Restoring a 1999 Gateway Essential 450 PC 

Meanwhile, in the airplane: "so if you ladies and gentlemen look below, you can see LGR's home, and where he shoots his videos. What's that? Closer? Well of course!"

Old lady: "Jeah I need a PC and it should run my screenreader software" Store Clerk: "Oh wow, you need a Voodoo 3 for that."

“In late news, a North Carolina man has been arrested, Known locally as Clint Basinger or LGR, for standing on his roof and lobbing projectiles at a low flying aircraft. Mr Basinger reportedly kept muttering “those friggin planes”.”

I worked at Gateway from 1991 until 1998. I eventually became a marketing manager for all new products, so I had a big office with a big workbench, and some great engineers working for me. I only mention this to say that I think you have your dream job too. If you can put aside a beautiful computer like this for "a couple of years" shows that you have a lot to play with. And I love watching you do it! When I started in 1991 purchased a 486/66 VESA local bus, with the full, full tower with the reset and power buttons at the very top. Cost me over $5000 on the employee purchase program. Try as I may, I cannot find this system anywhere. If you have the chance to do a restoration on one of those, I would love to watch it! Thanks for keeping the old days of real computing alive.

"No sucky, only blowy". Thanks Clint for the life lesson.

15:33 _Don't you hate it when you think you're done screwing and it's just like "oh once more", and you're, like, "but I'm tired!"_ -Ron Jeremy- Clint Basinger

You can tell if someone’s old or not if they have a “Shortcut to Shortcut to Shortcut to Shortcut to Shortcut to Shortcut to Shortcut to Shortcut to My Documents” in their computer.

"Go away airplanes!" Clint, they *are* going away! That's why they're making sounds!

"I won't name this RU-vidr but his name is Brutalmoose"

*Clint's eBay searches after this video:* -Flak Cannon -Flak Shells -Aircraft Radar

all these years.. i didn't know farts balls fart balls is the CD KEY for windows 98.

The "Quality Seal" sticker was added by Gateway (as far as I remember, as I bought a very similar model back 2000). You were likely the first one to remove that sticker since it went out of the factory.

This video: 80% ASMR 15% restoration 5% planes

Love the fact the last disk check was 5554 days ago, Over 15 years and the last defrag is 2904 days ago, 8 years ago. :)

I remember when the Pentium 4 came out. SO many people simply GAVE me their Pentium III systems. I made quite a bit of cash by restoring them and selling at a discount. Fun video, Sir!

My family bought there first computers at the gateway store..it was a time where buying computers was a family event. The 90s were a great time to be alive

Aircraft Pilot: And on the left we see the house of the famous RU-vidr LGR. Don't worry if you miss it, we will keep doing laps until everyone gets a photo.

21:15 > Maybe that guy is doing tours or something "And here we see the house of Clint Basinger, also known as LGR. He appears to be cleaning a beige computer. And... arming an anti-aircraft missile?"

Man, growing up lower-middle class, seeing anything with a Pentium 3 in it back in 99 was like gold to my eyes.

My god, this brings back memories! I worked consumer phone support at the Hampton VA call center (more than likely where that machine was built) from 99-01, when they shut down the facility. During that time the original CEO left and was replaced with a guy formerly from Sony, and over the course of the next couple of years the whole place went straight to hell. Cutting corners and adding corporate speak to every single thing dominated the order of the day then. A few things I can point out just from looking at that machine: Gateway GoBack: KILL IT!!! KILL IT WITH FIRE! GoBack, licensed from Norton, kept revisions of each. and. every. file. on your hard drive, which thrashed the hard drive to the point of killing them prematurely. From a technician's standpoint, it was absolutely horrible. It slowed everything to a crawl and failed more often than it succeeded at fixing issues. It went away with the introduction of Windows ME. The Voodoo cards overheated because of inadequate case ventilation; it was a well known issue for us at the time. Gateway's eventual solution to the problem: stop selling the Voodoo cards. Sigh. Add a case fan or two, and remove the plate covering the back fan port. The parallel port Zip drive was either an upsell or an addon after purchase. Gateway's OEM Zip drives, to my knowledge, were all ATA. The Gateway Restore CD's were revised every month, and almost every one of them had 1) a different looking front end, and 2) at least one 'quirk' to work around. Two of the same model machine could go out a week or two apart and have two completely different restore CD experiences. You were lucky to have no issues. All in all, a great trip down memory lane (hindsight being 20/20 and what not). Thanks for the video.

thumbs up for the airplane wipe transition.

Next time on LGR: Clint restores and tests an FIM-92 Stinger surface-to-air missile

The inside of that computer gives a whole new meaning to the phrase “browsing the web.” 🤦‍♂️

Man, it's so good to come back to this after not long ago watching Ian using this machine for a couple of hours at a time. This thing still pumps a few game sessions a week lately!

LGR: _Planes, what are you doing?!_ Planes: _Ruining your recordings, of course! By the way, trains called, they want to know your location. Construction squads were already dispatched to your nearest neighbors, they also carry gifts of lawnmowers and leafblowers with them._

I hope airplane man is a reoccurring character in the LGR series

This is so nostalgic for me!! My family bought one of these new in early/mid 1999 from the Gateway store in CT. We finally had dial up internet! I remember the awesome cow-themed boxes all over the living room after we unpacked it. I wish I had that system again!! You're lucky. I'll never forget ours came stock with the microphone, and a keyboard that controlled the volume (i thought that was amazing). Then one day the volume control stopped working for some reason. Those were the dark ages, had no idea about drivers and windows 98 was nowhere near as idiot-friendly (me) as operating systems became XP onward. Thanks for the video!

Ah man, this was my first PC. Mom and Dad had saved up and finally picked it out in 1999. So many hours dialed in to AOL, and so many good Windows 98 games. I remember just the most random selection of things. Rugrats Mystery Adventures, LEGO Rock Raiders, Buckmasters, Sierra Trophy Rivers, Rayman, some sort of Barbie dress-up game, some architect software. I put so much time into all of them. Probably put even MORE time into customizing Windows. Oh how I miss those themes. Hearing that loud, whining drive took me way back. And yes, the drive was always that loud, even when it was new! Ours was a 10GB Fireball drive and you could hear it from the other room. Excellent video as always and a good trip down memory lane. Hope to find another one of these one day to have restored!

"Don't you hate it when you think you're done screwing and it's just like 'ohhh, once more...'" No, Clint, I don't. I have a hard enough time getting it once, twice is a miracle.

Damn dude, just noticed the 1.1mil subs!! Your passion and 'lazy' professionalism have always been clear since the early days, hats off to you Clint.

wow, family had almost the exact same PC back in the day.

Great find! My grandma bought this machine with the Boston Acoustic 2.1 and Voodoo3 package. I spent many hours playing Quake 3 and listening to the music obtained through Napster. Thanks for sharing! 🙌

"And if you look directly below us, THAT is the house of LGR!" "That was AWESOME, can we see it again?" "Here we GOOOOOOOOOOO!!!"

Thanks Clint for immortalizing old tech for future generations to look back on.

Holy cow! That's the same Gateway that I bought! It had my first 3DFX Voodoo 3 card! I had never seen 3D acceleration before then. It came with the Star Wars Pod Racer disk. Playing that game in 3D blew my mind! So much so that I became obsessed with 3D modelling and purchased 3D Studio Max r3 with my student dis count. I still have it (the software and dongle) to this day. Wow.. what a walk down memory lane! Thank you!

My grandmother bought one of these when they were new. I had to wait for her to stop playing Solitaire so I could play DOOM and Interstate '76. Good times.

You're the Bob Ross of PC Restoration.

After finishing the restoration you should install Red Baron game and shoot down few planes.

You know he serious when he whips out the one glove and stretches it to infinity saying "Lets get started". Taught that to my ex

I had a gateway essential PC as a kid. I remember playing games on it all the time. My mom even has an old photograph of 2 year old me playing a "Thomas and Friends" game on an old CRT monitor. Good times.

Old man yells at plane. :D

We had this same gateway. I can confirm the quality seal was factory. I was scared to death as a kid to cut it and install more RAM. My parents were like, you better know what you're doing!! I learned BASIC on that machine, how to fly Flight Simulator 98, Monster Truck Madness, Napster MP3 downloads, and America Online. Ahh, this brings back memories!!

This tickles my early childhood memory. I'm so happy to see this because this was my household's first computer and I don't think I've seen it since I was 5 or 6 years old. Naturally, the power button on the computer tower stands out the most.

Just discovered your channel and you've got me so nostalgic for classic PC gaming that I just purchased an old Windows 98 Dell machine off Ebay. Pentium 4 + GeForce 3. Can't wait to get back into the games of my youth! Keep up the great work. You really are the Bob Ross of old computers. Cheers.

19:13 "Old cases with there weird Bleah! And there stupid caddies and trays and stuff, they can all go straight t-" *"Okay this is coming along nicely"*

"One more screw" "Aww, but I'm tired..!"

Sweet Computer takes me back to some of my old computers, nice to see that computer still standing tall and working after all these years. Thanks for sharing. :)

Also; this is one of my favorite videos. There's still about 10 minutes left, but I've enjoyed every second of this vid! 😊

Wiping dust away, 3dfx logo appears, so did feels.

Definitely a Bob Ross moment when you busted out the tooth brush and said "go over these little corner spots..."

Oh man, this was my exact case. Although I bought mine a bit later with an Pentium III @ 1GHz, 256MB RAM, 40GB HD, SB Live. I upgraded to 3Dfx Voodoo 3 3500 (told parents I needed it for school :) ) and Boston Acoustics BA7500G surround sound. Man I loved that system.

Subscribed! You brought me back to my younger years! Keep up the great work!

It terrifies me that a Pentium III is now an old classic xD

Props on the screwing joke. It was unexpected, but I laughed.

It's so relaxing. Nice chill Saturday evening, nice chill tech video. Thanks for you Clint

I had this computer back in year 2000. Thank you for make this video.

I think we got to change the title to 'Clint gets mad at planes for half an hour (and a pc restoration is there to I guess)'

God bless that shade of desktop background teal. God bless the 1990s.

My first real experience with a computer was this very model! In early middle school my school got 500 of these machines and put 5 of them in every classroom. We were all so blown away to have out own school email addresses and logins for these things...

I had one just like that years ago with an agp voodoo card the Boston acoustic speakers and dvd drive. The quality assurance sticker is from the factory along with the thumb screws and it had like a 700something MHz slot style pentium

Gateway Restoration featuring MS Flight Simulator 98 Endless Holding Pattern Edition

idk if this is weird, but ai often fall asleep to these long restoration videos. They are really soothing and I feel oddly relaxed.

I bought one of these computers brand new back in 99. It came with the tower, monitor, keyboard, mouse and I bought the Boston 3 piece speakers to go with it. I used this machine for many years eventually adding more Ram to it and running windows xp on it. I loved this computer which is why I used it fore so long. You can only add so much Ram to it and you can only go so far with that Pentium 3, 450mhz processor and so eventually I had to replace it back in 2009 and get something more current and usable.

Amazing, I think we had exactly this kind of pc back at home!

OMGOMGOMG. My first new PC as a kid was a Gateway Essential 500 for Christmas 1999. These will always be special to me as a result, and now one is on LGR!

legend has it the plane still flies bye every five minutes to this day

Nice transition with the plane! Laughed pretty good on that one!

This really hit home for me! This was the PC I grew up using. Eventually my parents got a new one and this was the PC I used to take apart over and over again until I learned all the parts! I was able to get P on it but no more

JAWS is a ridiculously expensive screen reader program targeted at visually impaired people. You should do a video on it sometime.

>Device Name: Farts Never too old or nerdy for farts.

The track Quad Machine from Q2 totally rocks. Thanks for the upload LGR.

This video brings back memories. I had a P2 450 Gateway computer and I remember the cramped interior and sharp edges of the case. And how it was a pain to to add and remove components.

"Welcome to Gateway, where we put people before technology. My name is Cathy, what is yours?" "I'M DETECTIVE JOHN KIMBLE"

This video consists of: 2% Conputers 1% Clint 3% gateway 95% the same frickin plane

32:58 Holy crap that’s one of the most intense and the most chaotic game that I’ve ever seen.

12:45 first day of Air Traffic Control be like

All I know is that Clint just said this computer is going to Ian, aka brutalmoose and I'm all about this now

Aw man.. that vacuum at 11:10 was about 7-8 minutes overdue. My cleaning OCD was cringing and waiting for it the entire time you spent looking at the installed software. Sweet relief though... 😂🤤 And Quake II at 33:10 💖 I used the music for every multiplayer game I could after that.

Wow, this took me back! We had a slightly higher-end model as our second family computer, bought in January 2000 after Y2K didn’t happen. Same case - with that awkward power button - but a slightly higher spec. Ours had a Pentium 3 600MHz, 128Mb RAM (later upgraded to 384Mb), Voodoo 3 3000 graphics, 20Gb HDD, a DVD-ROM drive, and a CD-Rw drive. Fond memories… Anyway, keep up the great videos, love the channel! So much wonderful nostalgia.

I graduated high school in 07 and they were still using these computers.

As a Cessna pilot, computer nerd and sandwich builder, this channel scratches me where I itch!!

One tip I've learned that has saved me so many headaches: copy the contents of the \WIN98 directory to the hard drive first, then eject the CD and run setup from there. Not only will it install faster and smoother, but it'll never ask for the CD when making system changes or installing drivers. Run smartdrv before the copy from DOS, and put the files in a place where they won't get lost - I used C:\WIN98 myself, but for others I used C:\WINDOWS\OPTIONS\CABS like I saw a lot of OEMs do. (Windows will default to installing to WINDOWS.000 directory if there's an existing WINDOWS directory but you can change it during setup.) Additionally, I'd put drivers for all the hardware in C:\WINDOWS\OPTIONS\DRIVERS and install them from there, so similarly they'd never prompt for inserting a disk or CD during normal operation. Same goes for Windows Me (\WIN9X) and Windows 95 (\WIN95). Windows 95 otherwise asks for the CD for nearly any system change, so it's super helpful there. Only reason I wouldn't do it is if hard drive space is at a super premium and I knew I wouldn't be modifying it much to fetch the CD.

Always a good thing to see the originality of a computer's confoguration from the factory!

This is crazy. I just picked up a Gateway G6-450 at the thrift store last week. It looks exactly like this one except it's a Pentium II and was devoid of any cards (and wasn't nearly as filthy!). It even had the same Hyundai ram. This was quite the timely video as it helped me narrow down some strategies for getting it up and running. I felt a great deal of sympathy as you worked on that drive cage... I have steak knives that aren't as sharp as that SOB.

LGR PC restauration ASMR. It's smooth, jazzy and clean.

The airplanes in the background suddenly turning into houseflies because of the sudden speedups should not be as funny as it is

"C'mon airplane, go away! Oh wait, that's just the fan on this ancient PC."

Clint: **pulls outs circuit card that looks like the Sahara desert** Me: **surprised Pikachu face**

"I think this is an advanced enough BIOS that it'll be fine..." Working IT, I've seen first-gen Core i-series boards from specific brands that died when you replaced the CMOS battery. Magic!

Also I love how you say you’re not going to take it apart right before you dismantle the hard drive assembly and then clean every crack and crevasse. ;-)

This is vaguely similar to the first home computer my family had in 99’. It wasn’t until I saw the boot screen all the memories of my dad wheeling the, what seemed at the time and may have been, massive gateway computer box out of what I believe was circuit city or Best Buy came flooding back. She didn’t sail long. Certain memories of playing the Oregon trail at the library off a floppy on a gateway bombard me. Thank goodness for passions like yours! Y2K never forget or some shit like that.

You are the "Bob Ross" of computer restoration.

The plane is probably doing touch-and-goes - practicing his landings. Either that or crop dusting.

That airplane is probably the best comic relief I've heard in ages lol

Love this channel. I remember working on Gateway computers in the late 90's . They use to have the fans reversed on the power supplies to blow air over the cpu heatsink. Unfortunately they use to make the computers run hot . I just reversed the fan to pull air out of the PC to keep that "S" air pattern front to back. Also Gateway computers were notorious for using pirated components. Those were the days.

Dude the way you flipped that paper into frame made me laugh so hard, had to rewind

Clint, have you considered doing a video on Gateway? Because I'm curious about them and what happened to them.

another youtuber who i wont name his name is BRUTALMOOSE lol

This channel is pure hobbyism and I absolutely love it

Back in the day my dad bought a 486 from Gateway. It had some kind of sound card and a double speed CD rom. I was too young to know dos commands at the time. I remember him spending hours to make floppy disks to launch games so all I had to do was insert the disc and enter a simple command. I think it was just the name of the game. We had Comanche Maximum Overkill, Kings Quest, Aegis, Sim City 2000 and a solitaire card game. Watching your videos reminded me of that simpler time. Thank you very much for sharing these videos.