Hi guys! This video is the continuation of a first video where I made a deep cleaning of this computer. It is available here: th-cam.com/video/z0gxK6rmFho/w-d-xo.html The last time I used a soldering iron was when I was student, and I destroyed two soldering irons while making this video 😅 So really hope you will enjoy guys ❤❤️ If you enjoyed this video please remember to: - Like it 👍 - Tell me it in the comments 😍 - Share it on the social medias 😘 - Subscribe ❤ - Follow me on Instagram for more content: instagram.com/french.satisfactory/ 😷
Yea, this was new thingy^^ I need to practise cloning hdd->ssd. With OS installed and active. If you find Windows 7 computers that have been activated you could try clone that into a new ssd.
@@gcmanuel85x oh I didn't even see this comment Manuel. Sorry for that. In fact I'm thinking about put a more recent Windows on it. Which one would you recommend?
@@french.satisfactory Was there Windows 10 lite also available ? But if i remember they disabled dvd/bd drive on that... Very compacted version^^ 32bit is for offices and schools, cause games need 64 bit, students wont abuse the computers so hard xD
These old Dell boxes are nigh indestructible. That growly, angry buzzing usually means a CPU or memory problem, which you can pin-point by looking at the lights "1234" and cross referencing their pattern to the service manual. Might be good to know for someone!
Yeah, the thing is, I didn't want to change the RAM with this capacitor issue. I was afraid about that the PSU killed the previous RAM 😅 But as you said, Dell boxes are so great that it was not the case here. Thanks for your comment ypoora ❤️❤️
In fact, the 1st thing you have to do is that, remove the power cable, and turn on the computer without it couple of time. This will normally make empty all the capacitors. Then, you can also check if there is still power in the capacitors by using a un voltmeter ✌️
This is awesome! I wish I would have seen this when my HPs PSU died XD. Oh, btw, did you use caps of the same capacitance as the ones in the PSU? I wound up throwing the PSU away because I only had 3300uF, and I needed 2200uF.
So it was the RAM, not the PSU recap? PS. I have an Optiplex 745 that I put way too much into, I went through two replacement motherboards (original dead, first replacement unstable, second one worked), then a Q6600 came up for cheap, and after that, well I had to give it 8GB and a low profile GPU.... Really must decide what to do with it.... Can it run Crysis? The card I got, R5 240 1GB is probably a bottleneck for a Q6600, but the price was right and it could be Nimezed
Yeah Matthew, it was finally the RAM and not the PSU. But I wanted to fix these capacitors first, because I didn't want this PSU kill other RAM. I'm not that specialist you would like that kind of answer from to be honest 😅 But I recommend you the TH-camr Andy'sTech. You can join his community on his Discord here: discord.gg/KfST4QFK I just joined his Discord yesterday also ✌️ Thank you very much Matthew for your comment. Hope you enjoyed the video ❤️❤️
Normally, the BIOS batteries, the RAM, the power supply, or even the video cards themselves tend to cause problems when it comes to turning on the PC. You have to try each component until you discover the culprit.
yeah I agree, but depends of the issue you have, it could be something more than something else 😉 Thanks for your comment @bazargmusic5301 , I hope that you enjoyed this video ❤️
Well, they are for me also. Finally the issue of this computer was the RAM. Even with 5 plagued capacitors, looks like this computer was still running with good RAMs. The thing is, I didn't want the PSU dommage something else that's why I fixed this first. Thanks for your comment the Fan shelf, hope you enjoyed this episode ❤️
You're right but i guess even these things can be bad sometimes. I actually have this very same computer but with a Core 2 Quad Q9400 and 8GB RAM and Windows 10 still running at work with the original PSU. Old but it still gets everything done
Yeah, I guess we could also say that a good quality computer is also that a computer who can continue to work even if they have some capacitors issue. It is the case here. Maybe even with yours Laur. Thanks for taking part of this discussion BTW! Hope you enjoyed the video ❤️
eheheh. ça faisait une paire d'années que je n'avais pas retouché à un fer à souder... J'ai fait au mieux. Quand je vois CabriDIY maintenant j'ai un peu honte 😂
I believe the problem has to do with the cpu supported ram speed. (AKA Bus Speed) You see, most E/Duo models support 1066 MHz max. Like the one you used “E7400” While some Quad cores support up to 1333 MHz max. I suggest getting a Q6600, it’s very cheap but does the job goodie. However I’m not positive that it will work on your Small factor as all quads only work with Optiflex MT (mini towers). You need to upgrade the priority PSU. But good luck finding something as the same size or smaller!
Weird, I posted an answer days ago but looks like you never received it ?! Anyway, just wanted to tell you that it was finally just a Ram issue, just had to change it to fix the issue. The capacitors replacements was even useless... I mean to fix this issue.
@@french.satisfactory it’s okay! At least I got to see the insides of power supply and how to fix them, by the way, what capacitors did you use? And how did you know which one goes in what?!
Friendly Neighborhood Nerd here. Capacitor replacement in this day and age has... kind of become a catch-all fix. Be aware that in most cases, this is NOT your issue, electronically speaking. The lone exception would be machines from around the early 2000s -- roughly 2001 or 2002 at the earliest, through 2009 at the _absolute_ latest, and much more realistically, 2003 through 2006 -- when the so-called "capacitor plague" was a thing. These are all Windows XP machines with Pentium 4 CPUs or Celerons based on the Pentium 4. Pentium III systems were too early, and the first Core series systems (Core Solo/Duo CPU) were too late. A _very_ few Pentium M based (very early slim/SFF) desktops _might_ be affected, but by and large it's things like the Dell Optiplex 240 or the Dell Dimension 2400, along with HP Compaq systems of the era (the two companies having _just_ merged) and the very, very earliest Lenovo ThinkCentres (having taken over from IBM in 2004-5), most of which would still have IBM branding on them, as Lenovo was allowed to do that somewhat briefly. Also, in the realm of vintage computing -- be aware that vintage home computers such as those made by Commodore, Tandy, and even the original IBM gear, were a LOT more rugged and resilient than nearly everything is today, and they had a lot less to break inside as well. If it doesn't boot at first, don't just chalk it up to "well of course not, it's an old computer" -- get online, there are enthusiast communities for almost every machine from that era. If the fix required sounds like something out of your depth, please at least make sure your machine gets into the hands of someone who cares about it and _can_ fix it. Those old systems are precious to those of us who still preserve them. This is likewise true of game console systems of the era. A lot of people, locally, have thrown out Atari 2600 and Commodore gear and seeing that stuff in eWaste recycling bins where you are legally prohibited from rescuing it (the county where I live is in charge of that and gets a kickback from the recycling company) genuinely makes me die a little inside. DON'T BE THE PERSON WHO DOES THAT. Fix it, love it -- or get it to someone else who can and will. Most of the rest of this was just simple, basic troubleshooting -- reseating RAM, swapping spare parts. A word of advice on the upgrades, though -- if your power supply has bad capacitors, even though it's a proprietary Dell unit, it's probably worth replacing outright at that point... especially if you're going to drop an SSD in there. I would also max out the RAM and get the best reasonably-affordable CPU the system will support (this will depend on BIOS version -- get the newest BIOS from Dell and flash it to the board, first). If you're not going to upgrade RAM and CPU, or bother with replacing the power supply... just drop in a relatively recent 500gb laptop hard drive, one of the mechanical ones; this will actually provide a noticeable speed increase over that creaky old Maxtor, and for an absolute pittance... also, just get a generic 2.5-to-3.5 adapter for the drive off shAmazon or fleaBay, rather than 'splurging' (if you can call it that) even for the cost of the Sabrent -- it's just not worth it, if you're not going the full distance. That said -- if you DID upgrade all of those things, and you were able to somehow fit a higher-wattage power supply in there, you might also consider dropping in a relatively inexpensive gaming-grade graphics card, something in the $/£/€ 50-100 range. Most cards in that range are actually fairly competent even still today -- you don't need a bleeding-edge card that costs a genuinely princely sum for most games -- and even on the lower end of that, with a CPU and RAM upgrade, and a power supply reasonably able to drive the graphics card, you have a machine that will serve a young teen for several years as a starting games machine, the sort of fellow who's into Call of Duty, Fortnite, Roblox, Minecraft, that sort of thing. Getting the power supply right is a bit of math, but it's easy -- look up the CPU and what's called the "chipset" on your motherboard (the two biggest chips that aren't the CPU, generally at least one will have a heatsink) and find out their "TDP" rating in watts. Add that together, round up to the nearest roughly ten watts (10w). For every USB2.0 port on the system, add 5w, for every USB3.0 port or USB-C port, add 10w. Find out the TDP of the graphics card, add that on. Add another 2w for every SSD, 5w for spinning laptop drives, 10w for spinning desktop drives like that Maxtor or for CD/DVD drives -- 15w for HDDs and slim/laptop optical drives, or 25w for desktop optical drives, if they're fairly old (from before about 2010 or so). Another 5w for any peripheral cards other than the graphics card (for example, a sound card or a network card... 10w+ if it's a really fancy sound card, like a Sound Blaster Audigy or something... if there's a modem card, you almost certainly can just pull that out and be fine.) Round up to the nearest 5w, and that's your minimum power supply rating. If you can only get a really dodgy power supply... roughly double that final number, sorry. But if all you're going to drop in is an SSD, it's really not worth your time to repair the power supply. Just replace it.
wow, that's a comment 😍 First, I did read all your words. That's really interesting and amazing to see how skilled you are about these stuffs. In fact, my main goal here was just to clean the computer in a satisfying way. I was inspired but a French TV show "c'est du propre" which was itself inspired by "How Clean is Your House ?" in the UK. I also wanted to add a "restoration TH-cam video" touch as I love that content. I had all of this in mind when I started this channel. So to answer you, there was no deep intent when I published this video. Just wanted to make satisfying content to watch. I didn't even want to upgrade things. Just wanted to make clean a computer I found dirty/dusty and make an as satisfying video as I could with it. With this video a tried something a bit different, because I wanted to try fixing this PSU in a video. But I get what you mean, I really would like to say thank you very much for taking time writing all of this. I hope that my English is not so bad as I'm not an English native speaker and wanted to give you my own words not using a translation tool. Thanks again @laserhawk64 i was answering all the comment I received these 3 last month and kept yours for the end of that task 😉 So hope what I say make sens in English... Frenchies are terrible in English ... 😅 And sorry for this late reply, pretty busy personal and professional life lately 😇
@@french.satisfactory Your English is _far_ better than my French, I promise! Also, I've been to Paris, in what is best described now as another life. You have a lovely country :3 You did quite well -- and it's always good to try new things... and, I enjoy your content. Normally I don't like ASMR, even other channels with a similar theme, but I enjoy yours. I don't know why. But, hey, thank you for the reply, and the videos! Oh, and one other thing... there's no shame in using machine translation. No one person can read and speak every language on Earth, after all...
Why on this pc you put windows 7 and not windows 10 or windows 11. I also had a situation with a p4 motherboard running windows 98 where didn t had any capacitor plague, but when i removed all of the caps, the capacitor juice destroyed the traces on the board
Well, this PC originally had Windows 7 installed on it. So I decided to reinstall it. Removing or replacing capacitors in a computer is quite complicated. I even destroyed two soldering irons while making this video 😅 Ok, I the last time I used a soldering iron was when I was student so... but the guy at the electronics shop told me it's not an easy thing to do, and I agree. I suppose you can clean up this 'capacitor juice,' but I don't have any information about it yet because I haven't encountered it yet. Thank you very much for your comment Mihail! Hope you enjoyed the video ❤️❤️
Didn’t even know about this to be honest. I am using a Mac since years, even if I was the IT guy for 10 years, I stopped to use windows after win7 😅 so thanks for the tip Lorenzo! Hope you enjoyed the video ❤️
hehehe, when I install Linux on a PC, some tell me that I should put Windows and vice versa. So I just decided to put the original OS. But I understand you well Fariem! Thanks for your comment, hope you enjoyed the video ❤️
Well, in this channel I mainly clean/restore computers and gaming consoles, I don't really fix things. In fact, that was the 1st and last time I did it on this video 😅 But thanks for your comment, hope that you enjoyed watching this video ❤️
BTW!! I wanted to send you a PM but wasn't able to do it. Saw that you joined the French Satisfactory Instagram and Facebook accounts. So just wanted to say thank you for your support Nick. Really appreciate ❤️❤️❤️
I stopped the shooting after the windows installation. Didn’t want to catch all the driver install process. Not sure it get interest of viewers. Thank you for your comment byakusharingan! Hope you enjoyed this episode ❤️❤️
Yeah I will for sure clean an Xbox 360. Don’t know when yet, but I will. Just have to find a nice dusty one 😉 Most of the computers I cleaned came from people I know and they still use it today. Some others are computers I found in basements or other places. And nope, I don’t sell them. Thanks for your comment no one! Hope you enjoyed this episode ❤️
@@french.satisfactory bro I've got same problem, kinda, when I upgraded the ram the pc wouldn't turn on and a green light where you have a yellow one. Can you help?
@@french.satisfactory yeah but it did not work I use windows 7 but it crashes on starting windows. I got it to a technician and he installed XP on it. I tried installing 7 but I can't. The green light on the motherboard is still there. I'm stuck on XP.
Да, я понимаю. Это видео было немного особенным, я хотел попробовать что-то другое и показать, как я устраняю проблему и какой путь для этого выбрал. Это первое и единственное видео, которое я сделал таким образом 😅 В итоге не очень удачно получилось. Спасибо за ваш комментарий, @spasitekto.❤️
Cant activate Windows 7 anymore, you can use it like 3 days then it starts to spamm you notifications. Windows 10 is still usable couple more years, trying to activate me some oldies for the lols, have me like 20-30 old retro games on cd rom that can be played offline. Havent used Windows 11 yet, can you even acces it without internet ? Gonna be sad panda when that is the only available OS. Be mindfull on the activation stuff.
oh really? we can't activate win7 anymore? make sense, but didn't even think about that. I didn't use this activation system since years now. I'm using a Mac so even if I was an IT guy for 8 years with Windows computers, to was yeah... years ago 😅
RAM sticks compatibility are the most problem in DELL computers, they have to be the same as preconized by the brand. I have a laptop with corsait and samsung and the samsung freeeze Windows sometimes ! Care also with the quality of SSD Nvme put inside. >This brand is very sensible. Good job otherwise.
Hi Manuel! Well usually I would also just replace the PSU. But I wanted to replace these capacitors for couple of reasons. - Gain skills. The last time I used a soldering iron was when I was student - Sometimes, I have an old PC I want to make a restoration. And it can be difficult to find components. - Some PCs have specific components difficult to find. On this computer I can"t just go to the computer shot and take a random PSU. Dell computer have often specific components. - It makes for me a pretty nice video❤️
Hi Dan, not sure to know what plastic cover you are talking about. Can you give me the time code? Thx for your comment BTW! Hope you enjoyed the video ❤️
Oh you are right, I realised that I forgot it a bit later.I putted it back, but it was too complicated to integrate this part in the video editing without destroy my transitions. So I decided to not add it in the video, but the this plastic part is well back in the PSU 😉 Nice shot! ✌️
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Hi guys! This video is the continuation of a first video where I made a deep cleaning of this computer. It is available here: th-cam.com/video/z0gxK6rmFho/w-d-xo.html
The last time I used a soldering iron was when I was student, and I destroyed two soldering irons while making this video 😅 So really hope you will enjoy guys ❤❤️
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Yea, this was new thingy^^
I need to practise cloning hdd->ssd.
With OS installed and active.
If you find Windows 7 computers that have been activated you could try clone that into a new ssd.
@@gcmanuel85x oh I didn't even see this comment Manuel. Sorry for that. In fact I'm thinking about put a more recent Windows on it. Which one would you recommend?
@@french.satisfactory ERM, Windows 10 32bit maybe? That can be activated.
@@french.satisfactory Was there Windows 10 lite also available ? But if i remember they disabled dvd/bd drive on that...
Very compacted version^^
32bit is for offices and schools, cause games need 64 bit, students wont abuse the computers so hard xD
32bit/64bit is more a processor architecture question isn't it ?
You just gave a new life to old Dell optiplex and also super fast SSD
Yey, I'm pretty happy for this nice Optiplex. Great to know you watched this video Sid! Thank you very much for your fidelity ❤️❤️
Another great video, the fact you fixed the power supply is great. I got like 3 or 4 from those old Dells that needs to be fixed. Great job!
Yey thank you so much DIPPY ❤️❤️ Happy to know you enjoyed this episode 🥰
These old Dell boxes are nigh indestructible. That growly, angry buzzing usually means a CPU or memory problem, which you can pin-point by looking at the lights "1234" and cross referencing their pattern to the service manual. Might be good to know for someone!
Yeah, the thing is, I didn't want to change the RAM with this capacitor issue. I was afraid about that the PSU killed the previous RAM 😅 But as you said, Dell boxes are so great that it was not the case here.
Thanks for your comment ypoora ❤️❤️
Great repair video dude be very careful taking apart an power supply I don't want to see you get hurt
You are so kind ToastyBeard 🥰 Thanks for your comments, thanks to be with me on this channel, thanks for everything ❤️
recapped a f ing power supply your crazy good work 👍
Indeed, very scary to do
Thank you very much The Red Fox ❤️❤️
Thank you for all you comments TheBlueBunny! Every single of them are helping the channel to grow ❤️❤️
@@french.satisfactory i enjoy your videos :)
Awesome you got it working 👍
Yeah! Thank you very much OnlyUsedThreeWords! Happy to know you enjoyed ❤️
Au top comme d'habitude ❤
Yey Merci beaucoup Fury! comme d'habitude ❤️❤️
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I'll leave this video a like. 😉👍
Thank you very much ZMH Gamer ❤️❤️
@@french.satisfactory You're welcome. 😉👍
As usual ❤️❤️
Man good job you did here
Thank you very much Denis! really appreciate ❤️❤️
Replacing capacitors must be scary, but as long as you drain it of power before touch the capacitors you should be fine right?
In fact, the 1st thing you have to do is that, remove the power cable, and turn on the computer without it couple of time. This will normally make empty all the capacitors. Then, you can also check if there is still power in the capacitors by using a un voltmeter ✌️
Nice bro
Thank you very much Dilshan ❤️❤️
Thank you .❤
This is awesome! I wish I would have seen this when my HPs PSU died XD. Oh, btw, did you use caps of the same capacitance as the ones in the PSU? I wound up throwing the PSU away because I only had 3300uF, and I needed 2200uF.
As long as the voltage is the same, you're OK to use caps of higher capacity (uF).
Great to know you enjoyed Volvo240 ❤️ Yes I ordered the same capacity ✌️
Oh didn't know this MarkTheMorose! Thanks for the info ❤️
So it was the RAM, not the PSU recap?
PS. I have an Optiplex 745 that I put way too much into, I went through two replacement motherboards (original dead, first replacement unstable, second one worked), then a Q6600 came up for cheap, and after that, well I had to give it 8GB and a low profile GPU.... Really must decide what to do with it.... Can it run Crysis?
The card I got, R5 240 1GB is probably a bottleneck for a Q6600, but the price was right and it could be Nimezed
Yeah Matthew, it was finally the RAM and not the PSU. But I wanted to fix these capacitors first, because I didn't want this PSU kill other RAM.
I'm not that specialist you would like that kind of answer from to be honest 😅 But I recommend you the TH-camr Andy'sTech. You can join his community on his Discord here: discord.gg/KfST4QFK
I just joined his Discord yesterday also ✌️
Thank you very much Matthew for your comment. Hope you enjoyed the video ❤️❤️
cleaning time
😂 not this time
Normally, the BIOS batteries, the RAM, the power supply, or even the video cards themselves tend to cause problems when it comes to turning on the PC. You have to try each component until you discover the culprit.
yeah I agree, but depends of the issue you have, it could be something more than something else 😉
Thanks for your comment @bazargmusic5301 , I hope that you enjoyed this video ❤️
i always thought dell psus are undestructable , i personaly have a dell from 2004 where it still works
Well, they are for me also. Finally the issue of this computer was the RAM. Even with 5 plagued capacitors, looks like this computer was still running with good RAMs. The thing is, I didn't want the PSU dommage something else that's why I fixed this first.
Thanks for your comment the Fan shelf, hope you enjoyed this episode ❤️
You're right but i guess even these things can be bad sometimes. I actually have this very same computer but with a Core 2 Quad Q9400 and 8GB RAM and Windows 10 still running at work with the original PSU. Old but it still gets everything done
Yeah, I guess we could also say that a good quality computer is also that a computer who can continue to work even if they have some capacitors issue. It is the case here. Maybe even with yours Laur.
Thanks for taking part of this discussion BTW! Hope you enjoyed the video ❤️
I like all you video 😂
Thank you very much for your comment napo it ! So nice to know you enjoy my work ❤️❤️
Et en plus il répare ....... Mais quel BG 😉❤
eheheh. ça faisait une paire d'années que je n'avais pas retouché à un fer à souder... J'ai fait au mieux. Quand je vois CabriDIY maintenant j'ai un peu honte 😂
@@french.satisfactory c'est fonctionnel c'est le principal 😉
Ого, прямо old school - установка OS Win7 c CD. Давно такого не видел.
hehehe, pretty nice memories for me ❤️
New upload!
Yey!!! Hope you will enjoy ❤️❤️
Thank you /.🤩
I believe the problem has to do with the cpu supported ram speed. (AKA Bus Speed)
You see, most E/Duo models support 1066 MHz max. Like the one you used “E7400”
While some Quad cores support up to 1333 MHz max.
I suggest getting a Q6600, it’s very cheap but does the job goodie. However I’m not positive that it will work on your Small factor as all quads only work with Optiflex MT (mini towers). You need to upgrade the priority PSU. But good luck finding something as the same size or smaller!
Weird, I posted an answer days ago but looks like you never received it ?!
Anyway, just wanted to tell you that it was finally just a Ram issue, just had to change it to fix the issue. The capacitors replacements was even useless... I mean to fix this issue.
@@french.satisfactory it’s okay! At least I got to see the insides of power supply and how to fix them, by the way, what capacitors did you use? And how did you know which one goes in what?!
I don't remember what capacitor I used, but you just have to read what is written on it and order one on amazon@@misterhoudi2824 😉
Friendly Neighborhood Nerd here. Capacitor replacement in this day and age has... kind of become a catch-all fix. Be aware that in most cases, this is NOT your issue, electronically speaking. The lone exception would be machines from around the early 2000s -- roughly 2001 or 2002 at the earliest, through 2009 at the _absolute_ latest, and much more realistically, 2003 through 2006 -- when the so-called "capacitor plague" was a thing. These are all Windows XP machines with Pentium 4 CPUs or Celerons based on the Pentium 4. Pentium III systems were too early, and the first Core series systems (Core Solo/Duo CPU) were too late. A _very_ few Pentium M based (very early slim/SFF) desktops _might_ be affected, but by and large it's things like the Dell Optiplex 240 or the Dell Dimension 2400, along with HP Compaq systems of the era (the two companies having _just_ merged) and the very, very earliest Lenovo ThinkCentres (having taken over from IBM in 2004-5), most of which would still have IBM branding on them, as Lenovo was allowed to do that somewhat briefly.
Also, in the realm of vintage computing -- be aware that vintage home computers such as those made by Commodore, Tandy, and even the original IBM gear, were a LOT more rugged and resilient than nearly everything is today, and they had a lot less to break inside as well. If it doesn't boot at first, don't just chalk it up to "well of course not, it's an old computer" -- get online, there are enthusiast communities for almost every machine from that era. If the fix required sounds like something out of your depth, please at least make sure your machine gets into the hands of someone who cares about it and _can_ fix it. Those old systems are precious to those of us who still preserve them. This is likewise true of game console systems of the era. A lot of people, locally, have thrown out Atari 2600 and Commodore gear and seeing that stuff in eWaste recycling bins where you are legally prohibited from rescuing it (the county where I live is in charge of that and gets a kickback from the recycling company) genuinely makes me die a little inside. DON'T BE THE PERSON WHO DOES THAT. Fix it, love it -- or get it to someone else who can and will.
Most of the rest of this was just simple, basic troubleshooting -- reseating RAM, swapping spare parts. A word of advice on the upgrades, though -- if your power supply has bad capacitors, even though it's a proprietary Dell unit, it's probably worth replacing outright at that point... especially if you're going to drop an SSD in there. I would also max out the RAM and get the best reasonably-affordable CPU the system will support (this will depend on BIOS version -- get the newest BIOS from Dell and flash it to the board, first). If you're not going to upgrade RAM and CPU, or bother with replacing the power supply... just drop in a relatively recent 500gb laptop hard drive, one of the mechanical ones; this will actually provide a noticeable speed increase over that creaky old Maxtor, and for an absolute pittance... also, just get a generic 2.5-to-3.5 adapter for the drive off shAmazon or fleaBay, rather than 'splurging' (if you can call it that) even for the cost of the Sabrent -- it's just not worth it, if you're not going the full distance.
That said -- if you DID upgrade all of those things, and you were able to somehow fit a higher-wattage power supply in there, you might also consider dropping in a relatively inexpensive gaming-grade graphics card, something in the $/£/€ 50-100 range. Most cards in that range are actually fairly competent even still today -- you don't need a bleeding-edge card that costs a genuinely princely sum for most games -- and even on the lower end of that, with a CPU and RAM upgrade, and a power supply reasonably able to drive the graphics card, you have a machine that will serve a young teen for several years as a starting games machine, the sort of fellow who's into Call of Duty, Fortnite, Roblox, Minecraft, that sort of thing.
Getting the power supply right is a bit of math, but it's easy -- look up the CPU and what's called the "chipset" on your motherboard (the two biggest chips that aren't the CPU, generally at least one will have a heatsink) and find out their "TDP" rating in watts. Add that together, round up to the nearest roughly ten watts (10w). For every USB2.0 port on the system, add 5w, for every USB3.0 port or USB-C port, add 10w. Find out the TDP of the graphics card, add that on. Add another 2w for every SSD, 5w for spinning laptop drives, 10w for spinning desktop drives like that Maxtor or for CD/DVD drives -- 15w for HDDs and slim/laptop optical drives, or 25w for desktop optical drives, if they're fairly old (from before about 2010 or so). Another 5w for any peripheral cards other than the graphics card (for example, a sound card or a network card... 10w+ if it's a really fancy sound card, like a Sound Blaster Audigy or something... if there's a modem card, you almost certainly can just pull that out and be fine.) Round up to the nearest 5w, and that's your minimum power supply rating. If you can only get a really dodgy power supply... roughly double that final number, sorry.
But if all you're going to drop in is an SSD, it's really not worth your time to repair the power supply. Just replace it.
wow, that's a comment 😍
First, I did read all your words. That's really interesting and amazing to see how skilled you are about these stuffs.
In fact, my main goal here was just to clean the computer in a satisfying way. I was inspired but a French TV show "c'est du propre" which was itself inspired by "How Clean is Your House ?" in the UK. I also wanted to add a "restoration TH-cam video" touch as I love that content. I had all of this in mind when I started this channel.
So to answer you, there was no deep intent when I published this video. Just wanted to make satisfying content to watch. I didn't even want to upgrade things. Just wanted to make clean a computer I found dirty/dusty and make an as satisfying video as I could with it. With this video a tried something a bit different, because I wanted to try fixing this PSU in a video.
But I get what you mean, I really would like to say thank you very much for taking time writing all of this.
I hope that my English is not so bad as I'm not an English native speaker and wanted to give you my own words not using a translation tool.
Thanks again @laserhawk64 i was answering all the comment I received these 3 last month and kept yours for the end of that task 😉
So hope what I say make sens in English... Frenchies are terrible in English ... 😅
And sorry for this late reply, pretty busy personal and professional life lately 😇
@@french.satisfactory Your English is _far_ better than my French, I promise! Also, I've been to Paris, in what is best described now as another life. You have a lovely country :3
You did quite well -- and it's always good to try new things... and, I enjoy your content. Normally I don't like ASMR, even other channels with a similar theme, but I enjoy yours. I don't know why. But, hey, thank you for the reply, and the videos!
Oh, and one other thing... there's no shame in using machine translation. No one person can read and speak every language on Earth, after all...
@@laserhawk64 Thanks a lot @laserhawk64 , really appreciate your word and I'm glad somebody like you enjoy my content ❤❤️
Why on this pc you put windows 7 and not windows 10 or windows 11.
I also had a situation with a p4 motherboard running windows 98 where didn t had any capacitor plague, but when i removed all of the caps, the capacitor juice destroyed the traces on the board
Well, this PC originally had Windows 7 installed on it. So I decided to reinstall it.
Removing or replacing capacitors in a computer is quite complicated. I even destroyed two soldering irons while making this video 😅 Ok, I the last time I used a soldering iron was when I was student so... but the guy at the electronics shop told me it's not an easy thing to do, and I agree.
I suppose you can clean up this 'capacitor juice,' but I don't have any information about it yet because I haven't encountered it yet.
Thank you very much for your comment Mihail! Hope you enjoyed the video ❤️❤️
@@french.satisfactory You can still use original Windows 7 product key to activate Windows 10 or 11
Didn’t even know about this to be honest. I am using a Mac since years, even if I was the IT guy for 10 years, I stopped to use windows after win7 😅 so thanks for the tip Lorenzo! Hope you enjoyed the video ❤️
hehehe, when I install Linux on a PC, some tell me that I should put Windows and vice versa. So I just decided to put the original OS. But I understand you well Fariem! Thanks for your comment, hope you enjoyed the video ❤️
Can u fix black screen problem so make a video ❤
Well, in this channel I mainly clean/restore computers and gaming consoles, I don't really fix things. In fact, that was the 1st and last time I did it on this video 😅
But thanks for your comment, hope that you enjoyed watching this video ❤️
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BTW!! I wanted to send you a PM but wasn't able to do it. Saw that you joined the French Satisfactory Instagram and Facebook accounts. So just wanted to say thank you for your support Nick. Really appreciate ❤️❤️❤️
@@french.satisfactory Cheers mate. you deserve it!
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Windows 7 detected the video card? Normaly it is configured in 800x600
I stopped the shooting after the windows installation. Didn’t want to catch all the driver install process. Not sure it get interest of viewers.
Thank you for your comment byakusharingan! Hope you enjoyed this episode ❤️❤️
Bro can you clean an xbox 360. And bro the computers you clean are yours or you clean other's PCs. And do you keep or sell these?
Yeah I will for sure clean an Xbox 360. Don’t know when yet, but I will. Just have to find a nice dusty one 😉
Most of the computers I cleaned came from people I know and they still use it today. Some others are computers I found in basements or other places. And nope, I don’t sell them.
Thanks for your comment no one! Hope you enjoyed this episode ❤️
@@french.satisfactory You're welcome bro.
@@french.satisfactory bro I've got same problem, kinda, when I upgraded the ram the pc wouldn't turn on and a green light where you have a yellow one. Can you help?
@@noone4649 do you have some bips?
Did you try to put your old RAM back ?
@@french.satisfactory yeah but it did not work I use windows 7 but it crashes on starting windows. I got it to a technician and he installed XP on it. I tried installing 7 but I can't. The green light on the motherboard is still there. I'm stuck on XP.
Обидно когда все собрал а оно не работает и заново надо разбирать
Да, я понимаю. Это видео было немного особенным, я хотел попробовать что-то другое и показать, как я устраняю проблему и какой путь для этого выбрал. Это первое и единственное видео, которое я сделал таким образом 😅 В итоге не очень удачно получилось.
Спасибо за ваш комментарий, @spasitekto.❤️
Cant activate Windows 7 anymore, you can use it like 3 days then it starts to spamm you notifications.
Windows 10 is still usable couple more years, trying to activate me some oldies for the lols, have me like 20-30 old retro games on cd rom that can be played offline.
Havent used Windows 11 yet, can you even acces it without internet ? Gonna be sad panda when that is the only available OS.
Be mindfull on the activation stuff.
oh really? we can't activate win7 anymore? make sense, but didn't even think about that. I didn't use this activation system since years now. I'm using a Mac so even if I was an IT guy for 8 years with Windows computers, to was yeah... years ago 😅
@@french.satisfactory Yea, i cant even get updates passing anymore in windows 7.
Yeah, that make sens for me also. And I was pretty sure about that. But the verification system... come on Microsoft ...
@@french.satisfactory They want you to buy new computer every month^^
Repair not allowed...
Yeah... even if I can imagine how it would be difficult to maintain everything for all windows version lifetime 😅
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Try Windows 11
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RAM sticks compatibility are the most problem in DELL computers, they have to be the same as preconized by the brand.
I have a laptop with corsait and samsung and the samsung freeeze Windows sometimes ! Care also with the quality of SSD Nvme put inside. >This brand is very sensible. Good job otherwise.
Yeah, RAMs are a nightmare with DELL computers 😅
Thank you very much for your comment Laurent! Glad to know you enjoyed this video ❤️❤️
Blody hell man, is this worthy the effort ? I usually just replace the psu by minimum...
Hi Manuel! Well usually I would also just replace the PSU. But I wanted to replace these capacitors for couple of reasons.
- Gain skills. The last time I used a soldering iron was when I was student
- Sometimes, I have an old PC I want to make a restoration. And it can be difficult to find components.
- Some PCs have specific components difficult to find. On this computer I can"t just go to the computer shot and take a random PSU. Dell computer have often specific components.
- It makes for me a pretty nice video❤️
you never put the plastic cover back on the power supl and new it was ram by the sound
Hi Dan, not sure to know what plastic cover you are talking about. Can you give me the time code?
Thx for your comment BTW! Hope you enjoyed the video ❤️
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Oh you are right, I realised that I forgot it a bit later.I putted it back, but it was too complicated to integrate this part in the video editing without destroy my transitions. So I decided to not add it in the video, but the this plastic part is well back in the PSU 😉
Nice shot! ✌️
BTW, when you say "never", you have in mind another video ?
@@french.satisfactory lol no but good job
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Thank you very much @amirthry 😘