15:33 _Don't you hate it when you think you're done screwing and it's just like "oh once more", and you're, like, "but I'm tired!"_ -Ron Jeremy- Clint Basinger
“In late news, a North Carolina man has been arrested, Known locally as Clint Basinger or LGR, for standing on his roof and lobbing projectiles at a low flying aircraft. Mr Basinger reportedly kept muttering “those friggin planes”.”
Damn single engine pilots are just like motorcycle riders. Somehow they think it's okay for their dumbass little hobby to disturb hundreds or thousands of people around them so that they can go for a joyride.
Meanwhile, in the airplane: "so if you ladies and gentlemen look below, you can see LGR's home, and where he shoots his videos. What's that? Closer? Well of course!"
I worked at Gateway from 1991 until 1998. I eventually became a marketing manager for all new products, so I had a big office with a big workbench, and some great engineers working for me. I only mention this to say that I think you have your dream job too. If you can put aside a beautiful computer like this for "a couple of years" shows that you have a lot to play with. And I love watching you do it! When I started in 1991 purchased a 486/66 VESA local bus, with the full, full tower with the reset and power buttons at the very top. Cost me over $5000 on the employee purchase program. Try as I may, I cannot find this system anywhere. If you have the chance to do a restoration on one of those, I would love to watch it! Thanks for keeping the old days of real computing alive.
I have a 4DX2/66V system in the full tower, but it's the newer style with the buttons in the middle. I got it from a pile of hardware going to the dump, and it's in pretty good shape. But, it had been upgraded at some point with a generic Asus Super Socket 7 motherboard, so I went about restoring it back to what I figured its original configuration might have been. It now has a Micronics VLB motherboard with a DX2/66 installed, an ATI Mach32 VLB graphics card, an Ensoniq SoundScape, a VLB Bus Logic SCSI card, a Western Digital 340MB Caviar HDD, the original combo 3.5/5.25 floppy drive, and a Mitsumi 4X IDE CD-ROM (which is a little late for that computer, but would've been one of the available upgrades from Gateway at some point, I figure.) I also just got hold of a P5-60 desktop that I'm loading out similarly, as kind of a contemporary peer, or an older sibling if you will. It uses the same Mach32, but PCI, as well as basically the same Bus Logic SCSI card in PCI, a SoundScape OPUS (which is too new, and is giving me no end of trouble being a PnP card really kinda optimized for Win95 in a computer that shipped in Jan 94 -- but it's the next iteration of the SoundScape, and Gateway-specific), and a Mitsumi 6X IDE CD-ROM. They're neat point-in-time builds, that I've maybe stretched the truth on a little, with slightly too-large HDDs and faster CD drives, while still trying to retain the brands that Gateway would've offered. It's a fun project. :-)
You can tell if someone’s old or not if they have a “Shortcut to Shortcut to Shortcut to Shortcut to Shortcut to Shortcut to Shortcut to Shortcut to My Documents” in their computer.
@@aidancommenting Then you change the out monitor "You can't do that, all my data are in there!" I know people like that, I always feel temped to replace their PC by an 5150 or something like that. Or even better, some old CP/M system. But with Wordstar and everything on it.
I remember when the Pentium 4 came out. SO many people simply GAVE me their Pentium III systems. I made quite a bit of cash by restoring them and selling at a discount. Fun video, Sir!
Aircraft Pilot: And on the left we see the house of the famous TH-camr LGR. Don't worry if you miss it, we will keep doing laps until everyone gets a photo.
The "Quality Seal" sticker was added by Gateway (as far as I remember, as I bought a very similar model back 2000). You were likely the first one to remove that sticker since it went out of the factory.
I have a 1999 Gateway, and I know for a fact that the quality seal survived until about 2005. That's when my aunt, grandpa, and I took the thing out to the garage to blow six years' worth of dust out of it.
Definitely oem. I would use my box cutter to slice a clean line when opening a new one. Man I’ve worked on hundreds of those things. Brings back good memories of working as a tech at our Gateway Country Store. 👴🏻
21:15 > Maybe that guy is doing tours or something "And here we see the house of Clint Basinger, also known as LGR. He appears to be cleaning a beige computer. And... arming an anti-aircraft missile?"
My god, this brings back memories! I worked consumer phone support at the Hampton VA call center (more than likely where that machine was built) from 99-01, when they shut down the facility. During that time the original CEO left and was replaced with a guy formerly from Sony, and over the course of the next couple of years the whole place went straight to hell. Cutting corners and adding corporate speak to every single thing dominated the order of the day then. A few things I can point out just from looking at that machine: Gateway GoBack: KILL IT!!! KILL IT WITH FIRE! GoBack, licensed from Norton, kept revisions of each. and. every. file. on your hard drive, which thrashed the hard drive to the point of killing them prematurely. From a technician's standpoint, it was absolutely horrible. It slowed everything to a crawl and failed more often than it succeeded at fixing issues. It went away with the introduction of Windows ME. The Voodoo cards overheated because of inadequate case ventilation; it was a well known issue for us at the time. Gateway's eventual solution to the problem: stop selling the Voodoo cards. Sigh. Add a case fan or two, and remove the plate covering the back fan port. The parallel port Zip drive was either an upsell or an addon after purchase. Gateway's OEM Zip drives, to my knowledge, were all ATA. The Gateway Restore CD's were revised every month, and almost every one of them had 1) a different looking front end, and 2) at least one 'quirk' to work around. Two of the same model machine could go out a week or two apart and have two completely different restore CD experiences. You were lucky to have no issues. All in all, a great trip down memory lane (hindsight being 20/20 and what not). Thanks for the video.
Oh my god man. You just described my exact experience with my Gateway PC. Like you literally gave me goosebumps when you described Gateway Goback. I had flashbacks to that stupid little folder that you stored the CD-Roms in with the green lettering on the black and white case. Crazy. Thanks man. Thanks.
You don't often hear Windows ME and fixed the problem in the same sentence. I guess Goback broke trying to hijack ME's boot process or was redundant with system restore becoming a system feature that did less damage.
My family bought there first computers at the gateway store..it was a time where buying computers was a family event. The 90s were a great time to be alive
I'm watching this video from a hotel room that overlooks an airport and keep looking out the window hoping to see a nice Cessna or Piper, but it always turns out to be that airplane in this video lol
We had this same gateway. I can confirm the quality seal was factory. I was scared to death as a kid to cut it and install more RAM. My parents were like, you better know what you're doing!! I learned BASIC on that machine, how to fly Flight Simulator 98, Monster Truck Madness, Napster MP3 downloads, and America Online. Ahh, this brings back memories!!
Former Gateway employee here. Actually, only if we had a machine that did not boot we would ask people to put the stuff back in original state (some older ISA cards were not Plug and Play after all). Those thumb screws were factory installed. But please note that these machines had pretty expensive stuff in there. That seal was more for anti-theft and making sure that things got factory tested than anything else, as far as I understood. I don't think we ever checked the quality seal when repairing a system. Maybe they checked if you send it back for a money rebursement (but that went through customer service, and it practically never happened as far as I know).
This is so nostalgic for me!! My family bought one of these new in early/mid 1999 from the Gateway store in CT. We finally had dial up internet! I remember the awesome cow-themed boxes all over the living room after we unpacked it. I wish I had that system again!! You're lucky. I'll never forget ours came stock with the microphone, and a keyboard that controlled the volume (i thought that was amazing). Then one day the volume control stopped working for some reason. Those were the dark ages, had no idea about drivers and windows 98 was nowhere near as idiot-friendly (me) as operating systems became XP onward. Thanks for the video!
One tip I've learned that has saved me so many headaches: copy the contents of the \WIN98 directory to the hard drive first, then eject the CD and run setup from there. Not only will it install faster and smoother, but it'll never ask for the CD when making system changes or installing drivers. Run smartdrv before the copy from DOS, and put the files in a place where they won't get lost - I used C:\WIN98 myself, but for others I used C:\WINDOWS\OPTIONS\CABS like I saw a lot of OEMs do. (Windows will default to installing to WINDOWS.000 directory if there's an existing WINDOWS directory but you can change it during setup.) Additionally, I'd put drivers for all the hardware in C:\WINDOWS\OPTIONS\DRIVERS and install them from there, so similarly they'd never prompt for inserting a disk or CD during normal operation. Same goes for Windows Me (\WIN9X) and Windows 95 (\WIN95). Windows 95 otherwise asks for the CD for nearly any system change, so it's super helpful there. Only reason I wouldn't do it is if hard drive space is at a super premium and I knew I wouldn't be modifying it much to fetch the CD.
"Don't you hate it when you think you're done screwing and it's just like 'ohhh, once more...'" No, Clint, I don't. I have a hard enough time getting it once, twice is a miracle.
LGR: _Planes, what are you doing?!_ Planes: _Ruining your recordings, of course! By the way, trains called, they want to know your location. Construction squads were already dispatched to your nearest neighbors, they also carry gifts of lawnmowers and leafblowers with them._
In fairness LGR is unabashedly retro "consumer" oriented. If you wanted to "learn" something you should probably be watching 8-Bit Guy instead. But if you don't like LGR's voice you'd have issues there too.
Ah man, this was my first PC. Mom and Dad had saved up and finally picked it out in 1999. So many hours dialed in to AOL, and so many good Windows 98 games. I remember just the most random selection of things. Rugrats Mystery Adventures, LEGO Rock Raiders, Buckmasters, Sierra Trophy Rivers, Rayman, some sort of Barbie dress-up game, some architect software. I put so much time into all of them. Probably put even MORE time into customizing Windows. Oh how I miss those themes. Hearing that loud, whining drive took me way back. And yes, the drive was always that loud, even when it was new! Ours was a 10GB Fireball drive and you could hear it from the other room. Excellent video as always and a good trip down memory lane. Hope to find another one of these one day to have restored!
OMGOMGOMG. My first new PC as a kid was a Gateway Essential 500 for Christmas 1999. These will always be special to me as a result, and now one is on LGR!
Great find! My grandma bought this machine with the Boston Acoustic 2.1 and Voodoo3 package. I spent many hours playing Quake 3 and listening to the music obtained through Napster. Thanks for sharing! 🙌
And I'm looking forward to BrutalMoose doing a video about it or them both doing a collab video with it. That I find an exciting thing I'd like to see.
getting old mate, I remember my first own personal build that I did when I was 10 with "scrap" 486DX's... Went rummaging through the old fella's house, the only things my mum has ever thrown out, all my old 486's and P2s /cry
I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what's it seems weird and scary to me, and it'll happen to you, too
@Giuliano BassWarrior I think it's because brand new technologies were being developed every year back then, and nowadays it seems like new hardware is simply a direct linear improvement to what already exists.
Man, it's so good to come back to this after not long ago watching Ian using this machine for a couple of hours at a time. This thing still pumps a few game sessions a week lately!
My boss at the time of this PC was registered blind (with a guide dog!). JAWS was revolutionary for him. It allowed him to move from his old DOS screen reader to Windows NT and contemporary software including the stuff myself and my colleagues were developing. A huge increase in accessibility.
I had some dealings with it in the mid-2000s. At the time they had some crazy license DRM procedures if I remember correctly... Hope they stepped up their game since...
This tickles my early childhood memory. I'm so happy to see this because this was my household's first computer and I don't think I've seen it since I was 5 or 6 years old. Naturally, the power button on the computer tower stands out the most.
Holy cow! That's the same Gateway that I bought! It had my first 3DFX Voodoo 3 card! I had never seen 3D acceleration before then. It came with the Star Wars Pod Racer disk. Playing that game in 3D blew my mind! So much so that I became obsessed with 3D modelling and purchased 3D Studio Max r3 with my student dis count. I still have it (the software and dongle) to this day. Wow.. what a walk down memory lane! Thank you!
19:13 "Old cases with there weird Bleah! And there stupid caddies and trays and stuff, they can all go straight t-" *"Okay this is coming along nicely"*
I still use a generic minitower case from an old Pentium 3 computer for my home server (a six-core 8th gen i5 beast). Complete with a yellowed front. But yeah, even today branded PCs often have custom drive caddys, mounts, etc making them a pain to service. Of all the systems I've had my hands on, the hardest ones to service were Pentium 4 IBM Thinkcentres. You had to take off the plastic front of the case just to remove the hard drive.
Just discovered your channel and you've got me so nostalgic for classic PC gaming that I just purchased an old Windows 98 Dell machine off Ebay. Pentium 4 + GeForce 3. Can't wait to get back into the games of my youth! Keep up the great work. You really are the Bob Ross of old computers. Cheers.
"I think this is an advanced enough BIOS that it'll be fine..." Working IT, I've seen first-gen Core i-series boards from specific brands that died when you replaced the CMOS battery. Magic!
After I replaced the battery, I now have to hold F10, F11 or F12 and then press enter three times to boot into windows, otherwise it would show me an error similar to a corrupt windows (it originally ran windows 8.1, but now it runs 10). Can someone help me?
My grandmother bought one of these when they were new. I had to wait for her to stop playing Solitaire so I could play DOOM and Interstate '76. Good times.
Aw man.. that vacuum at 11:10 was about 7-8 minutes overdue. My cleaning OCD was cringing and waiting for it the entire time you spent looking at the installed software. Sweet relief though... 😂🤤 And Quake II at 33:10 💖 I used the music for every multiplayer game I could after that.
Also I love how you say you’re not going to take it apart right before you dismantle the hard drive assembly and then clean every crack and crevasse. ;-)
Oh man, this was my exact case. Although I bought mine a bit later with an Pentium III @ 1GHz, 256MB RAM, 40GB HD, SB Live. I upgraded to 3Dfx Voodoo 3 3500 (told parents I needed it for school :) ) and Boston Acoustics BA7500G surround sound. Man I loved that system.
This Video makes me want to fix my old Piii. I have a Tyan Motherboard in an old Vanilla Case with a 1000Mhz Piii socket 370 & a Slot 1 for Slot 1 Pentiums. The Slot one only takes up to a 775Mhz Piii & the Socket 370 handles 1000Mhz so I opted for that. The cpu is 1000Mhz with 256k cache 133Mhz Bus Speed. 1.5 Gb of Kingston 100Mhz RAM, 2 250Gb IDE Hard Drives, CD Rom, DVD Player/Burner, Floppy, USB 2.0 Card for 4 USB 2.0, an Ethernet Card 100Mbps, Soundblaster Soundcard, & an Nvidea GeForce 256 Mb DDR3 AGP Video Card. I had XP on it when last it worked. I had everything that it could run installed on it, the best Games it ran were Halo, Tomb Raider Legends, Morrowind, Dungeon Lords, Dungeon Siege 2, GTA III & Vice City. Anything lower than those games ran 100% top notch & even most of those games played decent considdering the hardware with max settings but had to tone down some a bit to play with a decent framerate. It even could play DVDs, I think the very least hardware wise to play a DVD, maybe 512 RAM could do it, but need 256Mb video & a 1 Ghz CPU. Cool video though. If I redo mine I will probly throw 98 on it instead now since I have 5-6 XP P4s.
I had a gateway essential PC as a kid. I remember playing games on it all the time. My mom even has an old photograph of 2 year old me playing a "Thomas and Friends" game on an old CRT monitor. Good times.
I bought one of these in Oct 1999, 256 MB Ram, 20 GB hard drive. Eventually added 2 more hard drives (20 GB and a 40 GB). I replaced the graphics card with a GeForce 256 in early 2000 and later a GeForce2 MX200 32 MB.
Back in the day my dad bought a 486 from Gateway. It had some kind of sound card and a double speed CD rom. I was too young to know dos commands at the time. I remember him spending hours to make floppy disks to launch games so all I had to do was insert the disc and enter a simple command. I think it was just the name of the game. We had Comanche Maximum Overkill, Kings Quest, Aegis, Sim City 2000 and a solitaire card game. Watching your videos reminded me of that simpler time. Thank you very much for sharing these videos.
I bought one of these computers brand new back in 99. It came with the tower, monitor, keyboard, mouse and I bought the Boston 3 piece speakers to go with it. I used this machine for many years eventually adding more Ram to it and running windows xp on it. I loved this computer which is why I used it fore so long. You can only add so much Ram to it and you can only go so far with that Pentium 3, 450mhz processor and so eventually I had to replace it back in 2009 and get something more current and usable.
Dude... When you started playing Commander Keen, it hit me right in the nostalgia! I completely forgot that game existed! Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
Love this channel. I remember working on Gateway computers in the late 90's . They use to have the fans reversed on the power supplies to blow air over the cpu heatsink. Unfortunately they use to make the computers run hot . I just reversed the fan to pull air out of the PC to keep that "S" air pattern front to back. Also Gateway computers were notorious for using pirated components. Those were the days.
Oliver Jackson can you stop posting these goddamn percentage comments? They are inaccurate, unoriginal, and just plain copypasta trash and I am getting pissed off by seeing these, I’m calling the police.
Yep. I remember my mother eventually got one of these around 2000 and it was a HUGE deal. I even played Planescape on it with Daemon Tools or whatever that virtual drive was called, lol. Your profile picture brought those memories flooding back, same with Baldur's Gate and Fallout, etc. Never legally owned a single game haha, except Arcanum which I got for my birthday when it was brand new for my 16th birthday. It was probably the last game I played before I left home and started drifting around the country.
@@crylune yeah if you don’t know what it is it’s because the rich have been eroding it away having them pay the real taxes while the rich don’t have incomes per sey but stock options they take loans off of as assets
yeah back when I was a young teen and this seems like such a high spec PC (PIII with Voodoo 3) for an old biddy to play solitaire on. Some salesman deffo made bank that day. Back then I was playing Unreal on a Cyrix M2 300 with 32mb of RAM
This is vaguely similar to the first home computer my family had in 99’. It wasn’t until I saw the boot screen all the memories of my dad wheeling the, what seemed at the time and may have been, massive gateway computer box out of what I believe was circuit city or Best Buy came flooding back. She didn’t sail long. Certain memories of playing the Oregon trail at the library off a floppy on a gateway bombard me. Thank goodness for passions like yours! Y2K never forget or some shit like that.
@@DeadPixel1105 I've always said/heard "A job isn't done until blood is drawn" or "The job isn't right unless you draw blood". Kinda like a bottle of champagne christening a ship. No blood = cursed repair/build (i.e will have problems.).
This is the first computer my parents bought new, when I was a kid. Trip down memory lane, especially seeing the software storage binder provided by Gateway. Keep up the great vids man!
I restored that EXACT case. Retrobrited everything even the CRT monitor. P2 400mhz 256mb ram, ATi Rage 128 Ultra 32mb, SB16 isa, 40gb hdd yes not using compact flash I can't live without drive sounds. (in my retro builds). Also drive cage much easier to install with tower on it's side on this case.
@@davidfuller581 I don't think that line even exists anymore. Last time, I saw them in Walmart was back in 2012 when my bro and I bought a Gateway there. Their website also seems to be defunct.
Thank you for keeping a similar esthetic to your vids when everyone has these crazy studios and nonsense. You put the focus on the subject like a tear down or unbox but without the over done nature of other tech reviewers.
18:51 He's flying "solo" over your house because it only took him 12 parsecs to pilot the Kessel run so now he's bored and wants to see how the Gateway turns out.
Wow, this took me back! We had a slightly higher-end model as our second family computer, bought in January 2000 after Y2K didn’t happen. Same case - with that awkward power button - but a slightly higher spec. Ours had a Pentium 3 600MHz, 128Mb RAM (later upgraded to 384Mb), Voodoo 3 3000 graphics, 20Gb HDD, a DVD-ROM drive, and a CD-Rw drive. Fond memories… Anyway, keep up the great videos, love the channel! So much wonderful nostalgia.
He probably did it but didn't show it, as people like to criticize him for not using enough paste or too much and it annoys him, so he doesn't show that part of the process anymore.
I had one just like that years ago with an agp voodoo card the Boston acoustic speakers and dvd drive. The quality assurance sticker is from the factory along with the thumb screws and it had like a 700something MHz slot style pentium
My first real experience with a computer was this very model! In early middle school my school got 500 of these machines and put 5 of them in every classroom. We were all so blown away to have out own school email addresses and logins for these things...
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15:33 _Don't you hate it when you think you're done screwing and it's just like "oh once more", and you're, like, "but I'm tired!"_
-Ron Jeremy-
Clint Basinger
I looked down specifically to see if someone made this comment. Spread the good word my fellow LGR enthusiast, spread the good word.
Since joining the AARP, I rarely make it to, "done screwing," unless i have Nitroglycerin tabs.
I read this just as it happened
This guy said Ron Jeremy! Lol!
"Oh my word, and there he comes again, I swear this is like the tenth time!" 18:30
Love the fact the last disk check was 5554 days ago, Over 15 years and the last defrag is 2904 days ago, 8 years ago. :)
ARE YOU A WIZARD!?
@@Ironman1o1 Number of days divided by 365 (days in a year)
Read his post closely.
@@michelvanbriemen3459 so we're ignoring leap years now eh? Eh? Eh eh?
I can't imagine using this computer in 2011.. even moreso caring enough about it to actually defrag the hard drive.
“In late news, a North Carolina man has been arrested, Known locally as Clint Basinger or LGR, for standing on his roof and lobbing projectiles at a low flying aircraft. Mr Basinger reportedly kept muttering “those friggin planes”.”
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@@aidancommenting lol, i laughed HARD hahahahahahaha
Damn single engine pilots are just like motorcycle riders. Somehow they think it's okay for their dumbass little hobby to disturb hundreds or thousands of people around them so that they can go for a joyride.
"He was quoted as saying 'every night I hear airplanes in my mind' ".
Later with charges of murdering a man on life support after switching his house on and off with the X10.
Meanwhile, in the airplane: "so if you ladies and gentlemen look below, you can see LGR's home, and where he shoots his videos. What's that? Closer? Well of course!"
After laughing at all the plane goings on in this video, this cracked me up big time. :)
Clint needs to get his pilot license.... Imagine his voice on ATC.... Cessna 123LGR inbound for laaannding.....
@@fordtechchris until those alien bastards shoot up his ride.
You have a Voodoo 3 and didn't play Starsiege: Tribes ?!?
That is just plane funny.
I worked at Gateway from 1991 until 1998. I eventually became a marketing manager for all new products, so I had a big office with a big workbench, and some great engineers working for me. I only mention this to say that I think you have your dream job too. If you can put aside a beautiful computer like this for "a couple of years" shows that you have a lot to play with. And I love watching you do it!
When I started in 1991 purchased a 486/66 VESA local bus, with the full, full tower with the reset and power buttons at the very top. Cost me over $5000 on the employee purchase program. Try as I may, I cannot find this system anywhere. If you have the chance to do a restoration on one of those, I would love to watch it!
Thanks for keeping the old days of real computing alive.
I have a 4DX2/66V system in the full tower, but it's the newer style with the buttons in the middle. I got it from a pile of hardware going to the dump, and it's in pretty good shape. But, it had been upgraded at some point with a generic Asus Super Socket 7 motherboard, so I went about restoring it back to what I figured its original configuration might have been. It now has a Micronics VLB motherboard with a DX2/66 installed, an ATI Mach32 VLB graphics card, an Ensoniq SoundScape, a VLB Bus Logic SCSI card, a Western Digital 340MB Caviar HDD, the original combo 3.5/5.25 floppy drive, and a Mitsumi 4X IDE CD-ROM (which is a little late for that computer, but would've been one of the available upgrades from Gateway at some point, I figure.)
I also just got hold of a P5-60 desktop that I'm loading out similarly, as kind of a contemporary peer, or an older sibling if you will. It uses the same Mach32, but PCI, as well as basically the same Bus Logic SCSI card in PCI, a SoundScape OPUS (which is too new, and is giving me no end of trouble being a PnP card really kinda optimized for Win95 in a computer that shipped in Jan 94 -- but it's the next iteration of the SoundScape, and Gateway-specific), and a Mitsumi 6X IDE CD-ROM.
They're neat point-in-time builds, that I've maybe stretched the truth on a little, with slightly too-large HDDs and faster CD drives, while still trying to retain the brands that Gateway would've offered. It's a fun project. :-)
I worked in the Irish company back in the 90's as a tech support agent. That tower button was prone to breaking, but it never gave me a problem.
You can tell if someone’s old or not if they have a “Shortcut to Shortcut to Shortcut to Shortcut to Shortcut to Shortcut to Shortcut to Shortcut to My Documents” in their computer.
Lmao. Today's equivalent of uploading the same profile picture 50x in a row on Facebook
Or when you have to link every frigging program to the desktop because they insist there's nothing on the computer
@@aidancommenting
Then you change the out monitor "You can't do that, all my data are in there!"
I know people like that, I always feel temped to replace their PC by an 5150 or something like that. Or even better, some old CP/M system. But with Wordstar and everything on it.
@@Stephanie-hc3sg What's funny is people still make shortcuts of shortcuts. xD
@@BentoBox487 bruh
"No sucky, only blowy". Thanks Clint for the life lesson.
That only leaves licky and sticky.
HAHAHAHAHA, I love this video so much
LMAO
@@BrickTamlandOfficial You forgot "Fisty"
Thailand lesson 101
This video:
80% ASMR
15% restoration
5% planes
80% planes
Try living near an Air Force Base
1% Farts
@@pineapplebob06 it wasn't a bad comment
@@pineapplebob06 Back in 97 while stationed at Ft. Bragg, I lived in a trailer across the street from Pope AFB. I never notice planes now.
I remember when the Pentium 4 came out. SO many people simply GAVE me their Pentium III systems. I made quite a bit of cash by restoring them and selling at a discount. Fun video, Sir!
i remember when 486 came, infact even pentium ,pentium II , pIII or pIV and nobody gave me a jack shait
*Clint's eBay searches after this video:*
-Flak Cannon
-Flak Shells
-Aircraft Radar
Googled "how to get my pilots license"
@@RetardedCosmo Not joining the sides of fascists is a good start, I would say.
@@ETYPEJaguar38 Muh Fascisms 🙄
Surface to Air Missiles
@@ETYPEJaguar38 yop... blame the Italians...
Aircraft Pilot: And on the left we see the house of the famous TH-camr LGR. Don't worry if you miss it, we will keep doing laps until everyone gets a photo.
Why would an airliner fly so low that you can hear it? Unless you live near a commercial airport but hey still a great joke!
Those are propeller driven planes. :) Obviously, someone is taking recce pics of Clint's house.
I think he had a banner congratulating him on getting so many subs...
It’s Asheville regional airport. I used to live near there a couple years ago. Thy have jet and prop aircraft flying out of it.
on the left we HEAR the house of the famous youtuber LGR
The "Quality Seal" sticker was added by Gateway (as far as I remember, as I bought a very similar model back 2000). You were likely the first one to remove that sticker since it went out of the factory.
I have a 1999 Gateway, and I know for a fact that the quality seal survived until about 2005. That's when my aunt, grandpa, and I took the thing out to the garage to blow six years' worth of dust out of it.
Mine had one, too
I had a Performance 450 and it had the exact same sticker. It's a legit original machine.
Definitely oem. I would use my box cutter to slice a clean line when opening a new one. Man I’ve worked on hundreds of those things. Brings back good memories of working as a tech at our Gateway Country Store. 👴🏻
I miss those PC i wonder if Gateway Still Around after i got out of School in 2009 ☺
"I won't name this TH-camr but his name is Brutalmoose"
I love some good crossover.
The boy
Two of my favorite youtubers in one video. That would be swell.
@@Luka-Noctiluka it's a sequel to Clint showing up in Ian's Town With No Name video.
For the sake of this mysterious TH-camr, I'll just call him Brutal M. Wait, that's true obvious... let's just say B Moose.
21:15 > Maybe that guy is doing tours or something
"And here we see the house of Clint Basinger, also known as LGR. He appears to be cleaning a beige computer. And... arming an anti-aircraft missile?"
Why did I laugh so hard at this??
@@geekygirl2596 The quiet man surprisingly striking back at his tormentors is a staple of comedic reversals; I know, it got me too! XD
LGR: That’s the sixth time those pilot bastards interrupted my video! *Fires*
Lol🤣
My god, this brings back memories! I worked consumer phone support at the Hampton VA call center (more than likely where that machine was built) from 99-01, when they shut down the facility. During that time the original CEO left and was replaced with a guy formerly from Sony, and over the course of the next couple of years the whole place went straight to hell. Cutting corners and adding corporate speak to every single thing dominated the order of the day then. A few things I can point out just from looking at that machine:
Gateway GoBack: KILL IT!!! KILL IT WITH FIRE! GoBack, licensed from Norton, kept revisions of each. and. every. file. on your hard drive, which thrashed the hard drive to the point of killing them prematurely. From a technician's standpoint, it was absolutely horrible. It slowed everything to a crawl and failed more often than it succeeded at fixing issues. It went away with the introduction of Windows ME.
The Voodoo cards overheated because of inadequate case ventilation; it was a well known issue for us at the time. Gateway's eventual solution to the problem: stop selling the Voodoo cards. Sigh. Add a case fan or two, and remove the plate covering the back fan port.
The parallel port Zip drive was either an upsell or an addon after purchase. Gateway's OEM Zip drives, to my knowledge, were all ATA.
The Gateway Restore CD's were revised every month, and almost every one of them had 1) a different looking front end, and 2) at least one 'quirk' to work around. Two of the same model machine could go out a week or two apart and have two completely different restore CD experiences. You were lucky to have no issues.
All in all, a great trip down memory lane (hindsight being 20/20 and what not). Thanks for the video.
Oh my god man. You just described my exact experience with my Gateway PC. Like you literally gave me goosebumps when you described Gateway Goback. I had flashbacks to that stupid little folder that you stored the CD-Roms in with the green lettering on the black and white case. Crazy. Thanks man. Thanks.
so much thanks for inside information! I looked at this covered airvents like "WHAT?!".
You don't often hear Windows ME and fixed the problem in the same sentence. I guess Goback broke trying to hijack ME's boot process or was redundant with system restore becoming a system feature that did less damage.
Damn dude, just noticed the 1.1mil subs!! Your passion and 'lazy' professionalism have always been clear since the early days, hats off to you Clint.
Thank you!
@@LGR I remember the days when you still looked like a wizard with that killer beard do you ever miss it.
Same! Keep going, congrats!
@@LGR God, your content is so good
Old lady: "Jeah I need a PC and it should run my screenreader software" Store Clerk: "Oh wow, you need a Voodoo 3 for that."
Her grandson said it was necessary.
Sean Gatchell Your computer games gave me a virus!
Of course! She needed to get a "MULTI-MEDIA" experience. :)
@@viraloracle5151 r/whoosh
@@derekwh *twitch*
My family bought there first computers at the gateway store..it was a time where buying computers was a family event. The 90s were a great time to be alive
thumbs up for the airplane wipe transition.
Cessna! Clint is getting his license I bet!
Next time on LGR: Clint restores and tests an FIM-92 Stinger surface-to-air missile
Just use an MG42 on it.
Lol
That would also solve the problem with airplanes every 2 seconds, as he mentioned.
"I can't wait to play with its fire and forget technology!"
No, it's has to be an old school alternative, maybe a Soviet Strela-2 Surface to Air Missile.
all these years.. i didn't know farts balls fart balls is the CD KEY for windows 98.
It wasn’t he just wanted to skip that because he didn’t actually know what the key was and didn’t care
@@jasminejohnston6393 r/whooooosh
I hope airplane man is a reoccurring character in the LGR series
Nah he dies in season 2
Derek Strohm TOO SOON.
I'm watching this video from a hotel room that overlooks an airport and keep looking out the window hoping to see a nice Cessna or Piper, but it always turns out to be that airplane in this video lol
@@rosestrohm7986
Woah! Spoiler warning, dude!
@@rosestrohm7986 yep. Clint likes Duke Nukem WAAY too much.
Thanks Clint for immortalizing old tech for future generations to look back on.
After finishing the restoration you should install Red Baron game and shoot down few planes.
We had this same gateway. I can confirm the quality seal was factory. I was scared to death as a kid to cut it and install more RAM. My parents were like, you better know what you're doing!! I learned BASIC on that machine, how to fly Flight Simulator 98, Monster Truck Madness, Napster MP3 downloads, and America Online.
Ahh, this brings back memories!!
Chris W same here mate. Instead of Napster I used winmx
Former Gateway employee here. Actually, only if we had a machine that did not boot we would ask people to put the stuff back in original state (some older ISA cards were not Plug and Play after all). Those thumb screws were factory installed. But please note that these machines had pretty expensive stuff in there. That seal was more for anti-theft and making sure that things got factory tested than anything else, as far as I understood. I don't think we ever checked the quality seal when repairing a system. Maybe they checked if you send it back for a money rebursement (but that went through customer service, and it practically never happened as far as I know).
This is so nostalgic for me!! My family bought one of these new in early/mid 1999 from the Gateway store in CT. We finally had dial up internet! I remember the awesome cow-themed boxes all over the living room after we unpacked it. I wish I had that system again!! You're lucky. I'll never forget ours came stock with the microphone, and a keyboard that controlled the volume (i thought that was amazing). Then one day the volume control stopped working for some reason. Those were the dark ages, had no idea about drivers and windows 98 was nowhere near as idiot-friendly (me) as operating systems became XP onward. Thanks for the video!
One tip I've learned that has saved me so many headaches: copy the contents of the \WIN98 directory to the hard drive first, then eject the CD and run setup from there. Not only will it install faster and smoother, but it'll never ask for the CD when making system changes or installing drivers.
Run smartdrv before the copy from DOS, and put the files in a place where they won't get lost - I used C:\WIN98 myself, but for others I used C:\WINDOWS\OPTIONS\CABS like I saw a lot of OEMs do. (Windows will default to installing to WINDOWS.000 directory if there's an existing WINDOWS directory but you can change it during setup.) Additionally, I'd put drivers for all the hardware in C:\WINDOWS\OPTIONS\DRIVERS and install them from there, so similarly they'd never prompt for inserting a disk or CD during normal operation.
Same goes for Windows Me (\WIN9X) and Windows 95 (\WIN95). Windows 95 otherwise asks for the CD for nearly any system change, so it's super helpful there. Only reason I wouldn't do it is if hard drive space is at a super premium and I knew I wouldn't be modifying it much to fetch the CD.
Can't remember how many times I installed Win98 back then, but knowing this made it less painful.
"Don't you hate it when you think you're done screwing and it's just like 'ohhh, once more...'"
No, Clint, I don't. I have a hard enough time getting it once, twice is a miracle.
feelsbadman
"Go away airplanes!" Clint, they *are* going away! That's why they're making sounds!
Hahah 🤣 for some reason I laughed very loudly at this! Thank you for that
LGR: _Planes, what are you doing?!_
Planes: _Ruining your recordings, of course! By the way, trains called, they want to know your location. Construction squads were already dispatched to your nearest neighbors, they also carry gifts of lawnmowers and leafblowers with them._
You forgot the one neighbour who feels that just constantly revving a motor in a shed for hours at a time is a good idea.
My kids said, "sandwich guy is going to become pilot guy!"
They also need to form a garage band specializing in Slipknot covers next door.
A Harvey motorcycle squadron has been dispatched.
You're the Bob Ross of PC Restoration.
Incredibly accurate.
Bob Ross didn’t cry every 5 minutes about airplanes
He'd just beat the devil out of 'em.
If only this guy didn't have a super annoying nasal voice, had real knowledge, and didn't laugh at his own jokes, and actually taught you something
In fairness LGR is unabashedly retro "consumer" oriented. If you wanted to "learn" something you should probably be watching 8-Bit Guy instead. But if you don't like LGR's voice you'd have issues there too.
Ah man, this was my first PC. Mom and Dad had saved up and finally picked it out in 1999. So many hours dialed in to AOL, and so many good Windows 98 games. I remember just the most random selection of things. Rugrats Mystery Adventures, LEGO Rock Raiders, Buckmasters, Sierra Trophy Rivers, Rayman, some sort of Barbie dress-up game, some architect software. I put so much time into all of them. Probably put even MORE time into customizing Windows. Oh how I miss those themes.
Hearing that loud, whining drive took me way back. And yes, the drive was always that loud, even when it was new! Ours was a 10GB Fireball drive and you could hear it from the other room. Excellent video as always and a good trip down memory lane. Hope to find another one of these one day to have restored!
OMGOMGOMG. My first new PC as a kid was a Gateway Essential 500 for Christmas 1999. These will always be special to me as a result, and now one is on LGR!
idk if this is weird, but ai often fall asleep to these long restoration videos. They are really soothing and I feel oddly relaxed.
Oh man, the 486 build video has got at least 50 views from me for this exact reason. Clint, I love your stuff but your voice is so damn smooth.
ASMR by LGR.
@@15bits Cleaning Your Dusty Computer (ASMR)
OMG SAAAAAME I thought I was the only one, in fact in about to crash out now, night
I did last night
Great find! My grandma bought this machine with the Boston Acoustic 2.1 and Voodoo3 package. I spent many hours playing Quake 3 and listening to the music obtained through Napster.
Thanks for sharing! 🙌
All I know is that Clint just said this computer is going to Ian, aka brutalmoose and I'm all about this now
And I'm looking forward to BrutalMoose doing a video about it or them both doing a collab video with it. That I find an exciting thing I'd like to see.
It terrifies me that a Pentium III is now an old classic xD
IKR! P4s are still the 'new old processor' to me, and my old AMD Athlon 64 x2 is still nothing to scoff at in my mind.
getting old mate, I remember my first own personal build that I did when I was 10 with "scrap" 486DX's... Went rummaging through the old fella's house, the only things my mum has ever thrown out, all my old 486's and P2s /cry
Some people says Intel Core2 Duo is old already :( Makes me feel like an old timer... I’m 22 by the way...
@@baikkuma which is odd given that the C2D and C2 quad CPUs are still capable, at least for their desktop versions.
I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what's it seems weird and scary to me, and it'll happen to you, too
The inside of that computer gives a whole new meaning to the phrase “browsing the web.” 🤦♂️
God bless that shade of desktop background teal. God bless the 1990s.
God bless the 1990s definitely
For really bright colors, just not on computers....it’s the 80’s for the win. Note, I said bright, not tasteful.
@Giuliano BassWarrior I think it's because brand new technologies were being developed every year back then, and nowadays it seems like new hardware is simply a direct linear improvement to what already exists.
Wiping dust away, 3dfx logo appears, so did feels.
Man, it's so good to come back to this after not long ago watching Ian using this machine for a couple of hours at a time. This thing still pumps a few game sessions a week lately!
Yes indeed, it’s gotten great use! Good ol’ Gateway holding strong :)
legend has it the plane still flies bye every five minutes to this day
JAWS is a ridiculously expensive screen reader program targeted at visually impaired people. You should do a video on it sometime.
Yes, I saw it once at the place I work.
My boss at the time of this PC was registered blind (with a guide dog!). JAWS was revolutionary for him. It allowed him to move from his old DOS screen reader to Windows NT and contemporary software including the stuff myself and my colleagues were developing. A huge increase in accessibility.
My best friend is blind and uses JAWS, I saw that pop up and went "WHAT."
I had some dealings with it in the mid-2000s. At the time they had some crazy license DRM procedures if I remember correctly... Hope they stepped up their game since...
@@GregNixon sadly I think it's still the case, if not worse.
This tickles my early childhood memory. I'm so happy to see this because this was my household's first computer and I don't think I've seen it since I was 5 or 6 years old. Naturally, the power button on the computer tower stands out the most.
Definitely a Bob Ross moment when you busted out the tooth brush and said "go over these little corner spots..."
"And if you look directly below us, THAT is the house of LGR!"
"That was AWESOME, can we see it again?"
"Here we GOOOOOOOOOOO!!!"
Holy cow! That's the same Gateway that I bought! It had my first 3DFX Voodoo 3 card! I had never seen 3D acceleration before then. It came with the Star Wars Pod Racer disk. Playing that game in 3D blew my mind! So much so that I became obsessed with 3D modelling and purchased 3D Studio Max r3 with my student dis count. I still have it (the software and dongle) to this day. Wow.. what a walk down memory lane! Thank you!
I see what you did there... "Holy cow"... Gateway colors were like a cow (I used to work for them in the late 1990s)
19:13
"Old cases with there weird
Bleah! And there stupid caddies and trays and stuff, they can all go straight t-"
*"Okay this is coming along nicely"*
I still use a generic minitower case from an old Pentium 3 computer for my home server (a six-core 8th gen i5 beast). Complete with a yellowed front.
But yeah, even today branded PCs often have custom drive caddys, mounts, etc making them a pain to service. Of all the systems I've had my hands on, the hardest ones to service were Pentium 4 IBM Thinkcentres. You had to take off the plastic front of the case just to remove the hard drive.
I think we got to change the title to 'Clint gets mad at planes for half an hour (and a pc restoration is there to I guess)'
And makes a couple dirty jokes too if you're old enough to get them
Just discovered your channel and you've got me so nostalgic for classic PC gaming that I just purchased an old Windows 98 Dell machine off Ebay. Pentium 4 + GeForce 3. Can't wait to get back into the games of my youth! Keep up the great work. You really are the Bob Ross of old computers. Cheers.
"I think this is an advanced enough BIOS that it'll be fine..."
Working IT, I've seen first-gen Core i-series boards from specific brands that died when you replaced the CMOS battery. Magic!
After I replaced the battery, I now have to hold F10, F11 or F12 and then press enter three times to boot into windows, otherwise it would show me an error similar to a corrupt windows (it originally ran windows 8.1, but now it runs 10). Can someone help me?
Gateway Restoration
featuring
MS Flight Simulator 98 Endless Holding Pattern Edition
My grandmother bought one of these when they were new. I had to wait for her to stop playing Solitaire so I could play DOOM and Interstate '76. Good times.
Aw man.. that vacuum at 11:10 was about 7-8 minutes overdue. My cleaning OCD was cringing and waiting for it the entire time you spent looking at the installed software. Sweet relief though... 😂🤤
And Quake II at 33:10 💖 I used the music for every multiplayer game I could after that.
Anders Enger Jensen Quake II's soundtrack was excellent, I remember dubbing it onto cassette tape back in the day!
Also I love how you say you’re not going to take it apart right before you dismantle the hard drive assembly and then clean every crack and crevasse. ;-)
wow, family had almost the exact same PC back in the day.
"One more screw"
"Aww, but I'm tired..!"
Also "Get the butt wiped off while I'm looking at it"
well, have a nap...
*THEN FIRE ZE MISSILES!!!*
The airplanes in the background suddenly turning into houseflies because of the sudden speedups should not be as funny as it is
Oh man, this was my exact case. Although I bought mine a bit later with an Pentium III @ 1GHz, 256MB RAM, 40GB HD, SB Live. I upgraded to 3Dfx Voodoo 3 3500 (told parents I needed it for school :) ) and Boston Acoustics BA7500G surround sound. Man I loved that system.
I dunno why, I find that there is something oddly satisfying about about watching some deep electronics cleaning.
This Video makes me want to fix my old Piii. I have a Tyan Motherboard in an old Vanilla Case with a 1000Mhz Piii socket 370 & a Slot 1 for Slot 1 Pentiums. The Slot one only takes up to a 775Mhz Piii & the Socket 370 handles 1000Mhz so I opted for that. The cpu is 1000Mhz with 256k cache 133Mhz Bus Speed. 1.5 Gb of Kingston 100Mhz RAM, 2 250Gb IDE Hard Drives, CD Rom, DVD Player/Burner, Floppy, USB 2.0 Card for 4 USB 2.0, an Ethernet Card 100Mbps, Soundblaster Soundcard, & an Nvidea GeForce 256 Mb DDR3 AGP Video Card. I had XP on it when last it worked. I had everything that it could run installed on it, the best Games it ran were Halo, Tomb Raider Legends, Morrowind, Dungeon Lords, Dungeon Siege 2, GTA III & Vice City. Anything lower than those games ran 100% top notch & even most of those games played decent considdering the hardware with max settings but had to tone down some a bit to play with a decent framerate. It even could play DVDs, I think the very least hardware wise to play a DVD, maybe 512 RAM could do it, but need 256Mb video & a 1 Ghz CPU. Cool video though. If I redo mine I will probly throw 98 on it instead now since I have 5-6 XP P4s.
I had a gateway essential PC as a kid. I remember playing games on it all the time. My mom even has an old photograph of 2 year old me playing a "Thomas and Friends" game on an old CRT monitor. Good times.
As a Cessna pilot, computer nerd and sandwich builder, this channel scratches me where I itch!!
Chris W I start flying in May.
@@Finallybianca Awesome!!
@@fordtechchris A very wholesome TH-cam comment exchange.
Nice man
Props on the screwing joke. It was unexpected, but I laughed.
Combine that with the 'no sucky, only blowy' and you have a masterpiece.
@@CanuckGod I just died.....that shit was funny
You know he serious when he whips out the one glove and stretches it to infinity saying "Lets get started". Taught that to my ex
The plane is probably doing touch-and-goes - practicing his landings.
Either that or crop dusting.
LGR PC restauration ASMR.
It's smooth, jazzy and clean.
Featuring PLANE
I bought one of these in Oct 1999, 256 MB Ram, 20 GB hard drive. Eventually added 2 more hard drives (20 GB and a 40 GB). I replaced the graphics card with a GeForce 256 in early 2000 and later a GeForce2 MX200 32 MB.
Old man yells at plane. :D
There was a sticker that said ns tech so it's actually a train
@Max's Model Railway yes
XD
@Neptune X12 Why would he edit them in if it wasn’t convenient?
Time stamp
"Welcome to Gateway, where we put people before technology. My name is Cathy, what is yours?"
"I'M DETECTIVE JOHN KIMBLE"
"Are you going to help me now or not?"
HAHAHA!
"Do you already have a Gateway, John?"
"My CPU is a neural net proccesuhhh, a learning computuh"
Back in the day my dad bought a 486 from Gateway. It had some kind of sound card and a double speed CD rom. I was too young to know dos commands at the time. I remember him spending hours to make floppy disks to launch games so all I had to do was insert the disc and enter a simple command. I think it was just the name of the game. We had Comanche Maximum Overkill, Kings Quest, Aegis, Sim City 2000 and a solitaire card game. Watching your videos reminded me of that simpler time. Thank you very much for sharing these videos.
Wasn't a fan of the sponsor spot until "GottaPayTheBills2019"
God bless
Oh man, Seeing NFS:HS brought me back. That was my first NFS game and I must have sunk a thousand hours into it!
I bought one of these computers brand new back in 99. It came with the tower, monitor, keyboard, mouse and I bought the Boston 3 piece speakers to go with it. I used this machine for many years eventually adding more Ram to it and running windows xp on it. I loved this computer which is why I used it fore so long. You can only add so much Ram to it and you can only go so far with that Pentium 3, 450mhz processor and so eventually I had to replace it back in 2009 and get something more current and usable.
9:35 Look at the power cable, on the wall you will see an orange spider (AKA LGR's new roommate)
Lady Bug?
@@ToTheGAMES Both eat pests, so welcome home!
Dude... When you started playing Commander Keen, it hit me right in the nostalgia! I completely forgot that game existed! Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
Love this channel. I remember working on Gateway computers in the late 90's . They use to have the fans reversed on the power supplies to blow air over the cpu heatsink. Unfortunately they use to make the computers run hot . I just reversed the fan to pull air out of the PC to keep that "S" air pattern front to back. Also Gateway computers were notorious for using pirated components. Those were the days.
This video consists of:
2% Conputers
1% Clint
3% gateway
95% the same frickin plane
Bro that adds up to 101%
@@whitebear3828 lol
Oliver Jackson can you stop posting these goddamn percentage comments? They are inaccurate, unoriginal, and just plain copypasta trash and I am getting pissed off by seeing these, I’m calling the police.
@@TiTiTiTiT is that a Little Britain reference? If so I love you
You don’t know how to count?
Could be wrong, but I think he has played Duke Nukem before.
Man, growing up lower-middle class, seeing anything with a Pentium 3 in it back in 99 was like gold to my eyes.
Yep. I remember my mother eventually got one of these around 2000 and it was a HUGE deal. I even played Planescape on it with Daemon Tools or whatever that virtual drive was called, lol. Your profile picture brought those memories flooding back, same with Baldur's Gate and Fallout, etc. Never legally owned a single game haha, except Arcanum which I got for my birthday when it was brand new for my 16th birthday. It was probably the last game I played before I left home and started drifting around the country.
wtf is middle class?
@@crylune richer than poor people but poorer than rich people
@@crylune yeah if you don’t know what it is it’s because the rich have been eroding it away having them pay the real taxes while the rich don’t have incomes per sey but stock options they take loans off of as assets
yeah back when I was a young teen and this seems like such a high spec PC (PIII with Voodoo 3) for an old biddy to play solitaire on. Some salesman deffo made bank that day. Back then I was playing Unreal on a Cyrix M2 300 with 32mb of RAM
This is vaguely similar to the first home computer my family had in 99’. It wasn’t until I saw the boot screen all the memories of my dad wheeling the, what seemed at the time and may have been, massive gateway computer box out of what I believe was circuit city or Best Buy came flooding back. She didn’t sail long. Certain memories of playing the Oregon trail at the library off a floppy on a gateway bombard me. Thank goodness for passions like yours! Y2K never forget or some shit like that.
13:13 "I would have a few cuts already."
Those are BATTLE WOUNDS. You wear them scars with PRIDE.
I once heard someone say, "It's not a proper PC build if you don't wind up bleeding."
@@DeadPixel1105 I've always said/heard "A job isn't done until blood is drawn" or "The job isn't right unless you draw blood". Kinda like a bottle of champagne christening a ship. No blood = cursed repair/build (i.e will have problems.).
Those cases aren't known as Chinese Knives for nothing.
This is the first computer my parents bought new, when I was a kid. Trip down memory lane, especially seeing the software storage binder provided by Gateway. Keep up the great vids man!
I restored that EXACT case. Retrobrited everything even the CRT monitor. P2 400mhz 256mb ram, ATi Rage 128 Ultra 32mb, SB16 isa, 40gb hdd yes not using compact flash I can't live without drive sounds. (in my retro builds). Also drive cage much easier to install with tower on it's side on this case.
My first Windows PC... before this it was a Tandy MS Dos.
Oh wow, I didn't know you and Ian were collaborating! That's awesome, Brutalmoose, LGR and Projared are like my favorite youtubers.
Not really a collaboration, they're just acquaintances
I graduated high school in 07 and they were still using these computers.
Clint, have you considered doing a video on Gateway? Because I'm curious about them and what happened to them.
I second this. Gateway Tech Tales when?
Bought by Acer, brand still exists as a super-budget line.
I thought the CEO mysteriously disappeared or something
Yeah. That's got your name all over it 😀
@@davidfuller581 I don't think that line even exists anymore. Last time, I saw them in Walmart was back in 2012 when my bro and I bought a Gateway there. Their website also seems to be defunct.
Thank you for keeping a similar esthetic to your vids when everyone has these crazy studios and nonsense. You put the focus on the subject like a tear down or unbox but without the over done nature of other tech reviewers.
Still impressed about how swiftly you pulled out the ad at 1:48
Yeah, I remember this one. Mine had 10 GB too. I also remember Putt-Putt, lolz
Anyway, thanks for sharing this, it was quite a nostalgia trip.
18:51
He's flying "solo" over your house because it only took him 12 parsecs to pilot the Kessel run so now he's bored and wants to see how the Gateway turns out.
Wow, this took me back! We had a slightly higher-end model as our second family computer, bought in January 2000 after Y2K didn’t happen.
Same case - with that awkward power button - but a slightly higher spec. Ours had a Pentium 3 600MHz, 128Mb RAM (later upgraded to 384Mb), Voodoo 3 3000 graphics, 20Gb HDD, a DVD-ROM drive, and a CD-Rw drive. Fond memories…
Anyway, keep up the great videos, love the channel! So much wonderful nostalgia.
Sad to see one of the most important things in a computer restoration was missed: replacement of the thermal paste
I read that as thermal pasta. cold pasta.
He probably did it but didn't show it, as people like to criticize him for not using enough paste or too much and it annoys him, so he doesn't show that part of the process anymore.
@@dominateeye Not only him, lol. Like this makes some huge difference. Fricking 1-2 degrees worse when stressed.
thermal paste nazis are just as bad as cable management nazis.
$1,499 back in the day with 17" monitor and Canon Color Printer. No wonder it seems quite capable.
$2,200 in 2019 dollars
I had one just like that years ago with an agp voodoo card the Boston acoustic speakers and dvd drive. The quality assurance sticker is from the factory along with the thumb screws and it had like a 700something MHz slot style pentium
Man this makes me want to restore mine its just been sitting in the garage since 2001
I wish I still had my old Dell Dimension 3000 but I ultimately had to leave it behind.
Have you tried restoring it yet?
DO IT
LOVED me some cow machines back in the day! Owned several of them throughout the 90's.
Do you remember back when they were called "gateway 2000" before 1998, when 2000 no longer seemed futuristic?
My first real experience with a computer was this very model! In early middle school my school got 500 of these machines and put 5 of them in every classroom. We were all so blown away to have out own school email addresses and logins for these things...
The crt monitor and the tube/maze screensavers remind me of being a little kid in the late 90's. Lol