Building 486DX4-100 Retro PC desktop computer
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ต.ค. 2024
- The idea was to build my first 80486 computer for Doom LAN parties in my retro basement. Two more slightly more powerful computers are coming soon.
Specs:
Motherboard: Chicony CH-498B Rev.3.0 L2 cache: 256KB
CPU: Intel 80486DX4-100 SK096 L1 cache: 16KB write-back
RAM: 48MB
HDD: 8.4GB EIDE
Video card: CIRRUS LOGIC CL-5429 VRAM: 2MB
I/O card: Promise EIDE2300 Plus
Network card: 3COM 3C509 ETHERLINK III
Sound card: Creative Sound Blaster 16 CT2910
Keyboard: BTC-5339
Monitor: Zenith Data Systems ZCM-1495
Speakers: Creative Labs SBS20
Mouse: Artec AM820
Battery for CMOS: a.co/d/0nNsZMR
Motherboard tester: a.co/d/g3VUDny
Case badge stickers: geekenspiel.com
Playing Doom 2
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My very first system back in MAR '96 as a b-day present to myself....... 486DX4-100mhz / 8mb edo / 850mb hdd / 1mb pci vc / 4x cdrom / isa sound card / isa modem, along with a 14" crt monitor, at kb, serial 3button mouse, generic speakers and an AT tower case. It only came with DOS6.22 and i paid $1200 shipped for it through computer shopper, borrowed a friends copy of win3.11, used that for a while till i bought a copy of WIN95, the 14 floppy disk version, also played doom/doom2 as well as duke nukem 3d on it. Good Times
Mine was an old 386 SX 16 with 512Kb ram, CGA Graphics which I upgraded to EGA graphics
Building PC’s was a real pain in those days all the jumpers to set was crazy and the system never posted for the first few attempts, had smoke a few times and add on cards for everything. Its so easy these days.
The younger generation has no idea! Setting IRQ values and interrupts,, motherboard jumper settings and the old DOS autoexec.bat and config.sys files! The fact that these systems are still around and still functional is a testimony to those who came before us when things weren't quite so "disposable"
speak for yourself I know more then u
@@hashmaticmining5589 I'm sure you do!
i agree.... i bought a used tower at a local shop... had a cyrix in it... had some issue.... random booting... i bought a used epox board and a p200mmx... played a lot of command and conquer on it... my brother-in-law set it up so each player had access to both sides tech... it was fun watching tesla towers fry infantry
Figuring how to put the parts together is 30% of the hassle, the remaining 70% is making them play nice together 🙂
@@SOWA85 Absolutely right! And sometime you need the patience of a martyred saint to do so.
Nice build 😊
But if I were you, I’d place the SB16 in the bottom slot rather than close to the power supply. Sound cards of that era are quite sensitive to electromagnetic noise.
Ah the days of jumper settings, resource conflicts and finding the exact patch you need to play your game with your particular graphics card using a dial up modem only to have someone in the house pick up the phone and start trying to dial out, killing your download, with no resume function, that already took an hour. Shareware floppy disks and magazine CDs. Going back even further, an entire game's code printed in a Commodore magazine for you to copy into basic and run. It's awesome seeing all this become retro and a community grown up around it, young and old.
dreamed of such a computer in the mid-90s
Good assembly and good components, a computer for a lot of fun. 👑
I'm super involved with bits'n'bytes since 1985, programming or not. This video brings me such good feelings! 😁 The time was beautifully slower back in the days...
Nice work on the build, even using some new old stock parts!
this takes me back when i used to build 286 386 486 desktops
You definitely worked hard on that setup.
Those old at connectors bring back memories.
i just did the same thing earlier
Mobo: PCChips M912 V1.7 w/ 256K L2 Cache
CPU: AMD 80486DX4-100
RAM: 32 MB FPM
HDD: 32 GB SD card to IDE
GPU: S3 86C805-P VLB 1MB
I/O Controller: Goldstar Prime VLB I/O
NIC: 3Com 3C509B-TPO
Sound: ESS Audiodrive ES688F
OS: DOS 7.1 (Windows 98 without the Windows basically)
I love that the case came with its own power supply out of the box!
CD-RW is clearly not from this era, there were no writings then. it would be more authentic to put a regular CD drive on 4 or 8 speeds, no more.
and in general, it turned out to be a wonderful collection, worthy of a collector of retro computers
My older CD drives are no longer functional. Sensitive drives. I'll try to replace it later
@Vitaskhr also back then some games played directly from the CD. The loud noise that the later speedier drives makes is rather distracting. Though there are software tools like CDBeQuiet that work on some drives to slow them down
First time i wired an AT power switch , i popped the circuit breaker at my parents house . Then came atx , what a nice improvement with the soft power off
Been working these day on a VLB build (my first one) and boy did it give me a hard time. First it was the floppy - would not detect it. Then it was the hard disk. Then it was the CD-ROM. It took me two nights to work out what was going on. Also out of the 5 VLB IO cards I got only 1 managed to co-operate. No wonder VLB didn't have a long life plus PCI was already there. Well done on the build.
These were the days. "AMIBIOS" Now that's a name i have not seen in a long time, a long time.
Parabéns, está bonito e bem conservado. Assistir ao vídeo trouxe boas recordações, eu nem lembrava que era possível utilizar módulos de memória de tamanhos diferentes trabalhando juntos.
we used those old bnc network and red alert c&C network gamed... so fun... so nostalgic
Same here
Nice build. You must be confident in your part selection and compatibility to already start zip tying stuff up. Normally I want to test something for a long time before bothering to make the wires super tidy.
Ohhh my old Pc... My mother have PCI, I HAVE A TRIDENT 9680 with 2mb and a kit creative sound blaster 16 with 24x cd rom
son nuestra historia, nuestras reliquias.... gracias por mostrarnos el inicio de algo que amamos!!!
I remember, when I came first time to gaming club to play multiplayer games and others teach me, how to use mouse in doom 😂. Later dad bought home our first pc, Pentium 166, 32MB RAM, Matrox Millennium, SB AWE 32 and 15" ADI ProVista monitor, later somebody gives to me memory upgrade for Matrox (to 8MB - very rare even then), cpu was replaced with 200 MHz MMX, and 3dfx was added, I was king in neirbhood, playing Quake, of course with mouse 😊. I wish to have space, or more exactly, whole room, where I want to have your 486, (rest is already in my collection): P1, P2, P4, Core 2 Duo, setups for my little museum 😢
That was really fun to watch. How did you decide to go with BNC ethernet?
I had BNC ethernet home between my 2 computers and my neighbor friends when I studied at college. We played Doom, Duke Nukem. Also, it looks more vintage
Awesome work!
Greetings from Ukraine!
Thats a large pc case. Nice system.
This was my first prebuilt system 486SX4-100 The third PC I owned as I had built a 286 and upgraded it with a MAKE IT 386 plug in chip. Still have three home built PCs in additional to the two Micro Ryzen machines and three laptops. Aircraft Computer maintainer since 1969
So what you're telling us is that you know your s%$t from WAY back!
To this day, I still use one of those mechanical keyboards and prefer it over the mushy soft-touch ones that became all-the-rage.
Very Nice, looks like you just picked it up at a store.
Dir : DOOM 2 - OK 🙂 . On this PC - a Dream :-) . At that time , i got a 486 16/25 Mhz and it was realy good to play . But on this DOS Monster - you must hold the Game , anotherewise - the Game run away ;-) .
ahhh... disk setup... good times
My first computer was a Packard Bell 486 dx2 66 mhz, it was the pride of the block... haha.
GUI BIOS with mouse support in 1990's... I am in shock :O
this was a great video! thank you for the memories
where'd you get all this new old stuff??? so cool!
Spent a year on Ebay or Facebook marketplace looking for good deals
Nice! Can you add to video date of dev/producing of hardware and software, please?
Masterpiece!
I had a WD-540mb hard drive in 486 which was pretty quiet. I replaced it with a Compact Flash card 8mb and now my 486 is Super Quiet and Rock Solid Stable. Never Crashes or Hangs. I basically have the same hardware as you. Same cards and a 486 Overdrive DX4-100mhz CPU.
Nice video 👍 Like your electric screwdriver 🪛
I thought that the cd drive needed to be plugged into the sound card rather than the controller card... or was that for certain cards/drives?. Nice build indeed, im glad you stopped using the power screw driver, makes it way too easy to cross thread stuff.
I had Creative CD ROM in 90s and it was plugged into the Creative Sound Blaster. Some sound cards had both proprietary Panasonic and IDE connectors
@@Vitaskhr Yes indeed. I was waiting for him to plug the rom drive into the sb card but i think he plugged it into the controller card, which i thought was odd.
Very good
My Fist system 486 dx2 80 mhz 🎉
nice building :D a fully 486dx4-100 :) i have my coolection a same but ibm pc 330 branded :D + thinkpad verzion 755cd dx4-100 witch selecta dock 2 :)
What a nice build! If you wish to do more Videos with CRT Monitors and want to film them flicker free, I have a Video explaining a few things about that. You need a Camera or a Phone software that lets you adjust Shutter Speed. Set that to the same Hz Frequency of the Monitor ❤
Thank you. I adjusted the shutter speed, but 3M screen filter makes an additional challenge for the phone
When I started using computers, I learned to build my own computers after my first computer. I stopped building them After Windows XP. :-(
Thank god these times of IRQ etc. are over…
That case looks like it didn't age a day, where did you get that? 🙂So jealous! Very nice build. I'm currently building a 486DX2 (DX4 in the mail, write-back too) on a similar board, with 68MB RAM, 2MB CL-542x, D-Link 220E NIC, SB16 Value (OPL3) and 6.4Gb HDD, CD-ROM, Floppy and Win3.11FWG. Feeling like a kid again!
Ebay. More than a year ago. I spent half an hour rubbing that case with a magic eraser. The original look was not that impressive 😏
@@Vitaskhr Still a nice score, congrats. I need to retrobright mine, it's yellow af. Doesn't help it smells like it came from a smoker's house.
i have an IBM keyboard from an AS400 remote setup bith the big connector.... super old but super reliable
looks identical
Why did the 80's and 90's have all of the weird motherboard names? It seems there were hundreds of them. a far-cry from what we are used to today.
I guess many companies tried to jump into that business in the US, Asia. Even automotive companies
48 megs of ram in 1994 almost impossible ! It will cost you around 4500 USD. There is no 8.4GB hdd in 1994 also. I did own in 1994 AMD dx4-100, 8 megs of ram, AWE32 with 2megs (sims) for sound banks , 14400 US Robotics, 2 speed CDRom drive, 2 megs Cirrus Logic Svga, Two Hdd 420Mb and 540Mb, 14' Bridge monitor and Epson matrix printer. And this PC costs like an Car.
Sure, some parts are from 1997-1999 period. I replaced 2 motherboards filming this and 2 hard drives :) Old stuff can break any time
another fountain pen enjoyer : )
2mb of video ram will help with 800x600 color depth at least.
True, but that resolution is rarely used in home, and my 0.28mm dot pitch 14" CRT monitor can go up to 640x480 only
i have everything but a motherboard and pc case for a socket 370 build
i went amd after this
up to the k3-400
WinBIOS is look like modern UEFI.
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great times but i used to have to solder xt computers together oooshhhhhhh nightmare anything from 286 was easy to get working.
everything brand new ?! on my pentium 166mmx there is passive head sink only ..
of course not. Vintage parts. Some of them are New Old Stock
I am going to guess that you are a Sagittarius.
I agree. He looks like someone with a fall or winter birthday.
wow good~~
You should install Windows 95
is this brand new ? thanks..........
Some 90s New Old Stock, but most of them are cleaned 30 years old parts
super flaky though... terminal resistors
do you want to sell it?
Nope. I'm going to build 2 more for retro LAN parties in my basement
@@Vitaskhr ok. i respect that. great job with th build
Not grounding yourself on old hardware.....😂
nobody does that sh*t dude
@@pro5p3c7or1 yeah on old hardware they do......newer "sh*it" isn’t as sensitive to shock old hardware definitely is 🤦
This is a common comment. I wear ESD Anti Static Gloves sometimes. I did it at the beginning of making this video because I was expected questions. I removed them immediately. The fabric snags on the solder points and motherboard pins. Real damage. I also use bands, but band wire does not coexist with camera, tripod. Getting shaking footage all the time. So, I prefer to touch metal grounded things like a back of nearest computer or rack to get rid of possible static. From time to time you may see a back of water-cooled modern computer on the right side of the clip. Never had issues with this "touch" method since 1989 when I disassembled my first computer
just touch some bare metal is enough.. Or touching something that have a ground. ESD straps not needed.
@@rallyscoot or just touch the light swirch when entering a room theres many ways lol
hahah why 48MB in a 486 system?? To much. 16 / 20MB is more then enough. should stick 48MB in a pentium class system.
I tried to use all memory slots with sticks I already have. The motherboard can go up to 128MB theoretically. I tried but failed 😏