Cleaning Up A Dirty Old Pentium 4 Computer!
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Today we're going to clean up and restore this old Ipex branded pentium 4 desktop computer. It's nearly 20 years old, made in Australia and originally came with Windows XP. The case is very dirty, let's get started :) #old #computer #restoration
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Computer Specifications:
Ipex "Micro Office" XL Series (Circa 2002, 2003)
Intel Pentium 2.8GHz SL6Z5 800MHz FSB
2GB DDR 400MHz Ram
Nvidia FX 5200 128MB AGP Graphics Card
DVD-ROM Drive
40GB & 20GB 3.5" IDE Hard Disks
Floppy Drive
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Music Used:
Peaceful Background Music - Nathan Sivewright (2015)
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Big thanks to Electronic Recycling Australia for making this video possible! Use the code PSIVEWRI on their website for 10% off :)
PS: "The failing youtube career" gag was supposed to be a joke ;)
They should list machines of this age for sale, the market is there now.
Yes
I was sad😥
Thank you from America
@Plane Playz Yet.. haha. We will all get it sooner or later. I've have both Pfizers down here in Victoria.. Now just waiting
Si Tita Michelle nasa Australia na.
Eucalyptus oil can remove everything except a criminal record.
idk, have you tried it?
😆😆
True, it seems to be very useful for cleaning all sorts of electronics. It is a pity that in my country (as I looked recently), it is terribly expensive and mainly sold in pharmacies and beauty stores as a hypoallergenic cleanser
@@Pupp3tCl0wn You can make that yourself, only have to steal a bit of food from a baby Koala, we were taught how to make it in school
@@thomassmith4999 HA HA HA HA HA
Man, I love these late 90s early 2000s white/tan box computers, something about them just seems, interesting, even if I don't share a nostalgia some people might have.
They were made in a period where quirky was ok, cooling solutions didn't have to be perfection for something to work right, and the idea of visual presentation wasn't as tightly-defined as today. Intentionally or not, they embraced some element of fun. Those are my opinions anyway.
it really does amaze me how things have changed since the P4 era. I remember one of the lads been the very 1st Pentium 4 owner, and to use windows XP
Me too.
It's seems so cool yet so old that they had cache memory slots Instead of being built in a cpu.
And more bizzare things like that makes it even more interesting.
I recently painted a computer that I restored to a light blue or cloud Gray color. Is a 2009 compaq SR5710 that was black. Around the mid and upper 2000s was when computers were no longer painted tan or light Brown like they were in the nineties and early 2000s . So I wanted to recapture some of that light color energy, so I sanded down my computer computer and Re imagined what a light color could be, so I used .some furniture rated paint paint and now I think it looks pretty cool.
It made me feel slightly sad when he named the computer user “Failing TH-cam Career”
fr lma
I think they call this 'sarcasm' xD
@TH-cam Nutzer and that doesn't mean anything. Lots of TH-camrs have shared what they earn, and also revenue aren't that great depending on video views.
fr :/
@@HughesyTech Very true, you can have a million subs, but if over time because people are getting burned out on your content, or you have changed how you do your videos, and people are not liking them overall leading to say less them 2%(The Hack5 channel is a good example of this) of them watching then those subs don't mean much.
I worked for Ipex way back in 1999/2000 - those cases were a single design, with the front bezel being updated every year or so as specs increased. And someone at the factory was notorious for screwing in the top cover screw as hard as they could - they were almost impossible to unscrew by hand.
so he was like me🤣
You know it's gonna be good when the Eucalyptus oil comes out lol
"Failing youtube career" man that hits me in the feels. Lol.
poor you.
@@jam06 2:20
man, it hits deep.
Lmao yes
im gonna destroy this whole man career
OMG this channel is soo satisfying to watch, I always wanted to see old PCs getting back to life!!
"With the verge style application of thermal paste, the heatsink can go back on." 6:14 & 6:45
No kidding... that's a ridiculous amount of paste.
@@danexpo who actually cares
ikr that board is gonna be just completely covered in paste after a month or two lmao
I cringed a bit. Amount and application style.
Its fine, stop being paste snobs. Too much doesn't hurt at all, and it won't actually squeeze out that much. You obviously have never built a PC
I got a 2007 Core2Duo that I setup for retro gaming. Cream colored computers are so nostalgic including CRT monitors if ever I can still see one.
This computer has very similar specs to my first PC. Mine had a 1.8GHz P4, FX-5200 and 1GB of RAM, back in late 2003. Always wanted to upgrade the Pentium 4, but instead I got a new PC with a Core 2 Duo a few years later. This video gave me a nostalgia rush.
I like the pentium 4s, these are very interesting
They can cook pasta
@@maxusgintus8160 hahahahah XD
about as hot as my pentium D (basically 2x pentium 4)
yeah especially the Prescott core
@@leucaradu7912 PresHot - form the base of Pentium 4 HT and both Pentium D Smithfield/Presler
I really really really really EXTREMELY love content like this!!! Please make more repairs for old windows XP, 7, Vista or 98SE Desktops as its extremely entertaining to me!!
*2035: Cleaning up a dirty old Core i9 Computer!*
Fast forward to July 2024, and this would be: *"Cleaning up crashing i9 14900K(S) Computer!"*
@@Sherolox XD
I love seeing old pcs like this getting restored, I’m planning on doing it with a Dell Dimension 2400 from the Windows XP era
2:20 Just recommended your channel to 10 more of my gaming buddies, they loved it and subscribed too.
I love channels like this! Taking old forgotten machines, cleaning them up and restoring them. Hope to start my own business of this sort some day.
Have you ever thought about doing a colab with Dankpods?
Yesssssssss
i would love that
that would be cool
OMG YES
hopefully he will
bro, i like the 487/775 times a lot, they are very interesting machines to fix internally and externally, not to say the maze it was for me to fix driver problems, good video
@100 000 Subscribers with no videos yeah, bad typo
HI, Just a quick note, i worked for a large organisation until 1997, the IPEX was very common and worked well, notable was its power supply being quiet and was able to put up with power fluctuations in one older building that would make lights flicker or dim, most other PC's were Osborne's and laptops genuine IBM's, the other desktops would freeze or reboot but the Ipex kept working - trivial but tell that to some one who has not save a file for 2 hours
Oh they were popular because made locally here in Australia gave it a big boost in the choosing criteria
Heh, an Aussie tech company that went under, in the land down under...
I'll see myself out.
Nice pfp :3
@@BlindingWulf Thanks ;3
30 mb/s nowadays you get speeds 100 times faster on an ssd. Technology has changed so much over the years
The iconic shutdown tune at 10.53 really rounds off another nice video 😊 good work man
Well done ,it's nice to see the old hardware brought back and not rotting away .😁
Appreciate the videos, shame on YT for pushing the crap channels to the top of recommendations instead of quality ones like this!
I'm a simple guy: I see Psivewri, I click.
didn't ask
@@donaldbestkorea2248oh shut you door
Thanks for doing this.... Brought back lot of memories with my old P4 computer... And you do a very good job with cleaning as well... Keep up the good work...!!!
Today is my birthday, the first thing i watch is your video :)
being an aussie myself this brings back many memories and i used to have a pentium 4 2.8ghz and played games like quake, quake 2, blood and blood 2 with carmageddon and rollercoaster tycoon 3, good times
I just can't miss this guy's videos. Checked as soon I got notified..
Make a sleeper and use that case that will be cool.
Not really, modern components generate much more heat, and such cases were not created with good airflow in mind. Modern components would just get fried inside.
@@Pupp3tCl0wn Well, I made a complete sleeper with an old Pentium 2 ATX case (I still had the "Year 2000 compliant" sticker on it :3) . The complete specs are :
Intel i7 8700k with a crappy Rajintek Rad
16GB DDR4 2666MHz
AMD RX 580
650W PSU 80+ Bronze
128GB M2 SSD
480GB SATA SSD
And on AIDA 64 Extreme, I rarely go over 85°C on the CPU and GPU.
Good luck finding a slim ATX power supply suitable for newer systems
I have the same computer I used when I was a kid, almost 20 years ago. It was a 10GB hard drive that had Windows XP in it. It was actually meant to run Windows 95. Around 2015, my brother tried to rebuild it, but did a terrible job. It was around the time I finished building my first PC and used what I learned to rebuild the PC. So, I fixed all of the mistakes my brother did and did a complete overhaul after my parents let me keep it.
Fast forward today, it uses Windows 95 (US and Japanese) along with new RAM, PSU a new AGP card and new HDDs (literally new in box too!)
I have some plans for this computer, which involves a SCSI PCI card.
I just clicked on this out of curiosity while eating supper. I found your cleaning ideas very helpful. However in my case before I touch any of these to much once it is in my house, I wipe it all down on the outside with a paper towel with window cleaner on it. Now the interesting part was this case design. about 8 years ago a fellow I worked with said his church was given all of these computers and they really did not want them and so I asked my sister who home schools many children she adopted, and she did want them. There were 7 of these computers. They were windows 95, 98 era, all having a 450 or 500 MHz processor. I was able to bump all of them up to 1000 MHz and Windows XP. Now the unique point was the case style. Almost the same design as this one at 3:59 with this other sound board on the front. However the ones I had did not include the lights or the buttons for the computer functions, only the volume control and the mic and headphone and USB jacks. The ones I had had a wider case and a regular full size ATX power supply, and two speakers on the front and option for two CD/DVD drives and the floppy was sideways in the middle with the hard drive mounted next to it. However it was apparently wired in to some larger control system using a large parallel 25 pin plug on the back. I was able to find a place to connect to the front of the amplifier and put a stereo wire with 1/8" stereo plug on it and plugged it in the back line out and that allowed the stereo amp and speakers to work with the computer. Funny seeing one close to that design.
This build rules! It makes my brushed up Pentium 3 Ipex build look shabby in comparison. I can't believe you can get OSRS to run in XP on an old machine like this, that is absolute max nostalgia for me. Cheers for the amazing vid.
It's such a pleasure to watch your videos!
Looks good! I would definitely replace the power supply though. Those old power supply's usually don't have protection built in and almost always have bad caps. Probably wouldn't hurt to recap the motherboard. I seen the ribbon types replaced with solid state caps. I've bricked several boards over the years because the caps just go bad, it's getting harder to find them. Even bought nos boards with leaking caps.
I never knew Ipex was such a booming company back in the day.
I swear this was lifted straight out of my high school.
Relatable
That Windows XP sound and the look and feel of that desktop is nostalgic. Feels great to see this machine back to life. Thank you sir.
I will never forget the jump from Celeron to Pentium 4. It was like going from Dial-up to broadband.
Nobody else noticed he put his name as Failing TH-cam Career? 🤣
yeah fr sad haha
Mate I have this exact Ipex box in my garage, except it is labelled 1.5GHz. I didn't know you had to patch the audio cables through the back like that! I'm going to bust it out and play with it thanks to you
I remember seeing a whole lab of these Ipexes at uni in my first year with the front panel audio hooked up via the rear and thinking how stupid it was, given that onboard front panel audio was very much a thing by 2002/2003.
Its always good when old technology gets re-used or recycled or properly e-wasted instead of going into landfill or the garbage.
I do (or at least did before everything went pear shaped) volunteer disassembly work at a facility in Brisbane that takes apart e-waste and its always good when things can be re-used (or at the very least properly e-wasted and recycled) instead of ending up in landfill.
the second you powered it on, I bet it shot 4kg worth of dust out into your house
LMAO i had a computer do that to me once lol. fun stuff
really want a 98 pc just for old games haha
Maybe get one then.
Haha.
Same or at least a WinXP machine, I have so many older PC games but can't play any because I have Win10
@@Karmy. i have a windows xp laptop.
try find in the trash or recycling centres I guess you would even find better than the thing you search for
@@Karmy. i think you could play them using compatibility option
His videos are so great, I've been watching nothing but these for the past week
I think this is the earliest I've gotten a vid from my recommended. I just open TH-cam up and there you are.
I found this 8 minutes in lol
Yeah on the recommended page it said 2 minutes but when I opened it it said it was uploaded 3 minutes ago.
Old school runescape:- *exists*
Nathan:- Kill cows
Man i genuinely love you're content Nathan,
Thank you for making these amazing videos they make me happy and inspire me to fix computers.
i see what u did there at 2:23 😁
I hope that’s not true
Falling youtube carrer
Oh man, I remember these from primary school - might not have been the exact same variant, but they all looked pretty similar with that kind of case design, and the monitors all sat on the top of them.
I'd love to see you do a full upgrade to this machine! As usual it was very nice to see you clean off the machine 😄
How I foggy can't even do upgrade on the virtual machine cuz when I got the ice off their net for Windows XP to Windows me tax beat it said upgrade is not compatible what I made sure it was home 32 bit not pro 64-bit
Nathan is a technology archaeologist with his delicate brushes and eucalyptus oil. He recreates the joy we had back in the days :)
did they pull that computer out of a sewer?🤣
It really does look good after the restoration. It's so satisfying.
Big up recycalling Australia.
I did some voluntary work for my local MP back in 2004, and I think she had an Ipex PC in her office, I remember it had that volume control thing on the left hand side. Some relatives of mine had an Ipex PC in their home, I think it came from a university.
Your videos are awesome. Glad to see some retro tech get some love.
I love your videos man...
I'm from Brazil, and you are one of my inspirations to start working with old machines, i have this small channel, but i always look at your videos and think to myself that sometime we can meet and chat a lot about old machines...
The adolescent feels you get from this IPEX P4 from back in the day, I feel about the same way with Acorn BBC Masters from secondary school during the late '80s through to 1990 in the UK.
You were lucky, the PSU worked properly. I tried to restore one 20 years old Dell. Since it was left in a humid place for a long time I cleaned up everything before putting power on but made one mistake. The old PSU doesn't have enough power out put and outright killed the original HDD. I didn't have a spare IDE drive so I had to stop there. Lesson learnt, the hard way: Always test with a known good PSU. Luckily the MB was saved. Later on I salvaged some data for a guy using this old MB.
Edit: typo
This 2,8 GHz P IV was in the first new PC i bought for myself.
I love old computers. I watched every video of this channel since 2018. I have my Pentium Duel Core (intel e5200 chip I think) Desktop with 2GB ram with me, but rats cut the wires and now it does not work. It reminds me of my childhood when I used to play Need for Speed II special edition and Space Cadet Pin Ball game on Windows XP
Quite an original video giving love and care to something that few people would pay anything for (except maybe the RAM sticks, one gig ones are top spec for the era).
I really like the design and the look of that case. It looks industrial, but yet kind of welcoming.
It is just amazing how similar a 20 year old desktop looks to a modern one.
I love that early 2000s aesthetic. Beige and purple.
That IPEX PC is a Commonwealth Government build - used in the Group-8 contract clients. The first batch we made were all ASUS P4C800's which went to PSMPC/ATO/ACMA. The first machines were so fundamentally bad - we rolled out about 300 computers at the Edmund Barton building - and they all had to boot-up to get their image downloaded to it... Every single computer had the same MAC address burned in to the 3COM NIC soldered on the board. We needed to make up floppy disks with a flash-update tool and go machine-to-machine updating them to make them work.... Much stress. They were complete crap - they had about a 20-30% failure rate.
The second batch of machines were with the Intel board - and absolutely rocked..... for the time.... They went to PSMPC/ATSIC/AFFA/ABARE... They were the better machines.... Intel NIC, good graphics cards, quality memory... Also only Seagate HDDs.
I moved away from IPEX ITG in 2005 - was there for almost 5 years. It kept winding down because of the competitive environment we were in.
I remember those Desktops.
I love watching your videos it's very satisfying to see the old stuff get cleaned up. you never know what your going to find when you open some of these PC's
As a kid,I had geforce fx 5200 as my gpu and I could able to play nfs mw1,Carbon,Prince of Persia franchise (expect last game) and older GTA games with 2.6GHz pentium IV cpu and 1GB of DDR 1 ram 🙂❤
Mannnnnnn. The memories on these things.
I LOL'd when you ran Runescape.😂 I used to go over my grandmothers and tie up the dial up internet just to login to Runescape Classic back in like 02-03ish. I don't remember the exact model she had, but very similar to this one.
What a throwback
Love seeing old machines get love
Psiwevri making the best films of computers renovation
My grandmother still uses her 2003-2004 hp compaq that also uses the pentium 4 (@ 3.0 ghz). I put linux on it (speciffically q4os). The thing has 1gb of ram and 2x 80gb ide harddrives. I just set up her new printer the other day. The little pc runs better than it should and will hopefully make it well past 2024 when i change it to the new q4os lts release
This was my first every pc when i was a kid. I bought it second hand about almost a decade ago. The specs I got were Pentium 4 1.8 ghz, 250 mb ram, 40 gb hdd, cd rom, built in graphics with second 14 inch black monitor, new microsoft keyboard and a ball rotating mouse.
Beautiful!
It’s now ready for Goodwill.
I remember a computer with that exact case, even though I'm from the US and I'm almost positive it wasn't branded "Ipex", I think it was either unbranded or had Gateway or Acer branding on it. My elementary school's fleet at the time was primarily the regular old boring Dell OptiPlexes, this one was in a therapy room and definitely was a rarity.
I'll be needing this type of cheap pc for my coming freshmen year for school, Linux would be great on this one! great vid mate!
A Core Duo or Core 2 Duo from a couple years later would cost a similar amount to purchase nowadays and would use about half the power. Pentium 4s legitimately are room heaters, it’s not hyperbole like it can sometimes be. Partially because they don’t usually underclock while idle like a more modern chip, so it’s consuming maximum power all the time.
Pentium 4 CPUs could do anything back then, from spreadsheets to research, really used to respect those old beasts.
I have online classes but this seems more important 🙃
Everyone else: let me clean this PC with IPA.
This guy: Eucalyptus oil.
It's funny how people get new computers just because theirs a new device out. Running my nividia geforce 625GT since 2011 and never have problems playing any video games, like world of warships or ultimate admiral. I going to have to remember that Eucalyptus oil you used, never heard of anyone using that before. Love watching these teardowns of old computers, great show man!
I relate to this, I have an Optiplex 380 Desktop that was or still is abundant at my middle and high school, libraries especially. The mighty Core 2 Duo within just refuses to be made obsolete, so I'd say the model was one of the school system's best investments on record. I'll always remember them as the school computer, with peeled off XP stickers and missing Dell logos.
I was so jealous of the teachers pc at my hs they took attendance from all had Core 2 Duos of some sort in 2007-8. Not Celeron nor Pentium dual core but a full c2d to do next to nothing while my gaming pc at home had a Pentium D 3GHz which I still have kept in my collection but I knew which I wanted to use back then
Now try putting all new parts inside to make it a sleeper build.
your videos are tooo satisfying :))
Man I remember when we got these in year 7, what a time to be alive lol
Nathan’s use of eucalyptus oil certainly makes an impact when cleaning these computers. Plus it has a nice smell
Your videos make my day
Love watching these video. Also recently when I was going though what was left of my dad's estate found a full copy of Windows XP pro. Would like to install it on a Pentium 4 or Core 2 Duo unit someday.
Looks brand new
Definitely not failing... You got this buddy. Fix your career with more eucalyptus oil.
i am watching this on my old computer lol, i have a hp pavilion p6000 windows 7 now running windows 10, and i am planning on upgrading things such as, graphics card, ssd and more and yes my computer also needs a cleaning.
Hey Psivewri, My first Gaming rig was a Intel 875p Chipset with a Northwood P4 3.0 ghz. (800 FSB) I also had 1 gig of ram and a ATI 9800 pro. Fond memories and I think that system is still running to this day! (upgraded to 4 gigs of system ram/Windows 7) Intel used to make good motherboards back in the day. Thanks for the video!
You always do a great job in restoring old PCs..It's enjoyable
This very much like my PC used in college, good memories.
That XP startup is still soo good to hear..
Always happy to see a new video out! ❤️❤️❤️
I love CLEANING TECH STUFFS videos
1:53 into the video the BIOS screen clearly shows the CPU speed being detected as 1.4 GHz...This is weird as I don't believe there ever was a consumer board released with hardwired CPU speed limit. Since this is obviously an OEM product it might be that the BIOS is an OEM version also with some pages and setting hidden. What most likely causes this mis-detection is the Intel SpeedStep function turned ON in the bios settings without means for the end user to turn it off, the aforementioned hidden page. If that is the case then windows about page should mention SpeedStep as being ON. There are utilities out there to switch it OFF even for OEM BIOSes. The feature itself is useless and If I'm wrong then this is one seriously weird board with an artificial limitation that serves no purpose...
Great video Nathan!