Restoring a TERRIBLE Budget PC from 1997! 

Good video broo!!!

I like ms dos also the gateway i would put packabell program on it i like it LOL YOU GOT PRANKED MAN

Oh hello there, youtube algorithm sent me here heh. Got a pretty good windows 98 pc myself free a few years ago. AMD K6-2+ 400 mhz (swapped from a pentium mmx 166 mhz overclocked too 200 mhz.) 32 mb edo ram, could use an upgrade too 96 - 128 mb. quantum 4 gb harddrive, had a 60 gb western digital drive from 2006 as a secondary drive & briefly as primary after cloning the operatingsystem onto it, but lost the partition so it refused too boot on the 60 gb drive, but still had all games on the other partition. asus p55t2p4 motherboard, technically doesn't support the processor i put in but it still runs saying its an unknown amd processor lol. 2D gpu: matrox mystique 4 mb some software 3d rendering card, supports like 8 games or something like that & those were only ofc on the included software cd's. 3D gpu: voodoo 1 4 mb from diamond, the monster 3d version, most common one around probably. Soundblaster awe 32 pnp i think it was in this pc. pci to usb addon card which either causes the pc too lock up or its either of the graphics cards that are failing fighting over resources. Bios battery is one of those chips with a built in battery which i haven't bothered doing anything with as it still boots.

c

You should find one of these old PCs and completely max out the specs.

It was the power supply fan, i hate that noise 😂

LOL

@@matiasvarela460 nope. Was the CPU fan.

@@psivewri I know this but on my RetroPC the fan bearing died.

@@psivewri Whaaaaat 😱😂 My power supply makes the same noise!

NoobGyver that made my evening 😂

Is your mom Asian?

@@arwahsapi no but my family has roots in asia from my dad's side, but she is annoying as hell sometimes

@@arwahsapi that isn't specific to Asia.

Fake dialog comments: ridiculous

@@TR2000LT That last one was from unofficial updates, possibly NUSB 3.6

lol it also said Windows Me in the about section. That hurt my brain

Or the NUSB36E.EXE driver for USB sticks, which also changes that text string.

if you install unofficial service pack for Win 98, it makes defacto Win ME from that, maybe that's the reason

@@Pidalin It moslty looks more like Windows 2000 since that Windows 2000 uses Tahoma font while Windows ME still using the MS Sans Sherrif font.

@@aldwinpanny10 Yes, it looks weird, there is not such retro feeling anymore, that's why I prefer Win ME, it's still enough retro, but it already supports USB flash disks and such things.

How many have you got?

@@wasdagain2553 at the moment I have 6 of them in my room freshly restored during this last month. . When I restore them I usually give them away to friends or their friends who need it for like school or work stuff like doing powerpoint presentations or text stuff.I don't really remember how many computers I restored in total but I'm doing this for the past three years so I think I worked on quite a few of them.

He broke his arm

It's not about that lol

@@randomchannel9331 Yes, you are correct. I made that comment mostly out of my own amazement. I am old enough to remember when a computer with that much computing power required a man wearing a lab coat with a PhD to operate. Again, my amazement comes from the fact that this computer can still do everything that it could ever do when it was worth $1,000s but it is now just considered worthless.

What's amazing is that we treat these old throwaway pcs as relics of the past, but as a piece of engineering it's still absolutely incredible that humans made this thing.

@@Ahsokaaepchromebooks dont need more than 4 gbs of ram

Most people had 128-256MB in 2000. 1GB was overkill.

16 gb ram dual channel :)

I have 8 gab AND a mechanical hard drive and it can game but it can sometimes crash

(Isn’t)

Some motherboards from the era can actually shut themselves off through the os.

I have 1/2 an hour left

Wtf where do u live its 9pm at my country Lmao

@cheesy same

@@haw8638 it 10pm where I live

I get out at 2:15

Hey, WD used to name their hard drives "caviar"

Quantum had the Bigfoot. Now that was cool 😎

wheat le !!!1,1,

the processor in this pc could probably be called snail today lol

it depends. in my primary school i had Celeron Tualatin with 32 MB of SDRAM, but my old home PC in those days had Celeron Coppermine with 128 MB :D

A friend of mine here in England, bought a brand new PC in late 1997 from Costco, a Compaq Presario 4504 and it had 16MB SDRAM, 2GB IDE HDD, 1MB VGA onboard chip and came with Windows 95b. It cost around £900 I think.

At that time, RAM requirements were doubling every 2 years. So, 64 megs was pretty high end in 1997 but it was already just OK in 1999 and complete garbage in 2001.

@@АлексейГриднев-и7р Yeah in 2001 I had a K6-2 500MHz with 256MB RAM, 20GB IDE HDD, GeForce2 MX400 64MB and that was respectable but not exactly cutting edge.

There's every chance that it had been upgraded already at some point 😃

Where exarcly?

Kourkutas2 Kutsukuta 2:17

Now in this modern-day, Some Old PC frame can replace and use Classic

Clint has a great channel and I wish him the best, but I prefer to view and support smaller RU-vidrs.

Arnav Malhotra This video is sponsored by EUCALYPTUS OIL

Skip the sponsor at 3:21.

Nice cat on pfp

You born in 1981 and now you have 39?

@@alphaarchive5262 Yeah, exactly

You turned 40 this year

97 FTW!

Yes when broadband became a thing.. But the infrastructure was still in it's beginning stages and not many people had access despite the competitive prices it brought. Dial Up did become cheaper as well because of this, So yeah you could say the internet became more affordable by that time.. Although still out of reach for many. I was 17 in '97 and we had dial up, None of my friends did and only a few in the family had it.. But none of us had access to the new broadband - Yet.

1986 I got a IBM 248. Remember those?

@@Lotusrk123 76 computers if you include your own brain! 😂

I'm also turning 50 next year. Been a computer (ab)user since 1983. TI-99/4A, Xerox 820-II, a long string of various PC and Mac boxes.

I am 13.

@@Lotusrk123 I love Thinkpads and have about ten laptops, the oldest being a Thinkpad G41 and the newest a W520 2GB Nvidia GPU and 1920 x 1200 etc. Most of them are fully upgraded, and with docking stations. I've turned down loads of models, as they get addictive lol.

My guess is that he installed this USB-stick driver pack from the internet, which replaces some DLLs and make that happen, as a side effect.

It also says "Failing youtube career"

@@mattglad Oh Yeah that was funny. I don't think his carrier is failing though

@@mattglad Haha 8:48... But he is one of my favorite youtuber and i dont even speak english (sorry for any mistake)

@@Tech_Champ he is not talking about his career. Check the video carefully

thanks for hearting nathan

and making your own website on squarespace and using honey for coupon codes

@@1EpiccGamer *while making your own website on squarespace and shopping on amazon with honey coupons

With nordvpn and the wireless pods

GOOD JOB GUYS

ok so what

@@mardylans people are allowed to have national pride for countries besides whichever one you live in

I noticed my last CPU purchase still said Malay on it. So I guess Malaysia still has a decent amount of involvement in computer fabrication, even if some parts have been farmed out to other nations for lower costs by now.

Thank you to the USA for inventing and developing the HDD concept. IBM was the first.

Same here, it was all so much more appealing to me back then. Back then, it felt really special to have a computer and discover the online world. Nowadays, tech devices are primarily surveillance and data collection equipment sold to consumers under the false pretenses of enriching and enhancing our lives. The Internet of Things is not a concept that was born to help anyone's lives become easier. Instead, it's automated market research that consumers are paying for.

Agreed, growing up when the Athlon 64 was king, Halo on Xbox was all my downtime, and cellphones only just started to play music, flipped closed, or were built like tanks. Started building a Athlon 64, socket 939, pc from some old parts I found as a counterpart to my more modern Ryzen rig, and a partner for the weird little Sony Mavica FD75 floppy disk camera I've been playing with lately

A channel can be popular but not make much money

same!

Same.

Judging by version number 4.10.2222 A he is running 98SE

@@dmcemmet don't think as when booting. The boot screen should say Windows 98-SE instead there was only windows 98 on his boot screen

it actually just shows "Windows 98" on the boot screen, even on SE. The unofficial service pack has an option to replace it with one that said Second Edition on it and replaces the cloud background with one that is inspired by XP bliss. Or just replace it with on of your preference.

@@HappyBeezerStudios thanks actually i don't remember lol even if i have a win98 se CD it's been so long i haven't used it. Thanks for the info

@German Retro Guy Sadly I don't remember the motherboard model, as we threw away that computer back in 2008...

@German Retro Guy Yeah, I don't have neither the computer nor the CRT monitor. 5 years later, I was already regretting that decision, as I was building my first retro PC...

My current case isn't much different, apart from having a silver/black front. I hate the fad of clear windows and lights on cases

Me too but 450 MHz

Same, i had this case with a Pentium 133Mhz with sound Blaster 16 :)

Same, ours was housing a pentium iii 667mhz

Older socket 7 machines with K5, K6 or Cyrix chips. At that time Intel was moving over to Slot 1 for their Pentium II, so they left the old socket to the budget crowd.

Yep. Was generally defined as under 1k USD though. So it was only budget compared to the competition. It wasn’t like… $200-400 computers like you find today.