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Yea. I fear he is referring to the DIMM "slots" on the motherboard (please stop calling it a logic board!) as DIMMs. A DIMM is a memory module, "dual inline memory module.
@@Shock_Treatment In order to have the computer coated all over with that much tar from cigarettes, a person would have to be constantly smoking in the same room as the computer.
Windows 2000 is what I grew up with. It was a beige Dell Optiplex GX1 from my dad's workplace after they switched to modern laptops. That startup brings back so many memories.
@@iClone101 I installed Windows 2000 alongside Windows 98 SE on the first computer I built. Windows 98 became a huge waste of space on my hard drive because I spent most of my time booting into Windows 2000.
@@officialshura214 actually windows me is based off of the 9x kernel (based on ms-dos) while 2000 is based off of windows nt (at the time new and purely 32-bit os)
That was definitely a loved computer. Looks like well over a half a decade of solid use, especially with the video card upgrade. Definitely some gaming going on. Glad you picked it up and gave it new life.
Mate, fantastic work on such an old classic. I built my own machine with Win ME whilst my mates were still rockin Win 98se. Ran stable as hell and the best thing I loved about it back then was the Windows Themes and Creative Soundcard software panels you could run. Something I never found after Me.
Apple guy but still call Apple stuff logic boards and windows motherboards as that always ive heard it when first had my windows pc back in 1995 with Gateway 486 started off with.
When he showed the CPU after removing the heatsink, I was like WTF, that's a 300, BIOS settings must be screwed up. I remember upgrading from my Pentium 133 to a K6 2, can't recall the clock speed though but it would have been somewhere in this area. Good times.
I get a little bit of a hint about why i get the 201-Memory Error. Because of RAM maybe. I took it to fix at the computer worker's house. And asked him to see RAM chips and motherboard if the RAM chips were malfunctioning or motherboard is not registering.
I loved Windows ME back in the day and really didn't understand the dislike that it got. It really did just feel like Windows 98 3rd Edition to me. Now true I used a tool called the Optional Component Maker to strip a lot of the tat out but ME always ran sweet as a nut for me. The only reason I moved on was because I was desperate to play The Battle for Middle-Earth and that game only ran on Windows XP.
Probably because you were lucky enough to be using hardware that Windows ME could actually use without crashing. One of ME's greatest stability flaws was the lack of good drivers available, which is why the OS actually runs fairly well on a Virtual Machine.
That K6-2 processor is a good CPU, but it is still a low-end processor to be running Windows Millennium Edition. 128 MB of RAM will make a huge difference in performance for most tasks. That board uses both EDO RAM and SDRAM. I’m impressed. I’m sure they board has a physical addressing limit of 128 MB, so it didn’t matter how much RAM you installed. Very nice work cleaning up the system!
I was 6 years old back in 2003 when I used to play Yetisports mini games on my sister's boyfriend's Windows XP PC... The shrieking sound of a chunky 56K dial-up modem was such an earache
To avoid electrocuting yourself, short each of those large capacitor’s legs with an insulated needle nose plier or a wide flat-head screwdriver, do discharge and neutralize them. Expect a spark, and a pop. You could also use a high ohm resistor to short the capacitors, to avoid sparks, and being startled.
@@crashbandicoot4everr 98SE is still "new" for that kind of hardware, I'll never understand why more of those retro scene people don't just use Windows 95
I presume the type of the motherboard is PcChips M560 REV: 3.1A, according to the document: www.tqm.com.uy/archivos/pcchips/manuales/M560/M560V31.PDF The CPU external clock it supports is 66mhz, 75mhz and 83mhz, while the internal clock speed selector can only goes as high as 3.5X. Forget about 83mhz, which is too risky for PCI peripherals, if we select 75mhz*3.5=261mhz, roughly 26mhz, still can't go up to 300mhz........
@@fuentescgabriel Would a BIOS update solves the issue of detection? I guess these are the early SDRAM slots, and these mobo maybe picky. I would populate it with low RAM (64MB/128MB). A 128MB would be perfect for Win98SE.
Someone else caught that too eh!? Yeah, AMD K6 starting line was 266Mhz, which surpassed INTEL's 233MMX CPU rating. But yes, this one was a 300. I knew I was not going cray cray yet lol!
@Jimmy S Ding Ding Ding! Right O! As a tech I dreaded working on client's PCs with that darn PCChips TXpro and VX pro boards! Their Cheaposity would sometimes cause ME to be blamed for their PC not working anymore lol! They called me cause it was not working RIGHT, then I would fix the issue and Windows optimal settings and correct hardware drivers,etc would prove to be too much for these boards sometimes. The CPU/RAM/FSB settings issue was one such FIX that caused a blow to the system, as alot of those PC CHIPS boards also suffered the dreaded Leaky bulging capocalipse. I am VERY surprised the system here did not perform an illegal operation after rebuilding it with the ram half in like that. AND Windows ME was very unstable product so even more surprised indeed!
My old Windows ME pc suited me well back in the day. I miss Napster and Audiogalaxy. Loved playing Quake 1, 2 and 3 on it as well. Along with shit load of misc 1st person shooters. Ran very well.
Agreed, and finding an old 1024X768 LCD monitor is a must for a system like this. I fairly regular see people throwing out old eMachines monitors like that at my local thrift stores, and keep one myself in storage in case I ever need it.
@@psivewri When I first met my girlfriend, she was like why do you keep all these older computer parts, and such, then a few days later her laptop started acting up, said bring to me, her HDD had crapped out, I walked to my bin of laptop drives I had salvaged, pulled out a near matching drive put it in, installed Linux Mint Mate on it, said I just save you $200 USD taking it some place else to get fixed, and she's never questioned me again when I find stuff while out on a thrift hunt, so I always keep at least one or 2 of an item I think I might need in the future either for myself, or someone else.
Greetings from Sweden! I bought my first PC in October 1993, a Compaq Presario 425 with Windows 3.1. God, I simply looove these TH-cam videos with old PC's. Pure nostalgia from the childhood of PC's. Two thumbs up 🙂
I ran Me with an AMD Athlon CPU at the end of the 90’s early 00’s. I remember it being quite a stable OS, but in those days internet was still painfully slow.
It's kind of sobering when you realize that there are several generations now that have never experienced the pain of dial up internet. They don't realize how lucky they are :p
Congratulations on your dedication and your work! Your CPU was fantastic! I am surprised that a young man of your age knows and still enjoys Windows Millenium. Your face of happiness when playing is shown! What was missing and in fact it is impossible was to navigate the web, only a few pages can be opened, the others do not support them. A pity! Greetings and congratulations!
@12:39 - floppy drive light stuck on - ribbon cable on backward to front! Also, the motherboard (logicboard wtf?!?) is what is warped, not the DIMMs, and one more thing, the K6-2 is running at 233MHz when it's actually a 300MHz part! I used to have one of those TXPro motherboards - cheap and cheerful! When they worked, they worked well.
At 8:26 into the video I can see it's a K6-2 300. BIOS or jumper settings are only making it run at 233MHz. You say 300MHz is the minimum for Me... this CPU is being underutilised.
GrimHunter42 because it is still the best desktop operating system with thousands of proprietary and shareware/freeware software around, software that is often better and aesthetically more pleasing to the eye and ear than todays modern bloatware written by idiots from India.
As a fellow south Aussie with a youtube channel I say a big howdy fellow youtuber and I'm loving your videos definitely takes me back especially the load up music ahhh memories keep up the good work!
4:02 - if no one pointed out already, Duke Nukem 3D was not using 3D accelerator mostly due do to the fact - it's not a 3D game, but rather "2.5D", as it's been called. Quake 2, on the other hand, uses a real 3D engine and hence can take advantage of hardware 3D acceleration. Otherwise, cool video! :)
Great fun! I have a dozen old PC's with Win95, 98, ME, XP etc. They're all in pristine condition too. I would love watching you getting them up and running.
Another thumbs up mate! Great video! I love these classic old computers! Great job restoring that computer. I Still have a classic Pentium 1 case. Asus P5A-B Motherboard and restored it. Still works great today. To play all the classic games.
Loved it! Some suggestions: You could have tidied up the cables, especially the flat cables, using nylon cable ties. It would look better if you set the case display with the K6 CPU clock in use.
aside from the painting and rust fixing...that was my life every few months. taking apart my pc with all those wide ass cables and terrible wire management and dusting it all out with brushes, etc. That jingle is very recognizable to me...old skool stuff!! nice vid :)
Fortunately, this sound seemed to be shared with Windows 2000. There's also an alternative version of the ME/2000 startup sound, usually found in the beta versions of these two OSes. Good luck trying to get these beta versions installed, though. At least you can still get the sounds from the installation CDs by going through the files with 7-Zip.
I bought a monitor on ebay a couple of years back, when I unboxed it the stagnant smoke smell became aparant. I ended up stripping it down and scrubbing all the plastics in the sink, plus a ton of IPA to clean the screen up and any other sensitive parts. As an ex smoker I truly can't stand that smell. I feel bad for all the things I probably made smell like that back when I was a smoker.
Nice restoration ! I found some useful informations for your PC : The motherboard is a PCChips M575. (Shady motherboard manufacturer, but as long it works, it should be allright). The "TXpro" chipset is actually and ALi M1531 (Aladdin IV+) so if you need drivers for it, look for that instead. You should be able to enable USB somehow, maybe you need some driver for that or you have to enable then in the BIOS. Also check for that number, you should find some website named "elhvb" where they let you download an archive containing the latest bios, some drivers and jumper settings for CPUs ! They even show you what settings to use with a K6-2 300, so you can run it at its maximum speed :) Also, you might want to consider to downgrade to Windows 98SE : Windows ME has many disadvantages over Windows 98. Windows ME's DOS is really really bad to run old games (almost as bad as windows xp's) while 98's is pretty much the best version of DOS. Also 98 can do pretty much all what ME can do (though you have to install everything it lacks yourself while it's packed in the install disc for ME). Last but not least, if you plan to play DOS games, I recommend you to install a different sound card that the one integrated on the mobo. Brands like Yamaha (ISA or PCI), Creative Labs (ISA only) or ESS (ISA or PCI) should do the trick very nicely :) Other than this, the bend on the board looks very bad, I'm surprised it's still working, hopefully you can fully get rid of it ...
It's loud? Strange...These old PCs were actually more silent than today's systems, good thing you pointed that out. It could've gone unnoticed. Good job taking it apart BTW!
@@AtomicBoo How come windows me and 2000 were simillar? Me was based on 9x when 2000 was based on NT lineup and dedicated for proffesionals. Before XP only Windows 98 meant something for gamers,me was a big big unstable mistake.Then XP was the first NT windows friendly for all users
@@miki476 The problem people had with ME was the drivers and the removal of real mode MS-DOS (although you could get MS-DOS mode back unofficially). XP did fix most people's issues with ME.
The same was with Windows Vista. Most of the users used it on PCs, that not capable of running it properly. Thats why ppl are hating the Vista. I used it till Windows 7 and didnt had any problems.
Thank you so much for this video! I love videos about older computers and gaming on older computers. To me it seems like the PC/Mac was at its peak in the 90s, so much was changing real fast and it just seems like a real cool time to be alive.
Wow. That’s the exact same case, mobo, S3 graphics card, CD-ROM drive (top one), and processor I bought as a barebones kit from some vendor advertising in Computer Shopper way back in ‘98. It was my first PC build. Talk about a blast from the past!
It would indeed. That motherboard was essentially a 'sleeper' type mod in its day. It was designed specifically as an upgrade path for those still putting along with AT-type Socket 7 rigs. By swapping this into your AT box, you could keep most of your Socket 7 hardware and get the upgrade path of Super-7 chips from AMD and Cyrix. Where Intel stopped with 233 Mhz Pentiums, Super 7 chips were running much faster! Notice when he's pulling the mobo out of the case - he mentions the two different types of RAM slots, but doesn't notice that the board has both AT and ATX power connectors. Yes, it could work with either type.
This "sleeper pc" thing is literally retarded. I've used the same PC case since 2006. Why buy another one??? I have no problems with cooling and it does it's job. It's had like 8 different mobos in it, high end GPUs for it's time, and now has no older than 2016 stuff inside. Idk why would you even spend money on a PC case.
Also have the same experience, although with a PIII. Tons more stable than 98SE, aka "System is busy"-hell of BSOD's that would never work properly. Still using a Millennium K6-II for helping 98 rigs whenever they decide to fail.
Well it only took literally three months worth of uploads to get past all the apple bs and get back to the normal PC related content that made this channel a joy to watch. I'm happy to see it come back and hope it's a taste of things to come. PS: Not a hater, actually am subscribed. Just not a fan of poncy apple rubbish and would rather spend my time enjoying the great PC related content this channel did a lot in the past.
if you have trouble getting ram sticks in, wipe their contact area with wd40, contact cleaner, silicone oil, or 3in1 oil spray, it'll greatly help them slip in, also brush all plug and socket contacts similarly
Painting over rust does nothing to stop it, you need to stop the chemical reaction before you apply paint, lots of products do this and you just paint them on before paint.
The very same reason people restore record players or anything else. Sometimes money isn't everything and who knows 20 years from now like much older things it could be worth thousands to collectors. I dearly wished I would had kept mine.
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0:53 *WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN MY PC*
Sepehr S. w0t
@@gameboygreat5626 Shrek says "WHAT ARE YOU DOING MY SWAMP!"
but it was chaged to PC
Nothing...just nothing!
person who watches youtube r/woooosh
sheit
"Seems as if the previous owner was a fan of Shrek."
*We have a real Sherlock Holmes on our hands here*
its dankpods 100%
"Seems the previous owner Is a Shrek fan something we have in common" Hahahaha
Shrek is love. Shrek is life.
@@voteDC XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
Fitting....ME belongs in a swamp.
Its never ogre
i love this hahahahah
I think the motherboard is bent, not the RAM modules.
Agreed.
Yea. I fear he is referring to the DIMM "slots" on the motherboard (please stop calling it a logic board!) as DIMMs. A DIMM is a memory module, "dual inline memory module.
Yup
Should just throw away the motherboard and get another one
I agree, the bend is quite significant. The retention clips are holding the DIMMs in place, but the pins on the stick are visible.
this is how many cigars the old owner smoked a day
69
125 hes dead lol
yes
roblox is fucking gay
Where is the number of cigarettes
2019: Using an old windows me in 2019
2039: Using an old windows 10 in 2039
@Boris Sladakovic 3059 using an old windows supernova ultra extra 9000k, oh wait humatity is gone
2079: Using an old MicAppleSoft v1 in 2079
Windows 10 won't be usable in 2029
Windows 10 might be renamed as only "Windows" in the future. Similar to what apple did to MacOs.
2020: stopped being an idiot, and switched to Linux
A heavy smoker owner plus a shrek fan
*gr8 combination*
You never know. Maybe the computer was a kid's, and their parents smoked.
@@Shock_Treatment In order to have the computer coated all over with that much tar from cigarettes, a person would have to be constantly smoking in the same room as the computer.
RaymondHng actually nicotine is colourless. The tar in the cigarettes is what makes things yellow or brown.
@@a.tanner8524 corrected
S H R E K P O R N
No one
Literally no one
My school after seeing this pc : we will take entire stock
No. Kidding.
I love how you narrate this like a kids show, where you point things out as they show up on screen
This isn't quite what I should be doing at 4AM but I don't regret it
Lmfao
I finished it at 3AM. I really need a job or some shit.
@@gt362gamer Some shit yeah
forget the job!
>;o#)
Tf are u doing at 4am?
1:00 So it's a safe bet you haven't played with Windows 2000 either. Windows ME and 2000 had the same startup chime.
same Os but in other names
Windows 2000 is what I grew up with. It was a beige Dell Optiplex GX1 from my dad's workplace after they switched to modern laptops. That startup brings back so many memories.
@@iClone101 I installed Windows 2000 alongside Windows 98 SE on the first computer I built. Windows 98 became a huge waste of space on my hard drive because I spent most of my time booting into Windows 2000.
And what a SWEEEET tone it was, especially because when you heard it, you knew things were working lol!
@@officialshura214 actually windows me is based off of the 9x kernel (based on ms-dos) while 2000 is based off of windows nt (at the time new and purely 32-bit os)
Thanos snaps half of the universe away.
Psvieri: And now we will put some eucalyptus oil on this blunder and try to clean it up...
windows ME, the operating system where you can bypass the login with just pressing escape instead of typing your password
That takes u to a guest login
is true, but the network access is disabled
The only thing i remember about windows ME was the startup sound
I remember how much it crashes.
@@TheDoritoFan80 So I guess you'd be hearing that start up sound a lot then 😂😂
Doesn t Windows 2000 has the same start up sound??
Edit: Ohh wait, it does...
Isn't the same of 2000?
@@TheDoritoFan80 So many people complained about Windows Me crashes, but I always found it to be very stable, and I built many computers with that OS.
That was definitely a loved computer. Looks like well over a half a decade of solid use, especially with the video card upgrade. Definitely some gaming going on. Glad you picked it up and gave it new life.
considering the desktop background was shrek 2 and it had 128mb sticks of ram in it i'd say it saw a decade of use at least lol
I can't think of a more fitting wallpaper for this legendary OS
Bro the startup sound makes me so happy
"Logic Board" It's a motherboard, this isn't an Apple Product.
*mainboard*
*system board*
@@RWL2012 those are correct terms but not THE correct term, it's like calling RAM memory, yes it's right but it's RAM
@@RWL2012 plus, logic board was just a term apple made up for their motherboards to make them sound special
@@skyediann3399 To me it just feels like another "it's not a PC, it's filled with magic and rainbows" thing.
It's what apple wants you to believe
Mate, fantastic work on such an old classic. I built my own machine with Win ME whilst my mates were still rockin Win 98se. Ran stable as hell and the best thing I loved about it back then was the Windows Themes and Creative Soundcard software panels you could run. Something I never found after Me.
Are we all gonna just ignore that amazing transition from the case closed to open at the start? :O
There's one at the end as well ;)
Just smooooth
That's why it's called a "transition".
It looks like the Motherboard is warped and NOT the RAM! The RAM fits in edgeways. The RAM cannot bend edgeways.
Yeah thats what he said
Pretty sure u just made up the word edgeways lol
Only an Apple fan would keep calling a PC motherboard a "logic board" 😀
Great video! 😊
Apple guy but still call Apple stuff logic boards and windows motherboards as that always ive heard it when first had my windows pc back in 1995 with Gateway 486 started off with.
who cares ? Its transient language to refer to a host board of other components
Oh my GOD !
the startup sound makes me happy , I miss my childhood
You must have had a shitty childhood
Looks like a 66MHz FSB K6 300MHz. See if the motherboard can do 4.5x so you can get the full 300MHz!
When he showed the CPU after removing the heatsink, I was like WTF, that's a 300, BIOS settings must be screwed up. I remember upgrading from my Pentium 133 to a K6 2, can't recall the clock speed though but it would have been somewhere in this area. Good times.
It's a pcchips socket 7 motherboard, so doubt it and the voltage will be to high too.
i used to have an amd k6-2 of 350 mhz
I get a little bit of a hint about why i get the 201-Memory Error. Because of RAM maybe. I took it to fix at the computer worker's house. And asked him to see RAM chips and motherboard if the RAM chips were malfunctioning or motherboard is not registering.
I loved Windows ME back in the day and really didn't understand the dislike that it got. It really did just feel like Windows 98 3rd Edition to me. Now true I used a tool called the Optional Component Maker to strip a lot of the tat out but ME always ran sweet as a nut for me.
The only reason I moved on was because I was desperate to play The Battle for Middle-Earth and that game only ran on Windows XP.
Probably because you were lucky enough to be using hardware that Windows ME could actually use without crashing.
One of ME's greatest stability flaws was the lack of good drivers available, which is why the OS actually runs fairly well on a Virtual Machine.
That K6-2 processor is a good CPU, but it is still a low-end processor to be running Windows Millennium Edition. 128 MB of RAM will make a huge difference in performance for most tasks.
That board uses both EDO RAM and SDRAM. I’m impressed. I’m sure they board has a physical addressing limit of 128 MB, so it didn’t matter how much RAM you installed.
Very nice work cleaning up the system!
I was 6 years old back in 2003 when I used to play Yetisports mini games on my sister's boyfriend's Windows XP PC... The shrieking sound of a chunky 56K dial-up modem was such an earache
"This program has performed an illegal operation and must be shut down. If problem persists, contact the program vendor."
Lastdon56 Common crash error on my 1997 era Windows 95 IBM Aptiva “machine” ...as well as some decent Blue Screens of Death.
To avoid electrocuting yourself, short each of those large capacitor’s legs with an insulated needle nose plier or a wide flat-head screwdriver, do discharge and neutralize them. Expect a spark, and a pop. You could also use a high ohm resistor to short the capacitors, to avoid sparks, and being startled.
FBI OPEN UP!!
The term 'illegal operation' is particularly mind blowing.
OMG, This error message haunts me since my childhood. I remember to broke my new Windows ME PC on the first hours of use.
I love watching your videos on retro/old computers. Thank you and can't wait to see more.
Someone give this man a period correct CRT
This computer is in the videogame Black Mesa.
Windows ME on 1997/1998 hardware, it's kind of slow but at least it works.
ME is almost the same as 98 SE, just loaded with a few more features (and bugs) :D
@@crashbandicoot4everr There have been a lot of fanmade fixes that take care of ME enough to be stable.
@@crashbandicoot4everr 98SE is still "new" for that kind of hardware, I'll never understand why more of those retro scene people don't just use Windows 95
@@RWL2012 It's infamous driver issues.
Given the age of the computer, it probably ran Windows 95 at some point in time. That startup sound was used in Windows 2000 as well.
The CPU is a k6/2 300, not a 233. Check the mainboards jumper settings
I presume the type of the motherboard is PcChips M560 REV: 3.1A, according to the document:
www.tqm.com.uy/archivos/pcchips/manuales/M560/M560V31.PDF
The CPU external clock it supports is 66mhz, 75mhz and 83mhz, while the internal clock speed selector can only goes as high as 3.5X. Forget about 83mhz, which is too risky for PCI peripherals, if we select 75mhz*3.5=261mhz, roughly 26mhz, still can't go up to 300mhz........
@@ching-chenhuang8119 It`s a PCChips M575.
@@fuentescgabriel Would a BIOS update solves the issue of detection? I guess these are the early SDRAM slots, and these mobo maybe picky. I would populate it with low RAM (64MB/128MB). A 128MB would be perfect for Win98SE.
Someone else caught that too eh!? Yeah, AMD K6 starting line was 266Mhz, which surpassed INTEL's 233MMX CPU rating. But yes, this one was a 300. I knew I was not going cray cray yet lol!
@Jimmy S Ding Ding Ding! Right O! As a tech I dreaded working on client's PCs with that darn PCChips TXpro and VX pro boards! Their Cheaposity would sometimes cause ME to be blamed for their PC not working anymore lol! They called me cause it was not working RIGHT, then I would fix the issue and Windows optimal settings and correct hardware drivers,etc would prove to be too much for these boards sometimes. The CPU/RAM/FSB settings issue was one such FIX that caused a blow to the system, as alot of those PC CHIPS boards also suffered the dreaded Leaky bulging capocalipse. I am VERY surprised the system here did not perform an illegal operation after rebuilding it with the ram half in like that. AND Windows ME was very unstable product so even more surprised indeed!
My old Windows ME pc suited me well back in the day. I miss Napster and Audiogalaxy. Loved playing Quake 1, 2 and 3 on it as well. Along with shit load of misc 1st person shooters. Ran very well.
one way to get the wared dimm slots to strighten up is to put a rubber spacer underneath them and screw the board down
That was also the Windows 2K boot chime, very nostalgic
Please tell me what did you study for refurbishing the Computers
Awesome! love how you recycled the old PC! Keep doing the best videos as i continue watching / supporting your channel!
You should got up PhilsComputerLab for some assistance on upgrading this beast. Compact flash, CPU, vram, ram etc. Also that PSU is a time bomb!
Agreed, and finding an old 1024X768 LCD monitor is a must for a system like this. I fairly regular see people throwing out old eMachines monitors like that at my local thrift stores, and keep one myself in storage in case I ever need it.
@@CommodoreFan64 Over the years I've owned well over 50 LCD monitors like that, however I never thought I'd ever need one 😅
@@psivewri When I first met my girlfriend, she was like why do you keep all these older computer parts, and such, then a few days later her laptop started acting up, said bring to me, her HDD had crapped out, I walked to my bin of laptop drives I had salvaged, pulled out a near matching drive put it in, installed Linux Mint Mate on it, said I just save you $200 USD taking it some place else to get fixed, and she's never questioned me again when I find stuff while out on a thrift hunt, so I always keep at least one or 2 of an item I think I might need in the future either for myself, or someone else.
@@psivewri hey, i can send you one if you want!
@@psivewri you scored big with the Voodoo 2, great find!
Greetings from Sweden! I bought my first PC in October 1993, a Compaq Presario 425 with Windows 3.1. God, I simply looove these TH-cam videos with old PC's. Pure nostalgia from the childhood of PC's. Two thumbs up 🙂
I ran Me with an AMD Athlon CPU at the end of the 90’s early 00’s. I remember it being quite a stable OS, but in those days internet was still painfully slow.
It's kind of sobering when you realize that there are several generations now that have never experienced the pain of dial up internet. They don't realize how lucky they are :p
Congratulations on your dedication and your work! Your CPU was fantastic!
I am surprised that a young man of your age knows and still enjoys Windows Millenium. Your face of happiness when playing is shown!
What was missing and in fact it is impossible was to navigate the web, only a few pages can be opened, the others do not support them. A pity! Greetings and congratulations!
Awesome work! This is a satisfying little PC. Hopefully you can figure out the RAM Situation, that poor motherboard doesn't look so great.
@12:39 - floppy drive light stuck on - ribbon cable on backward to front! Also, the motherboard (logicboard wtf?!?) is what is warped, not the DIMMs, and one more thing, the K6-2 is running at 233MHz when it's actually a 300MHz part! I used to have one of those TXPro motherboards - cheap and cheerful! When they worked, they worked well.
1:10 "It seems like the previous owner was a fan of Shrek."
I mean.....let's be honest here. Who isn't a fan of Shrek?
I'm a massive fan of shrek. I agree, Who isn't a fan of shrek?
Lord farquadd?
me
I hate it sorry
Umnnn... idk how about anyone over the age of 10?
At 8:26 into the video I can see it's a K6-2 300. BIOS or jumper settings are only making it run at 233MHz. You say 300MHz is the minimum for Me... this CPU is being underutilised.
I am still using MS-DOS with a CRT 14" monitor for my daily tasks.
I'm assuming that you didn't use it to type this.
Buy Windows 10 from Microsoft. Com
@@RobbDrew03 Not everyone can afford windows 10
Why?
GrimHunter42 because it is still the best desktop operating system with thousands of proprietary and shareware/freeware software around, software that is often better and aesthetically more pleasing to the eye and ear than todays modern bloatware written by idiots from India.
As a fellow south Aussie with a youtube channel I say a big howdy fellow youtuber and I'm loving your videos definitely takes me back especially the load up music ahhh memories keep up the good work!
"This logon chime is rather unfamiliar to me..." - Umm... ever seen Windows 2000 (Professional, Server) then?
That chime is nostalgia for me, my first PC ran Windows ME. Terrible computer, but it was amazing for me at the time.
Windows 2000 for me.
4:02 - if no one pointed out already, Duke Nukem 3D was not using 3D accelerator mostly due do to the fact - it's not a 3D game, but rather "2.5D", as it's been called. Quake 2, on the other hand, uses a real 3D engine and hence can take advantage of hardware 3D acceleration. Otherwise, cool video! :)
This was fun watching , I collect and rebuild retro computers too.
Great fun! I have a dozen old PC's with Win95, 98, ME, XP etc. They're all in pristine condition too. I would love watching you getting them up and running.
Anyone else notice the "666" in the CPU speed display on the thumbnail 😈😈😈
yes what about it
It’s a fast computer
@@CHlNO2007 it's a Satan worshipper 😂
Yep
@@howtofixyourtech9945 no show me
Another thumbs up mate! Great video! I love these classic old computers! Great job restoring that computer. I Still have a classic Pentium 1 case. Asus P5A-B Motherboard and restored it. Still works great today. To play all the classic games.
Loved it! Some suggestions: You could have tidied up the cables, especially the flat cables, using nylon cable ties. It would look better if you set the case display with the K6 CPU clock in use.
I was fascinated by computers when I was growing up though they were scarce. I am now hooked to your videos @psivewry!
When it boot up to Shrek wallpaper..
*smash mouth - All Star*
aside from the painting and rust fixing...that was my life every few months. taking apart my pc with all those wide ass cables and terrible wire management and dusting it all out with brushes, etc. That jingle is very recognizable to me...old skool stuff!! nice vid :)
You got a good retrogaming PC here. You should install Windows 98 SE though, to get this MSDOS glory and better drivers for the voodoo
I am addicted to your videos. I love watching computers being taken apart and put together again.
Such a beautiful startup sound ME has
Fortunately, this sound seemed to be shared with Windows 2000. There's also an alternative version of the ME/2000 startup sound, usually found in the beta versions of these two OSes.
Good luck trying to get these beta versions installed, though. At least you can still get the sounds from the installation CDs by going through the files with 7-Zip.
I bought a monitor on ebay a couple of years back, when I unboxed it the stagnant smoke smell became aparant. I ended up stripping it down and scrubbing all the plastics in the sink, plus a ton of IPA to clean the screen up and any other sensitive parts. As an ex smoker I truly can't stand that smell. I feel bad for all the things I probably made smell like that back when I was a smoker.
*Psivewri, The Savior Of Elder PCs*
Congratulations for your channel. I already subscribed. Greetings from Argentina.
Nice restoration !
I found some useful informations for your PC :
The motherboard is a PCChips M575. (Shady motherboard manufacturer, but as long it works, it should be allright). The "TXpro" chipset is actually and ALi M1531 (Aladdin IV+) so if you need drivers for it, look for that instead. You should be able to enable USB somehow, maybe you need some driver for that or you have to enable then in the BIOS.
Also check for that number, you should find some website named "elhvb" where they let you download an archive containing the latest bios, some drivers and jumper settings for CPUs ! They even show you what settings to use with a K6-2 300, so you can run it at its maximum speed :)
Also, you might want to consider to downgrade to Windows 98SE : Windows ME has many disadvantages over Windows 98. Windows ME's DOS is really really bad to run old games (almost as bad as windows xp's) while 98's is pretty much the best version of DOS. Also 98 can do pretty much all what ME can do (though you have to install everything it lacks yourself while it's packed in the install disc for ME).
Last but not least, if you plan to play DOS games, I recommend you to install a different sound card that the one integrated on the mobo. Brands like Yamaha (ISA or PCI), Creative Labs (ISA only) or ESS (ISA or PCI) should do the trick very nicely :)
Other than this, the bend on the board looks very bad, I'm surprised it's still working, hopefully you can fully get rid of it ...
Do you have drivers for vx pro ii im just asking
It's loud? Strange...These old PCs were actually more silent than today's systems, good thing you pointed that out. It could've gone unnoticed. Good job taking it apart BTW!
Windows ME was a wonderful version of Windows. The problem was that it wasn't being run on the correct hardware.
windows 2000 was the better version anyway, idk why microsoft released 2 very similar versions of windows so close to each other
@@AtomicBoo How come windows me and 2000 were simillar? Me was based on 9x when 2000 was based on NT lineup and dedicated for proffesionals. Before XP only Windows 98 meant something for gamers,me was a big big unstable mistake.Then XP was the first NT windows friendly for all users
@@miki476 The problem people had with ME was the drivers and the removal of real mode MS-DOS (although you could get MS-DOS mode back unofficially). XP did fix most people's issues with ME.
@@AtomicBoo My dad owned a computer repair shop and i remember ME & 2000 being a distinctly average OS. It was forgotten or skipped over very quickly.
The same was with Windows Vista. Most of the users used it on PCs, that not capable of running it properly. Thats why ppl are hating the Vista. I used it till Windows 7 and didnt had any problems.
0:52
SOME...
0:53
...BODY ONCE TOLD ME THE WORLD IS GONNA ROLL (Windows) ME
Nice video and nice lounge music on the background! Cheers, mate!
Ohhhh what a time it was, coming from the school, and play hours of games...
Lovely addiction eh m8?
@@Gamerbay2017 yeahhhhh
This was a great restoration video! Also a pretty nice machine with lots of PCI cards :)
Thank you so much for this video! I love videos about older computers and gaming on older computers. To me it seems like the PC/Mac was at its peak in the 90s, so much was changing real fast and it just seems like a real cool time to be alive.
Watching you work on those old computers bring back a lot of memories.
I think I saw ME on the BSOD more than actually being used.
Wow. That’s the exact same case, mobo, S3 graphics card, CD-ROM drive (top one), and processor I bought as a barebones kit from some vendor advertising in Computer Shopper way back in ‘98. It was my first PC build. Talk about a blast from the past!
More videos about this machines, Yes???
Holy crap you really polished that old machine. Nicely done!
Ok, hear me out. That case would make a rather nice sleeper pc!
It would indeed. That motherboard was essentially a 'sleeper' type mod in its day. It was designed specifically as an upgrade path for those still putting along with AT-type Socket 7 rigs. By swapping this into your AT box, you could keep most of your Socket 7 hardware and get the upgrade path of Super-7 chips from AMD and Cyrix. Where Intel stopped with 233 Mhz Pentiums, Super 7 chips were running much faster! Notice when he's pulling the mobo out of the case - he mentions the two different types of RAM slots, but doesn't notice that the board has both AT and ATX power connectors. Yes, it could work with either type.
No
This "sleeper pc" thing is literally retarded. I've used the same PC case since 2006. Why buy another one??? I have no problems with cooling and it does it's job. It's had like 8 different mobos in it, high end GPUs for it's time, and now has no older than 2016 stuff inside. Idk why would you even spend money on a PC case.
0:34 not even a beige or off white monitor. That really bugs me. A modern monitor to an old pc, keyboard and mouse.. oh well.
Nostalgic Look! I still remember the new millennium!
I still remember the mistake millennium!
I used an amd k6 500 with Windows ME back in the day most stable system ever. Never had a single issue.
Also have the same experience, although with a PIII. Tons more stable than 98SE, aka "System is busy"-hell of BSOD's that would never work properly. Still using a Millennium K6-II for helping 98 rigs whenever they decide to fail.
I remember that Graphics card and my favorite was sound blaster sound card also you should of tried old Half life and dropped in the old couter strike
Your videos are so nostalgic! I just love it!
The s3 Virge dx is a very early 3D card
These videos are so entertaining as relaxing! Keep up the good work!
You can always tell a Mac techie by the way they call motherboards "logic boards" in non-mac systems too
Well it only took literally three months worth of uploads to get past all the apple bs and get back to the normal PC related content that made this channel a joy to watch. I'm happy to see it come back and hope it's a taste of things to come.
PS: Not a hater, actually am subscribed. Just not a fan of poncy apple rubbish and would rather spend my time enjoying the great PC related content this channel did a lot in the past.
0:05 I had the same computer when I was little
Me too my dad was pretty savvy with CPUs back in the day and we had the same tower for sure but he probably had different drives at times
That system looks very nice for running Windows ME. Standards look pretty beefy for this timeframe. With appropriate hardware, looks great for gaming.
That would be a great windows 98se/DOS machine.
I think it originally came with windows 95 or 3.1
@@Skiedeagle proper
if you have trouble getting ram sticks in, wipe their contact area with wd40, contact cleaner, silicone oil, or 3in1 oil spray, it'll greatly help them slip in, also brush all plug and socket contacts similarly
1:07 theres something we all have in common mate. #Shrekgang
Old PC Desktop can fight a few years
let's call it with its proper name: windows meh
windows meth
Painting over rust does nothing to stop it, you need to stop the chemical reaction before you apply paint, lots of products do this and you just paint them on before paint.
quite a machine back in day and "logic board" who calls it that ? like ever ..lol
The "in current year" genre of videos is my favorite.
WHY Would you do this it Doesn't have any value
Because it’s possible.
I do it because of the parallel port (LPT) it has 8 digital outputs and 7 inputs. I control some of my equipment with Visual Basic for DOS.
The very same reason people restore record players or anything else. Sometimes money isn't everything and who knows 20 years from now like much older things it could be worth thousands to collectors. I dearly wished I would had kept mine.