Yes Ive always been a massive dune fan, loved the books so was blown away when the first games came out and kived emperor (not sure. About the new film though 🤔).
computer looks awesome!! would definently get a matching keyboard! you should be able to find the mother board...played medal of honor nicely....good show!
I have a matching keyboard, mouse and crt that Im using on a ibm netvista at the minute. Might have to get another keyboard/mouse and maybe an ibm flat panel for this one.
The hot-swap hard drive cage is supposed to have a backplane with either SCA-80 SCSI or SAS connectors soldered directly on to it (not sure which it would have been at this vintage), for the drives to connect with when inserted. Looks like someone stripped every circuit board out of this case before you got it... don't know what value the drive cage backplane could have without the drive cage. The only cables would have been one or two going from the backplane to a RAID controller. If it had a SCSI backplane, you'd need SCA-80 SCSI hard drives to use with it; if it was SAS, at least newer SAS backplanes and RAID controllers can also use standard SATA drives, at their lower performance.
Yes cool, I got the manual and read about the options. I've since seen them for sale. Still expensive as I guess these machines are still lurking in dark cupboards in use. I've managed to get the original motherboard for it so will try and get a few more bits for a full restoration.
I had at work a server that was a dual slot1 (P2/P3). It was huuge (almosty double thesize of a regular tower with 10 bays for hot-swappable SCSI HDDs (I think that there was a RAID made with 30 or 40G HDDs), DVD/CD-WR combo, tape drive, floppy, it ran Win2000 Server) and when it was changed with a regular PC (Core 2 Duo, Win Server 2008, 4G DDR2 and 2HDDs inside) and a UPS, I wanted to get the old server. Sadly, they took it to scrap; I only managed to save the folder with original software CDs (Win 2000 server, Office, drivers and tools). When they removed the old server, the temperature in its room decreased with few degrees; the AC unit installed there (in a room 1,5x2m) was finally happy.
Haha, yes I bet it kept the building warm. Shame you didnt get it😟 they still seem very expensive even now . I guess somewhere in dark cupboards some may still be working making spares rare and expensive!
@@66mhzbrain Oh, yes, there are for sure. I layed my eyes on a similar (albeit smaller) dual slot1 CPU Compaq server that is still in use at a phone booth/shop and its sole purpose is to monitorize and send taxing data (time, destination, failed connections, etc) from 6 phones to the phone line provider via a RS232 modem. I cant wait for them to change the computer, but I am sure that will take years; it was installed and powered 24/7 since 2005. Fun fact, the shop ownes said that once a tecnician came to fix something (swap one of its PSU more likely) they searched for the machine for two days; it was in a place completely closed, hidden under a wood panel nailed in place. That happened few years ago and then the tecnician said that it should be changed with a more modern machine because it seems that the replacement component was hard to be found.
Wow, its amazing to hear! Like you say there must be many machines that have been reliably doing a simple job for decades. Maybe not many that have been boxed over though 😂
It's EXXXTREEEMMMEEE! Everything in the early 00's was "extreme", and as you note, quality was inversely proportional to the amount of EEXXXTTREME! hype that the manufacturer pushed. I do feel a bit sorry for that big old server case with the lobotomized Chubberon D board and it's slow vampire video. Rather than a period IBM board, have you considered getting one of those cheap dual x79 CPU boards off of Aliexpress? You could use it to make a decent home server.
Yes naming was over the top back then😁 hopefully ill get the p3 board working for it, if not I'll shop around as you say. It would be nice to find an original p4 board for it so I'll seenwhat shows up. I'll check the ali express board out, thanks for the tip!
3:35 what a huge motherboard. The games seem to run just fine with the integrated GPU, even if not with the highest details. Like!
Yes that motherboard would have been cool
Soul Iron! It is very pleasant to touch such artifacts, breathing new life into them.
It is 😁
i forgot shout outs to dune at the end...always liked it...in84 watched dune and had an atari 800xl...and colecovision.....great days sorely missed...
Yes Ive always been a massive dune fan, loved the books so was blown away when the first games came out and kived emperor (not sure. About the new film though 🤔).
Nice find and clean up. Fingers crossed you are able to find the original parts and get it how you want it 👍
Thanyou😊 Ive managed to get the correct mobo for it since, once I have the correct psu I'll get back to restoring it.
Great video, I love the case :) Shame for those server motherboards... Cheers!
Thanks! Yes I'll have to take a closer look at the pentium 3 one and see if I can get it going.
Love it! I would be sooo tempted to stick a modern low power system in it as a plex/minecraft/file server
Haha, now that would be cool. Sitting in the corner of the living room streaming music and movies😁
computer looks awesome!! would definently get a matching keyboard! you should be able to find the mother board...played medal of honor nicely....good show!
I have a matching keyboard, mouse and crt that Im using on a ibm netvista at the minute. Might have to get another keyboard/mouse and maybe an ibm flat panel for this one.
@@66mhzbrain very good!
The hot-swap hard drive cage is supposed to have a backplane with either SCA-80 SCSI or SAS connectors soldered directly on to it (not sure which it would have been at this vintage), for the drives to connect with when inserted. Looks like someone stripped every circuit board out of this case before you got it... don't know what value the drive cage backplane could have without the drive cage. The only cables would have been one or two going from the backplane to a RAID controller. If it had a SCSI backplane, you'd need SCA-80 SCSI hard drives to use with it; if it was SAS, at least newer SAS backplanes and RAID controllers can also use standard SATA drives, at their lower performance.
Yes cool, I got the manual and read about the options. I've since seen them for sale. Still expensive as I guess these machines are still lurking in dark cupboards in use. I've managed to get the original motherboard for it so will try and get a few more bits for a full restoration.
That Bestec 12E PSU is known for killing motherboards by outputting 12V to 5VSB rail
I had at work a server that was a dual slot1 (P2/P3). It was huuge (almosty double thesize of a regular tower with 10 bays for hot-swappable SCSI HDDs (I think that there was a RAID made with 30 or 40G HDDs), DVD/CD-WR combo, tape drive, floppy, it ran Win2000 Server) and when it was changed with a regular PC (Core 2 Duo, Win Server 2008, 4G DDR2 and 2HDDs inside) and a UPS, I wanted to get the old server. Sadly, they took it to scrap; I only managed to save the folder with original software CDs (Win 2000 server, Office, drivers and tools). When they removed the old server, the temperature in its room decreased with few degrees; the AC unit installed there (in a room 1,5x2m) was finally happy.
Haha, yes I bet it kept the building warm. Shame you didnt get it😟 they still seem very expensive even now . I guess somewhere in dark cupboards some may still be working making spares rare and expensive!
@@66mhzbrain Oh, yes, there are for sure. I layed my eyes on a similar (albeit smaller) dual slot1 CPU Compaq server that is still in use at a phone booth/shop and its sole purpose is to monitorize and send taxing data (time, destination, failed connections, etc) from 6 phones to the phone line provider via a RS232 modem. I cant wait for them to change the computer, but I am sure that will take years; it was installed and powered 24/7 since 2005.
Fun fact, the shop ownes said that once a tecnician came to fix something (swap one of its PSU more likely) they searched for the machine for two days; it was in a place completely closed, hidden under a wood panel nailed in place. That happened few years ago and then the tecnician said that it should be changed with a more modern machine because it seems that the replacement component was hard to be found.
Wow, its amazing to hear! Like you say there must be many machines that have been reliably doing a simple job for decades. Maybe not many that have been boxed over though 😂
It's EXXXTREEEMMMEEE! Everything in the early 00's was "extreme", and as you note, quality was inversely proportional to the amount of EEXXXTTREME! hype that the manufacturer pushed. I do feel a bit sorry for that big old server case with the lobotomized Chubberon D board and it's slow vampire video.
Rather than a period IBM board, have you considered getting one of those cheap dual x79 CPU boards off of Aliexpress? You could use it to make a decent home server.
Yes naming was over the top back then😁 hopefully ill get the p3 board working for it, if not I'll shop around as you say. It would be nice to find an original p4 board for it so I'll seenwhat shows up. I'll check the ali express board out, thanks for the tip!
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