This legitimately felt like I was watching a movie. The plot twists and resulting emotions were all too real. Thank you for producing this work of art!
@TheThunderGuyS hey Buddy, I don't know what kind of perfect person you are but I always read comments first. And as for my comment, that was a joke. r/woooosh
From my memory, this looks like a completely typical experience with Packard Bell computers. I never owned one, but I was the neighborhood tech support as a kid. I can't count how many times I've had this exact conversation: "I want to buy a computer. What kind should I get?" "Doesn't matter, just don't buy a Packard Bell." ( days / weeks / months pass ) "I bought a new computer! Can you help me set it up?" "What did you get?" "A Packard Bell!" "😔 This is not going to end well."
Sucks to see your childhood computer give its final swing. I've always believed the soul of a computer lived in the motherboard. May the Legend rest in piece.
you know when 3d printers can make working chips and circuits that's when the fun will start cause then all we have to do is hack into Intel AMD and download the designs for those old 486 or Pentium chips to make our own new retro computers then the fun will start
@@raven4k998 ah yes, "just" hack into 2 multibillion dollar corporation's internal servers to steal architecture design documents. that'll go well and definitely won't lead to whoever does it getting sentenced to decades in prison!
Bruh I was so Worried about you ngl, What happened to you druaga? You can still make the videos even if you run out of ideas and without you, The youtube is gonna be boring for us and Druaga, Thank You for making my Childhood Better and Cool! SO PLEASE COME BACK😭
>Bleeps out "dilk" and then proceeds to drop an f-bomb uncensored xD Also, it looks like some RAM corruption or something as in a previous shot it said "disk."
@@TheDanielHoltHas to be in the bios, how would it show that message if the disk failed. No idea why the message on the disk is necessary then though. Also 8:34 for anyone that wants
@@catsoften The message is store in what is typically the boot sector of the disk. the 8 bit guy did a video about boot sector games and disk messages were part of it.
@@David_Phantom Yeah but it says "or disk failure". If the disk failed how would be able to read the message. Maybe just bad wording for the message on the disk?
The first 512 bytes of any PC-formatted disk contain x86 instructions. It can be as simple as an infinite loop, or it can look for an OS and start loading (like what happens when you format /s or run sys on a floppy.) That's why it's called the boot sector. :-) Depending on what you use to format the disk -- like MS-DOS format, Windows 9x, Linux, WinImage, etc... -- that message will differ. The BIOS itself _does_ have an error message that will be displayed if no bootable devices are found, but it's typically something rather terse like "MISSING OPERATING SYSTEM". As to why it said "dilk" this time.. I agree there's probably something on the motherboard that's just shot. Could be bad RAM, or bad cache, or a failing chipset. You aren't usually going to see contents of a floppy disk being read incorrectly, because there are error checking bits that exist specifically so the disk controller can tell when something went wrong while reading a sector. In the case where that happens, the BIOS services will ask the controller to try again, a couple of times. If not one single attempt comes back completely successful, then it issues an error to DOS, which can try the operation again, or present you with the "some kind of error reading drive A: (A)bort, (R)etry, (F)ail" message. This is really important, because silent errors while reading binary data off the disk could lead to wildly unpredictable behavior. So it's better to either fully succeed, or fully fail. For this reason, you're almost never ever going to see a one-byte corruption caused by the floppy drive / disk mechanism. So either the contents got corrupted in-flight on the motherboard somewhere, or someone edited the boot sector message and wrote a wrong, but completely valid sector back to the disk.
It legit made me sad to see the original Ultimate DOS Machine break, that's the video that brought me to you, I actually teared up a little. As a computer guy, it's always sad to see such an old trooper just poof like that. I really do wonder what actually happened, I wonder if a chip failed?
I've been listening to that album Everywhere at the end of time, and I'm not gonna lie, I drew a *lot* of parallels from that "in memorium" montage to the Packard Bell. The early nostalgia, the "revisited" with little hiccups, coming back from storage with progressively more glitches and hiccups, until this final glimpse of lucidity before succumbing to death. I don't know why I'm so emotionally attached to this random motherboard, but shit, I feel like I'm gonna cry for its loss now. The original "Ultimate DOS Machine" video is probably what got most of us here to begin with, so it almost feels like part of my childhood is now lost.
8:38 That is not the BIOS that has a typo, its the little boot code thing on the floppy disk that contains that text. You can see earlier in the video that the previous floppy he had inserted didnt have the typo.
Congratulations dude. I only ever heard "welcome to packard bell navigator" because I turned off or uninstalled that stuff from my first PC as soon as I could. Also, frankly I am amazed that board still works after everything it has been through.
I used to call mine "Packard Hell" because i literally had an issue either every day or every week. No matter how many HDD or any other drives i had to replace, it sucked. Still a great piece of history!
My friend used to call my ancient Packard bell, Packard Hell or Packed in Hell lol. The irony is they I never had a problem with Mine, it was a legend something. I know it has a pentium 75mhz, 8 megabytes of Ram, 850 megabyte hard drive and a 2x CD ROM drive, and it came preloaded with windows 3.11
Other people mentioned that the old board could just need new capacitors, but I'm wondering if it might just be the onboard graphics? They've been off-color for a while (even as far back as the Windows 2 vid) so maybe see if another card gets it booting again? Or failing that, maybe ring up AkBkUkU like someone else mentioned and see if he can't fix it up possibly.
My first computer was a Windows XP Pentium 4 from the era 2002 and button A Gadda motherboard failure and 2014 what's I cried when I was only six cuz that's a computer that I played my favorite games on like Minecraft and Mario X and online games website Coolmath and ABCya and Kizi and zoo tycoon 2
Watching this while im waiting for disk cleanup to actually complete.. 30 mins in to the video but 6 hours in to the disk cleanup. You are still winning.
Dude I was doing the same thing tinkering with older computers starting around 2003 salvaging old parts from garage sale PCs and my uncle gave me a Packardbell vertical case with the motherboard flat on the base it had windows 95. I remember upgrading it to Windows 98 with an upgrade cd i had. All your videos remind me of all the times I had playing around and tinkering with the parts I had 🤣😂 My dad always nagged about the games we had slowing the new family Presario my dad got Christmas 99. The struggle was real with one computer for house of 6 so I started building my own😄I got a lot of help with my friend's dad who lived across the street had an IT Tech job. They had a whole computer lab in the basement for the family. I didn't care if my PCs I managed to salvage together didn't have dial-up internet access. I had more fun tinkering around and or playing PS1/2 N64 on my Macintosh Performa tower pc, similar to a few I've seen in your videos with a TV tuner+Svideo capture card😂 I paid $20 back in the day and now i wish i held on to it, but yea had to let go of a lot of old hardware i had. The oldest I hang onto now is 775 and or 771 mods 👌, A quicksilver/chrome Mac G4, and an HP Pavilion with Windows ME
I still have hopes of the Packard Bell motherboard seeing the light of day again... Although the chances are slim I don't feel like it could've died just like that :(
The computer Gods to me are always like no here here you're having trouble installing Minecraft mods okay will give you more trouble installing Minecraft mods and then they try to give Mia virus
I was renting to own a Packard bell years ago that's pretty similar, mine I think was the 814CD. Just seeing a similar case brings back a lot of memories.
The old navigator that you were showing was the exact same one that was on my old Packard bell from early 1995. I'm trying to recreate the Packard bell I had to varying degrees of success lol
Our first PC was a Packard Bell 486sx2/50Mhz based computer. The restore CD has software meant for many different computer on it. Turns out if you study the directory layout on that CD, you can just copy over quite a bit of software meant for most expensive PCs. "Free" software from PB!
OMG I love these Packard Bells. My first computer I ever used was a 406CD with Windows 95, but it indeed only had a single 5.25 bay and looked basically just like this!
I miss these videos so much duruaga your literally my favorite yt channel this shits so good when your high as fuck and I love doing the same kind of shit so this really speaks to my soul lmao
I hope someone recreates the navigator room for windows mixed reality. That would be awesome. Also, RIP motherboard. Probably not the case, but it could just be something as simple as bad capacitors. Maybe Akbkuku could fix it?
Honestly. I can't imagine what losing your childhood mobo is like. I never was given the opportunity to keep mine. The only thing I have that's close to that is a spec sheet from when my dad had a boutique PC maker called Dragon Computers build the thing. I'm the kind of person to be sentimental and the fact that you were able to recreate your childhood experience must've felt amazing. like you said, "I'm home!" that's a very legitimate and validating feeling. I recently broke out some old CDs from my childhood and it's amazing to my surprise the games ran perfectly on windows 10. it felt like that same nostalgic completing feeling, "I'm home." God bless you amazing legend. And yeah booting up those old CDs, "I don't remember being able to read that, the last time I saw that." I felt that.
Great vid. We had the same first computer. That navigation page took me way back to a time in my life I completely forgot. All the kids space stuff brought back memories that otherwise were completely gone from my mind. I’m grateful you are willing to share your talent with the world.
Kek the typo in the error message. Though those are stored on the floppy itself, meaning that this typo being there might aswell been further proof of the fact that the floppy was indeed corrupted/broken.
My first computer ( and the only OEM computer ive had since, build my own ever since then ) Was a PB legend 10CD. A few days ago I found a really nice example of a 10CD and bought it on the spot. I will be going through this tomorrow night lol Great footage :)
A Packard Bell Legend 486 with Windows 3.11 was my first home computer. Such good/bad memories from that one. I did love one of the games it came with 3D Dinosaur Adventure, and the kidspace portion of Packard Bell Navigator. Hope you do a tour video showing off all the software that came with it.
See what you guys don’t understand is Packard bells are notorious for failures it’s not that they were bad machines but at a time where people wanted an affordable computer that was cheap and reliable Packard Bell e machines and so many others showed up. What makes Packard Bell’s notorious for failure and what you never want to do to them is connect them to a network it turns out that several of their machines have a firmware on their lan devices that allows viruses to be attracted to the machine like a cop in a donut factory this is how in the early 90s we ended up with the notorious monkey b virus spreading among computers because a lot of these machines were Packard Bell‘s Packard Bell‘s got the nickname virus sucker back in the day the recommendation came from a lot of computer repair shops back in the day do not connect them to the Internet leave them off-line which still stands true today. Sadly these machines had amazing design and functionality but with the notorious failure rate due to viruses malware spyware And even hardware failure lead it down a dark spiral of hell Sadly the machines were built so cheaply in fact that even some 486 overdrive processors that jacked the machine up to 100 MHz would actually cause the machine to malfunction it’s the strangest computer you will ever work on it will decide I don’t like you fail to boot from floppy disk It will then decide I’m not going to boot from this hard drive it Has to be this model I’m not going to accept this new ram it Has to be this ram and the list goes on and on and on at least be glad you did not try to do it on a gateway 2000 Because gateways especially the 486 variety have a battery pack with four AA batteries in it when that battery pack fails your keyboard stops working yes this isn’t a CMOS battery this is a keyboard clock battery and win that battery dies you can’t just replace them you have to reset the keyboard clock and the only person that could do it was a gateway 2000 service tech. So I do applaud you sir for taking on the nightmare that is Packard Bell bravo
I feel your pain.. I have always felt the callings of my former computer life.. I started with a thrift store IBM 8088.. I pieced together every computer since :) You can still use those 4gig CF cards... Just find an old partition tool (maybe OG HBCD) Format it 512 leave the rest unallocated.. But it might be possible to make muti-boot partitions @ 512 use that same tool to make them each "active" @ your choice so you can Muti boot old OS's ;)
Dang this was my first family computer as well. I have vivid memories of exploring all the CD ROMs it came with when I was like 4 or 5 years old. We had the matching monitor.
The very last time that I ever saw a Packard Bell being sold new was when I was looking at the computers in Walmart back in Summer of 1997. Seems like after 1997, I haven't seen anymore new. The one Walmart had at the time has something like a 166 mhz Pentium CPU with 16 mb ram and a 2.1 gb hard drive and Windows 95.
Back when I first started in computers. I saw more than one of those show up. It had a lovely modem / sound card combo that would die. I think it was mostly the modem portion of it. But in any case you could not disable one or the other. Thus, if you wanted to upgrade your modem, sound card or it died. You got the pleasure of upgrading 2 cards and costing more money.
I have a Packard Bell 204CD(basically the same case) with a 486 that I need to restore, but what you went through there is my worst fear. Also surprised your board boots with a bad cmos battery, thought those were one of those deals where if the battery is dead it resets the cmos every time it starts... oh well, cool to see it running!
Wow, I honestly sympathized with your pain and frustration. This is exactly like my ADHD ass trying to install Windows on an old system. It takes days, I'm all over the place, and usually, I give up for a week only to try again. I, too, swear the whole time.
My first _ever_ pc? have to narrow that down. Sure, toyed with and used Tandy 1000's and Apple II's in school for days on end. First family pc was a Gateway with an early Pentium 3 and a 3dfx Voodoo 3. Hard to believe how based that system was. My own _personal_ first pc was another Gateway, with a Slot Athlon, and a pre-geforce nvidia card. Let's just say... the only component of it that didn't need to be replaced within those first two years of ownership, was the floppy drive. Motherboard, monitor, multiple hard drive failures, everything about it went bad. And it was such a nightmare to transition to first "built" machine. As such, I have more nostalgia over the games, than I ever did for the OS environment it was on. That's why, when it came time to build the most retro machine I was willing to put up with, I wanted to go as overkill for the environment as possible. To get hardware that was on the tail end of what still had working Win9x drivers. That way, if there _was_ any bottlenecks going on, it wouldn't be in the hardware, but in the software. And channels like yours, are an influence into why I decided to be that level of mad lad. tl;dr - Congrats on reviving your build. Thank you for what you've done, and know that you had a hand in inspiring my own affinity towards these builds. :)
regarding the out of space message, it might simply be due to having a disk image that's bigger than expected. The 16-bit disk api wouldn't have done well with a 2 gig or greater image.
The god of SSDs and weed has posted a 1hr long video. Let's all enjoy this beautiful moment.
These used to be regular occurrences so we took them for granted.
0 dislikes. as it should be.
He inspired me to put an SSD in my Windows 98 machine. Drauga is a hero
Fellow protogen, no way.
@@Marzsala I’m no furry but it’s always cool seeing furrys in a comment section that is not a furry channel.
Thanks for being who you guys are!
This legitimately felt like I was watching a movie. The plot twists and resulting emotions were all too real. Thank you for producing this work of art!
Hi cs188!
wasn't expecting to see you here...
mmm
druaga1 ytp confirmed?
This paap beeb has twice the haah drird saas.
@@BackroomsSlayer that's exactly what we need in our lives
@@cominturismoengineer4012 Yeaaeyy
An hour long Druaga1 video
We've truly been blessed by the weed gods
well it took him a year to make this video so you owe him to watch the whole hour long video it's your duty and mine to watch it
What was once common is now a blessing
Dumb me
The ending broke my heart :(
RIP Packard Bell board, perhaps it'll join my old PB computer in computer heaven...
F in the chat
Press F to pay respects
ALSO: what if I get the case and turn it into something awesome.. like my digital DEC PC project
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Hopefully my Pentium D'elinquent is up there somewhere still heating things up lol
It's like I lost a brother😭
@TheThunderGuyS hey Buddy, I don't know what kind of perfect person you are but I always read comments first. And as for my comment, that was a joke. r/woooosh
From my memory, this looks like a completely typical experience with Packard Bell computers. I never owned one, but I was the neighborhood tech support as a kid. I can't count how many times I've had this exact conversation:
"I want to buy a computer. What kind should I get?"
"Doesn't matter, just don't buy a Packard Bell."
( days / weeks / months pass )
"I bought a new computer! Can you help me set it up?"
"What did you get?"
"A Packard Bell!"
"😔 This is not going to end well."
this floppy is cursed your camera to go out of focus when it sees it every time🤣😂🤣
I miss you man and hope you're doing well. Great video as always.
is this your happy place?
@@raven4k998 this is my happy place
Sucks to see your childhood computer give its final swing. I've always believed the soul of a computer lived in the motherboard. May the Legend rest in piece.
you know when 3d printers can make working chips and circuits that's when the fun will start cause then all we have to do is hack into Intel AMD and download the designs for those old 486 or Pentium chips to make our own new retro computers then the fun will start
@@raven4k998 ah yes, "just" hack into 2 multibillion dollar corporation's internal servers to steal architecture design documents. that'll go well and definitely won't lead to whoever does it getting sentenced to decades in prison!
“wake up babe new druaga1 upload”
I thought Druaga1 had left us but it turns out he had just been working on this hour long masterpiece!
And then he left us again! He hasn’t uploaded since this video
@@YeOldeGeezer When the king returns I shall stop all my current tasks and enjoy the greatest video of the year.
"We got bootable floppys for days boizzzzz!" That made my day way more than it should have :D
banana's in pyjamas
8:52 for everyone, who wants to re-experience it
Wake up chief. I need you
I loved every second. And, the tribute at the end was just heart wrenchingly beautiful!
don't just milk it enjoy it🤣
Bruh I was so Worried about you ngl, What happened to you druaga? You can still make the videos even if you run out of ideas and without you, The youtube is gonna be boring for us and Druaga, Thank You for making my Childhood Better and Cool! SO PLEASE COME BACK😭
help him out with new ideas it's hard to think things up and he needs your help to make new videos
I watched half of this 5 months ago. Now I found time to watch the other half of this hell.
Happy 420, smokers
>Bleeps out "dilk" and then proceeds to drop an f-bomb uncensored xD
Also, it looks like some RAM corruption or something as in a previous shot it said "disk."
Actually, if I remember right, that text is actually stored on the disk somehow. It's written to the disk as part of the format process.
@@TheDanielHoltHas to be in the bios, how would it show that message if the disk failed. No idea why the message on the disk is necessary then though. Also 8:34 for anyone that wants
@@catsoften The message is store in what is typically the boot sector of the disk. the 8 bit guy did a video about boot sector games and disk messages were part of it.
@@David_Phantom Yeah but it says "or disk failure". If the disk failed how would be able to read the message. Maybe just bad wording for the message on the disk?
The first 512 bytes of any PC-formatted disk contain x86 instructions. It can be as simple as an infinite loop, or it can look for an OS and start loading (like what happens when you format /s or run sys on a floppy.) That's why it's called the boot sector. :-)
Depending on what you use to format the disk -- like MS-DOS format, Windows 9x, Linux, WinImage, etc... -- that message will differ. The BIOS itself _does_ have an error message that will be displayed if no bootable devices are found, but it's typically something rather terse like "MISSING OPERATING SYSTEM".
As to why it said "dilk" this time.. I agree there's probably something on the motherboard that's just shot. Could be bad RAM, or bad cache, or a failing chipset.
You aren't usually going to see contents of a floppy disk being read incorrectly, because there are error checking bits that exist specifically so the disk controller can tell when something went wrong while reading a sector. In the case where that happens, the BIOS services will ask the controller to try again, a couple of times. If not one single attempt comes back completely successful, then it issues an error to DOS, which can try the operation again, or present you with the "some kind of error reading drive A: (A)bort, (R)etry, (F)ail" message.
This is really important, because silent errors while reading binary data off the disk could lead to wildly unpredictable behavior. So it's better to either fully succeed, or fully fail. For this reason, you're almost never ever going to see a one-byte corruption caused by the floppy drive / disk mechanism. So either the contents got corrupted in-flight on the motherboard somewhere, or someone edited the boot sector message and wrote a wrong, but completely valid sector back to the disk.
7 months and counting... when are you coming back man?
I miss you Ian, I we want more wacky old computer stuff again!
It legit made me sad to see the original Ultimate DOS Machine break, that's the video that brought me to you, I actually teared up a little. As a computer guy, it's always sad to see such an old trooper just poof like that. I really do wonder what actually happened, I wonder if a chip failed?
And most likely yea chip burnt out /quit for other reasons or solder cracked disconnecting stuff that was important
I've been listening to that album Everywhere at the end of time, and I'm not gonna lie, I drew a *lot* of parallels from that "in memorium" montage to the Packard Bell. The early nostalgia, the "revisited" with little hiccups, coming back from storage with progressively more glitches and hiccups, until this final glimpse of lucidity before succumbing to death. I don't know why I'm so emotionally attached to this random motherboard, but shit, I feel like I'm gonna cry for its loss now. The original "Ultimate DOS Machine" video is probably what got most of us here to begin with, so it almost feels like part of my childhood is now lost.
8:38 That is not the BIOS that has a typo, its the little boot code thing on the floppy disk that contains that text. You can see earlier in the video that the previous floppy he had inserted didnt have the typo.
Also it's a L not an I
that looks EXACTLY like the first PC my family had. same keyboard, mouse, OS, bloatware and everything!
It was my family's computer for a very long time
That reminds me of Windows 10 cuz Windows 10 gives you blow where
Congratulations dude. I only ever heard "welcome to packard bell navigator" because I turned off or uninstalled that stuff from my first PC as soon as I could. Also, frankly I am amazed that board still works after everything it has been through.
Hearing you have a nostalgia rush at the end was Heartwarming. Good video Thanks for sharing
Everyone watches the video see HOW Druaga1 factory restores an ancient Packard Bell machine, but no one stops to ask WHY he is doing it.
Damn man, I miss your videos. Come back to the internets, please.
druaga1 still ok? Check
1 hour long druaga1 video? Check
Perfect Sunday combination!
Rip my man
I used to call mine "Packard Hell" because i literally had an issue either every day or every week. No matter how many HDD or any other drives i had to replace, it sucked. Still a great piece of history!
Same goes for my 98 machine
Vfat error today, regsvr error tommorow, SATA port dies the day after that
My friend used to call my ancient Packard bell, Packard Hell or Packed in Hell lol.
The irony is they I never had a problem with Mine, it was a legend something. I know it has a pentium 75mhz, 8 megabytes of Ram, 850 megabyte hard drive and a 2x CD ROM drive, and it came preloaded with windows 3.11
Happy 420
I had this computer when i was growing up. This brought back so many memories.
so I watched all your videos for the 2dn time.. where are you? Hope you are OK. please let us know.
Other people mentioned that the old board could just need new capacitors, but I'm wondering if it might just be the onboard graphics? They've been off-color for a while (even as far back as the Windows 2 vid) so maybe see if another card gets it booting again?
Or failing that, maybe ring up AkBkUkU like someone else mentioned and see if he can't fix it up possibly.
buy one of those diagnostic cards and see what codes it shows
I was definitely thinking graphics.
That Packard Bell case brings back fond memories, mine was identical but had a 486 DX4 inside :)
Inhale deeply and hold it in as long as you can, boys.
that narrator voice is the half-life transit system voice!!!
My first computer was a Packard Bell from this era. May God bless you.
My first computer was a Windows XP Pentium 4 from the era 2002 and button A Gadda motherboard failure and 2014 what's I cried when I was only six cuz that's a computer that I played my favorite games on like Minecraft and Mario X and online games website Coolmath and ABCya and Kizi and zoo tycoon 2
Its been 84 years!
Watching this while im waiting for disk cleanup to actually complete.. 30 mins in to the video but 6 hours in to the disk cleanup. You are still winning.
Hope your doing well
Dude I was doing the same thing tinkering with older computers starting around 2003 salvaging old parts from garage sale PCs and my uncle gave me a Packardbell vertical case with the motherboard flat on the base it had windows 95. I remember upgrading it to Windows 98 with an upgrade cd i had. All your videos remind me of all the times I had playing around and tinkering with the parts I had 🤣😂
My dad always nagged about the games we had slowing the new family Presario my dad got Christmas 99. The struggle was real with one computer for house of 6 so I started building my own😄I got a lot of help with my friend's dad who lived across the street had an IT Tech job. They had a whole computer lab in the basement for the family. I didn't care if my PCs I managed to salvage together didn't have dial-up internet access. I had more fun tinkering around and or playing PS1/2 N64 on my Macintosh Performa tower pc, similar to a few I've seen in your videos with a TV tuner+Svideo capture card😂 I paid $20 back in the day and now i wish i held on to it, but yea had to let go of a lot of old hardware i had. The oldest I hang onto now is 775 and or 771 mods 👌, A quicksilver/chrome Mac G4, and an HP Pavilion with Windows ME
That ending really hit my memories hard😰😰
I still have hopes of the Packard Bell motherboard seeing the light of day again... Although the chances are slim I don't feel like it could've died just like that :(
When I opened the "Emulated Packard bell in DosBox(playable in browser)" link, it showed me that it had 420 views. God bless yall smokers out there
Yes the computer gods have heard us, and an 1 hour video has been blessed on us.
thumbs up cause I agree with you
The computer Gods to me are always like no here here you're having trouble installing Minecraft mods okay will give you more trouble installing Minecraft mods and then they try to give Mia virus
Damn the lighting has been improved.
I was renting to own a Packard bell years ago that's pretty similar, mine I think was the 814CD. Just seeing a similar case brings back a lot of memories.
Did you finally pay it off?
@@MediocreTCG no, but it wasn't due to not being able to pay, But the attitude of the employees, I told them to stick it.
The old navigator that you were showing was the exact same one that was on my old Packard bell from early 1995. I'm trying to recreate the Packard bell I had to varying degrees of success lol
Bruh, I just came back to watch the windows 2 series for the 10th time, and i was greeted by beauty.
Our first PC was a Packard Bell 486sx2/50Mhz based computer. The restore CD has software meant for many different computer on it. Turns out if you study the directory layout on that CD, you can just copy over quite a bit of software meant for most expensive PCs. "Free" software from PB!
i have waited long for this moment. let us rejoice smokers
13:08 that's exactly the druaga1 i signed for.
41:21 casually drops a package with ORIGINAL PRESERVED MOTHERBOARD OH MY FUCKING GOD IS THIS GUY KIDDING OR SOME SHIT 🤣🤣🤣
Ah I searched the channel for the first time in a while and I'm happy to see you're still around
OMG I love these Packard Bells. My first computer I ever used was a 406CD with Windows 95, but it indeed only had a single 5.25 bay and looked basically just like this!
I miss these videos so much duruaga your literally my favorite yt channel this shits so good when your high as fuck and I love doing the same kind of shit so this really speaks to my soul lmao
I hope someone recreates the navigator room for windows mixed reality. That would be awesome. Also, RIP motherboard. Probably not the case, but it could just be something as simple as bad capacitors. Maybe Akbkuku could fix it?
Or Ben Heck... Or Adrian with his digital basement
@@adventureoflinkmk2 but isn't Akbkuku his bro?
@@Ccoolty I dunno
I never heard of this
He has returned, An Amazing video and classic Druaga1. Was well worth the wait
i love how you are still rocking the same watch
"THE XSERVE'S BLAZIN IT TOO!!!" Just randomly popped into my head while watching
Always love your videos guy, thanks for uploading
Amazing video, thank you for posting Druaga, actually teared up a bit for this.
Honestly. I can't imagine what losing your childhood mobo is like. I never was given the opportunity to keep mine. The only thing I have that's close to that is a spec sheet from when my dad had a boutique PC maker called Dragon Computers build the thing. I'm the kind of person to be sentimental and the fact that you were able to recreate your childhood experience must've felt amazing. like you said, "I'm home!" that's a very legitimate and validating feeling. I recently broke out some old CDs from my childhood and it's amazing to my surprise the games ran perfectly on windows 10. it felt like that same nostalgic completing feeling, "I'm home." God bless you amazing legend.
And yeah booting up those old CDs, "I don't remember being able to read that, the last time I saw that." I felt that.
One of my DosBox Windows 3x machine projects went this "well" when I was still a dosbox newbie lol
Thank you for this behemoth of a video/project!
It's truly a great piece of art
Great vid. We had the same first computer. That navigation page took me way back to a time in my life I completely forgot. All the kids space stuff brought back memories that otherwise were completely gone from my mind. I’m grateful you are willing to share your talent with the world.
We miss you please return to existence lol
There is this thing called real life :space_broom:
Thank you captain obvious
4/20 and no druaga video :::::(((((
pls return :(
i'm waiting for more SSD and 420 action
The Packard Bell motherboard joins Club 27. RIP. 😢
My first was a 386 Acer. I’d like to find another. Its SB pro sound card got me hooked on midi for life
Hi druaga, smoker here, I miss you a lot, hope you are doing well :D
I just got done playing 11 hours of a game, this is the best way to relax.
hey phone connect to wifi
Wow, what a ride this Video was. Amazing! Was worth every minute!
Great to see you again Drauga! I've been inactive for awhile. Ahhh I love me an old Packard Bell. Grabbing a snack and a brew for this one!
Kek the typo in the error message. Though those are stored on the floppy itself, meaning that this typo being there might aswell been further proof of the fact that the floppy was indeed corrupted/broken.
RIP old board, you did great
My first computer ( and the only OEM computer ive had since, build my own ever since then ) Was a PB legend 10CD. A few days ago I found a really nice example of a 10CD and bought it on the spot. I will be going through this tomorrow night lol Great footage :)
Who the hell didn't have a under monitor power strip back in the 90s? Those things were a mandatory accessory.
I used to work for Dixon's Store Group in the UK. We used to support the early pentium PB models. So many, so so many horror stories.
MEGARACE! That was my first CD-ROM game. Loved it. The controls are A, Z, comma, period and space bar. :-) Super intuitive... For the developers!
please come back man, love your videos
A Packard Bell Legend 486 with Windows 3.11 was my first home computer. Such good/bad memories from that one. I did love one of the games it came with 3D Dinosaur Adventure, and the kidspace portion of Packard Bell Navigator. Hope you do a tour video showing off all the software that came with it.
See what you guys don’t understand is Packard bells are notorious for failures it’s not that they were bad machines but at a time where people wanted an affordable computer that was cheap and reliable Packard Bell e machines and so many others showed up.
What makes Packard Bell’s notorious for failure and what you never want to do to them is connect them to a network it turns out that several of their machines have a firmware on their lan devices that allows viruses to be attracted to the machine like a cop in a donut factory this is how in the early 90s we ended up with the notorious monkey b virus spreading among computers because a lot of these machines were Packard Bell‘s Packard Bell‘s got the nickname virus sucker back in the day the recommendation came from a lot of computer repair shops back in the day do not connect them to the Internet leave them off-line which still stands true today.
Sadly these machines had amazing design and functionality but with the notorious failure rate due to viruses malware spyware And even hardware failure lead it down a dark spiral of hell Sadly the machines were built so cheaply in fact that even some 486 overdrive processors that jacked the machine up to 100 MHz would actually cause the machine to malfunction it’s the strangest computer you will ever work on it will decide I don’t like you fail to boot from floppy disk It will then decide I’m not going to boot from this hard drive it Has to be this model I’m not going to accept this new ram it Has to be this ram and the list goes on and on and on at least be glad you did not try to do it on a gateway 2000
Because gateways especially the 486 variety have a battery pack with four AA batteries in it when that battery pack fails your keyboard stops working yes this isn’t a CMOS battery this is a keyboard clock battery and win that battery dies you can’t just replace them you have to reset the keyboard clock and the only person that could do it was a gateway 2000 service tech.
So I do applaud you sir for taking on the nightmare that is Packard Bell bravo
Haven't even pressed play yet, already hit like and am commenting now for that love & support. We've missed ya Ian, welcome back man
I feel your pain.. I have always felt the callings of my former computer life.. I started with a thrift store IBM 8088.. I pieced together every computer since :) You can still use those 4gig CF cards... Just find an old partition tool (maybe OG HBCD) Format it 512 leave the rest unallocated.. But it might be possible to make muti-boot partitions @ 512 use that same tool to make them each "active" @ your choice so you can Muti boot old OS's ;)
R.I.P. The Ultimate DOS Machine, dead, but never forgotten.
Dang this was my first family computer as well. I have vivid memories of exploring all the CD ROMs it came with when I was like 4 or 5 years old. We had the matching monitor.
That Matsushita-Kotobuki driver is the old Panasonic proprietary driver for their non-IDE drives.
These are a classic case design for sure
The very last time that I ever saw a Packard Bell being sold new was when I was looking at the computers in Walmart back in Summer of 1997. Seems like after 1997, I haven't seen anymore new. The one Walmart had at the time has something like a 166 mhz Pentium CPU with 16 mb ram and a 2.1 gb hard drive and Windows 95.
I almost missed this :( good to see a new video from Druaga1 though
Back when I first started in computers. I saw more than one of those show up. It had a lovely modem / sound card combo that would die. I think it was mostly the modem portion of it. But in any case you could not disable one or the other. Thus, if you wanted to upgrade your modem, sound card or it died. You got the pleasure of upgrading 2 cards and costing more money.
hoping youre okay :(
Druaga doesn't make his videos often, but when he does they are 1+ hour long! Sometimes ;)
Glad to see you are well!
party time woot hoot
I have a Packard Bell 204CD(basically the same case) with a 486 that I need to restore, but what you went through there is my worst fear. Also surprised your board boots with a bad cmos battery, thought those were one of those deals where if the battery is dead it resets the cmos every time it starts... oh well, cool to see it running!
Wow, I honestly sympathized with your pain and frustration. This is exactly like my ADHD ass trying to install Windows on an old system. It takes days, I'm all over the place, and usually, I give up for a week only to try again. I, too, swear the whole time.
18:20 That. That is an impressive fuckup. I don’t think even I could top that.
8:37 that message is not from the BIOS, it's from the floppy disk
My first _ever_ pc? have to narrow that down. Sure, toyed with and used Tandy 1000's and Apple II's in school for days on end. First family pc was a Gateway with an early Pentium 3 and a 3dfx Voodoo 3. Hard to believe how based that system was.
My own _personal_ first pc was another Gateway, with a Slot Athlon, and a pre-geforce nvidia card. Let's just say... the only component of it that didn't need to be replaced within those first two years of ownership, was the floppy drive. Motherboard, monitor, multiple hard drive failures, everything about it went bad. And it was such a nightmare to transition to first "built" machine.
As such, I have more nostalgia over the games, than I ever did for the OS environment it was on.
That's why, when it came time to build the most retro machine I was willing to put up with, I wanted to go as overkill for the environment as possible. To get hardware that was on the tail end of what still had working Win9x drivers. That way, if there _was_ any bottlenecks going on, it wouldn't be in the hardware, but in the software.
And channels like yours, are an influence into why I decided to be that level of mad lad.
tl;dr - Congrats on reviving your build. Thank you for what you've done, and know that you had a hand in inspiring my own affinity towards these builds. :)
regarding the out of space message, it might simply be due to having a disk image that's bigger than expected. The 16-bit disk api wouldn't have done well with a 2 gig or greater image.