (8-channel analog I/O) which plugged into the DS2416. These survived with software support into the 2000/XP era, and I think could do 8 channel simultaneous record, 16 channel simultaneous playback, and had built-in DSP effects. I don't know if anybody is pining for "vintage digital" systems, but this definitely occupies a developmental niche in digital audio workstations.
@@poofygoof People DO pine for vintage DAW equipment. Stuff keeps its value years later.
When I noticed you only have 4k subscribers, I couldn't believe it. I love your content and I love seeing these old PCs come to life! You are preserving history!
I can't even believe it myself! I thought it would take at least a year to get here. So glad to see there are so many people like me who appreciate systems like these!
Alin from Sweden?
@@HighwayHunkie nah im romanian
@@alin3836 yes the retro friend i got from sweden is romanian too hehe
@@miketech1024 I can't even believe it myself! i Thought that your cases would be tall like the wall, the Thumbnial was a little bit phishy to make people think that this would be a massive cases but there just normal That is like scaming people and that sould go against Google's UA-cam policy don'tcha know.
I’ve been working on a g4 and two g5 power mac towers the past few days. Fun to keep old systems running!
Nice! I two G4s currently awaiting some love. Looking for a third one so I can make a complete video on Macs!
Your voice is clear, not over the top, and perfect for this content. I’m subscribed now for sure. Can’t wait to see more!
Thanks!
‘No spinny’ made me laugh. I will rename a few laptops of mine as ‘no boot uppy’ and ‘hard drive corrupty’
That was so therapeutic. great video
How are you man, I discovered your channel only a couple or few weeks ago. You really love beige machine and it shows. I can't help but smile when you are almost stimming out with the excitement of old hardware. Very cool and keep going with the channel, I think it'll do very well.
Thanks so much! I first became aware of computers and technology back in the beige era. These machines are very special to me! They take me right back to my childhood. 😊
@@miketech1024 I'm a bit older so my childhood memories are C64 and Amigas but as a young adult I was early onto Linux in the 90s and had slot one machines so this time period is also special to me. I had a dual slot one celeron with the drill mod for SMP, that was a nice machine. 2 x 300a's at 450mhz and some 4.5 and 9 gig UW scsis (and gravis ultrasound)
Nothing like some great content on this Friday morning! Thanks for the awesome video and keep up the great work!
Thanks so much!
I like watching your movies. Greetings from Poland . Lubię oglądać Pana filmy . Pozdrawiam z Polski .👍🤓
Another Superb Video, love the guitar part ! also those little computer speakers in the background, literally everyone back in the mid-late 90s had those !!
Thanks! Yeah I had these exact speakers back in the day. I was using them to monitor the guitar effects pedal output. They actually sound pretty good for such cheap and ubiquitous speakers!
JUSTr speakers..... rated 100watts PMPO..... powered by a 9v 500mA DC brick! 🤣
@@NJRoadfan 🤣Specs so good, you'd think they came from a white van speaker scam lol
@@tony--james We did sell at least a van's worth!
Those Fujitsu hard drives were the absolute WORST! We built those AOpen systems back in the late 90's/2000's and the amount of those Fujitsu drives that failed was crazy! And I remember Maxtors often having bad drive bearings; they squealed so loud. I had one that was so ear piercing you couldn't sit beside it... but it ran fine for quite a while in a server hidden in a closet, lol! Always nice to see these AOpen systems! Thanks!
Had a 20GB one fail one me, It later turned out it was the fire retardant used by Cirrus Logic inside the controller chips that caused shorts whenever the drive heated up sufficiently. So if you drive failed, you simply kept it going by putting the entire thing in a fridge and copying your data to a better drive. Luckily Fujitsu soon after discontinued the use of those controllers.
yeah those maxtors... ugh.. actually only had one of those fujitsu drives come around at one point, oddly enough it still works.
@@neelsmostert Haha, I've done that freezer trick a few times. Didn't know about the fire retardant, that's pretty cool to know!
I was honestly shocked to see that it actually worked and passed a surface scan! I took an image of it immediately after shooting the video.
I heated my bedroom with a full height Maxtor SCSI hard drive back in the early 90s. Unfortunately it also sounded like a jet engine. I also had a smaller full height Seagate in there, but it had a stiction problem, so I had to keep a hammer nearby for when I needed to power cycle.
That looked like an Abit IT5H board in the Pentium MMX 233. That was the first motherboard with software settings for the multiplier and FSB. And a very good performing HX-based board too.
Love your videos you always seem to cheer me up
You’re basically the Steve1989 of vintage PCs. I’m just waiting for “Nice hiss” during a smoke test.
The ever-elusive smoke show may finally come in the next video!
The sound card is a creative labs Ensonique card. Creative acquired Ensonique and then rebranded the Ensonique chips to reflect the new name. Althoug known as a Sound Blaster Ensonique, it has no Sound Blaster DNA in it.
I think it was Ensoniq who developed the EMU10K1 in the Sound Blaster Live cards around the time Creative bought them out.
Ensoniq also made synthesizers but that all stopped after the Creative acquisition.
Ahh, so that's why Knoppix identified it as an Esoniq card!
Creative rebranded the Ensoniq AudioPCI line of soundcards after buying them out. The EMU10K1 is 100% a Creative developed chip. They bought out Ensoniq for their then-patented DOS Sound Blaster emulation drivers, along with their extensive OEM business.
Also... I got to say... that thumbnail is gold. Tiny Mike vs. the Giant Beige Computer Towers.
This is the absolute pinnacle of my graphics design capabilities! 🤣🤣
@@miketech1024 That made me LOL. With all your skill at pulling computers apart, this is hilarious to admit.
I've got a Pentium MMX 233Mhz behind me & one of my childhood systems was a Pentium III at 866Mhz running Windows 98 with 128MB of RAM. It's nice to see someone doing clips on 90's systems in 2023!
very cool systems. i really like your method in these videos, great attention to detail and i love seeing these old rigs get their moment to shine.
Love your channel - worked with many of these machines in the past...
Brings back memories. My first PC had a 233 MMX Pentium with 64 MB of EDO RAM. At the time I owned it, in 1997 I wanted to max out the memory, BUT to put in 128 MB of matching EDO RAM the cost was prohibitive at 1400 dollars, so I suffered with a memory deprived system that could barely run Windows 2000 - I used the system for a few years as an Internet gateway and as a server for program and file storage.
These are all great videos - I started taking PCs apart and putting them back together with my family's first machine back in '97: a Pentium 200 w/ MMX. So much of this brings back memories. I'm curious how you're storing all this hardware - a tour of your system in place and future plans would be cool to see. I appreciate how methodical you are with checking each component out. That P3 system I suspect was a rebuild into an older case. That case screams 1995 - 1997 but those internals like the GeForce MX420 didn't come out until 2002.
Well you got the fastest Socket 7 P1 and fastest P2. Both great finds in themselves but to get them both in one haul is excellent!
Yesterday, I was building my Windows 98 PC, you uploaded this video! Its a miracle! Also sweet guitar, I play bass and I really dig your epiphone.
Nice! What kind of bass do you have?
@@miketech1024 Ibanez Mikro with a Fender Rumble 15 amp. Just starting out.
@@uptoptem3392 It’s awesome that you’ve started playing at such a young age! So many of the best players started young. When you learn things while your brain is still developing, it becomes second-nature. This is especially true for things like musical abilities. Keep at it!
@@miketech1024 Thanks!
That guitar track was so clean. Love it!
I’m really enjoying your videos.
Thanks!!
_"I AM MY OWN WARANTY"_ - I don't silk screen it on a shirt, I have it embroidered.
I love that Pepsi product placement. 😂😂
I like your channel, you don't waste much time on silly games and the channel is nice and technical.
In 1997, we often had SCSI cd-burner, the SCSI bus helped with the lack of power of the cpu, and quite slow IDE bus.
As soon as you said "except Audacity" i was saying "can't see Audacity" :D
Really good content my dude. Pleasure to watch
Thanks!!
Mike is a great guy, love the mix of nerdy and coolness he have. If we lived side by side i can imagine to be best friends!
Congrats on all the new Patreon supporters by the way! Hope you'll continue to get many more to help fund this expensive habit 😄
Come on guys, let's get him to the point where the Patreon supporters scroll down the screen for several seconds 😄 Show the channel some love and think of all the good karma that will come your way! ❤️
Mike, obviously you have the same interests as me, I'm also buying these sort of computers at local flea markets with very good success in fixing them. I have a full height AT PC here to look at, these are not easy to find 🙂
It’s long been an obsession of mine. Nearly passed out when I laid eyes on that massive haul!
That system with the Yamaha - I used to have this case on an old machine I picked up years ago. Super sad and beat myself up over getting rid of it, it was an awesome case. I still have the motherboard mounted to its tray. It had the same AOpen PSU, so must be one which came with the case.
It used to run OpenSUSE, sadly I didn't know much about linux back then and when I couldn't get root to log in, I gave up and wiped the disks. Wish I could have kept that too and explored it.
That P2-450 is a nice piece for a collection. The fastest Pentium II with a nice aftermarket heatsink/fan assembly.
Noiseless audio input is so rare. what a gem.
This sound card won my heart instantly upon seeing that! Noise is something I’ve always struggled with in PC recording.
@@miketech1024 Okay... my friend .. before destroy by open a HDD like that _(witch it looks it was mechanically fine by the way)_...... you need to clean his power contacts at the least.. _(that behavior is from an HDD that is not getting the enough juice to properly start running you know)_.... you need to see if it is getting the proper voltage in the board.... or some bad cap is pulling down the voltage in it.... or simple oxidation in the contacts of the connector are maybe loosing half the voltage right there.. or a bad or broken solder join............... remove the board from de HDD... clean it... inspect it you see some bad component??.......... veeeeery common... is the silicon thermal pads discomposing shorting thing with the nasty liquid they lose when discompose........... is contact in the board also... that connect the board whit the engine coils inside... they needs to be clean and deoxid...... is one or more terminal with many springs contacts that connect to the heads and to the arm coils.... all those needs to be clean and dioxide also.... _(this goes for modern drive too.. some times an HDD said that it have bad sector because is not getting in the heads the proper voltage because those spring contacts are dirty or oxidized.. is the first thing to do when a HDD show bad sectors clean all his contacts)_ ........... with a thermal camera.. you should see if it is any component in the board that look to be overheating/shorting by most probably some bad cap that needs to be replace... etc... etc..
ABit AB-IT5H, Pentium MMX 233, 64 MB RAM, S3 Virge 325, Realtek RTL8029AS
Soltek SL-67B, Pentium II 450, 256 MB RAM, Trident TGUI9680-1, Yamaha DS2416, Adaptec AHA-2940W SCSI card
Supermicro P6SBA, Pentium III 850, 384 MB RAM, nVidia Geforce 4 MX 420, Creative Labs AudioPCI, Promise Ultra66 IDE controller, 3Com 3C905C-TXM, SIIG Firewire Card, Lucent ISA Dialup Modem
Such great cases. I'd totally build a modern machine in one.
A few old memories from this video here.
First X86 machine had the dual optical drives, when "combo" drives that could burn CDs and read DVDs were still a couple years off, as were DVD writers. My CD-RW was 24x/4x/2x. I did later get a 52x CD-RW, man that thing sounded like it was about to take off sometimes!
My first CD-ROM drive was an external SCSI like that expansion card, though I plugged mine into an Amiga 1200 via PCMCIA socket using a Squirrel branded adapter, it also had my first modem(28k dial up) daisy chained on it.
My first X86 mentioned earlier was also a P3, but it was in a regular socket not on that almost expansion card looking thing. Quite an oddity. I can see the sense of it in making it more beginner friendly, but it must've been expensive.
AOL brings loads of memories, too. Over here it wasn't branded as America On-Line, but simply AOL, with no mention of America anywhere in the software. Of course, it led to the same portal, so you'd get all the American branding there. I guess it makes sense since it's not America, and Great Britain and Ireland On-Line just doesn't quite roll off the tongue.
Lastly, not to get too tl;dr here, I'm glad we don't have to restart(whether due to hardware/software change, setting update or the fifth blue screen that day) anymore.
AOpen power supply. When I worked as a bench tech for Computer City back in the mid-late 90's we used to joke and call it "Aye, OPEN!" since anything with something AOpen...was...well, always open!
The first one is almost exactly like one I built in around 1997 or 1998. I don't have the tower anymore but I probably still have the removable drive cage. It was used as a family PC
Watched all the video with pleasure, a fine video again. Good stuff indeed there: HX chipset mb, caddy drive, Yamaha soundcard, and more! Great job, looking for the next one!
Thanks!
16:20 That's a Yamaha DS2416 connected to that AX44. It's a digital mixing card. The AX44 is just for convenient cable attachment
18:20 The bottom 2 connectors on the DS2416 are audio coax input and output ports , respectively
I definitely think you should make a song on that professional audio PC!
wow! just saw this time capsule clip on YT, "NEW computer in 1995!!! $3000" "Compaq Presario CDS . He went to Good Guys to buy it. I think it had 75 mhz and 8 mb ram". unreal , yup very costly in those early days, what a trip!
That HX08 brings back memories. The Enlight itself is a beast as well.
That CD drive uses a permanent magnet motor, it could have lost it magnetism, try magnetizing the spindle with an old hard drive magnet while getting it to run. The electricity should magnetize the rest of the way.
I'll definitely give that a try. Thanks!
"Icy Dock" used to make these removable hard drive caddies into the 2000s.
You will need to lock the hard drive in to establish power to that hard drive. Good thing it was there. I was working at Lucent when that modem came out. Those were actually better to have as the onboard chip did the work. Unlike the later early 2000s modem had a smaller chip relying more on the cpu power.
Thanks for the info! I was confused as to why the drive didn't at least spin up in the bay.
I'm gonna watch every single of your system reveal videos with delight !
I'm so jelouse of that treasure trove you found ! Power to you !
Thank you for showing us your little new babies !
Thanks!
Pretty insane looking back at a server using a single core cpu. Nowadays 64core beasts...
How far we've come... 🙂
Apparently Intel was still making single-core CPUs right up until 2013, with the Celeron G470.
6:35 RAM is surprisingly sharp and clean
Ah, that Pentium MMX 233 MHz! Overclocked to 300 MHz with Windows 98 - it is the speed itself in its purest form.
Regarding "downclocking" the CPU fan: give +7 volts to it (from the +12 volts rail connected to the +5 volts rail through the fan) - it will slow down nicely.
This vid took me WAY BACK to the days when I did my own bare-bones builds. I had a huge six-bay system that ONLY had the removable drive trays ... I could easily cold-swap drives to change WinOS versions, drives for image backups, data drives, etc. It was AHMAZING ... those were the 'good old days' ... now as an exclusive MAC user, cant even create a bootable system image on external drive (well can, but its quite convoluted to do so). Dont get me wrong - wouldnt go back to WinTel for anything - but sometimes the trade-off for security gets in the way of 'fun' LOL
I love your videos. Best retro chanel
One of the Early Sony CD-R drives, and the Yamaha Sound card I use to use with WinAMP and Broadcast there Own Internet Radio Shout Cast..
I have the same baby AT tower that you put next to it! Nice vintage towers!
Mate you made me feel really OLD. HDD rack was the first hint and after a few more that "odd" memory count (3 x 128MB) killed me in my roots. Luckily my dad is still there to preach about how he passed programming exams without ever sitting near a computer before getting his degree.
Yeah I’m getting there too. I honestly find it hard to believe these are considered retro or vintage now. When people start calling them antiques, I give up! 🤣
Ha, got one of those "Ultra-66" cards at work - used for a Xmas tree decor (work in IT). :)
Nice!
That audio PC is a real time capsule. Oddly it doesn't seem to have been used much, judging from the very clean desktop and default teal Win9x background.
The Yamaha DS2416 card was pretty nice for the time. Those chips had built-in DSPs for effects since CPUs back then were much too slow for real-time audio processing. The original Sound Blaster Live also came out around the same time and likewise had an onboard DSP, but only had stereo input.
Unfortunately it looks like the DS2416 drivers only support up to Windows XP. There's no support for it in the Linux kernel either. Still, a useful card if you don't mind running old software.
I'm reminded of the Aardvark Q10 I was given years ago, a rackmount multichannel audio interface that connects to its own proprietary PCI card using what I think is a 25-pin serial cable. The company released Windows XP and Mac OS X (PowerPC) drivers for the Q10 up until 2005 but then went out of business and completely disappeared.
Cool Edit Pro is the original name for Adobe Audition. Great software, and very popular in the audio world back then. There was also Sony Sound Forge and GoldWave.
I don't think Audacity was used by many people until at least the mid-2000s.
I had the similar/same Acer CD-ROM as a CD-player in my basement storage/hangout, it was quite cool to see these operate on it's own without the computer attached to the data lines. Also the Pentium 2 looks different to the one I have as a memento, the one in that machine has more heatsink.
Nice riffs btw.
Edit: A lot of computers I found back in a day were dead due to bad power supply capacitors, I think it has to do with the ripple in the supply lines freezing everything.._
Nothing like a bit of Mike to cheer me up after a rough day 😄 Would be nice to have a *bit* more Mike and a bit less beige plastic, but at least we get a little on-camera intro/outro 😉
That would require me to keep the garage clean LOL.
I second that. The PCs aren't the only eye candy.
@@miketech1024 hehehe, nobody's looking at the garage, Mike 🤣 😉
His videos are very relaxing and he's such a cutie, I'd love to see more of him too
10:04. I think Intel put out 166, 200 and 233 mhz MMX CPUs before the first Pentium II came out and replaced the Pentium MMX processors, I don't remember for sure.
Fun fact: PMMX233 was released AFTER PII as some sort of Celeron a year before Celeron but the 166 and 200 came before PII
Pentium II and Trident TGUI9680-1 is surely a interesting and underrated combination
Woah, that Yamaha rig is a real gem! I looked it up and yes, it was a semi-pro (what I think they used to call "prosumer" lol) recording setup in it's day. The other PIII tower is a true gem as well, would be interesting to check it's period-appropriate game performance. What interests me is that it still has IDE slots, which I had thought were long gone by the time PIII rolled around. Still, great system there.
That Yamaha DS2416 won my heart instantly when I saw that noise floor. That’s something I’ve always struggled with in recording to a PC.
That last one is the In-Win Q500. Still have one, and its little brother, the A500. Solid cases, first ATX ones I ever picked up. The sliding motherboard tray design is the best. The Q500 actually shipped with two options for the base, fold-out feet (as it was very narrow compared to its height), and caster wheels (yea, long before apple "innovated" that).
And today, I'm rocking the full-tower Cooler Master Storm Trooper, which only barely rivals the Q500 for drive mounting options and space.
I have several Promise Ultra-66 cards from that era. The IDE controllers on motherboards of that era were slow, buggy, and didn't support larger capacity drives. I always opted to use the Promise cards over anything on the motherboard.
SCSI was also the way to go in the early days of CD burning on PCs.
@@zoomosis I have a large stack of Adaptec 2940UW cards that can attest to that. Somewhere I should still have my Plextor SCSI CD burner, and my Pioneer DVD RAM drive. Also have several 4mm tape drives along with the backups I took in the mid 90s. One of these days I will try to restore my system from back then.
Well, could sorta do what I did for testing ATX PSU's, I got a old Phenom II x3 that unlocked to 4 cores and a GTX 260 and Windows 7 on it, If I get PSU's in or even older ram that works in it, doubles as a test bench, I run furmark, prime95 for a while just to see if the PSU can do it, I've killed a few with that system, never harmed the system yet, but usually a pop, and the magic smoke.
Them PSU testers, all they do is test voltage, I got a volt meter I can do that with, but yeah, I do wish there was and more affordable and easy way to test PSU's other than just turning them on a checking voltage.
I’m definitely leaning towards designing my own tester. One that can actually apply a load while measuring voltage drop, ripple etc.
this guy is very attractive
That third one, the InWin case. I got one from Fingerhut 23 years ago. Had win 98. I like that case so much , a micro. I built my first puter from the ground up so I had a matching set on either side of the monitor. 98 & xp fun times. years later a did another InWin case (black) for my wife. Oh! and the speaks on the Fingerhut identical to the ones you have. The Fingerhut was branded ProTec. Damn, now I feel old, Ha!
Wow Fingerhut… That’s a name I haven’t thought of in decades! Think I felt the dust get knocked off of some brain cells. 🤣
Having dimm slots has nothing to do with it being "super socket 7". Actually, there's no "official" definition as to what a "super socket 7" is, but most people go by the 100 MHz bus support and some also add having an AGP slot to the "requirement".
Edit: also you hit the jackpot with that Pentium 2 450. They are quite rare and, thus, expensive.
Great video! Reminds me of the days I’d be chatting on Yahoo and get an IM from you to either boot or check on your server in your room. All the videos you make bring back so many memories! I love them! Looking forward to more!!
I just down loaded the Knoppix distro to a USB thumb drive. Very interesting OS. Is it a lot easier on the Hardware? I am running a Lenovo Think Pad T 530 with a 2.6 Ghz CPU and 16 GB of RAM and Intel HD 4000 GPU.
I doubt this would support a K6-2 but this might be one of those use cases where a Cyrix M-II 333mhz may be a boost (these were often used as they ran at a low FSB speed normally 83mhz rather than 100mhz and therefore worked with "non super" Socket 7 boards. These were very often found on PC Chips TX Pro II boards.
You don't look older than me... I'm guessing I have 20 years on you. I have to know, where did you acquire these skills? These videos are so much fun to watch, thank you.
Glad you're enjoying them! I'm 35. I've just been been doing things like this nearly my entire life. Became really interested in systems when I was 5 years old (thanks to the Apple II in kindergarten). Started watching a show called The Computer Chronicles and was completely hooked... By age 7 I had put together a system of my own from trash-picked parts, which were plentiful in Philly during the '90s. Now I work as a senior systems engineer for a Fortune 500. We're 100% cloud-based so this channel is my way of getting my hardware fix.
Well, this was the first time I've seen anyone glad to find a Geforce MX card.
The Creative Labs model number CT4740 is a Sound Blaster 16 PCI
Awesome content loving your channel. Keep up the great work and thank you for sharing. Gotta love windows 95. I’ve got an old compaq persario 616C with 56 mb of ram and pentium 150 non mmx still kicking around from 1996 at exactly 58 minutes of inactivity it goes into standby mode and will lock up every single time no matter what windows or proprietary bios setting’s are selected. It’s a real pain getting into the bios too because it is on the original 1.5 gb quantum big foot hard drive I’ve taken out of the system and carefully stored away. I did manage to find a good 20gb Matrox ide hard drive for it. I’ve unfortunately never had any luck getting the proprietary bios copied to the newer drive. Honestly I’m not really sure how it even works it must have the bios on some chip on the motherboard only it’s not accessible to me unless I have the original hard drive attached.
Ive always loved these old full tower cases. FYI those on those old anodized coolers you can gain a good bit of performance by lapping them where they touch the cpu die, i would always go from 400 to 2000 grit sandpaper then burnish with a cotton polishing pad and red compound, used to do that on all of those to get a little more cooling.
All three of these beasts are beauties. I love that Yamaha audio card... it's fantastic to see some of the history of music production on these kind of computers.
LOL, your "eardrum abuse" guitar piece was just fine. Great to see you playing, although I think I'd be just as embarrassed to play on camera like you.
For that ancient Cubase install... wow... where to start!? Are there any old project files on the HDD? I wonder if it's possible to get them off and open them up on another system? It looks like it is Cubase VST 4.0, the professional 24-bit version. This is the first time Cubase supported 24-bit audio. It came out in 1998. What a fantastic find!
Unfortunately, as best I can find, the "latest" version of Cubase that supports opening these old Cubase VST files is Cubase SX3 (released 2004/2005), which is itself super old. Look for .all and .arr files. Reading back through old posts on the Steinberg forum, I can see people still able to import these around 2012. That was over 10 years ago. I wonder if anyone there, or on forums like VI-Control or KVR, would have old systems sitting around that can import these files still. Assuming there are old Cubase project files on that HHD still.
Anyway, good luck in building an old audio production PC. I wonder what kind of audio latency that Yamaha card has working with the Pentium CPU.
So far I’ve only found samples on the hard drive. I think all of the rendered tracks and project files got stored on the external SCSI drive.
@@miketech1024 Ah.. bummer. Makes sense I guess. Trying to open those files would have taken a fair bit of work anyway.
Edit: Project files I mean. Is a shame there's no rendered files either. :(
Oh, the nostalgia at seeing the second computer with the harmonica-style P2. The case is made by Aopen, called the HX08 and it was the bees knees for big-tower cases back in the late 90s and early 2Ks. I've owned two or three of them. Super-wellbuilt and very moddable. Usually they came with rotating feet but yours seem to be missing.
Back in the day, it was a lot faster to just click no every time it asked to restart, let it install everything and then restart only once.
12:07 « Oh no, my warranty ! »
_Proceeds to slash the warranty sticker anyway_ 😂
That removable harddrive looks like a SCSI drive..
The caddy connector does look very SCSI, so I was surprised to see the enclosure connected via IDE.
Probably the same connector but definitely not SCSI. That was pretty common on those caddy's to use a connector like that and combine the IDE and power signals into a single connector.
Part of me wanted to put my new home nas in big ass beige box... Keep showing us this score. its fun to see.
When windows 95 ask for the CD for very generic stuff, usually the only thing you have to do is to point it to the windows or windows\system/32 directory
Turns last computer on... power for entire neighborhood starts flash and dim. Neighbors stare in horror at dimming lights as though apocalypse was nigh.
Wait 'til they see me power on that SGI Indigo² 🤣
23:15
Nothing to apologize for, your neighbors weren't even blown out of their houses.
Awesome find on these machines man, I wasn't expecting the guitar solo either, haha!
Anyway you got some cool stuff this go round, shame that Promise card wasn't one of their better 100 or 133 cards, 66 will do for older systems tho, it might be a bit slow on a Pentium III. Cool find on the purple MX4 too, never seen one in purple before, but that's a great retro gaming card. I use a similar 64MB card in my retro system, mine is an early Pentium 4 era tho. Socket 478, Celeron 2.0GHz (Northwood I think), 1GB DDR RAM (overkill but why not?), 2x 80GB IDE HDD's, some kinda AOpen Cobra sound card that does OPL3, and I love the sound of OPL3 in games like Doom, and the MX4 I'm running which I think might be a Dell OEM card but I don't remember. The whole system except the HDD's and PSU dates to about 2001 / 2002. Runs Windows 98 SE, could do XP but I wanted it DOS based. I had a 256MB GPU in it, I think it was a FX 5200 or 5500 but it just seemed so wildly overkill and ran so hot I took it out, the MX4 does just fine, can run everything from Alice: Madness Returns to ye olde DOS games like Doom no problem. Even runs the original version of Half Life 2 before they ported it to the newer Soruce engine really well.
Oh the neighbors get plenty of eardrum abuse when I connect it to my sound system LOL. Oh man the Nvidia Geforce FX 5200 AGP was the first GPU I ever bought brand-new. I felt unstoppable playing on that thing! It was paired with an AMD Athlon XP 1800+ with 512MB PC-133 RAM. Wish I still had that motherboard... I do still have the case though, with all of its early 2000s absurdities!
@@miketech1024 Nothing like an eye bleeding early 2000's PC with a blue motherboard, red sound card, purple GPU, round UV reactive IDE cables and those annoying cathodes that always whined. Usually couldn't hear them over the fans, though... Never been my thing but it was a sight to behold!
My current PC is sitting in the most industrial bland case I can think of, an Asus AP201 black without the side panel window. Upgraded to a 4070 Ti from a 2070 Super and I needed a new case. Got a i9 9900k, 32GB of DDR4 3200 and the 4070 Ti stuffed in this thing, as well as a 280mm AIO.
Anyway I'm planning on thinning out some of my collection since I don't use most of the stuff anymore, not sure what I'm gonna do with it, not even sure what I have, being honest. I should've probably gone thorugh it all over the past winter.
that DVD drive in the pentium 3 did NOT like being complimented, every time you complimented it it had a problem! LOL!
I still have a couple of Yamaha PCI audio cards from vintage machines. The XG-1000 still fetches a couple hundred USD on Ebay, which attests to the overall quality of these cards. The AC97 onboard chips don't hold a candle to the Yamaha and earlier SoundBlaster Pro cards!😉
If you used a Slocket for your 100Mhz bus Pentium III on a supported Intel i440BX Slot 1 board you could install up to 768Mb of RAM, most Socket 370 boards at the time had the i810/815 chipset which was limited to 512Mb.
Apologize? Dude, THAT WAS SICK.
the last tower, reminds me, of my local photo store, he has a similar tower standing, with all kinds drives installed and yes he do still accept 3,5 disk
Now I Unserstand Where The Origins Of The Drives You Test PSUs With😂