Cleaning Up A Dirty Old Pentium 4 Computer!
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- Опубликовано: 22 июл 2021
- Big thanks to Electronic Recycling Australia for providing this machine. Use the discount code PSIVEWRI and receive 10% off: www.electronicrecyclingaustra...
Today we're going to clean up and restore this old Ipex branded pentium 4 desktop computer. It's nearly 20 years old, made in Australia and originally came with Windows XP. The case is very dirty, let's get started :) #old #computer #restoration
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Computer Specifications:
Ipex "Micro Office" XL Series (Circa 2002, 2003)
Intel Pentium 2.8GHz SL6Z5 800MHz FSB
2GB DDR 400MHz Ram
Nvidia FX 5200 128MB AGP Graphics Card
DVD-ROM Drive
40GB & 20GB 3.5" IDE Hard Disks
Floppy Drive
► Ipex information I referenced:
www.arnnet.com.au/article/267...
www.arnnet.com.au/article/796...
www.afr.com/politics/export-d...
Music Used:
Peaceful Background Music - Nathan Sivewright (2015) 
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Big thanks to Electronic Recycling Australia for making this video possible! Use the code PSIVEWRI on their website for 10% off :)
PS: "The failing youtube career" gag was supposed to be a joke ;)
They should list machines of this age for sale, the market is there now.
Yes
I was sad😥
Thank you from America
@Plane Playz Yet.. haha. We will all get it sooner or later. I've have both Pfizers down here in Victoria.. Now just waiting
Si Tita Michelle nasa Australia na.
Eucalyptus oil can remove everything except a criminal record.
idk, have you tried it?
😆😆
True, it seems to be very useful for cleaning all sorts of electronics. It is a pity that in my country (as I looked recently), it is terribly expensive and mainly sold in pharmacies and beauty stores as a hypoallergenic cleanser
@@Pupp3tCl0wn You can make that yourself, only have to steal a bit of food from a baby Koala, we were taught how to make it in school
@@thomassmith4999 HA HA HA HA HA
It made me feel slightly sad when he named the computer user “Failing RUclips Career”
fr lma
I think they call this 'sarcasm' xD
@RUclips Nutzer and that doesn't mean anything. Lots of RUclipsrs have shared what they earn, and also revenue aren't that great depending on video views.
fr :/
@@HughesyTech Very true, you can have a million subs, but if over time because people are getting burned out on your content, or you have changed how you do your videos, and people are not liking them overall leading to say less them 2%(The Hack5 channel is a good example of this) of them watching then those subs don't mean much.
You know it's gonna be good when the Eucalyptus oil comes out lol
"Failing youtube career" man that hits me in the feels. Lol.
poor you.
@@jam06 2:20
man, it hits deep.
Lmao yes
im gonna destroy this whole man career
Man, I love these late 90s early 2000s white/tan box computers, something about them just seems, interesting, even if I don't share a nostalgia some people might have.
They were made in a period where quirky was ok, cooling solutions didn't have to be perfection for something to work right, and the idea of visual presentation wasn't as tightly-defined as today. Intentionally or not, they embraced some element of fun. Those are my opinions anyway.
it really does amaze me how things have changed since the P4 era. I remember one of the lads been the very 1st Pentium 4 owner, and to use windows XP
Me too.
It's seems so cool yet so old that they had cache memory slots Instead of being built in a cpu.
And more bizzare things like that makes it even more interesting.
I recently painted a computer that I restored to a light blue or cloud Gray color. Is a 2009 compaq SR5710 that was black. Around the mid and upper 2000s was when computers were no longer painted tan or light Brown like they were in the nineties and early 2000s . So I wanted to recapture some of that light color energy, so I sanded down my computer computer and Re imagined what a light color could be, so I used .some furniture rated paint paint and now I think it looks pretty cool.
I worked for Ipex way back in 1999/2000 - those cases were a single design, with the front bezel being updated every year or so as specs increased. And someone at the factory was notorious for screwing in the top cover screw as hard as they could - they were almost impossible to unscrew by hand.
so he was like me🤣
*2035: Cleaning up a dirty old Core i9 Computer!*
OMG this channel is soo satisfying to watch, I always wanted to see old PCs getting back to life!!
"With the verge style application of thermal paste, the heatsink can go back on." 6:14 & 6:45
No kidding... that's a ridiculous amount of paste.
@@danexpo who actually cares
ikr that board is gonna be just completely covered in paste after a month or two lmao
I cringed a bit. Amount and application style.
Its fine, stop being paste snobs. Too much doesn't hurt at all, and it won't actually squeeze out that much. You obviously have never built a PC
2:20 Just recommended your channel to 10 more of my gaming buddies, they loved it and subscribed too.
I like the pentium 4s, these are very interesting
They can cook pasta
@@maxusgintus8160 hahahahah XD
about as hot as my pentium D (basically 2x pentium 4)
yeah especially the Prescott core
@@leucaradu7912 PresHot - form the base of Pentium 4 HT and both Pentium D Smithfield/Presler
I love channels like this! Taking old forgotten machines, cleaning them up and restoring them. Hope to start my own business of this sort some day.
This computer has very similar specs to my first PC. Mine had a 1.8GHz P4, FX-5200 and 1GB of RAM, back in late 2003. Always wanted to upgrade the Pentium 4, but instead I got a new PC with a Core 2 Duo a few years later. This video gave me a nostalgia rush.
Thanks for doing this.... Brought back lot of memories with my old P4 computer... And you do a very good job with cleaning as well... Keep up the good work...!!!
I really really really really EXTREMELY love content like this!!! Please make more repairs for old windows XP, 7, Vista or 98SE Desktops as its extremely entertaining to me!!
I’ve been waiting for a video like this! Great job on the clean up!
Man i genuinely love you're content Nathan,
Thank you for making these amazing videos they make me happy and inspire me to fix computers.
It's such a pleasure to watch your videos!
Well done ,it's nice to see the old hardware brought back and not rotting away .😁
Have you ever thought about doing a colab with Dankpods?
Yesssssssss
i would love that
that would be cool
OMG YES
hopefully he will
Heh, an Aussie tech company that went under, in the land down under...
I'll see myself out.
Nice pfp :3
@@BlindingWulf Thanks ;3
I just can't miss this guy's videos. Checked as soon I got notified..
Always happy to see a new video out! ❤️❤️❤️
I love watching your videos it's very satisfying to see the old stuff get cleaned up. you never know what your going to find when you open some of these PC's
Looks brand new
Great video Nathan!
I love seeing old pcs like this getting restored, I’m planning on doing it with a Dell Dimension 2400 from the Windows XP era
I'm a simple guy: I see Psivewri, I click.
didn't ask
@@donaldbestkorea2248oh shut you door
Your videos are awesome. Glad to see some retro tech get some love.
Great job my friend. Thank you for posting.
That Windows XP sound and the look and feel of that desktop is nostalgic. Feels great to see this machine back to life. Thank you sir.
Beautiful!
It’s now ready for Goodwill.
30 mb/s nowadays you get speeds 100 times faster on an ssd. Technology has changed so much over the years
You always do a great job in restoring old PCs..It's enjoyable
I got a 2007 Core2Duo that I setup for retro gaming. Cream colored computers are so nostalgic including CRT monitors if ever I can still see one.
The iconic shutdown tune at 10.53 really rounds off another nice video 😊 good work man
Love watching these video. Also recently when I was going though what was left of my dad's estate found a full copy of Windows XP pro. Would like to install it on a Pentium 4 or Core 2 Duo unit someday.
Always love seeing these old pc restoration videos, awesome video definitely earned a sub from me!
Cool work! Nice video!
bro, i like the 487/775 times a lot, they are very interesting machines to fix internally and externally, not to say the maze it was for me to fix driver problems, good video
@100 000 Subscribers with no videos yeah, bad typo
This build rules! It makes my brushed up Pentium 3 Ipex build look shabby in comparison. I can't believe you can get OSRS to run in XP on an old machine like this, that is absolute max nostalgia for me. Cheers for the amazing vid.
great video, I love seeing old computers getting fixed and cleaned. I have a ton myself I gotta clean xD
I just clicked on this out of curiosity while eating supper. I found your cleaning ideas very helpful. However in my case before I touch any of these to much once it is in my house, I wipe it all down on the outside with a paper towel with window cleaner on it. Now the interesting part was this case design. about 8 years ago a fellow I worked with said his church was given all of these computers and they really did not want them and so I asked my sister who home schools many children she adopted, and she did want them. There were 7 of these computers. They were windows 95, 98 era, all having a 450 or 500 MHz processor. I was able to bump all of them up to 1000 MHz and Windows XP. Now the unique point was the case style. Almost the same design as this one at 3:59 with this other sound board on the front. However the ones I had did not include the lights or the buttons for the computer functions, only the volume control and the mic and headphone and USB jacks. The ones I had had a wider case and a regular full size ATX power supply, and two speakers on the front and option for two CD/DVD drives and the floppy was sideways in the middle with the hard drive mounted next to it. However it was apparently wired in to some larger control system using a large parallel 25 pin plug on the back. I was able to find a place to connect to the front of the amplifier and put a stereo wire with 1/8" stereo plug on it and plugged it in the back line out and that allowed the stereo amp and speakers to work with the computer. Funny seeing one close to that design.
I really like the design and the look of that case. It looks industrial, but yet kind of welcoming.
it looks fantastic! you did a great job.
I'd love to see you do a full upgrade to this machine! As usual it was very nice to see you clean off the machine 😄
How I foggy can't even do upgrade on the virtual machine cuz when I got the ice off their net for Windows XP to Windows me tax beat it said upgrade is not compatible what I made sure it was home 32 bit not pro 64-bit
I think this is the earliest I've gotten a vid from my recommended. I just open RUclips up and there you are.
I found this 8 minutes in lol
Yeah on the recommended page it said 2 minutes but when I opened it it said it was uploaded 3 minutes ago.
Thanks for your videos!
Great video brings back old memories. Looking forward for more content.
I'm always looking for your videos, they're the best!
Looks good! I would definitely replace the power supply though. Those old power supply's usually don't have protection built in and almost always have bad caps. Probably wouldn't hurt to recap the motherboard. I seen the ribbon types replaced with solid state caps. I've bricked several boards over the years because the caps just go bad, it's getting harder to find them. Even bought nos boards with leaking caps.
Cool video as always!
I love your videos man...
I'm from Brazil, and you are one of my inspirations to start working with old machines, i have this small channel, but i always look at your videos and think to myself that sometime we can meet and chat a lot about old machines...
It really does look good after the restoration. It's so satisfying.
Great video as usual! You did an awesome job on that old Ipex PC. I had only worked on those when I had a contract with a school system. I would most likel find a Processor that could run efficiently on that board as well as a Gpu. I can hardly wait for the upgraded video.
Great Video, Nathan!
Really enjoy watching your video
This warms my heart
Thank you so much for the great video 😎😎
Great video, nice restauration project . I did not knew about the eucalyypt oil worked to clean out the computer chasis
HI, Just a quick note, i worked for a large organisation until 1997, the IPEX was very common and worked well, notable was its power supply being quiet and was able to put up with power fluctuations in one older building that would make lights flicker or dim, most other PC's were Osborne's and laptops genuine IBM's, the other desktops would freeze or reboot but the Ipex kept working - trivial but tell that to some one who has not save a file for 2 hours
Oh they were popular because made locally here in Australia gave it a big boost in the choosing criteria
Thanks a lot. Great video.
Love seeing old machines get love
You are always so soothing, great video!
The adolescent feels you get from this IPEX P4 from back in the day, I feel about the same way with Acorn BBC Masters from secondary school during the late '80s through to 1990 in the UK.
I never knew Ipex was such a booming company back in the day.
your videos are tooo satisfying :))
Great video !
That's a serious makeover! Great job.
I will never forget the jump from Celeron to Pentium 4. It was like going from Dial-up to broadband.
Oh man, I remember these from primary school - might not have been the exact same variant, but they all looked pretty similar with that kind of case design, and the monitors all sat on the top of them.
Your videos make my day
being an aussie myself this brings back many memories and i used to have a pentium 4 2.8ghz and played games like quake, quake 2, blood and blood 2 with carmageddon and rollercoaster tycoon 3, good times
amazing restoration.
That was very relaxing to watch for some reason
Big up recycalling Australia.
I have the same computer I used when I was a kid, almost 20 years ago. It was a 10GB hard drive that had Windows XP in it. It was actually meant to run Windows 95. Around 2015, my brother tried to rebuild it, but did a terrible job. It was around the time I finished building my first PC and used what I learned to rebuild the PC. So, I fixed all of the mistakes my brother did and did a complete overhaul after my parents let me keep it.
Fast forward today, it uses Windows 95 (US and Japanese) along with new RAM, PSU a new AGP card and new HDDs (literally new in box too!)
I have some plans for this computer, which involves a SCSI PCI card.
Great video ❤
Quite an original video giving love and care to something that few people would pay anything for (except maybe the RAM sticks, one gig ones are top spec for the era).
Mate I have this exact Ipex box in my garage, except it is labelled 1.5GHz. I didn't know you had to patch the audio cables through the back like that! I'm going to bust it out and play with it thanks to you
I remember seeing a whole lab of these Ipexes at uni in my first year with the front panel audio hooked up via the rear and thinking how stupid it was, given that onboard front panel audio was very much a thing by 2002/2003.
the second you powered it on, I bet it shot 4kg worth of dust out into your house
LMAO i had a computer do that to me once lol. fun stuff
You can mod that case to fit two 120mm fans at the front and two 60 or 80mm at the back, and this system will run so much cooler and whisper-quiet. I did that with a similar case and I'm very happy with it. Looking for another case like this to do the same mod
Nice vid bro ❤️
thanks for your epic content!
Well done👍
This 2,8 GHz P IV was in the first new PC i bought for myself.
Nobody else noticed he put his name as Failing RUclips Career? 🤣
yeah fr sad haha
Its always good when old technology gets re-used or recycled or properly e-wasted instead of going into landfill or the garbage.
I do (or at least did before everything went pear shaped) volunteer disassembly work at a facility in Brisbane that takes apart e-waste and its always good when things can be re-used (or at the very least properly e-wasted and recycled) instead of ending up in landfill.
Heh, you seem to love that Ajax spray and wipe
Learned a few tricks here to use cleaning my modern PC's, so thanks a lot for this video
I did some voluntary work for my local MP back in 2004, and I think she had an Ipex PC in her office, I remember it had that volume control thing on the left hand side. Some relatives of mine had an Ipex PC in their home, I think it came from a university.
Old school runescape:- *exists*
Nathan:- Kill cows
i see what u did there at 2:23 😁
I hope that’s not true
Falling youtube carrer
Nathan is a technology archaeologist with his delicate brushes and eucalyptus oil. He recreates the joy we had back in the days :)
did they pull that computer out of a sewer?🤣
I love old computers. I watched every video of this channel since 2018. I have my Pentium Duel Core (intel e5200 chip I think) Desktop with 2GB ram with me, but rats cut the wires and now it does not work. It reminds me of my childhood when I used to play Need for Speed II special edition and Space Cadet Pin Ball game on Windows XP
nice rebuild..got love windows xp
I remember a computer with that exact case, even though I'm from the US and I'm almost positive it wasn't branded "Ipex", I think it was either unbranded or had Gateway or Acer branding on it. My elementary school's fleet at the time was primarily the regular old boring Dell OptiPlexes, this one was in a therapy room and definitely was a rarity.
You are very daring showing your thermal paste application on youtube! Good on you! Haha
Make a sleeper and use that case that will be cool.
Not really, modern components generate much more heat, and such cases were not created with good airflow in mind. Modern components would just get fried inside.
@@Pupp3tCl0wn Well, I made a complete sleeper with an old Pentium 2 ATX case (I still had the "Year 2000 compliant" sticker on it :3) . The complete specs are :
Intel i7 8700k with a crappy Rajintek Rad
16GB DDR4 2666MHz
AMD RX 580
650W PSU 80+ Bronze
128GB M2 SSD
480GB SATA SSD
And on AIDA 64 Extreme, I rarely go over 85°C on the CPU and GPU.
Good luck finding a slim ATX power supply suitable for newer systems
you work nice with eucalyptus oil, nice video as always, thanks for the good job