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เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 23 ก.พ. 2023
I'm a handyman that likes to solve problems and get things nice and fixed. The videos shown here are intended to entertain and not to be taken professionally.
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Donation Restore - PHONIC 740 POWERPOD PLUS #restoredwards
Hi everyone, welcome again.
I have this powered mixer for quite some time now and it's time to get it working.
It was gifted to me by my friend Sergio with other equipment.
It was a long journey but obviously here is edited and I tried to explain the best I could.
At the end we will have a 95% working unit , join me discover new stuff and hopefully you can share some experience of yours.
If you want you can leave a like and subscribe.
Thanks for watching!
#restoredwards
Help me with my projects:
patreon.com/MarcosEdwards
I have this powered mixer for quite some time now and it's time to get it working.
It was gifted to me by my friend Sergio with other equipment.
It was a long journey but obviously here is edited and I tried to explain the best I could.
At the end we will have a 95% working unit , join me discover new stuff and hopefully you can share some experience of yours.
If you want you can leave a like and subscribe.
Thanks for watching!
#restoredwards
Help me with my projects:
patreon.com/MarcosEdwards
มุมมอง: 66
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MAIL UNBOXING - HP VECTRA VL400 #restoredwards
มุมมอง 682วันที่ผ่านมา
Hello! How are you doing? I'm doing great now with this video testing this computer sent to me. Join me in this retro journey remembering again this kind of systems and period of time. It is awesome to have this machines and use them, also learning while doing this stuff. Whatever we can restore and recover it's better than to be dumped on a landfill or burned. Very few recycle correctly around...
Two Scrap Computers Pt. 1 - First look and test #restoredwards
มุมมอง 3K14 วันที่ผ่านมา
Hi everyone, how is it going? Here with a new video, this time with two computers that were lying around on the workshop for a couple of years since the clients turn them down. So it's time to check everything and see if wu can make something usefull of them or see if we can build something in the future, maybe sell some components. So join me in this first part and explore this machines while ...
Micron Power Server Pt. 2 - New SCSI Hard Drive #restoredwards
มุมมอง 29021 วันที่ผ่านมา
Hello and welcome back! In this video I'll be upgrading the Micron tower server. I got a better Adaptec SCSI controller card, a 80 to 68 pin adapter and an HP hard drive. In the previous video, we could see how it arrived smashed and clearly that got bad the original hard drive. Join me in the quest installing Windows 2000, we'll try to play some games in this and make some benchmarks. Hope you...
Retro PC build: Pentium II - Pt.1 #restoredwards
มุมมอง 421หลายเดือนก่อน
Hi everyone and welcome back. In this video I'll be putting together a PC with a Pentium 2 processor, Intel motherboard with AGP and Sound Blaster sound card with Yamaha OPL and other components. I'll be also testing various video cards and doing some benchmarks. Join me in this new quest to build this system and complete another CPU for my collection. Thanks for watching and if you want you ca...
HP Vectra Pt. 2 - Full HDD retro fun experience #restoredwards
มุมมอง 302หลายเดือนก่อน
Hi everyone! Welcome again. In this occasion I wanted to test this HP Vectra Vei8 PC that I previously restored and never show you it's performance. I will benchmark and play some games diving into a full HDD failure experience. We will live the full immersive retro revival, as back in the days! Anyway, I had a lot of fun and as always learnt something and made this system work better. I like t...
DJ Controller Pioneer DDJ-T1 repair with special guest - #restorewards
มุมมอง 1673 หลายเดือนก่อน
Hi everyone, welcome back. Here we are again repairing for good, encouraging a better future. In this video with the company of my cousin Brian. He had some issues with his controller regarding power input from the power supply. He wanted to be while the repair to learn so it was a good idea to record it. We had a lot of fun so we hope you enjoy it as well. If you want you can leave a like and ...
Pentium 4 and the Dazzle device - Windows XP build #restoredwards
มุมมอง 3.3K3 หลายเดือนก่อน
Hi everyone, thanks for watching. My cousin wanted to use again an old device to backup old VHS or alike. At the moment of buying it he got to use it with Windows XP. Now with newer computers and operating systems the device is no longer supported it seems. So I built an XP computer to test it and also because I don't have a Pentium 4 system, this will be fun! Thanks to my cousin Alex for the D...
New bearing from Audio Vault for Dual turntables installation - #restoredwards
มุมมอง 4214 หลายเดือนก่อน
Welcome back! In the previous video I got a very good replacement for the Dual 1010 turntable by Audio Vault. They contacted me after I share the video to them and they sent me a new product to test it, the platter spindle bearing. They have improved the original one with new materials and concept. Check it out here: audiovault.ca/product/dual-changer-platter-bearing/ I start adding a ground wi...
Retro AT 386DX CPU System PC Pt. 2 - #restoredwards
มุมมอง 1.7K6 หลายเดือนก่อน
Hi again, thanks for watching. This is a follow up video from this one: th-cam.com/video/C8MXDLuBy8U/w-d-xo.htmlsi=whF3Gl8BWUM6QUmA I'm finishing testing of the drives and also more games that reside in this drive. It's always a lot of fun to be with this machines and try to get them on point. Hope you enjoyed the video and in you want cou can leave a like and subscribe. Cheers! #restoredwards
Parker Nitefly Guitar Pt. 2 - New Saddles #restoredwards
มุมมอง 636 หลายเดือนก่อน
Hi everyone, thanks for watching! This video is a follow up of this one: th-cam.com/video/aaJg2NWI-uI/w-d-xo.htmlsi=BNqKHD7OUHdGxgK6 where I found a problem on one of the pickup saddles from the Parker Nitefly guitar. Now everything is ready to finish it and we have the owner, Fernando, approving the instrument. Very nice guitar and easy to work on, now it is all good to go and perform for many...
Micron Power Server Dual CPU Restoration #restoredwards
มุมมอง 35710 หลายเดือนก่อน
Hi everyone. Welcome again. This video is a special one. I enjoyed very much making it! In this occasion I will restore an old Micron server from 1995. It has a Micronics dual processor motherboard and SCSI drives. I will encounter some problemas but a lot of good moments so join me. Thanks for watching and if you want you can leave a like and subscribe. Cheers! #restoredwards
AMAZING RETROBRIGHT & RESTORATION - 90s HP Vectra #restoredwars
มุมมอง 1.7K11 หลายเดือนก่อน
Hi everyone, glad to upload another video. In this occasion I am restoring an HP Vectra model VEi8 from the 90s. Made in Brazil, they have a ongoing big industry in South America so this is a nice computer. Retrobright went really well, I am more that happy with the result. In the following video there will be testing and benching. Thanks for watching and if you want you can leave a like and su...
Retro AT 386 DX CPU System PC Restoration #restoredwards
มุมมอง 1.6K11 หลายเดือนก่อน
Retro AT 386 DX CPU System PC Restoration #restoredwards
New retro case - Mystery CPU project #restoredwards
มุมมอง 293ปีที่แล้ว
New retro case - Mystery CPU project #restoredwards
Parker Nitefly Guitar Pt.1 - New Preamp #restorewdards
มุมมอง 121ปีที่แล้ว
Parker Nitefly Guitar Pt.1 - New Preamp #restorewdards
Mystery Retro AT CPU system Pt.2 #restoredwards
มุมมอง 821ปีที่แล้ว
Mystery Retro AT CPU system Pt.2 #restoredwards
Upgrading the IBM computer #restoredwards
มุมมอง 1.3Kปีที่แล้ว
Upgrading the IBM computer #restoredwards
Mystery Retro AT CPU system bought online #restoredwards
มุมมอง 6Kปีที่แล้ว
Mystery Retro AT CPU system bought online #restoredwards
Summoning a Hartke A100 Bass Amplifier back to life #restoredwards
มุมมอง 199ปีที่แล้ว
Summoning a Hartke A100 Bass Amplifier back to life #restoredwards
My 90s IBM 300 GL Restoration #restoredwards
มุมมอง 856ปีที่แล้ว
My 90s IBM 300 GL Restoration #restoredwards
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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: th-cam.com/video/Dtw5xzl_X2Q/w-d-xo.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.
@@danthompsett2894 Sure, in each country handle different economies and if the retro community is big the cash flow will be bigger I suppose.
@@danthompsett2894 Niche motherboar that one, never saw AGP PCIE in same motherboard.
@@restoredwards unfortunately they all come from the USA least on Ebay.
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
Indeed! Those were the days, thanks for your comment!
Pity it's a micro ATX motherboard not a full ATX.
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.
I realy need to get my hands on a PSU tester.
it's really usefull to have it at hand
Great video, I've never heard of a triple core processor!
Yes, it was crazy for the time.
@@restoredwards I was just reading about them; it's a faulty Phenom with one of the cores disabled
@@Qwertypigeon853 yes it's something like that, I'll test unlocking the 4th core as suggested by @Keullo-eFIN down in comments.
Don’t know much about electronics but I’ve heard the word alignment when it comes to heads. Are there any pots that can be adjusted ?
Hey man thanks! It should have some calibration as you say, I will not give up and in the next video we might have some luck. Cheers!
if that old drive is still working i would advise you to clone it since it's the factory operating system.
i have an xfx version of it.
fx5200 is the worst geforce card ever made.
For this system it fits quite nice, what other AGP card would you recommend?
@@restoredwards i would say ati 9550 which has 256mb of vram.
or go with an oldie but a goodie which is the original radeon the 7000 series....mine has 64mb vram and is agp.
@@michaelwood9866 That's sounds good! What about a GeForce 6200 with 256?
@@restoredwards that's also a good one just steer clear of the fx series
Thanks! gran trabajo, gracias por el vídeo ;)
Gracias por la buena onda Dani! Saludos
Great, thank you.
Gracias! Saludos
I love the sound of old mechanical hard drive spinning up ;-)
Yes, it brings up the nostalgia every time
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!
That Commodore Branded system is an Interesting find. That was made by a company called "Commodore USA" I believe.
It has to be, there was a period of time they were going around.
scrapyard wars is back!
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.
That Phenom can be unlocked to a quadcore with a motherboard supporting that feature.
That's interesting, I'll be looking for a MB for it. Great, thanks!
good video and we got to see it go
I have a possible buyer, he wants a working machine, hopefully this week, thanks!
@restoredwards I sold my old q6600 pc this week they only need a basic pc it had ssd so was not to slow.
@@EastAngliaUK Yes, depending the needs there are still systems that cover them. Also, if they can manage some Linux OS, they are good to go.
8:30 I will never disparage my own cable management ever again. Holy hell what is that monstrosity?! 😅😂😂
Things you would find at the barber shop! 🤣
Free is a good price!👍👍
Sure it is!
Second one may also be limited by the 32 bit OS, as well as the chunk taken for graphics
Yes, the OS installed was 32 bit. With external video and other OS hopefully changes for better.
Shure is better known for microphones and record pickup cartridges.
Sure it is! The resemblance is there but this case has nothing to do with it.
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..
Thanks for your comment. I have a giant cooler on top of it, you can see it in minute 4:18
THA PAWETH SE-VAH!
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.
th-cam.com/video/CR3iyWV4fPE/w-d-xo.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.
Aaaaah YES!! Thy Happiness of truthfull learning!
Indeed!
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!
A neat build!👍👍 I would increase the ram to 4 gig., XP will see 3 and a bit, or add two 512 mb., ram modules to bring the total to 3 gig,.
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!
We have made an amazing job my dear cousin!
INDEED
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!
@@restoredwards My pleasure, I enjoyed watching you bring this old computer back to life, excellent content looking forward to more.
@@windowsalternative2203 Cheers!
Cool
Thanks!
I remember seeing those dazzles a long time ago and wanting one so bad as a kid.
Thanks for your comment! I can imagine. Any accessories or hardware for PC was expensive for a kid. I remember wanting an audio interface, but I was lucky to have at least a PC my parents said, haha!
the dazzle works fine in win11, just do a little research.
Thanks for your comment. Instead of telling me what to do, why don't you share us all your experience?
Love that green case.
Sure it is! It has all 8cm coolers but I think if you play it good you could build a new system in there with no problems. It would be nice to test something like that.
at my job, we use dazzle to capture audio directly from the soundboard to the pc in web conferences using RCA/P10, it still works very well today, in the past we used it with the polycom hdx 9000
Hey thanks for your comment! That’s great, interesting as well.
Great Restoration Video! Thank you very much!! If I may, I would suggest elastic gloves to protect yourself from the dirt and the high voltage! :) Keep up the good work!!
Thanks for your comment! Glad you liked the video. I know it’s not the best but gloves are uncomfortable to manipulate tiny stuff and they end tearing because of sharp edges. I also have a capacitor discarger so when I’m near high voltage everything is fine. Some situations where I use gloves is when I fix my car or when I weld, but that’s why this channel is only for entertainment and should not take it seriously. Cheers!
mine works fine in win10 and OBS... maybe its because i have the red one?
Thanks for your comment! That’s interesting. Is it USB as well?
I have that thing lying right here but it's a red version :/
Thanks for your comment, different color same device I suppose. People are not very happy with it.
@@restoredwards I wanted to use it to capture old vhs footage but the software was xp-only if i remember right, and even passing it through to a vm it refused to capture my PAL recorder's footage :( I had better luck with a simple PCI capture card of theirs back in the day. the pinnacle software always was a clunky pain as well, I'm sure that didn't help.
@@interlace84 yes that’s right, and Vista, which is the same basically. Another user, Bradley, said in another comment that he still uses it with Windows 10 and OBS. Have you tested that casually?
I wonder if this computer can Run Half Life 2
Thanks for your comment! We’ll have to make a bench video and see how it goes, cheers!
Please note that the G in Gigabyte is not pronounced like a J! It is pronounced the same as the G in the words go, got, give, etc.
Thanks for your comment! Yes, it’s been pointed out by several people so thanks. I live in Argentina and we say it like that and didn’t note it untill some distressed folks were aware of it. But I like it and it’s obvious what it means. Apart for pointing out wrong things, did you like anything else of the video?
This is one of the reasons why I keep my Old machines around. I LOVE using Porsche design - Pinnacles s-VHS capture devices. I was able to capture video at the HIGHEST bit rate & color space possible to squeeze every last minutia of analog data from the tapes I was capturing I also still have a almost new Firewire Dazzle device I have still to use, but will in the future. If you have old Tapes this is the ticket, then take it into a modern machine to upscale all the footage . (Its getting better every year) Now the next best thing? There are some CCTV systems that let you capture analog video even at S-VHS resolutions. But they are far from ideal for color compared to these older capture cards. The only thing I really kick myself buying was OTA capture card that worked with windows Media Center. Never did I get around to using it. Would have been fun.
Hey thanks for your comment! That’s very interesting and useful. I’ll surely keep the machine and dazzle for this use.
holy shit i saw that thumbnail and went "I HAVE ONE OF THOSE" I still use one of those old Dragon ripoff Antec cases for my modern ryzen 7000 rig
Thanks for your comment! Great you still have it in use.
Great Restoration and Cleaning Video, Looking forward for the Part 2 of it. By the way I have the Vectra VEi7 with the 400MHz Celeron and SiS Graphics
Thanks for your comment! Nice specs on your machine. I’ll be working on Part 2 soon. Cheers!
I have that same Green Dragon case since 2001 that I keep upgrading and I have 2 Black Dragon cases and another black Raidmax Scorpio I keep because they are my favorite style cases.
Thanks for your comment! That’s neat!
2:12 - i875 was a higher-end variant of i865, released around the same time. One significant difference was PAT memory mode, but some i865 motherboards also allow to run this mode, so it doesn't really matter. funfact: despite higher number, i875 is older than 865 by one month :)
Thanks for your comment! Very interesting info there. Do you know if it’s worth getting an AGP pro card? I don’t have any experience with that.
@@restoredwards i dont think so, grab classic AGP and it should be fine
its not ziga hertz
Hi there, and what is it then ?
Thought this was an Alienware at first, as their "Cyborg Green" was very popular back then. You could search for 'Area 51 Chieftec' if you're curious, but this one is probably just the "Chieftec" part.
Thanks for your comment! Great man, I’ll be searching that.
Jigga Bite That had me on a stretcher 😂
Hey thanks for noting that. I can’t imagine how you get when there’s a real problem then!