I was a Director of embedded software development at Dialogic, and that card was made by my group. It is an automated voice response (AVR) and/or voicemail interface card. That box probably operated as an AVR and voicemail server back in the day. Dialogic was an industry leader in those technologies at that time. Intel bought the company in 1999.
Thanks so much for providing this additional information! Comments like this help to piece the puzzle all together. Is there any use for these cards in today's world?
The "adpater" on the 3rd system's parallel port is a hardware key. In the old days a software maker would control customers making copies by forcing them to use a hardware key.
I've seen similar hardware keys being used with old oscilloscopes in the past. The hardware key is used to unlock/validate features on the scope or other such pieces of equipment.
@@Pasi123 I have seen the usb keys. I saw one on a desktop, plus it was labeled to keep folks from removing it. They attached a security cable via epoxy, and tethered it to the workstation. At least it wasn't glued in place!
Accounting software uses those keys too. They were a real pain to work with if you upgraded a system and forgot to take the key from the back of the machine.
I really like seeing these early-mid 2000s systems being saved and appreciated. It seems like most people save things from win98 back but don't appreciate the windows XP era machines and way to many cool machines that are still fully usable get dumped.
We're a Dell shop at work and I always hated those angled USB ports in the front of these, so many broken USB connectors. Those odd video outputs were also always annoying.
I have the device as an Optiplex variant, the Optiplex GX260... with 533 FSB it wasn't the top model at the time, but it was a robust PC. Mine is from 2002. I replaced all the capacitors yesterday. They were bloated and partially leaking. Now the old Optiplex has been repaired again. Iconic and widespread devices at the time. That was still quality, Dell paid attention to every little thing.
@@TheRetroRecall It was a really bad capacitor time back then. They will have installed the capacitors like other manufacturers without knowing. I can still remember, I was sitting at my PC one afternoon in 2004 when suddenly there was a loud bang. And then a cap exploded and destroyed the entire mainboard.
I had 4 of these Dells which I got from eWaste purchases a few years ago. Agreed with you that these are heavy and they take up a lot of space. So a few months ago I took them apart for the cpu, memory, and drives to put into other smaller systems and junk the cases. Back in the days these are fast machines build like a tank.
In one of your previous videos I remember you saying that these dell systems are bulletproof. And I have to agree on you! I've had this Dell Optiplex 780 for about 3 years now and I've had many motherboards die on me in that time yet this one is still living. After a ton of fiddling around on the motherboard it all still works absolutely fine. The CMOS battery holder broke so I tried to replace it by soldering on a different one. It failed and I accidentally made scratches on the board with my soldering iron and even a trace came off. Yet unbelievably this thing still runs fine! I can barely believe. I really thought it'd be dead by now but nope. I don't like the brand itself but I'm happy it's so reliable and I definitely agree with you. I enjoy your videos a lot btw, keep it up!
@@TheRetroRecall yeah my bad hehe😅. I didn't see that I replied to someone else's comment first. I thought it was just a public comment that somehow didn't come through.
In the factory they would spend their entire life there laying on that side with the feet. The towers were designed to accommodate the builder of the machine. If I’m not mistaken I believe the goal always was to have a highly configurable system that could be built in the factory with as few screws as possible during the building process.
That makes sense and thanks for sharing. The clamshell design / access still baffles me. Its quite hefty and bends quite a bit of the cabling. I am happy they went back to side panels.
DMS-59 adapters are pretty common, so shouldn’t be hard to track down to get that GPU working. Thankfully it wasn’t the older EDD connector that DMS-59 replaced.( *EDIT* Just watched further, and the connector on the second machine is in fact EDD, and is also the same model card as the two I have. It’s a Radeon 7000 32mb) Those adapters are unobtainium. I had an EDD card for years and couldn’t find an adapter. I finally found one included with another identical card. A little background on these connectors are that they are designed to run two independent monitors off of one port, the adapters can come in dual VGA, dual DVI, or one of both. Not sure of the practical differences between EDD and DMS-59 besides the different shape.
Thanks so much for this added detail. I'm going to keep my eye out and check in where I got these to see if there is a cable laying around haha. Again, thanks for this!
We still have a dell dimension running with the same card times two. It runs the entire phone system on our network, and voicemail/fax. Absolutely ancient system, but noone wants to spend the money to keep it running and the machine won't die
Great video. Those systems remind me when I was a sys admin. We had tons of them. 3 years ago I bought a Dell Optiplex 280, but I sold it 3 months ago. I should have made a video about it. LOL
Dialogic used to build two kinds of boards. One was for POTS or “plain old telephone service”, the analog lines that used to go into everyone’s home. They supported 2-8 channels. Your boards were designed for T1 (voice). If memory serves, they supported 24 channels per T1 and up to two T1 channels per board. There might’ve been a 96 port board too. Which, at the time, was way harder than it sounds. Thus the pile of ASICs on those boards.
2:54 Yes they can lay down like a desk top and if you look in side you can rotate the CD drive bay so it will be horizontal when being used as a lay down desk top.
The globetrotter flexid is the hardware key to run the dialogic software seems like they were used for interactive voice response - state of the art for the time
Whew that's alot of dell's and given their age I'm amazed they've held up this well in terms of caps/posting. Even if you can't get them all working having donor system's, parts such as ram, video cards, PSU etc to use later on. As for the video cards, yeah those are bit different as well but given they where used at offices using dual monitor's wasn't out the question, epically if they used a pharmacy, dentist offices and /or hospital's.
@@TheRetroRecall this is true and I've looked around the break out cables for these cards are not that expensive either. I would try to stock up on few and see what these said video/graphic cards are capable of. That aside best of luck with your major e-waste haul, these videos are going to be fun!
Flex-ID: Back in the day it was common for expensive (as in, $5k/seat in 1999) software to be licensed as “single-user multiple-seat”, implemented as a pass-thru parallel port dongle, because USB was not ubiquitous yet. It allowed a software package to run on any number of computers, but only one at a time. The pass-through allowed you to connect a printer to the same port.
If you are running the cd/dvd rom without and hard drive on the same connector it needs to be set as master or cable select or the controller will be set to off so it won't be able to read the discs. They are usually set to slave by default.
I used to have a Dell Precision 370. Sadly, the motherboard was bad. I am assuming because it had a bunch of bad caps on the board, I have been known to recap boards in systems like this before, but it was also quite beat up. Although it did have the 3.8 GHz Pentium 4, which is the fastest Pentium 4 released. I kept the CPU. On a side note, Me and my friend have a small business buying old office PCs by the pallet load and selling parts out of them. We pull hundreds of those DMS-59 graphics cards and have several huge boxes of those adapters. I personally quite like DMS-59 because you can get a pigtail with 2 DVI ports, 2 VGA ports, or 1 VGA and 1 DVI. So it is highly versatile for single or dual monitor use. Those cards and pigtails used to be all over in mid 00s to the late 2010s, so you should be able to find them cheaply and easily.
Me and many of my friends owned one of these. I remember them being common for the cpu fan dying. i did find out it was that dumb shroud that was covering it it would some how choke it and kill it. The fix for me was removing the shroud and getting a good cpu fan from ebay.
I had a dell just like this with the crazy diagonal RAM slots, it did not POST, it got recycled. A good Linux ISO that you can easily download that's an easy boot for older systems is the UBCD Live *BETA* Current release: 0.2.3b. It's a little older and legacy only, but it's pretty cool.
I do not remember seeing an option.. But the thought did cross my mind. Again, the scope was to get the systems to post. Have to draw the line somewhere lol.
Those first 2 machine's with the T1 cards might have been used in a telephone exchange context. Thinking of functioning as a IPPBX itself, voicemail server or even as a FAX server. Though current plugin cards for those functionalities are way smaller. Plus there are dedicated appliances to connect old POTS stuff to a modern network.
One thing different from the first system then the other 2, is the stickers are reversed. It has XP on top of Intel Inside whereas the other systems have Intel Inside on top and XP at bottom
That parallel port thing is probably a software dongle. These are pieces of hardware that enforce licensing of some software, usually high-end or very specialized (read: expensive) software packages. Basically the software, when you launch it, checks for the presence of the dongle, and if it doesn't find it, it refuses to run. Not sure what specific software program that dongle is designed for (and since the machine lacks a hard drive, this is moot anyway) but that's what it's for.
What would make a good XP retro box? I have some choices: 1. Dell Dimension 8200, with a choice of Geforce 4200 Ti or Radeon 9800 Pro ... my best AGP machine, but not tested those cards yet as I don't know if the PSU is enough 2, P4 640 PCIE 3. An Athlon 64 3400+ PCIE (no HT, but faster core) 4. A FM1 with A8 3820 PCIE (can XP use a quad?) For the PCIE, also debating what graphics card is powerful, cheap and XP compatible, leaning towards a GTX 400/500 series
Like the old song goes, two out of three ain't bad! Interesting about RD RAM---I've never encountered it before, mine are always PC100/133 (luck of the draw I guess). My focus has always been on Win98/Me systems, but now I'm starting to get more into XP systems, for the simple fact that XP can still get online where the others can't---that limits their usefulness. These systems will be fun to restore, and if you need a motherboard to fix the one that won't post, I imagine you probably have parts to fix it
HHa you picked up on the song!! RDRAM was more focused on business / server type systems so not too often you would see them hanging around the consumer market. I'm sure I will get it working again, I'm determined :)
RDRAM was initially used by the P4 in it's earliest versions, consumer end enterprise, but by the time it had moved to socket 775 it was long gone, DDR only. I only ever saw or used 1 PC with RDRAM, an early P4 from 2002 or so.
@Karataus Yeah, RDRAM started with the P3, near the end of the P3's life as it was fighting with AMD's Athlon Thunderbird chips if memory serves. Intel were desperate for any performance boost. Never became mainstream though.
Thanks for the feedback - I call it out on screen during editing that it isn't a dvi port and correct myself during the video. Check out marker 9:51 :)
@@TheRetroRecall It's possibly DFP. (Digital Flat Panel) Which is the short-lived predecessor to DVI. These are not common, and an odd choice for a card from 2001, as DVI released in 1999 and I've got a few cards from 2000 and 2001 with DVI. EDIT: It is not DFP, but rather EDD. Tough luck. You're not missing out on much though. The Radeon 7000 is a pretty lackluster video card.
I think its only the button thats not working on the system that dont starts, Dells buttons is cheap material on most systems so if you push them often they likely will die, not all systems thou some of them
For the Linux distro? They are reading the software and it attempts to boot, unfortunately it doesn't like it. My feeling it is the drive and read errors.
Don't destroy your hard disks. Run a Linux distro and format the drive with 0s. It removes all the data and is almost impossible to get the info back unless you are in the FBI
For sure. When I get the drives I wipe them with security software and reuse them - mostly to protect the previous owners data. I've heard about the linux way though - just never tried it before. If the drive is shot, I drill holes through it.
I assume you are referring to the T1 cards.. And if so, great question! My guess is that there is still a demand for them and when new.. They were 7500-10k each!
Honestly… one of my least favorite case designs, functionally or aesthetically. I dislike it more so than the Optiplex/Dimension variant. Performance was good for the time but I’m glad they went with a full metal case chassis starting with the Precision 380 series.
I was a Director of embedded software development at Dialogic, and that card was made by my group. It is an automated voice response (AVR) and/or voicemail interface card. That box probably operated as an AVR and voicemail server back in the day. Dialogic was an industry leader in those technologies at that time. Intel bought the company in 1999.
Thanks so much for providing this additional information! Comments like this help to piece the puzzle all together. Is there any use for these cards in today's world?
@@TheRetroRecall Theoretically they could be used in an open source PBX like Free PBX to add voice lines to interface with the Telcos.
Awesome. Thanks for the insight!
The "adpater" on the 3rd system's parallel port is a hardware key. In the old days a software maker would control customers making copies by forcing them to use a hardware key.
Thanks!!
I've seen similar hardware keys being used with old oscilloscopes in the past. The hardware key is used to unlock/validate features on the scope or other such pieces of equipment.
Hardware keys are still a thing but in the form of a USB stick. For example Davinci Resolve Studio has an option to buy a hardware key
@@Pasi123 I have seen the usb keys. I saw one on a desktop, plus it was labeled to keep folks from removing it. They attached a security cable via epoxy, and tethered it to the workstation. At least it wasn't glued in place!
Accounting software uses those keys too. They were a real pain to work with if you upgraded a system and forgot to take the key from the back of the machine.
I really like seeing these early-mid 2000s systems being saved and appreciated. It seems like most people save things from win98 back but don't appreciate the windows XP era machines and way to many cool machines that are still fully usable get dumped.
These have a ton of life left in them. I love all old tech :)
We're a Dell shop at work and I always hated those angled USB ports in the front of these, so many broken USB connectors. Those odd video outputs were also always annoying.
100% agree on both fronts.
I have the device as an Optiplex variant, the Optiplex GX260... with 533 FSB it wasn't the top model at the time, but it was a robust PC. Mine is from 2002. I replaced all the capacitors yesterday. They were bloated and partially leaking. Now the old Optiplex has been repaired again. Iconic and widespread devices at the time. That was still quality, Dell paid attention to every little thing.
100%. If the Cap plague didn't happen, I'm not sure how much you could fault them for.
@@TheRetroRecall It was a really bad capacitor time back then. They will have installed the capacitors like other manufacturers without knowing. I can still remember, I was sitting at my PC one afternoon in 2004 when suddenly there was a loud bang. And then a cap exploded and destroyed the entire mainboard.
That would have been a VERY sad moment.
I had 4 of these Dells which I got from eWaste purchases a few years ago. Agreed with you that these are heavy and they take up a lot of space. So a few months ago I took them apart for the cpu, memory, and drives to put into other smaller systems and junk the cases. Back in the days these are fast machines build like a tank.
100%. Tank is definitely the word.
In one of your previous videos I remember you saying that these dell systems are bulletproof. And I have to agree on you! I've had this Dell Optiplex 780 for about 3 years now and I've had many motherboards die on me in that time yet this one is still living. After a ton of fiddling around on the motherboard it all still works absolutely fine. The CMOS battery holder broke so I tried to replace it by soldering on a different one. It failed and I accidentally made scratches on the board with my soldering iron and even a trace came off. Yet unbelievably this thing still runs fine! I can barely believe. I really thought it'd be dead by now but nope. I don't like the brand itself but I'm happy it's so reliable and I definitely agree with you. I enjoy your videos a lot btw, keep it up!
I think this was a double comment post? Haha. I responded in the other one but in either case... Definitely happy to have you along!!!!
@@TheRetroRecall yeah my bad hehe😅. I didn't see that I replied to someone else's comment first. I thought it was just a public comment that somehow didn't come through.
All good!!!! Keep Commenting away!!! :)
In the factory they would spend their entire life there laying on that side with the feet. The towers were designed to accommodate the builder of the machine. If I’m not mistaken I believe the goal always was to have a highly configurable system that could be built in the factory with as few screws as possible during the building process.
That makes sense and thanks for sharing. The clamshell design / access still baffles me. Its quite hefty and bends quite a bit of the cabling. I am happy they went back to side panels.
The Precision 340's I've worked with had that funky connector that connected to dual VGA.
100% as I discovered haha. Marker 9:51
DMS-59 adapters are pretty common, so shouldn’t be hard to track down to get that GPU working. Thankfully it wasn’t the older EDD connector that DMS-59 replaced.( *EDIT* Just watched further, and the connector on the second machine is in fact EDD, and is also the same model card as the two I have. It’s a Radeon 7000 32mb) Those adapters are unobtainium. I had an EDD card for years and couldn’t find an adapter. I finally found one included with another identical card. A little background on these connectors are that they are designed to run two independent monitors off of one port, the adapters can come in dual VGA, dual DVI, or one of both. Not sure of the practical differences between EDD and DMS-59 besides the different shape.
Thanks so much for this added detail. I'm going to keep my eye out and check in where I got these to see if there is a cable laying around haha. Again, thanks for this!
DUDE.... D U D E... a client of mine had a "XPS" gaming version of this.. but the case was is a bright blue.. keep these vids coming!! TY!
Haha awesome!!
The one XPS that was known for broken chassis intrusion switches. I seriously despised that variant of the XPS.
That would definitely hinder its use.
@@ABRetroCollections Wow no kidding.. did not know that!!
I remember these systems! Amazing video!
Thanks!!!
You're almost at 4000 subs man! Hope you get that 2nd Dell figured out 😉
One sub at a time!!! Support from awesome people like you make it possible. Yeah I think it's a PSU issue..
We still have a dell dimension running with the same card times two. It runs the entire phone system on our network, and voicemail/fax.
Absolutely ancient system, but noone wants to spend the money to keep it running and the machine won't die
Hahaha sounds like one of them for sure. Fax?? Wow, still going!
@@TheRetroRecall yep, we still use fax between company locations
Great video. Those systems remind me when I was a sys admin. We had tons of them. 3 years ago I bought a Dell Optiplex 280, but I sold it 3 months ago. I should have made a video about it. LOL
Totally!!!!
Dialogic used to build two kinds of boards. One was for POTS or “plain old telephone service”, the analog lines that used to go into everyone’s home. They supported 2-8 channels. Your boards were designed for T1 (voice). If memory serves, they supported 24 channels per T1 and up to two T1 channels per board. There might’ve been a 96 port board too. Which, at the time, was way harder than it sounds. Thus the pile of ASICs on those boards.
This is great info. I love when viewers share this stuff. This is exactly why I do this!! Keep it coming :)
2:54 Yes they can lay down like a desk top and if you look in side you can rotate the CD drive bay so it will be horizontal when being used as a lay down desk top.
Great to know!
HP has a rotating drive bay too. Running WIN 8.1 Pro on it currently. Once it sets into it's routine, not bad.
I really like your videos as well!👍👍🙂
Awesome!
Diacom board was more than the cost of the PC when new, T1 telephony card used for monitoring and recording
Thanks for this. It seems that they are still quite expensive online for the cards. New were showing 7500 USD +. Crazy!
The globetrotter flexid is the hardware key to run the dialogic software seems like they were used for interactive voice response - state of the art for the time
Whew that's alot of dell's and given their age I'm amazed they've held up this well in terms of caps/posting. Even if you can't get them all working having donor system's, parts such as ram, video cards, PSU etc to use later on.
As for the video cards, yeah those are bit different as well but given they where used at offices using dual monitor's wasn't out the question, epically if they used a pharmacy, dentist offices and /or hospital's.
Yes for sure and makes sense. I finally figured them out and added notes during editing. Easy to mix up when first filming though.
@@TheRetroRecall this is true and I've looked around the break out cables for these cards are not that expensive either. I would try to stock up on few and see what these said video/graphic cards are capable of.
That aside best of luck with your major e-waste haul, these videos are going to be fun!
Thank you!
Great video✌
Thanks!
@@TheRetroRecall thanks
Flex-ID: Back in the day it was common for expensive (as in, $5k/seat in 1999) software to be licensed as “single-user multiple-seat”, implemented as a pass-thru parallel port dongle, because USB was not ubiquitous yet. It allowed a software package to run on any number of computers, but only one at a time. The pass-through allowed you to connect a printer to the same port.
Again, thank you. You are a rock star!
Have a Dell Precision m6300 laptop, 2.8 gb core2 duo..love it
Nice!!! The Precision line definitely had a good rep.
If you are running the cd/dvd rom without and hard drive on the same connector it needs to be set as master or cable select or the controller will be set to off so it won't be able to read the discs. They are usually set to slave by default.
Thanks. In this case the HDD was plugged into the sata port and the DVD drive to the IDE bus and was set to master.
I used to have a Dell Precision 370. Sadly, the motherboard was bad. I am assuming because it had a bunch of bad caps on the board, I have been known to recap boards in systems like this before, but it was also quite beat up. Although it did have the 3.8 GHz Pentium 4, which is the fastest Pentium 4 released. I kept the CPU.
On a side note, Me and my friend have a small business buying old office PCs by the pallet load and selling parts out of them. We pull hundreds of those DMS-59 graphics cards and have several huge boxes of those adapters. I personally quite like DMS-59 because you can get a pigtail with 2 DVI ports, 2 VGA ports, or 1 VGA and 1 DVI. So it is highly versatile for single or dual monitor use. Those cards and pigtails used to be all over in mid 00s to the late 2010s, so you should be able to find them cheaply and easily.
Awesome, I'll be on the hunt for them for sure.
Me and many of my friends owned one of these. I remember them being common for the cpu fan dying. i did find out it was that dumb shroud that was covering it it would some how choke it and kill it. The fix for me was removing the shroud and getting a good cpu fan from ebay.
That's good to know, thank you! I will check that out.
The dongle is a security pass-key, later replaced with USB keys, I used the same type of dongle to run my design software: Flexi-Sign Pro
Awesome thanks for this!
I had a dell just like this with the crazy diagonal RAM slots, it did not POST, it got recycled. A good Linux ISO that you can easily download that's an easy boot for older systems is the UBCD Live *BETA* Current release: 0.2.3b. It's a little older and legacy only, but it's pretty cool.
Awesome thanks for the suggestion!
It's usually a good idea to use rufus to create bootable usbs from isos. Most linux isos will require at least 512 to 1gb ram to function.
Sounds good, will do and thanks!
I guess these PCs do not boot off USB, though.
I do not remember seeing an option.. But the thought did cross my mind. Again, the scope was to get the systems to post. Have to draw the line somewhere lol.
I successfully run 1.5gb ram in my Precision 360. Does anyone know the max amount of ram that can be accepted and if it must be DDR or can it be DDR2?
That card is called a “SWEET JESUS WTH IS THAT?!” named after what was said after its discovery.
Ahahhahahahahahah
Two out of three is okay and a parts machine is useful.👍👍
Haha so true. I just want to give life to everything again lol.
They even worried about video/graphic card sag in those days?
Apparently...
Those first 2 machine's with the T1 cards might have been used in a telephone exchange context. Thinking of functioning as a IPPBX itself, voicemail server or even as a FAX server.
Though current plugin cards for those functionalities are way smaller. Plus there are dedicated appliances to connect old POTS stuff to a modern network.
Thanks for this!!! Now, let's setup our own PBX lol.
that adapter is a key for some kind of software
Thanks!
One thing different from the first system then the other 2, is the stickers are reversed. It has XP on top of Intel Inside whereas the other systems have Intel Inside on top and XP at bottom
Haha yes!
That parallel port thing is probably a software dongle. These are pieces of hardware that enforce licensing of some software, usually high-end or very specialized (read: expensive) software packages. Basically the software, when you launch it, checks for the presence of the dongle, and if it doesn't find it, it refuses to run. Not sure what specific software program that dongle is designed for (and since the machine lacks a hard drive, this is moot anyway) but that's what it's for.
Thanks so much for this info! Makes total sense now.
What would make a good XP retro box? I have some choices:
1. Dell Dimension 8200, with a choice of Geforce 4200 Ti or Radeon 9800 Pro ... my best AGP machine, but not tested those cards yet as I don't know if the PSU is enough
2, P4 640 PCIE
3. An Athlon 64 3400+ PCIE (no HT, but faster core)
4. A FM1 with A8 3820 PCIE (can XP use a quad?)
For the PCIE, also debating what graphics card is powerful, cheap and XP compatible, leaning towards a GTX 400/500 series
4. - Yes XP can run on quad, it was standard to use them with C2Q6600.
I personally like P4 machines for Windows XP only as P4 was around in 2000 and XP came out in 2002. Just really close in time making it a good fit.
Like the old song goes, two out of three ain't bad! Interesting about RD RAM---I've never encountered it before, mine are always PC100/133 (luck of the draw I guess). My focus has always been on Win98/Me systems, but now I'm starting to get more into XP systems, for the simple fact that XP can still get online where the others can't---that limits their usefulness. These systems will be fun to restore, and if you need a motherboard to fix the one that won't post, I imagine you probably have parts to fix it
HHa you picked up on the song!! RDRAM was more focused on business / server type systems so not too often you would see them hanging around the consumer market. I'm sure I will get it working again, I'm determined :)
RDRAM was initially used by the P4 in it's earliest versions, consumer end enterprise, but by the time it had moved to socket 775 it was long gone, DDR only. I only ever saw or used 1 PC with RDRAM, an early P4 from 2002 or so.
I just came accross a p3 system with RDRAM. I was surprised to see it. I go years without ever seeing in and now twice in 3 days lol.
@Karataus Yeah, RDRAM started with the P3, near the end of the P3's life as it was fighting with AMD's Athlon Thunderbird chips if memory serves. Intel were desperate for any performance boost. Never became mainstream though.
Thank goodness it didn't. I like where we ended up haha.
needs 2 new rear pc case fans dude and good dust blowout
Haha what are you saying they are perfect!!! Lol. Definitely noted... I feel lots of restorations coming along.
just for good safety measure bro no harm
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Thanks!
When i worked on such clam shell cases i some day discovered it could open 90 degrees. Could you test it on one of these cases?
I will definitely try.
I don't know why but I always find that a knoppix live CD is more reliable😀
Yeah I'm going to try it on another set of systems and see how we make it. I'm sure it will work. :)
That's not a DVI port, its a DMS-59 you need to adapt it to output VGA or DVI but it supports 2 monitors at once
Thanks for the feedback - I call it out on screen during editing that it isn't a dvi port and correct myself during the video.
Check out marker 9:51 :)
@@TheRetroRecall The DMS 59 is standard... no idea what the connector on the 2nd card is though
Need to do some hunting!
@@TheRetroRecall It's possibly DFP. (Digital Flat Panel) Which is the short-lived predecessor to DVI. These are not common, and an odd choice for a card from 2001, as DVI released in 1999 and I've got a few cards from 2000 and 2001 with DVI.
EDIT: It is not DFP, but rather EDD. Tough luck. You're not missing out on much though. The Radeon 7000 is a pretty lackluster video card.
Ok awesome. Yes I heard this cable was pretty unobtainium
I think its only the button thats not working on the system that dont starts, Dells buttons is cheap material on most systems so if you push them often they likely will die, not all systems thou some of them
I better start pressing lol, I have soooo many Dell's.
Cmos battery for no post. Sometimes there are simple fixes.
For sure, I've come accross that in another video - The Battle of the OEM's had one like that.
Hardware lock for a software package of known as a dongle
Thanks!!
You need a boot disk with driver for cd/DVD device
For the Linux distro? They are reading the software and it attempts to boot, unfortunately it doesn't like it. My feeling it is the drive and read errors.
can u put ide hard drives in them to keep it era appropriate
Absolutely! It's all I use on the Channel... check out my other videos and you will see! I love using the authentic hardware.
Don't destroy your hard disks. Run a Linux distro and format the drive with 0s. It removes all the data and is almost impossible to get the info back unless you are in the FBI
For sure. When I get the drives I wipe them with security software and reuse them - mostly to protect the previous owners data. I've heard about the linux way though - just never tried it before. If the drive is shot, I drill holes through it.
Tell me why these cards are selling for 2k+
I assume you are referring to the T1 cards.. And if so, great question! My guess is that there is still a demand for them and when new.. They were 7500-10k each!
Honestly… one of my least favorite case designs, functionally or aesthetically. I dislike it more so than the Optiplex/Dimension variant. Performance was good for the time but I’m glad they went with a full metal case chassis starting with the Precision 380 series.
Agreed!
Try upgrading to Windows 7
It's possible. :)
Check cmos battery 🔋
Great call out. For some reason (even though I know I should check) I am not 100% sure if I did!