Is this Computer worth Saving?? 

Warms my heart seeing these old machines brought back to life

Just loved how you showed off Unreal and Quake Arena without any comments. ❤😊

I share your meaning about the sound of a old harddrive. Awesome! Great job you did. Greetings from Steven from the Netherlands

Holy moly, 512MB of RAM is overkill for W98. Heck it's borderline overkill for XP as well. That's a beast of a machine you rescued there. Excellent restoration work you've put into that PC. I never played Quake but Unreal is forever in my heart. Back in the day I had a Matrox Millennium G450 Dual Head card, but that ran DirectX and at the time, I believe Unreal only accepted 3DFX for hardware acceleration, so I only got to enjoy Unreal in software rendering back then. I have Unreal now on Steam patched to accept DIrectX and replayed through it a few years ago. It looks like a different game between software and hardware rendering, but regardless of which renderer is used, it's a gorgeous game to play.

I love the sound of a 7,200 RPM IDE hard drive spinning up in the morning

That was my first Dual Layer DVD Burner. Nice find. Those LG Drives are workhorses.

Hard to beat a beautiful beige midi tower. Pretty high specs as well. nice.

Such nostalgia for me, growing up I built my first unit back in the days of the 386sx under my dad’s supervision (I was probably about 12). I changed the shadow ram setting and wrote off the motherboard. My next unit was a 486dx which I went on to use for years. Pentium was a bit rich for a while for my dad to afford to risk me writing off. So yeah some good memories and a massive nostalgia hit watching this video. Excellent job, keep up the great work!

I could instantly recognize the vintage of those disc drives. The bottom one already has the fairly standardized modern design, but still has lots of labels about it's capabilities. So from a time when being able to burn DVDs and being able to read DVD-RW was important. The top one is a bit older. It still has sort of a unique design, form when manufactures tried to set themselves apart. It also has the analog audio out and a play button, which means it's from a time when using the drive as CD player was still desirable. The fact that it advertises 32x speed is just a bonus.

very nice the person printing the plug in stuff first time seen that on older computer case

I absolutely love this series!! Nicely done! Please keep it up!! 😊

Definitely worth saving 😃 Seeing you play Quake 3 arena in particular brought back memories. Anyway just goes to show that you don't always need the latest and greatest, and that computer in particular should allow you to play a nice library of games up to maybe the early 2000s (and I'd rather play those games than the vast majority of modern games)

that MSI sticker brings back memories! I had a beige case (had a big and small blue button for power and reset specifically) that had the EXACT sticker on it. Oh, the days of windows XP systems

i keep that background always. it’s perfect! although remember the “digital blasphemy” wallpapers from back in the day?

Beautiful work with this video. Glad to see the appreciation for tech history.

The numbered ports could have been for a teaching machine. Handouts showing what port four looks like and what it does.

I did this with my kids when they first started to learn the pc.

The number is used to match cables for the end user. Saw this alot back in the early 90s thru the 00s.

My 1st CD burner was an LG 8x4x32x. I made so many coasters with that thing as my computer wasn't exactly fast enough that I had put it in!

That was the cleanest pc I have seen. When I did service for traveling companies a common failure was overheat shutdown since they had horisontal pc's placed on the floor and even a rug under. When I lifted the cover it was dust all the way up 😮

Currently working on my Gateway 2000 p5-90,we have had the computer since new,its wild just to see how far things have gone.

Heya My first PC was a Walmart special 2k cash then after all the upgrades including dual 6mb Voodoo 2 cards and 128mb PC 133 sdram i had a winner. I sold it in 2013 with a big box of rollermice and a 15 in LCD monitor for 500.00 the buyer drove out so fast as he had a poster printer that only used win 95 he was so amazed at what it had inside and i wish i had not parted with it..... BigT

Nice work, Man. I enjoyed video!

This looks like a PC used as an example for a computer class

That was a steal 14.83 US You should start a computer museum

The sides are from different cases, the Marker is so the tech can rematch the side panels to the case. The whole machine is likely parted together from discarded PC's and the best fitting parts assembled for case. Probably a bunch of office computers that were refurbished in a one off computer repair shop.

Excellent. You're right, it is snappy. Never liked Windows 98, but still a cool rebuild. Well done.

These old PCs are always interesting to see! If those numbers mean the order to plug in, I find that interesting as i wouldn't plug in the power until last. Great restoration!

I’ve been using Lysol Advance wet wipes to clean off my cases and inside the cases. It actually works great.

Add-on board on the video card: TVOUT (SVHS or yellow cinch to connect to TV) was a premium feature in that time. Probably this card was $30 more because of that daughter board than without it.

the numbers are for an IT department, this was likely used in an office and instead of sending a technician or trying to explain the different ports to a non tech savvy person, someone on the phone can just say, make sure 3 is plugged in or reconnect #2 if the mouse isn't working if someone has a problem

Those LG CD-RW drives were really popular in the early 2000's here in the UK in the big computer and electronics shops. I've got several of them in various different speeds, and a couple of black ones as well. My first one was an LG and I bought my parents the same one in 2002 for christmas so my dad could copy his music CD's to play in the car rather than his original CD's, and so I could do mix CD's for my mum. It took me an hour to teach my dad how to use it, but after that was soon copying his CD collection. I've still got the one I got my dad and it still works like a charm.

I have seen bullets thru hard drives and some have got hammered but this is something new, opening it up and probably removed the whole platter :DD

Very good video; it was a great trip down memory lane. My first system build was probably not too long before this one was put together; I went out to visit my dad in 1999 and he walked me through building a Celeron 400MHz system to replace an aging Acer 500LB pizza box that I had back home. I think we built it with a Voodoo 2 but I don't quite remember; it was a far more capable machine than what I had. Fast-forward to now and I've built a beefed-up version of that Celeron rig with a Pentium 3 1.1GHz, a somewhat anachronistic FX5200, Win98 SE, and some goodies that allow me to play around with Protoweb and a few other Internet-type things I want to run in the future. I should probably fire up some Unreal on that rig. :) I also got nostalgic for that old Acer; it took years but I finally found one just like it(sans monitor, though). That's the Win95 rig, complete with all the factory bloatware I remember from those days.

My god, i must have built hundreds of systems of exactly this variety and specs, all to farmers in Alberta. I have an infinite fondness in my heart for AMD at this threshold. The Thunderbird era (minus the caps) was a golden age of computing all around.

Heya New sub here You just brought back a lot of wonderful memories.... Thanks. BigT Alaska

Awesome rig by the end. You always do good work!

great video! you reminded myself when building a custom celeron A 366Mhz :) with 128 of RAM

I say Yay. It’s a great starter if anyone wanted to upgrade it. Heck. Can put a Creative Aw64 ISA sound card in it. It would still most likely be better then the onboard sound. AGP - skies the limit. Loads of PCI slots. If anyone wanted to go that route. Or just leave it stock. It’s still a good PC to give it some TLC like you said. IMHO I think all PC’s should be saved. No matter the make or model. They were part of our growing up era. Great stuff :)

VERY nice retro find. I am busy restoring another legacy computer for my Windows 7 era builds. There is an awesome AT system waiting for me to start on...but I need to look for my AT to PS2 adapters which I stored somewhere

I agree, great pick up and amazing refurbish. thanks for the rebuild this saturday night, it was real fun

wow. monster truck madness...that really took me back to childhood. i remember playing quite a few hours of that on an old (new back then) on an slot 1 pentium 3 with a same ati rage 128. good ol days 😩

A lovely machine and really making me want a similar setup. Quake 3 Arena takes me back to multiplayer deathmatch in college. Great memories, thanks for the video.

good find - well worth keeping - takes a 1GHZ coppermine - great 3dfx voodoo build material

The only thing missing is the 5-1/2" drive, then it would be perfect. It cleaned up very well. I'd use it!. I love the old Vintage computers!

Nice find Last week I found a PC from the same time period at the thrift store for 14 CAD Normally I dont find anything worth taking there, I was so shocked. Years since ive seen a proper beige tower at the thrift store. Sadly a lot of the caps on it were blown. So I spent an additional 20$ and recapped it. Now working perfectly. Of course came with stuff like hard drive sound card etc... It was exactly what I have been looking for for some time now

Awesome

The purpose of keeping the original components is like keeping a 1968 Firebird in immaculate stock condition. Sure you could put a huge blower and ridiculous chromed dub rims and DOT spec tires on it and go really, really fast. But in the process the car loses its soul. The stock car is like picking out a piece of time from 60 years ago and plopping it right in your garage. These restored computers are no different. BTW, this gave me the feels for my first PC which was a P3 Coppermine 500Mhz from around the same generation. I bought that at a tech expo that was advertised weeks in advance and held at the local convention center... ever wonder what we did before Newegg and Amazon? Can't remember what video card it had, I think it was a Rage 128 too. This was a big deal for me because it was when I finally gave into my gaming hobby and made the switch to PC from Mac, as Apple was phasing out truly gaming capable systems at the time. Honestly, I really regret selling my previous computer. It was a Power PC 8600 running Mac OS 9, with an XLR8 G3 400Mhz upgrade CPU, and a Mac specific flavored 3dfx Voodoo 2 displaying on a Trinitron 19" screen. That was a true relic of history, a real beast of a gaming Mac. Nothing around to compare it to these days really, had some good times playing Unreal on that rig. Makes me wonder what happened to it, but then again, I probably don't want to know. 😂 Good stuff, looking forward to looking through your video library!

I thought I knew the socket 370 lineup pretty well, but I didn't even know there was a 1ghz P3 based celeron released, much less that there were Tualatin based celerons later on. I think by that point I was firmly using Durons for low end PCs, and the remaining socket 370 machines I maintained usually got a Coppermine 1ghz P3.

My first homebuilt PC I used that Mobo specifically for it's Overclocking ability. Put in a 900 mhz Celeron and by changing the fsb from 100 mhz to 133 (like a pentium) it ramped up to 1199mhx and got me into the 1ghz club on the cheap...

Man thank you for such an awesome video, I subscribed😊 After watching your video I grabbed an old Intel Q9550 Quad Core Cpu with a socket 775 motherboard from 2008 and put it on my test bench just to see if I could get a post. Well 16 years later both the cpu and the motherboard are rock solid, I even have an old GTX 1070fe and 16gb of Gskill ddr3 ram..Only crazy part is this old NZXT case wirh a crap ton of molex connectors and front panel I/O cables😂😂😂 Damn what a rats nest😂 Anyways, thank you for the video it was fantastic.

Awww man, I miss playing quake3arena so much!

25:20 absolutely beautiful. an engineering marvel, really

If you plan on using this, do check the power coming to the integrated audio chip. I had one similar MSI board (could've been the same too) that blew out the audio IC. The reason is simple. The board was made with two different audio IC's. One can take 3,3V and 5V in, the other 5V. Guess what the power rail is? 5V. Elektrotanya should have a schematic.

Celeron have a special place in my heart. I will start my own IT company in 2005 and use Celeron as my daily driver. So the CPU means a lot for me and i have much memories

when I was in college we had old pc to show how to assemble a computer and mabie this was a learning computer

the case alone is worth saving!!

I think I might be the only one who prefers hard drive over solid state

great job on the clean up & good decision to not use the hdd it was probably why the psu was disconnected as part of someones diagnostic process . i had a p3 1ghz back then i out together using a gforce of some discription if i remember correctly . i still have the previous p200mmx & et4000 vga with apocolypse 3dx aswell as the voodoo3 2000 i bought & put to in it to be able to play " AVP Gold edition " in 1999 . a game i still play today . as good as DGVooDoo & NGlide are you cant beat playing old games on period hardware , 3dfx & a crt ..

well worth saving runs games very well too Perfect

I enjoy watching your video😊😊 here the video where you got the three six 80s up and running and post it I just saw I just saw this 14 day old video of the Cellron processes that is two weeks old that's you sitting here it brings back good memories for me because right at that time here but do you want to see 98 there it is in my teenage years for between ten and 15 years at the time here so I know that for me to see it does Jonas the games you have played also in this video video it also knows mine knows it does it all all your videos to do or many of them those those who have with PC and do here from the start 90 up to now the mega they bring back memories to me they make me remember my childhood and I would like to say thank you for 90% of all the computers you have your hands on they are worth saving so keep doing what you are doing you are doing everyone a great service and show what it was like to use a computer in the 90s for all those who don't know wh😮at a landline phone is and on the television with round pictures pipes and a plumbing video from all those who don't know that this is a window back in time for them😊🎉

If i had a bad hard drive i would gut it and put a SSD in the hard drive shell 😂

i think you missed an opportunity in the bios to enabled "sound blaster" and see how compatible it was for the likes of doom or duke3d etc

I say yay. Keep it. It’s worth it. Have a great sim o on the mobo. AGP. PCI. And ISA. Can do a lot with those. :)

Love those old Computers

Early celerons based on Pentium 3/4 are not too bad since it only have less cache and slower bus speed than the p3/4 unlike the celerons nowadays are the lowest crappiest cpu's compared to a reasonable priced core i3 chips! I have a pc which had a celeron 1.7ghz, then upgraded to celeron 2.4ghz which i had on hand, now has the p4 2.8ghz that i just bought recently, all on a 400mhz bus speed since the pc can only run 400mhz bus cpu's. At least ive increased the speed by a gigahertz!😁

If the capacitors show a " ^ " (tented up top)" on them when the motherboard is out of the case looking at it horizontal, then the Capacitor is blown, and it'll have to be replaced, if multiple are blown get a new motherboard if you can find one.

The price sticker said 512, so it may have been for all three stick of RAM.

Back then I used to hate the celery CPUs but now I want to put one together. After I finish my 3.06 northwood and 1.4 thunderbird I probably start looking to do a socket 370 celery or maybe a northwood celery.

I had the same chassis at one time.... loved it for expansion. but as time went on, had to upgrade to a better chassis....

I'm about 11 mins in, just wanted to say I'm a *fairly* new sub here, and as somebody who still has their first ever working PC (a '94/'95 IBM Aptiva Multimedia with Win 3.1), I appreciate the down-to-Earth breakdown and where your mind wanders. Mine does the same, I have so many retro PC's by this point, lol. Keep it up...and now for myself, back to the video 😅

That was fun to watch, and brought back lots of memories. I agree that Win-98 SE was the best choice. Just for grins, I would be tempted to also install Linux as dual boot.

i think you of two side panels from different computers. The one on the right looks like its upside down based on where its notches are at

Did you open the drive that came with the computer, I remember that sometime people would pull the platters out of the drives. Curious if this is happened here?

It cleaned up well and the build quality of the case looks good.

Strange that someone would evidently tamper with a hard drive & put it back inside the case! Our Win98 build back in the day was a PIII 866Mhz with 1/4 the HDD & RAM capacity.

nice machine i think you will even try to run dos games with audio using the sbemu emulator because of that ac 97 audio card, maybe when you decide to give it an upgrade you can try that. nice work

Would have been best to start with "load setup default" . If I recall, that is equivalent to "optimal" on other systems. BIOS default or CMOS cleared may be slower

Yeah, this thing's worth saving. Celeron 1 GHz from the Y2K era seems pretty rare nowadays.

Dam thing has my same LG DVD burnner with lightscribe i once had. Wait. I still have it in a box 😂.

I need to get out more! the new re-store didn’t have any decent tech related goods

Links 386 Golf. God Bless my friend

8:00 wow yeah this mobo has all the slots eh

just bought 64gb ddr4-2666mhz (4x 16gb) for 73usd (including shipping) on Facebook Marketplace in Denmark ;-) (talking about RAM-prices)

You know, as I watch your videos, I have noticed you haven't set up a Windows NT 4.0 system? The 98SE us a good selection for the same time period. You "could" set up a second hard drive with NT 4.0 and then you can dual boot by using CMOS setup to select boot device. Best of both worlds.

the rage 128 should be an 8mb card if i am not mistaken.....i do have one of those. the 128 pro is a 16mb card.

would add a fan in front and back, cant have enough cooling.

My dad does the numbers too, each cable has a sticker on it with a number so he knows what goes where. He's colourblind, so colours are not as useful (for example on the various audio jacks). You and I know some are obvious, I mean RJ-45 won't go in any other socket and only one way in the one it's meant to go in, but dad likes the order of his numbers.

Nice system. I got lucky today with a Slot 1, Intel 440BX based systems today fished out of the trash. Including a Voodoo 3 3000 AGP card! And a Abit motherboard with 4 IDE ports. 2 from the chipset and 2 from another controller that is actually twice as fast.(UDMA/33 vs UDMA/66). Though i need to go through my stack of slot processors to see if i have anything faster to pair it with. Comes with a 450MHz Katmai P3 that does not really fit. There is a back bracket that bumps into some caps.

you do great job

I think the numbers was the boot priority

31:30 much prefer the IDE drives too 🤜🏽🤛🏽

I weekly use a PC from the same period for real work! OK, the PC is 1 to 1.5 year newer. Motherboard; CPU and memory are the remains of a 2003 HP d530 SFF. It has a Pentium 4 HT (1C2T; 3.0GHz); 2x 512MB DDR (400MHz); 1 Gbps Ethernet; 2x IDE HDD 3.5" (250+320GB) and 2x SATA HDD 2.5" (320+320GB) in total 1.21TB :) The system is mounted in an old Compaq Evo Tower with a Windows 98SE sticker. I use a 3 year old 600W xTech power supply (24 pin plug; 4 pin CPU plug; 2 SATA and 2 Molex plugs ($16). This 21 years OLD PC runs a 4 month NEW software release; 32-bits FreeBSD 14.0 from Nov 2023 :) :) A few months ago the system had a lot of issues, so it was out of use for say 2 months. But a month ago I used contact spray for memory; IDE and SATA connectors and I put new adhesive on the CPU. At the same time I installed the new FreeBSD 14.0 instead of 13.2. It is used as a headless backup server (ssh). The 64-bits Ubuntu 23.10 Ryzen desktop and the 32-bits FreeBSD 14.0 Pentium server run both the 128-bits file system OpenZFS 2.2.0 :) :) The backup is based on the lz4 compressed snapshots from my Ubuntu desktop, which are sent and stored as-is on the server. The Ethernet transfer runs at ~30MB/s (say 250 Mbps) and is limited by a CPU thread running at >85%. The weekly incremental backup takes ~1 hour., worst case 1.5 hours. Memory usage is between 600 and 850 MB. The server also supports Samba, in case I want to restore a few files. To look at the system occupation and transfer progress, I login (ssh) to the system from my desktop. The system is in use since mid 2019 originally with FreeBSD 12. I understand why people collect retro PC, I kept two old PCs from my past; a 486DX66 and a Philips P3105, a XT Clone. I simply do not have the space for it, so they are stored in a cabinet. However I collect the OS software in Virtualbox VMs, because it requires less physical space. I have 17 Windows releases from Windows 1.04 (1987) till Windows 11 Pro (now) and that includes the NT releases from the nineties. I also have all Ubuntu releases from 4.10 (2004) till 24.04 LTS (to be released Apr 2024). I like access to all old releases, but especially to my all time favorites Windows for Workgroups 3.11 and Windows XP Home. The last one I still use a few times per week to play the wma copies of my CDs and LPs with WoW and TrueBass effects :) By the way the 486 has WfW 3.11 installed.

I need that case!!

I can remember buying 64 megabytes of memory for 96 dollars

I have several of these types of computers. Just getting into what these machines can do. Is it possible to connect them to the internet? If it’s possible, how do you do it. Or is it best just to game on it etc.. Thanks.

Are you Canadian? I’m from Ontario. Well born in Hull Quebec (June 3rd) but been in Ontario for 50 yrs in august.

I just worked on a socket 370 machine. Mine uses the Pentium iii-s 1266mhz(a tualatin server processor) 256mb of ram(eventually will be 1.5gb), a GeForce 3 Ti 200, and an Asus TUV4X motherboard.

Yes def worth a save. Great retro experience. If you could only choose one retro machine what specs would you go for?

just noticed you used the Sun Monitor you got. i was too busy admiring the case 😆