Alienware gaming PC Restoration
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
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I was brought a broken garbage picked Alienware Gaming P.C.
Aurora R4 desktop non alx, and decided to some deep cleaning,
fix what is wrong, and do some minor upgrading. After a day or so
i started to feel an unknown presence! Almost like little green aliens
might be trying to communicate with me some how. Watch this
restoration video to find out if i was right......
If you are in the detroit area and looking to give your yard a good facelift
check out my man Ian Harding www.ianharding... and tell
him modstek sent ya. maybe he will give you a discount....
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Specs of Alienware Aurora Finished so far:
CPU- intel Xeon X5690 6 core 12 threads will need to be bios A11
12gb random 1600 DDR3 memory ram 3x4gb
OS- windows 10 spectre light edition 64bit
hdd- 120gb solid state drive
Cooling- stock aio single radiator water cooler
Power Supply- Stock alienware 875 watts multi GPU support
GPU- lenovo nvidia geforce gtx 960 2gb gddr5
I hope to see you on these platforms as well
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way way back in the day, Alienware was their own company and made really nice machines. They're quality immediately went down after Dell bought them out.
Back when they would use those sweet green Chieftech cases.
I read that as well but Michael Dell was one of the founders of the company in 1996 as well.
The story was when Dell aquired them in 2006 they where supposed to be separate from their efficient manufactured computers because the alienware took longer to make.
I think they aquired alienware because it would of hurt the sales of the XPS series 🤔 idk though
IIRC didn't Alienware use standard ASUS maonboards at one point before the Dell merger? I remember them using either the P5B lining or P5W DH Deluxe mobos.
@@modstek Where did you read that Michael Dell was a founder of Alienware? I've been following that company since the late 90's and have never heard of any interaction between the two until at least 2003/2004 when the A51 Predator (in that classic, sexy alien green) came out and Dell expressed their interest in the company (which was also when Michael Dell was starting to step down) which resulted in a lot of the brands fans saying it was a bad move.
The manufacturing and supply of Dell that occurred as part of the acquisition is what absolutely killed the quality of Alienware, and worse when Dell started handling their support channels too.
I found it here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alienware and a few other places. It kind of had me confused when researching the history.
Really love this. It makes me want to go out and find all these old computers and shine em up! Keep up the good work.
the good ones are getting harder to find. thanks will do
Modstek once again man you done it. You saved another pc from the crazy trash pile. Thank you man.
Awesome! I was worried about spinning the fan with the compressed air though while it's still plug in. I've seen lights and voltage partially power the motherboard. That was the only time I ever did that I'm lucky I didn't fry my stuff 😱
it’s missing the spray paint to make this a modstek classic
Ahh yes did notice the side panels where missing? Hurricanes and humidity been keeping me from painting. It sux 😔
Fun thing, I'm commenting from a Aurora R2 with the stock i7 920's, only mod done is a new GPU and with some overclocking I can still play new releases in 2023. That's some pretty decent work for a computer from 2009.
yep we keep the stuff out of landfills. that is till windows 11 becomes a thing and then all my stuff is going to become a linux base system
I just installed windows 11 on a core 2 duo a few days ago and it was cake to bypass EVERYTHING. I'm sure the bypasses will work even after the final release so What's your reasoning?
1:20 Minute and a half into the video, "Wonder what could be wrong with this Dell Alienware."
Me: "Uhmmmm,... the cable management?"
Let the Mods begin!
I wanted 2 was thinking maybe a ryzen setup with current rgb or something. Get some aliens airbrushed on the side panels? Idk or just acrylic side panel
Nothing better than a modstek video on a lazy Friday
Was one of the coolest pc setups in it's days. Definitely goes good with tristellar or quad stellar cases. Maybe a sega saturn.
I could watch your videos all day and never get bored
Back about ten years ago, someone gave me one of these to salvage and rebuild after my primary machine died horribly. Step 1 was to get everything out of this stupid case and into a normal case where it belonged. I think I sold the case with the rgb hub and the AIO cooler to a collector for enough money to go from 3 gb of ram to 9 gb.
Love the PC restore content
Thanks
Great video! Im finally getting a brand new PC:
-10900KF
-Asrock OC Formula
-2x32GB Ballistix (rev E)
-RX 5700XT (TUF)
Im pretty excited, even though its not necessarily because the performance is much better over my own budget gaming PC.
nice and congratulations. I have had new pc builds but never newest hardware. I still want a GTX 1080 ti lol
@@modstek Me too!!! They're fun to OC apparently
I love the restoration. I love it. Great, great, great job.
Working on one of these right now, it brings the challenge! I thought mine was relatively clean until I started disassembling it and discovered the dust bunny habitat.
Enable used programs and how to update BIOS chips. Thank you for the nice explanation
"Howard The Alien" dancing
I just picked up one of those with an i7-2700 but didn’t have the original graphics card. It works like a champ for my kid with a gtx 760 in it now
Love those cases
its a very cool case. the ALX version has the louvers on top that stand up when the fans ramp up i guess and more lights
Nice little alienware you found :-)
I'm thinking of running a similar cpu upgrade to the intel xeon, how did you know which bios version and settings were needed? I'm also looking for version a11 bios online but so far no luck. Awesome video thank you for sharing your experience. I'll be glad if I can get our old family PC in similar shape to yours
The front should have the cylon scanner on it
Alienware really turned to crap once Dell got their mitts on em. Hotboxes. At least before they tried to be a little different before. And all they need is a little scrubby-dubby. Fun vid man! 👍
I just got one of these with a i7 4930k and 16gb ram gtx 780 and 3tb but I have a gtx1650 super already that I can put in it so hopefully it will be a nice little gaming pc !
en mis tiempos eso Hera lo mejor de lo mejor , eso solo lo tenían los ricos , mientras tanto a nosotros los pobres nos tocaba hacer modding
Pro tip never blow full air on the fans will fuck it up just hold the blade with your fingers
love the presentation dude thank you for showing
Still wondering how a snack packs got in there
It was so hard to watch you blow air to that little fan at high speed when it was still hooked up to the motherboard you could easily hurt the motherboard because that fan can put power the wrong way on the motherboard and pop campacitor or anything else important on the motherboard
It also murders the lifespan of the bearing of the fan.
@@slimjim2321 bahh I've been doing that for years there's even a video proving that a fan even spinning at insane speeds wont put out enough juice to hurt anything
I normally have em unplugged and the battery out for cleaning but dropped the ball on that one. The only thing that i couldn't get working was the ethernet port and command software working in
windows 10. Drivers would install for ethernet but idk still wouldn't go. although it did come wireless card just no antennas.
@@mrhappy8966 I've never heard of damaging a board this way so I'm with you on that, but I know spinning a fan with air to the point that it squeals destroys the bearing. I've seen it happen. It was exactly like in this video where a buddy was like "haha fan go brrr" and a few weeks later the fans he did it to were making horrible noises and/or dead.
I love these things hoping I find one to restore myself that 6 core xeon can still put down some numbers with something like a gtx 1080. look into a ultra sonic cleaner reference tech yes city it will make life much easier for you, just make sure u snag a power supply tester so u can drain the energy out of the parts before washing
I want this for the case, but it is impossible to get this in Brazil. There is zero listed at all selling platfoms. My plan is get the later model r4 case with the openings on the top so I could get a xeon processor on there
Nice machine leave the side panel off though cause alienware pc's have a reputation for being hot boxes.
My pc has the same problem you just need to push on the power button harder like put all of your power into it and it might work
Dust bunny farm ahoy!
Dude, if you ever decide to sell these and ship to Canada, I'm so in!!!!
3:09 I like your channel, but did you know that this is bad for the motherboard, the winding of the fans puts power on the motherboard, it is advisable to disconnect the fans, greetings from Costarica
Alright. this is hopefully not too old of a video to still get a response hopefully
I recently aquired a r3 for free from someone on facebook marketplace, boots fine etc. my issue for my restoration is so far the top mesh cover. How did you remove yours? I've only read in one place that the side covers must come off for it to release. But theres nothing solid i can find on the net.
nice job keep going dude
👀 Somebody's building an MK2 cabinet I see.
I dont have all the pieces yet but hopefully soon
I might have to add one of these to my collection.
yes you do how about this one lol? Still have the xps 630i as well
Wow!!!
I've always wanted one!!!
my xps 630i still runs like new. love the brushed case and led lights. still built better than todays crap by far
I just picked up an old area 51 that was a green metallic super cool old pc
nice.. i would love to find the neon green predator but im sure its very rare
I think they are going to do a xeon mod to it
Cool
Big fan bro
i appreciate that. thanks man
Well Done! Enjoyed :-) all content my friend. Very, Interesting Indeed - Jass.
Thank you kindly
Hello, did you get the installation and operation of the Mio card? I can't get it to work. Thanks
Did it got hot like a normal HPS bulb?
How can me update A11 for my computer 🖥️
What happened to bad power switch?
still use my r3 today with a i7920 and gt750ti. have no idea what cpu to upgrade tho
Alienware makes me sad, they were great machines back in the day but Dell has let them degrade by not improving their aesthetics. Giant plastic boxes with little in the way of ventilation is supposed to be a thing of the past.
Keep up the good work and great videos as always good sir!
thank you
Love the channel!
Hello, I found one for $100,no clu no graphics. Is this a good deal for someone who wants to get into gaming. I plan to upgrade it.
What happened with the power button??
Just picked up a r3 motherboard was bad in it so put a rampage 3 in it with a x5675 and 24 gigs ram
Bet that's a beast to! I think when I have more time I will swap out the motherboard and make the rgb more modern
I would buy this just for the fact its a cool item
Looks good!
I have tons of old computer parts (PHENOM-3's) that part of me just want to toss, but another part of me wants to turn them into sleeper gaming rigs.
phenoms where the bomb loved em
You low key sound like Lil Wayne
Amazed that the original AIO still has liquid to work.
You and me both it not only works but works well
Can you give me the wire harness blueprint or pic for that extra PC please if you can it's my first pc to rebuild
I have one of these and it's cursed. I can't figure out a good way to get rid of it. Thinking about burying it in the backyard.
Those cases are so rare you could sell it for quite a bit even if nothing inside works. People want them because the newer AlienWare cases are garbage. You can even put a standard Micro-ATX board in it.
I noticed you swapped the RAM. Was that the reason it didn't want to boot?
Swapped the ram to a faster 1600mhz than the 1333mhz that was in there. The power switch was faulty and common in this model.
Hey man hope your doing well, My optiplex 755 with a q6600 and windows 10 only shows one core one thread do you have and idea how to solve this issue.
Never ran into that before. Is it bsel tape modded by chance? Did you update the bios? Maybe check windows boot up to see what's enabled. I really haven't come across that even when the bsel mod goes wrong it underclocks the cpu it doesn't remove cores.
@@modstek I did do the tape method, I've done it a few times in the past but I took it off last night to see if it would fix it and the pc would turn off and on off and on off and on so I cut power a few times and the power supply popped so I unplugged it and took every component out besided the 300gb 2008 western digital drive. And it sucks too I just bought this HD 7570 for my girlfriend and I blew up the pc.
I also updated the bios from dells website, I was checking in the bios while troubleshooting but nothing was working, I also changed the cr2032 battery maybe that couldn't had something to do with it but I don't know
HOW DID YOU GET WINDOWS 10 ON IT I've been trying to windows 10 on my r3 for awhile
Two ways actually I had a ssd with windows 10 on it already to see if the motherboard was still good and then reinstalled it with Rufus via USB. Make sure bios is updated and no security features enabled and then set up windows with Rufus switching to bios and older computers.
i woul love too redtore my alienware alpha but the motrher board or cpu went bad i htink it is the board and cpu both parts are bad i put my cpu in my friend alien where alpha did not boot up or work . we own the same machine and same cpu
Do you think you'll start using Linux distros more now that Windows 11 requires TPM 2.0? I saw an article that the said Linux with Proton is able to play 70% of the top 50 Steam games.
I have no problems switching to Linux mint or something. I have been using this tweaked version of windows 10 and I love it. Has a toolbox withghostspectre.the-ninja.jp/20H2.X64.html everything you need to set up a pc as well. I'm sure they will come out with a hacked or optimized windows 11
@@modstek I'll be honest, I'm biased. I have a personal vendetta against Microsoft ever since they started killing off my beloved Control Panel. 🤣
Can You mod an Hp z620 or an hp z440 plz!!!!
جميلل
شكرا جزيلا لك
@@modstek
No all thanks to you
it a shame that it will still be in the land fills anyway even most newer computer as well when windows 11 comes out uless you put linux in it
Na...
They dont make em that good no more
Can't sell these and they can't run today's games
Wish i could find one other
I would love to find this computer add to my collection
These units are still selling on ebay for a high price
love the mods!!!...check out my couple vids on my 20$ hp omen...added side window...cut out top hdd cage n got 3 fans in the front....rewired the power button and the front red lights...put in a different mobo...got a r5 1400.....the case...a 2gig rx 550 but i got a msi 1050ti for it at least to sell...o.c. the ram n cpu a lil...runs great...hoping splitter 3.0 from china will let me use front usb and type c..ever seen a 11 pin mobo audio?i didnt plug it into the mobo 9 pin cause i didnt kno if it was wired ok...has the missing pin in the right spot but 2 extra pins on the end...ever seen that?....also the type c on front is mobo 3.0 plus the 2 usb are 3.0....i have a splitter coming but it also has a usb c power to power the type c...guess i hook it to the motherboard usn pins...thanks for any help if you have any idea on that 11 pin audio...i talk about it all in my couple vids of the hp omen...love the vids!!
Link?