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Those are nice PCs! The Shure case is kind of cool!! I didn't realize they made PCs! The Commodore is also nice! Thank you. The Shure PSU is loud! But look how old it is!
Hey thanks for your comment! The Shure is a ripoff from the original, if you see in detail it reads like Siure SI-URE or something. Very smart since it is very similar and they can evade any legal infringements. It's all generic CPU case with PSU.
I am amazed by your crafty powers, as well as your hability to patiently explain all the procedures with care and passion for us to understand the knowledge required to restore all this stuff! I thank thy!!!!!
Nice video and interesting computer. That pci slot with the small extension is something I never saw. But the chipset drivers are not installed or dont work, I think. All 3 Nvidia card show Bus: PCI. If the chipset drivers were working, it should say: Bus: AGP. That is causing the crashes and the glitches. Cool machine capable of many retro games you have there.
Thanks, the mat is very good and has saved me from shocks. If you see in detail, there's a darker spot that voltage burnt through. Never catch any fire, I realized because of the sound the current was making.
Very interesting systems. Never seen a socket 7 system with onboard video and audio on a riser card. But that 48 score in 3dbench is very low for a Pentium 120. I have a DTK computer covered on my channel too. But mine is a midtower socket 370 Celeron Mendocino 533mhz with AGP slot. Very strange that it has the DIN keyboard and AT power supply too. I like these cases with the 3 stripes in the front.
Thanks for your comment. I think something is not good with the BIOS configuration or the partition with DOS in the hard drive respecting the benchmark. Would be nice to make a second part video. I will check your channel as well, cheers!
I wonder i they repurposed the com😊uters as thin clients? My Grandma used in the 2000s, it was a P3 and a big keyboard connector (I now know it AT DIN) and you needed an adaptor. It also had a CD drive added and I remember playing games on it but the graphic card was extra bad!
That's right! You had to get your PS2 connector mounted. I think they intended this so you don´t have to upgrade the case. It's like a mid period motherboard insisting on AT cases.
This brand have done odd things in that era, there was also a similar model with two sockets, one for the cartidge type cpu's and one PGA370 (une usable depending on CPU)... Can't rememder the model right now, and BTW, those algo had a big DIN5 connector... hahaha
Oh boy! Those PC-Chips brand motherboards for P II, haven't seen those for a while, good memories come back, I've used to repair those things in the early 2000's. I' also keept a bunch of the original driver CD's that where shipped in the motherboard's bundle for OEM retailers.
Did you think about retro bright for the plastics to bring it back to near new look removes the stains and plastic cement putty to fill the holes where its broken ?
Yes of course! I will revive that front and case where it's bent and that. Also some epoxy surely and try to match the colour where it's broken but yes, definitely going to revive it. Thanks for your comment!
That's a pity! You can try swapping the memory modules and processor as well. If it works without them your problems may be a faulty memory or processor. All this with the least peripherals connected, only keyboard and monitor known to be working. If the CPU and memory were changed or you know that the ones used are flawless, it could be a failing motherboard, BIOS conflict of some sort or bad component. I suppose you cleared CMOS to BIOS defaults?
@@restoredwards I will try to change the mobo, it's only a week using this 2nd hand mobo at first it was working fine, after a day not using it, it turns unresponsive
for a sec there i thought the agp port was broke till the Vanta card played the 3dmarkk 99 without artifacting, sorry dude but you must have a lot of faulty agp cards laying around.
I don't think so. The artefacts are because of compatibility or drivers or other reason but if you see in my other video in the other PC they are working fine: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Dtw5xzl_X2Q.htmlsi=VsA-RGWmN1WGyo5P&t=907 Also, no artefacts in windows games like Half Life or Quake. This AGP cards are not very good whatsoever, if I would build a system I would go for something else.
@restoredwards I did have a cross over board which I recently sold that was pentium 4 that had both agp and pci-e on it I got £46 for it which I feel is a good price obviously Americans would disagree and wait for a billion years to sell it for like £120-£250, I'm shocked and appalled at the prices Americans ask for Retro motherboards.
I used to work at a credit union and we had some of these. 1ghz. We had some newer dells with 2.4 P4's, they were faster, BARELY. I miss the Vectra's. After HP bought compaq, they took those on as their business computer, and those to this day derive from the compaq design not the HP designs! I remember the HP/Compaq 6300's..then it was all HP ProDesk/EliteDesk, those derive from compaq design. It was a funny few years to say you had an HP Compaq
Yes, I like it it's a good one. Maybe I can find the expansion board for the ISA slots, I saw in other videos in some models of Vectra it was included.
Nice machine! I think Windows 95 would run a lot better on it though, and be more compatible for games. If you wanted the dual CPUs then NT4 is better. Perhaps a dual boot. Thanks for the video!
Totally agree! I am just eager for the two processors working. It's a pity there are few options for that, only NT and 2000 but yea I would make a dual boot or 2 different drives one with Windows 95. Cheers!
@@johnpaulbacon8320 They went defunct in 1994, and while Commodore did make IBM-PC Compatibles, They were all beige. That one appears to be from 2008 due to the Vista COA and Phenom X3
They are always there! one of them was lying around here for a couple of years but on the streets, on someones basement and more, you never know what could appear.
Did you really monitoring that temperature of that hard drive? I have a 10K drive thats already getting burning hot. Should really active cool that HDD. Otherwise drive is death in a couple of months. Cant image that your drive is running cooler..
A good reason to have an XP machine is if you are someone who has any scanners or printers and there are no drivers for them past Windows XP. Yes, there is still a chance it would also work on a Mac but I never owned one and the way they make them difficult to upgrade I never will now! I had a scanner that would work with WIndows up to Windows XP and while it was nothing special. It was a rather slow scanner with a maximum DPI of 600 and did OK for its intended purposes. I liked that it didn't have the cold cathode light that a lot of scanners had earlier on and I paid less than 100 USD for it. Really I may have paid less than 50, not 100 percent sure but it was not at all expensive! It was on sale at the time and that was the main reason I chose it. I got a much better scanner on eBay for $50 although used or it would have been at least $300 to $500 new (it is amazing how expensive those things are!!). Anyhow I just donated the old one since it was still working. It is just that there was no diver support for Windows 7 or higher. The driver would seemingly install but the scanner would just not work on 7 or later. This just shows you the kinds of problems you may run into with old hardware. I am not sure if there would be a driver for it for modern versions of Windows if the manufacturer was still around. Just because a manufacturer is still around older stuff made by them doesn't always support the latest versions of Windows. This may happen with some sound cards at their end of life. I am not 100% sure what decides end of life since sometimes a lot of the ones out there are still functioning. Maybe they just decide they have supported it long enough and need to move on.
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CR3iyWV4fPE.html there's modern drivers for that DVC100, i have the red one and i use mine with OBS and Windows 10, and some of my latest vids are me showing it off. i do hand it off to you, as i do have a USB capture card that cant work past Win7 32 bit, so i have it running with a Win7 laptop (dual core, its an Adaptec Gamebridge, it also wont work in Linux). But yeah these DVC100's are able to work with Win10 and proper drivers. you will get better results with better hardware. Mine works like a dream and even upscales nicely. PS with OBS, you will need to get into the capture card settings and enable the audio in the DVC100 settings on that lil bar below the preview display, if you dont do it you wont get any sound.
Thanks for your comment. I watched the video and will try it since it's not shown working. Also, it looks there are some extra steps. The idea of having the CD with the drivers is to use them, the install and software needs to be practical. I will look into it, thank you.
Hi I just received my new main bearing today from Audio Valt CA. It took about an hour to install the new bearing into my 46 year old Dual 1245. The turntable is completely quit now. Insterment separation. The noise floor is now that of the vinyl being played.
Thanks for your comment. That's neat! The materials and construction really proves the bearing is making its job precisely. Glad you are enjoying your turntable. Cheers!
Thanks for your comment! Yes more RAM will do a good job, I also have another motherboard, if everything goes fine I'll recap it and make a video adding RAM as well. Cheers!
Is that a Ilon M-321 motherboard? I have that too. It's great board. To max it out, you can upgrade it to 256kB of cache and flash MR BIOS on it. You don't need to fill the slightly different chip socket near the cache chips as MR BIOS can do write back even without it. (some earlier original bioses needed that extra chip to enable write back)
Hey thanks for your comment! I think is the same board as yours, I will have to look for it again I can't remember now but I'll get into it surely. Very interesting the cache upgrade and Mr Bios stuff, cheers!
Never had a custom back in those days, but I did have this 1999 business style Dell Dimension with a 1000Mhz Pentium 3 and 2x256k SD Ram, it was an absolute beast for the time period and I added an AGP GPU- GeForce 3 Ti 500 and a Ethernet card in it later on and I used to play Everquest on it all the way up to 2004 and I can't remember something died on it, I think it was the HDD. in 2004 I had an HP with a Pentium 4 NT 3.0 GHz, but it wasn't till 2007 and windows 7 that I actually built a custom computer myself. My current build in 2024 is a Ryzen 7 7800X3D, MSI MAG X670E Tomahawk 32GB DDR5 6400 and an RTX 4080, so yes I'm still building them folks, but my my how times have changed!
Thanks for your comment! Nice machine you had back then, really interesting that Pentium 3. Glad you enjoyed building your last PC, it surely is a beast as well!
