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LGR - Fixing & Installing a Parallel Port CD-ROM
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ก.พ. 2017
- Setting up an external CD drive on a Compaq Presario 425! Since this PC only has two already-filled ISA slots and nowhere for an internal optical drive, Backpack setups were great. Now to repair it...
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LGR, the only man to repairs a 2001 drive... with a 1999 drive XD
that's just a 2 year difference lol should be the same
Ernesto Graf yeah 2 years different is nothing hahah
LGR, the only man to play Crysis on an Altair
11:32 his chuckle of victory. He could make changing spark plugs entertaining.
"Repairing & Installing a Parallel Port CD-ROM" That is something I have almost no interest in... However, it's LGR so count me in!
If it was literally anyone else, I'd be skipping over it.
I don't know I find 8bit guy is cool on this stuff to.
I could not agree more, Menstrual Machine and Brap Hampton. 8-bit Guy is alright and really smart with this stuff too but he doesn't have the beautiful, soothing voice of Clint.
Strange how TH-cam does that to a person. I watch bigclivedotcom even though I haven't a clue about what the hell he's talking about. And I watch Simone Giertz even though I don't have much interest in robots (though, in her case, I know it's because I've got a crush on her!)
2 fun fact:
1: i had same speakers!
2: i wanted to make a cd drive like that but modern,i was able to find a icy box 5.25 external enclosure it use usb3 and esata to sata 3. i put a asus blue ray drive inside and i love it.
That music...I thought the drive was defective.
@vijay surendran My ears are defective because of the damage that music caused.
forget breakfast, LGR is a way better use of my time at 7 in the morning
Where? Here was already the afternoon
webmasale the United States.
chadmasta5 Oh cool, greetings from Austria my friend👌
1130pm here.
why not both?
My first CD burner was an external parallel HP drive - worked better than I thought it would have.
Man, I love your videos :) Your personality and enthusiasm about old PC's and hardware is intriguing. Keep it up!
Thanks!
And the smooth jazz! So relaxing to watch before bed. Good stuff man.
That soundtrack at the ending haha xD
For a moment I thought it was playing in the wrong speed or something but apperantly that's the song :D
Sounds like one of those awful MP3 to MIDI conversions
Except it's supposed to sound that way o_o
It was horrendous!
Feel free to hate me, but I really liked that song. If you're into progressive rock, that's probably your cup of tea, if you're not... probably sounds like garbage.
Anyway, I made a tiny bit of research and found it's Todd Duane's work. Listen to other stuff from him... really cool. Check it out: www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/music/album/todd-duane/todd-duane/8d6kgx09m4d5
I refuse to accept that you can buy music off of the Microsoft store.
That's a rad Jeff Goldblum shirt I see in the screens reflection!
That's chaos theory.
what os do you have on this computer is it windows 3.1?
This really takes me back, reminds me of my childhood playing DOS games. Put a smile on my face. Thank you for doing these videos.
Happy to hear it, thanks for watching :)
I always feel like in between the cuts, is you yelling obscenities at the camera, knowing we'll never see it.
...have you been spying on me? ;)
for longer than you'll every know.
Lazy Game Reviews maybe he hasn't but I may have been...
Lazy Game Reviews Hot Wheels PC restoration. A bleeped one was on camera.
Is it sad that I want Clint to upload the Extreme Paintbrawl soundtrack or point us towards a place to listen to it? I love me some terrible late 90's rock! 😂
This was an entertaining video as usual, LGR! Love watching you mess with these things, and glad you could get a different disc drive working in there! With the age of these things, it's honestly no surprise when something just stops working.
There's something about these old all in one computers that I've always loved. I've actually owned two of the later case designs of this Compaq but sadly had to sell them awhile back. I miss both of them. Such great aesthetics and love that you can just plop them anywhere, hook up a keyboard and mouse, and you're ready to go. My dream all in one is the Packard Bell Spectria, yes, an all in one Packard Bell. Too bad they're ridiculously hard to find, even harder to find than the corner design.
Yeah they're pretty excellent in terms of convenience! Just a pain to do much upgrade work on :)
Understandable, after watching 8-Bit Guy tear down and rebuild two early Macs.
I really enjoyed that, something about the combination of Clint's voice, jazz, and computer repair sends me to a happy place 😊
it's great to wake up, make a cup of coffee, and sit down to another great LGR video about old tech.
I've not seen you repair anything before, being a review channel and all. I was thoroughly entertained. My wife and my daughter both think that I am nuts for keeping my old computer stuff and storing it in my closet in the computer room, but I really enjoy seeing you review some of the very same things that I have in there. Love this channel!
I definitely owned that older Backpack CD Drive which I used on a Windows 2k Pro box for... gosh... probably until 2007? 2008?
Wow, that's an impressive service life!
His Patreon supporters get to see videos earlier.
ok seriously how can you comment be 2 weeks ago but this video came out today :o ?
Mine used a parallel port, which Power Macintosh models could have a card inserted to use, but most did not by default. There was a SCSI version of the drive if memory serves though!
That music gave me a few good chuckles and claps thank you.
One of my favourite times of the week is Friday (also Monday), because it means I get to watch a new LGR video. What a great way to start/end the week!
you make that poor drive wait all these years just to test that sad excuse of a sound track! you're lucky it didn't explode out of spite.
Tram the Ram Fucking LMAO
That music is next level. If you have a tremendous amount of dexterity and fine motor skills, but only had paddles for hands with no fingers, this is the music model for you.
your channel has reinvigorated such a spark in me. I too worked in my high school as a pc tech while attending, and was employed by them after graduating for a while too - which lead me to various pc tech roles at the apple factory, bestbuy/geeksquad, and circuit city's firedog as a trainer and supervisor of techs; until i decided to change careers and go into graphic design - i've since become 'a mac person' but still remember every DOS command, every virus fix (xp's sasser worm anybody?) etc. and just spent the day troubleshooting my friends' PC rebuilding projects; we built a home theater PC to be a PLEX and Steam client; a gaming rig with all fresh parts, and the leftovers into an extra PC; doing the old gambit of windows updates, driver installs, browser installs, and classic utilities everyone needs; sigh - macs have spoiled me. lol. felt good to get back into it. watching this was the icing on the cake today. Thanks so much!!!! #respect
OH MY GOD. a parallel cd-rom! holly eff. wow. this brings back memories. man everyone loved the parallel port - flat bed scanners, zip drives, the SNAPPY lol
Back in highschool I had a backpack drive for a 2nd hand laptop just like the 2nd one you showed. Ahh the memories. Thanks!
Thanks for that flashback. I worked for Micro Solutions from 97ish to when they closed as technical support. It was a great company and I remember the old cdrom drive you had in its prime. They also had tape drives, hard drives, PD drives (that tech didn't last long), cdrw drives, and at the end also did a NAS box and fingerprint locked hard drive. It was a great company to work for where the tech, sales, owners, engineers all knew each other and were a tight group. Good to see a few products still exist. LoL
I looked up the Extreme Paintbrawl OST, and you're the top commenter on there....from 11 years ago lol
Another classic LGR video. Really happy seeing that creative music player in Windows. Many memories flooded back. Thank you so much for making this video.
AHHH! A Compaq Presario 425, that was my first computer. I miss you little buddy!
This guy is DEFINITELY OLD SCHOOL!!!!! Way to go LGR!!!!
I love the idea of you playing videogames in your old Highschool computer. Its just so cool.
Wow, holy shit, windows 3.1. Brings back so many memories. I didn't think these computers still work anymore. Keep up the great retro work!
dreamrider If you didn't know. You can run Windows 3.1 through Dosbox.
Good lord, I had an early Backback setup! Same case design and all, this was back in the late 90s. Reliable as heck, back when it took a couple hours to write a CD. Have fun with it!
I always truly enjoy your retro videos! No matter what they contain. :) You make me see the thingamobobs "live", that I was drooling over in the magazines during childhood.
Keep it up pal!
The first computer I personally owned was a later revision of this model. It came with a cd-rom and Windows 95. I loved it. It was a great computer back in early '95.
Its always nice to discover that old hardwares are using standard parts so its easy to repair.
It is indeed. If anything I hope this video shows that these things aren't a lost cause and can often easily be fixed :)
those compaqs were in my computer class in school in 95 I love those things, memories of wolfenstein and a multiplayer tank game I can't recall
I have the Presario 433 still working. You just made my nerd teenage dream come true.
This is my favorite channel! Keep it up LGR! Your enthusiasm is great and your content is so interesting. Thanks man :)
Thanks, I'm glad you're enjoying!
That's a pretty formidable tripod for such a diminutive camera! Good Gawd, OVERKILL!
I grew up with computers like this but seeing this all again I'm thankful for modern pc's, where basically the only moving parts are the cooling fans.
The first home computer we had was an Compaq Presario, a newer type than this, with speakers too, they were under the corners of the screen, and Windows 3.11.
Too bad it has been thrown away, it was super expensive when new too... I miss using DOS and trying to get games working with too little RAM and Hard Drive space, I played DOOM, Hexen and WarCraft 2 into the 2000`s on that one. A time when you finally got the game running, you actually deserved to play it, and that was an achivement in itself.
I think this is my favorite of your videos. Very entertaining
This is just the inspiration I needed to get my old Pioneer DRM-624x drive up and going. Entertaining video as always!
I remember back in 1991 or 1992 we would borrow a parralel CD-Rom drive (1x or 2x) from my Dads work and have great fun going through the few demo discs we had especially a Sierra Sampler CD
I used almost that exact model of backpack drive when I was in high school... I went to a computer camp during the summer, and we had one of those that we'd take around to all of the computers to use in turn... Mostly to burn CDs of PowerPoint choose your own adventures we made (this was right after hyperlink support was included in PowerPoint haha)
I gotta say I love when you decide to " open stuff up " that's when the real fun starts.lol. love your vids!
Your content is the comfiest, man. Have a good weekend!
Yep. The first CD-ROM drive I used (in around '93 I think) was a single-speed parallel-port interface. Horribly slow, but back then it was amazing! You could get shareware CD's at the time (before everyone had the internet), and that provided hours of fun looking through all the software.
Also, in college I had that exact ZIP drive, parallel port.. Sooo sloooowww, but I loved it!
I kinda want one of those... Not sure why
Great video! Brings back so many memories
I had a Backpack parallel port CD-R drive back in the day. Used it with my PII 400 Compaq Presario desktop in college. As it was pretty much impossible to use the PC when trying to burn a disc, I would always start the process before I left for class, all the while praying the job would complete successfully while I was away. Most of the time it worked fine, but when it didn't, it was always frustrating because errors with the CD disc or software often took the whole computer down, costing me time and wasting the media, which wasn't exactly cheap back then.
Never thought I'd ever see one of those backpack CD-Rom drives again. But should have known if any channel would show one it would be yours. LOL. I had one of those given to me, but never used it. The AC adapter was the most interesting part aside from the sound card upgrade port.
On my Presario 425 I had as a kid I installed a soundblaster and spliced the power to the hdd. That got routed through the second isa (pci?? I can't remember) slot along with the ide cable from the soundblaster.
In other words, I had an internal 4x cd-rom next to the computer. Worked great for years. 👍🏻
Once a friend and I had to make copies of a set of medical CDs, the cd writer we had on that moment was a parallel external unit, I don't remember the brand but had beige and green exterior, its came with adaptec software and the max record speed was....1X. Damn!, that machine was slow and tricky, if you walk near the desktop the software would show you a "Buffer low or buffer empty" message and the record fails. We left the recorder working and get out of the room really! its was the best way to do the job.
I'd be having a total 90s nostalgia nerdgasm, but the yellowing throws me off. Everything else is on point, especially those Labtec speakers.
I love the Blues Brothers reference there. Smooth thinking Clint. Haha.
It's so beautiful.
Brings a tear to my eye.
from what I can see from the reflection off the computer, you have a nice kitchen.
Newly-remodeled :)
LGR, I'm glad you're not lazy, focus only on gaming and only do reviews.
I'm not even into vintage hard/software, but you make it very interesting! Good stuff buddy!
That Paintbrawl music... Totally made this video worth watching.
Interesting video. Also the quality of the video is great. Sharp and smooth.
Thank you!
I was restoring a Sega Genesis and opened it up to find tons of rust on the inner RF shielding, didn't even matter that it was there really but I sanded it all down and sprayed it with a nice even coat of rustoleum primer to stop it from rusting further. Not sure why but it's super satisfying to know it won't degrade any more I guess.
Excellent Video. Glad to know i'm not the only person who tucks their T-Shirts into their trousers as well.
Some what random but i had a set of those labtec speakers when i was younger, i was obsessed with them since they had bass control knob!
I enjoy your videos quite a bit. Please keep it up!
I have the same external drive to use on my Compaq. It was the only parallel port CD ROM drive I could find on Ebay that wasn't at a crazy price! Mine was NOS and so far is working really well so no need for repair work thankfully :D. Its definitely a big beast and takes up a good amount of space on the desk.
LGR IS LOVE.
Phobos Anomaly LGR IS MY HEART'S VAIN.
You're in MY Computer...
Gerry565656 BUT LGR IS THAT COMPUTER'S POWER CABLE.
LGR: He's on a mission from God! 6:24
i love the way that computer looks it is a cool all in one great video man 👌👍
excellent video, I used to use those external drives for Norton Ghost images when I worked at an old computer store.
Ohh man those speakers are awesome haha. I have exactly the same set up at the cottage. Tho mine are considerably more yellow. Gotta love that sweet 90's off white color!!
Hello i like your videos so much and pc restorations are best :) Greetings from Slovakia
11:33 always cracks me up. One of the most infectious laughs I've heard!
Whohooo This PC remainds me on old days :-) We used this as a Door Control PC :-) Good Job
That laugh at 11:32 just reminds me of your AOL 4.0 encounter with "Danielle", heh :D
EPP, ECP ... woah, more flashbacks. :D Keep up the awesome work :)
This video is entertaining as F@€}. Keep up the good work with all the old stuff!
a Parallel Port CD-ROM? Damn now THAT is oldschool, totally forgot about such devices.
I made an external hard drive out of one of these. Used a 500 gb Western digital. Great for backups, and it used USB instead of parallel.
"So what kinda music music are we gonna put in everyone's next favorite game, Paint Brawl?"
"I was thinking just a double bass pedal, and then releasing a few handfuls of frogs on a Fisher Price keyboard."
"Sounds great, let's wrap up this turn-key operation!"
I like your computer! It's nice to see someone else still playing around with Windows 3.1 :)
Wish I had found this video sooner, as I'm trying to get a CD rom drive going on my recently acquired Presario 433!
From all my reading, and as Clint said, parallel port is pretty slow. I think the solutions would be as follows - Get an ISA I/O card that has an EPP port for faster reading and data transfer - Or use an external SCSI CD-ROM drive. I Know Clint mentions the computer doesn't support EPP, but I'm not sure if he's simply referring to the printer port on the PC itself, you could always add another ISA I/O card to get an EPP parallel port.
My 433 came upgraded with a 66mhz 486 (Dx2 I believe?) 20MB of ram (which is the most the mobo can handle) a vibra soundblaster, and a ISA to scsi card. Only problem I'm going to hit is that the SCSI card I have doesn't support DMA so I have to see how bad its going to bog down the processor in PIO mode to see if it is feasible.
Love the videos Clint, and I agree with your sentiment, for whatever reason these compaqs are just so lovable, I couldn't be happier with mine!!
I believe the yellowing is caused by a type or bromide in the blastic, which is a flame retardant.
Also just came across your channel a month ago and have enjoyed everything I have watched since. Especially the thrift videos. :)
I managed to bag a DataWise CD-ROM parallel drive a few months ago locally from Freecycle with software and some iOmega Zip stuff.
Plus I got a Compaq Presario 522 CDS cheap of eBay about 2 years ago, which has both a CD-ROM and a floppy drives. Better yet it has internal speakers (has on board SB Pro compatibility)!
I feel pretty lucky to say the least!
i fixed tons of those drives yrs ago..... this is a great & funny vid as always!
I love watching these videos. Flint is the man!!
Who's Flint?
Nice! I'm glad you got it working!
I had a the same computer growing up. But I had an IDE cable and molex power cable sticking out the back of the Compaq connected to a cd-rom drive.
Cant belive that I trow it in the trash 4 years ago. Upgraded to a dx4 100mhz 12mb ram and an 4x cd-rom and soundblaster 16. :(
you don't know how good it is to hear another human being utter "redbook cd audio" in the proper context
Good guy clint. Love your stuff dude.
On my last PC case upgrade, i decided to move to a small form factor case that lacked the 5.25 bay for a disk drive due to at the time thinking that i hardly used it. A few months later i decided that i did still want to use the drive occasionally since it was a blu-ray write drive that i occasionally used for watching blu-rays but wanted to keep the new case but wanted something cleaner than a Sata to usb adapter and a bare drive. I also didn't want to spend another $80 on an external blu ray drive so i decided to get a disc drive enclosure similar to these but for sata and man it has gotten difficult to find enclosures for disc drives. The one i finally found that seemed to have good reviews cost $50 but i guess that was better than spending $80...
I've got one of the later models of these. Great video!
The drive that you used to repair the newer Backpack is the one that Compaq used for their 1999 models. (Used to own one and tinkered with it all the time.) That makes it still somewhat appropriate to use with your Presario ;-)
That Compaq reminded me a little of an original Mac 😉.
Can't wait for your Zip drive review. Once had a tech job, years ago, where I'd made a boot disk to use a parallel drive as a backup device for a company's PCs. This was just before Y2K, so everyone was going nuts backing up their info before the supposed nukes fell 😆. Luckily, 100mb could still backup a lot back then.
And it's a good thing it wasn't SCSI or your have to worry about ID #s, etc.
0:26 *No smoke or urine or anything.*
What type of freak urines on their computer?
I think he meant like Cat Urine or something.
Soulless leftover! he said "no smoking or anything". never said urine.
Pay close attention, and you can hear him. It took me a few tries.
Soulless leftover! *urinates
No, that was a pretty clear "No smoking or anything..." You may get confused a little, because he says it more like "No smoking'ur anything..." I really cranked up the volume on my THX certified speakers and listened multiple times. He definitely said "No smoking or anything..."
*Damn*, that CD audio track... I legitimately left the video running by accident and when I came back in to the room I heard the noise and assumed you were key-mashing with some midi software.
How haven't I seen that computer on this channel before. The Presario with the 2X CD rom was the family computer when I was in Junior High.
Wow... Seeing Windows 3.1 brings up very vague memories of maybe 3.1, but 95-era programs and interfaces. Great!
*Sees a LGR video about repairing old hardware* -> "FREAKIN' HELL YEAH !! TAKE MY EYEBALLS !"
Seriously I freakin' love old hardware. :D
Oh my gosh I've also used to have those PC Speakers as well! Makes me so happy seeing them ahh!!