Good to see your human malware didn't affect your pun generation. I have a bunch of medical issues and a mate says if my pun generation stops, he's worried. Lol
Around 3:45 - The reason the sound card would need a connector from the PSU is because, at this time, HP often bundled these systems with a complete set of peripherals which included unpowered speakers. The idea was that the PC's sound card would have its own amplifier to drive the speakers - I have come across slightly later Pentium III/4 era systems that have a label on the back which indicates "powered speakers required for sound" or something similar.
Had a set to match this exact system back in the day. For unpowered speakers, they could actually get pretty loud and sounded fairly decent. This was our main computer for many years growing up.
That first system is the pinnacle of DOS retro gaming rigs... Despite being designed for Win95. Socket7 Pentium1 w/MMX is very special to DOS... Ever since Phil and the Vogons guys showed us the setmul utility. That mobo with the 430TX chipset is fabulous... USB ports are not common for Pentium1. The second ISA slot would allow for a -5V Voltage Blaster, to run a good SoundBlaster. The onboard ATI graphics would save a slot on a 2D card, for running a Voodoo 1 or 2. When I was a teenager in 1996 my first high-end system was extremely similar. I had a Gateway P5-200 MMX Full-Tower. The similarly disguised ASUS mobo had a 430VX chipset, also with a couple early USB ports. Though I'm fairly sure it had an S3 Trio 64 of some variety as it's onboard graphics. If I had known back then what I know now, especially that the P1 MMX era would become my bread and butter... I would have pimped that rig to it's max potential, and gamed like mad on it, as if it was going out of style... Because it went out of style real fast. Always trying to get my hands on another one of that exact model... But they just never show up. I still kick myself that I tore it down for parts and recycled it.
Trigem was an OEM based in South Korea that was in a joint venture with eMachines from 1998-2004 I believe. They manufactured all in ones and many other computers also mainly for the South Korean market up until 2010 until going out of business. Strange to see them supplying HP with a hard drive though.
Glad to see your feeling better! I loved the style of the 6535! I remember messaging all my friends on aim on mine. The matching crt monitor had a built in microphone and the setup had an optional matching webcam as well! It came with computer speakers made by Polk audio and they sounded amazing! I gave my entire setup to a friend when I upgraded to a compaq 4090us with windows me. I loved the 6535! It was very reliable! I’m amazed of the condition of this one and glad to see it survived to see another day!
Great stuff Mike 👍🏻 Enjoy these videos immensely… Was wondering when a new video was to come out… Passing on the great word about this channel to others.. Cheers 🍻 From the U.K 🇬🇧
Pushing the door closed on drives is what causes them to fail over time, should always use the switch. If discs stick, there's a little gripper on the spindle top and it gets filthy, and sometimes they are some material that degrades and becomes a sticky mess. It's a particular problem in plextor drives and the disc will get stuck and the tray won't open.
Hoping you get better soon Mike! I actually was a computer technician at the Huntsville Alabama plant that made those translucent Pavillion computers. Very problematic machines. How I remember those huge racks of testing and hard drive mirroring processes.
TriGem always makes me think of eMachines, which was the first computer I bought in 2002 after my work laptop died. There was some relation, so I wonder if that hard drive might have been from one of those originally.
I had a few of those systems with translucent panels, they called it the "Skywalker " chassis. Love the CD storage on top. Asus was the OEM for the MB. My top one had a slot 1 P3 533 with 96MB of ram and CD burner. ATI rage onboard graphics and 20GB HDD. Bought my daughter the smaller version with a celeron CPU and 64MB of ram, dog of a system but I got it cheap ( for the time ). I do miss the P3 one, brings back my day on Napster on NetZero dial up
AWWW YEAH! 90'S HPs, BABY! Been waiting for this one... System 1: Is that a CD-ROM drive, or an out of balance washing machine? System 2: Cards: The modem/soundcard combo from these models were absolutely terrible. I had to replace so damn many of them back in the day. Zip Drive: "Zip drive made by, who else, Iomega?" Answer: NEC had a license to build them. I have an NEC-manufactured Zip drive in my collection. Power Supply: You're welcome! Nothing like having a spare just in case! System 3: Power Supply: Technically speaking, it is a "standard" ATX power supply. It just happens to be a lot shorter in depth than the "original specification". The closest you can get to replacing one of these, barring finding a used one, is an SFX power supply with an SFX-ATX adapter plate. (I say "original specification" because these days there is a plethora of power supplies that are significantly longer in depth than the original spec.) System 4: Celeron: "That's looking Celeronni." Celeronni... the San Francisco treat! Lack of slots and Costcutting: Yeah, small Celeron HPs were designed to be cheap and basic, with a capital C. Not designed for enthusiasts or power users whatsoever. Hard Drive: This one is REALLY throwing me for a loop. The serial number of the computer starts with a KR, which means it was built in South Korea. I know TriGem was one of the OEMs that HP farmed their manufacturing out to in the late 90's and early 2000's, and the motherboard is a TriGem Cognac motherboard (fairly widely used on Socket 370 HPs)... But the drive does NOT bear an HP Spares part label, and I have never seen a TriGem-branded drive in any HP, ever. It looks to me like that hard drive may be original-ish. My two hunches are as follows: 1) Drive is original, and the machine was part of a VERY early production run that didn't have proper labeling available or 2) Drive is not original, machine failed either at QC or delivery, and ended up in the hands of a refurbishment facility, which used a random drive. I'd kinda lean towards the former because I also see no spares label on the ram, motherboard, optical drive, or floppy drive.
The first computer I ever got new was from my grandmother. It was an HP Pavilion 6635. It was reliable and I still have it in my closet for some MSFS2004 awesomeness. :) I love your videos!
I bought a hp 8240 in February of 1998 when I turned 16. I save for a year mowing lawns and scraping every penny I could to buy a pc. If i recall it was around $1500 with a I think a 15in crt. The nostalgia I have been looking for one to play with and run some old dos games that friends and I would play.
I have one of those HP bubble computers mine is pavilion 6736 from 2000 and runs windows ME. I still have EM on it as this identical to first PC I ever used. When I got it the Samsung CD-rom drive was completely dead so I swapped in another from an HP bubble system that had a dead motherboard.
Great video. Just got one of those stubby translucent dealies (HP 6735) from a barn find along with the 17' HP monitor... took some effort to clean up and reseat everything properly with new thermal paste, but it's running now. We sold lots of these at Staples in the late '90s and early '00s. It's a Celeron 633 with a loud PSU fan that's most likely to die first. Still, glad to have it and I may drop a Pentium III in when I find a cheap one.
I had the 3rd one on the right with the flip up hinge. Brings back memories! I think mine was a 533Mhz Celeron at the time. Maybe 32MB of memory.... Takes me back.
miketech... this one's on you! i actually found my first system to restore! i bought for 4$ at a recycling center. it was complete besides it missing the hard drive. sadly came with a defective floppy drive and dvd drive. they didnt want to work. your advice really helped. if i wouldnt have watched any of your videos, i would have plugged it into my wall blindly. but, i thoroughly checked through all the parts to make sure i have a non-lethal machine. i did manage to get it to run windows XP. this stuff that you do, its really cool! one day i hope to do more stuff like this.
Thank you for the informative video. Hope you get well soon . Greetings from Poland . 👍🤝 Dziękuję za pouczający film . Życze powrotu do zdrowia . Pozdrawiam z Polski . 👋
Usually I never find any Samsung drives working. ODD, FDD or HDD, usually they are all broken... I find that Samsung PC hardware is not that good or reliable...
a sacreficial AOL CD hahaha ... YES the human malware makes you sound better ... Edit: I had the bigger brother of the last one, with the PSU in the standard spot
PowerPC! What about finding PowerPC Macintosh computers? Wouldn't it be so cool to "renew" old school PowerPC macs. Please let my idea come to life, PLEASE!
30:53 the faceplate of that HP burner looks very Mitsumi. Like a CR-4802TE, CR-480ATE, CR-2600TE or other from around the same few years. I have a 8x read 2x write model somewhere from back in the day with the same pill-shaped eject button, raised bar across the bottom and flip-down door.
That third one looks just like the first computer I purchased with my own money, back in the year 2000. P3533 4g ram and I think the HDD was a 30 gig WD Black. IDE. (PS: I'd format your hard drive any day)
Lots of good memories playing AoE on a friend's Compaq which also had this bubble styling. I often think about computers in this style of chassis as ones that ran Windows 98, got upgraded to Windows XP, and always ran like crap because of it!
I've had an HP Pavilion 8580c desktop since I was about 8 years old. Still have its original mobo transfered into a later HP Pavilion 8756c case that's next to my bed and in working condition 25 years after it was built. These were great little machines, and I even used the case of one till 2016 as a portable full atx case that fit in a suitcase for my main pc back then, too. TSA kept stopping me to ask what was in it, though. 😂
Fair play to the previous owner of S4 for getting use out of a system that would have been a decade old at that point. Seeing XP on a 9x based machine was a surprise too! (although seeing as it was designed for 98, this machine would've been 2-3 years old by the time XP came out)
I worked at a warranty repair and refurbish facility for Asus in the early 2000's, only once have i ever come across a zip drive that wasnt Iomega, it was a LaCie external zip drive, and im pretty sure that was just Iomega guts in a lacie enclosure, I wonder if iomega had the format for zip under patent for the entire time it was a relevant format.
Hey Cutie, sorry to hear about your malware infection. I got my Covid and influenza vaccine (virus definition update?) the other day and felt like I got ran over the next day but now I’m fine again fortunately.
Get well Mikey bro i am also getting over flu amazing how your not immune what ever planet side your on, keep up with the vids brah most enjoyable ( in non wierd way) *pun* , love ya vid's mate keep em comming brah :)
I've heard that Intel has come out with a new successor to the Celeron called the Intel Moron. Its for your friends and neighbors that don't know any better.
I want to see him teardown some early 2000's enthusiast systems, wish i had kept mine from that era but a series of small apartments taught me to downsize old posessions.
Cool, I actually had a 4550Z, that very same Pavilion model. It came with a Maxtor 10 GB hard drive (I remember, because I changed it out for a bigger hard drive). $999.00 at my local Office Depot in 1999. Also, I remember I put an AGP video card in it. You had to switch 2 jumpers, to tell the computer to go to the AGP slot for video instead of the motherboard video, which was an ATI Rage IIc with 4 mb of video RAM, if I remember right.
Good to see you Mike ! And, OMG, I definitely always enjoy biceps action everytime it happens when you lift some PCs or case covers. 👍😜💪 Please accept my greetings, from France. Nicolas
I used to have one like the one on the right which was running Windows XP. Since 2021, I've been getting the flu shot every year after I got sick in March 2020 (before the COVID shutdown)
I still have a couple of those translucent HP towers at my parent's house. This video made me a bit nostalgic for that era of computers. I know everything today is about perfectly machined all metal cases but I still have a fondness for those colored plastic pieces and the rounded shapes of the front facade. Thanks for another great video!
Glad you’re feeling better. We all had a human malware disruption here too. I had just gotten a human malware vaccine. I remember seeing systems like this in the stores. The disc door in the third system sounded like a fart. I’m glad your sense of humor is intact, you crack me up! I’m a fan of the systems that have a grayish transparent front. They always called to me. Happy you’re back in action, I’ve missed your videos.
PNY is (and was) first and foremost a memory manufacturer. In addition to those Voodoos, they've also made GeForce cards. I have a PNY Verto FX5200 in my Win98 machine.
I once left a screwdriver on a open PSU (I think I was making an N64 power adapter) when I was distracted or something, it fell inside and arced like crazy, looked like lightning and had all the hair on my body standing.
Removable mobo trays is a such great design, you see this PCs from the past and ALL of them was designed to be serviceable. You look at todays cases and mobo designs and it's like they were make to hate the user.... Ever tried taking out a big current GPU (330mm, 3 slots) installed on the first PCI-E slot while having a current heatsink that covers 30% of the mobo that leaves no gap between it and the GPU? yep... once the GPU gets inserted and it's locked by the SLOT... good luck taking it out without having taking everything apart first. My solution is always tie a fishing line to the PCIe lock so I can pull the damn thing to release the GPU. It's just bad designs... I miss those days where everything is: "if you pull this thinggy and it realeases that thinggy"
The last system was used until 2009? Well, I have an eMachines eTower 466i with the same Intel Celeron 466MHz as the last system, though it has 512MB PC133 RAM and a Seagate 40GB HDD (upgraded from original 64MB PC100 [or was it PC66?] RAM and TriGem 6.4GB HDD). I actively used that PC with Windows XP Pro SP3 intul June 2015! I even used to watch RUclips videos on it, though it did struggle a lot. Still have it and it's working. It had stabillity issues for years, I had no idea what it was, but a few months ago it truned out on of the RAM sticks was faulty (completely stopped booting and after removing one of the sticks it worked), now it again has two good 256MB PC133 sticks of RAM.
That first pavillion was my first custom modded pc. I cut a hole in the side and made a window and painted the outer shell to be electric blue with gloss black drive covers. Mine was a hand me down from my dads boss and was my first pentium 2 system. I was thrilled because my old pentium couldnt play half-life uplink. I played uplink for a half a year until i could talk my dad into a 3dfx voodoo 2 card. This point in my life was like a religeous experince.
Get a bottle of MG Chemicals "Rubber Renue" (yes, spelt right). Make sure you open the window when using! I've used it for 70s and earlier tape decks & turntables on all the rubber parts, belts & idler wheels! BTW, Im the original owner of an HP 760n (exterior perfect, I updated h/w & s/w a while back)
I had the innards of a Pavilion 4450 inside a 6535 machine that ate it. the case was the best part, bit roomier than the 4450. XP Home flew on it with 512MB of RAM and an 80-gig drive, but had to also add in an AGP graphics card of some flavor because the onboard video was terrible.
In 2000 when I was 2 or 3 we had a bubble Pavilion exactly like the 3rd one from the left that ran Windows 98 and had the Plus package that we used until the fall of 2005 when we got a Dell Dimension with Winxp Media Center Edition 2005. When I was 13 I unfortunately thought it would be awesome to destroy it. I will never destroy an old pc of ours again.
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You didn't need thermal compound for Socket 7 CPU's. Many of them that I use to build didn't include a TIM until the Pentium II era. I started using thermal compound with AMD Athlon's and Pentium 4's.
Ok what about this for mishearing words. Mike, you said "ASUSee in general". I heard "Assusian general". Could that have been an alien warlord of some kind? 🙂
Mach 64 video cards always were the first thing to disable, they put them in everything. They stink. The Teac cd drives are great drives, among the best. The HP cdrw sounds like that.... it's weird but true. Rock solid drives.
decent designs of these systems, but I had a few friends in college with these out-of-box and they were terribly slow even with RAM uppgrades and reimaging (about all I knew how to do before learning the ins and out at IT college)
Good to see your human malware didn't affect your pun generation. I have a bunch of medical issues and a mate says if my pun generation stops, he's worried. Lol
time to do the smoke test
Around 3:45 - The reason the sound card would need a connector from the PSU is because, at this time, HP often bundled these systems with a complete set of peripherals which included unpowered speakers. The idea was that the PC's sound card would have its own amplifier to drive the speakers - I have come across slightly later Pentium III/4 era systems that have a label on the back which indicates "powered speakers required for sound" or something similar.
Had a set to match this exact system back in the day. For unpowered speakers, they could actually get pretty loud and sounded fairly decent. This was our main computer for many years growing up.
That first system is the pinnacle of DOS retro gaming rigs... Despite being designed for Win95.
Socket7 Pentium1 w/MMX is very special to DOS... Ever since Phil and the Vogons guys showed us the setmul utility.
That mobo with the 430TX chipset is fabulous... USB ports are not common for Pentium1.
The second ISA slot would allow for a -5V Voltage Blaster, to run a good SoundBlaster.
The onboard ATI graphics would save a slot on a 2D card, for running a Voodoo 1 or 2.
When I was a teenager in 1996 my first high-end system was extremely similar. I had a Gateway P5-200 MMX Full-Tower. The similarly disguised ASUS mobo had a 430VX chipset, also with a couple early USB ports. Though I'm fairly sure it had an S3 Trio 64 of some variety as it's onboard graphics.
If I had known back then what I know now, especially that the P1 MMX era would become my bread and butter... I would have pimped that rig to it's max potential, and gamed like mad on it, as if it was going out of style... Because it went out of style real fast.
Always trying to get my hands on another one of that exact model... But they just never show up. I still kick myself that I tore it down for parts and recycled it.
I see a Bestec PSU, I see a time bomb. I had to replace SO many of those in emachines desktops in the 00s. Chuck it! Another great video, Mike.
"...this thing was being held together by hopes and dreams..."
Hey Mike, don't knock it! ... It's how I got this far in life! 🙂
I've been telling everyone I know about this channel. Your presentation and knowledge are top tier.
Trigem was an OEM based in South Korea that was in a joint venture with eMachines from 1998-2004 I believe. They manufactured all in ones and many other computers also mainly for the South Korean market up until 2010 until going out of business. Strange to see them supplying HP with a hard drive though.
Glad to see your feeling better! I loved the style of the 6535! I remember messaging all my friends on aim on mine. The matching crt monitor had a built in microphone and the setup had an optional matching webcam as well! It came with computer speakers made by Polk audio and they sounded amazing! I gave my entire setup to a friend when I upgraded to a compaq 4090us with windows me. I loved the 6535! It was very reliable! I’m amazed of the condition of this one and glad to see it survived to see another day!
Great stuff Mike 👍🏻 Enjoy these videos immensely… Was wondering when a new video was to come out… Passing on the great word about this channel to others.. Cheers 🍻 From the U.K 🇬🇧
It's always a great day when MikeTech uploads! Love those little gremlin baby ATs, wish that form factor and removable tray would come back.
I absolutely love how the last system glows with the power and hard drive leds
Pushing the door closed on drives is what causes them to fail over time, should always use the switch. If discs stick, there's a little gripper on the spindle top and it gets filthy, and sometimes they are some material that degrades and becomes a sticky mess. It's a particular problem in plextor drives and the disc will get stuck and the tray won't open.
I love these late 90's HP Computers. My first PC was an HP Pavilion 4540! I still have it along with a 6545C I acquired a few years ago.
Hoping you get better soon Mike! I actually was a computer technician at the Huntsville Alabama plant that made those translucent Pavillion computers. Very problematic machines. How I remember those huge racks of testing and hard drive mirroring processes.
i had that last one, it was so great. I loved it. Spent a many hours sitting in chat rooms and Napster .... lol
I absolutely LOVED those style HP system. I had a Pavilion 6XXX series growing up. A gem to me.
4'th case, i had an identical one, back in the days, nice to see they still exists😊
TriGem always makes me think of eMachines, which was the first computer I bought in 2002 after my work laptop died. There was some relation, so I wonder if that hard drive might have been from one of those originally.
Trigem made emachines for them.
25:30 beautiful disc drive, loving that !
I had a few of those systems with translucent panels, they called it the "Skywalker " chassis. Love the CD storage on top. Asus was the OEM for the MB. My top one had a slot 1 P3 533 with 96MB of ram and CD burner. ATI rage onboard graphics and 20GB HDD. Bought my daughter the smaller version with a celeron CPU and 64MB of ram, dog of a system but I got it cheap ( for the time ). I do miss the P3 one, brings back my day on Napster on NetZero dial up
AWWW YEAH! 90'S HPs, BABY! Been waiting for this one...
System 1:
Is that a CD-ROM drive, or an out of balance washing machine?
System 2:
Cards: The modem/soundcard combo from these models were absolutely terrible. I had to replace so damn many of them back in the day.
Zip Drive: "Zip drive made by, who else, Iomega?" Answer: NEC had a license to build them. I have an NEC-manufactured Zip drive in my collection.
Power Supply: You're welcome! Nothing like having a spare just in case!
System 3:
Power Supply: Technically speaking, it is a "standard" ATX power supply. It just happens to be a lot shorter in depth than the "original specification". The closest you can get to replacing one of these, barring finding a used one, is an SFX power supply with an SFX-ATX adapter plate. (I say "original specification" because these days there is a plethora of power supplies that are significantly longer in depth than the original spec.)
System 4:
Celeron: "That's looking Celeronni." Celeronni... the San Francisco treat!
Lack of slots and Costcutting: Yeah, small Celeron HPs were designed to be cheap and basic, with a capital C. Not designed for enthusiasts or power users whatsoever.
Hard Drive: This one is REALLY throwing me for a loop. The serial number of the computer starts with a KR, which means it was built in South Korea. I know TriGem was one of the OEMs that HP farmed their manufacturing out to in the late 90's and early 2000's, and the motherboard is a TriGem Cognac motherboard (fairly widely used on Socket 370 HPs)... But the drive does NOT bear an HP Spares part label, and I have never seen a TriGem-branded drive in any HP, ever. It looks to me like that hard drive may be original-ish. My two hunches are as follows: 1) Drive is original, and the machine was part of a VERY early production run that didn't have proper labeling available or 2) Drive is not original, machine failed either at QC or delivery, and ended up in the hands of a refurbishment facility, which used a random drive. I'd kinda lean towards the former because I also see no spares label on the ram, motherboard, optical drive, or floppy drive.
awesome video as always, keep up the fantastic work Mike.
I saw this video was posted and all I could say was "yesssssss"
glad to see you're back, love those strange looking hp cases from the 90s
To remove scuffs from plastics use just some water and a magic eraser Make sure not to scrub too hard otherwise you'll take away labeling and paint..
The first computer I ever got new was from my grandmother. It was an HP Pavilion 6635. It was reliable and I still have it in my closet for some MSFS2004 awesomeness. :) I love your videos!
Thanks! I’m so glad you still have it. A system to be cherished!
I bought a hp 8240 in February of 1998 when I turned 16. I save for a year mowing lawns and scraping every penny I could to buy a pc. If i recall it was around $1500 with a I think a 15in crt. The nostalgia I have been looking for one to play with and run some old dos games that friends and I would play.
37:20 "Fortunately, the motherboard tray is removable."
I have one of those HP bubble computers mine is pavilion 6736 from 2000 and runs windows ME. I still have EM on it as this identical to first PC I ever used. When I got it the Samsung CD-rom drive was completely dead so I swapped in another from an HP bubble system that had a dead motherboard.
16:42 Now THATS a smol boi!
Anyways,keep up the good work!
what a hunk ! hummfff ! :)
so much dedication for a cd-rom drive! love it! :)
Great video. Just got one of those stubby translucent dealies (HP 6735) from a barn find along with the 17' HP monitor... took some effort to clean up and reseat everything properly with new thermal paste, but it's running now. We sold lots of these at Staples in the late '90s and early '00s. It's a Celeron 633 with a loud PSU fan that's most likely to die first. Still, glad to have it and I may drop a Pentium III in when I find a cheap one.
I had the 3rd one on the right with the flip up hinge. Brings back memories! I think mine was a 533Mhz Celeron at the time. Maybe 32MB of memory.... Takes me back.
Wish I could find computers the way you do
I remember having an Aptiva with Pentium MMX 166, it had two USB and after I upgraded to Win98, they worked just fine. :)
my favorite computer hunk blessed us with a new video
miketech... this one's on you! i actually found my first system to restore! i bought for 4$ at a recycling center. it was complete besides it missing the hard drive. sadly came with a defective floppy drive and dvd drive. they didnt want to work. your advice really helped. if i wouldnt have watched any of your videos, i would have plugged it into my wall blindly. but, i thoroughly checked through all the parts to make sure i have a non-lethal machine. i did manage to get it to run windows XP. this stuff that you do, its really cool! one day i hope to do more stuff like this.
Thank you for the informative video. Hope you get well soon . Greetings from Poland . 👍🤝 Dziękuję za pouczający film . Życze powrotu do zdrowia . Pozdrawiam z Polski . 👋
Woohoo, a new video! And with old, and reliable, HPs!
I would totally put a modern system in the case of the first machine.
Usually I never find any Samsung drives working. ODD, FDD or HDD, usually they are all broken... I find that Samsung PC hardware is not that good or reliable...
SWEET! Love the bubbles!
a sacreficial AOL CD hahaha ... YES the human malware makes you sound better ... Edit: I had the bigger brother of the last one, with the PSU in the standard spot
PowerPC! What about finding PowerPC Macintosh computers? Wouldn't it be so cool to "renew" old school PowerPC macs. Please let my idea come to life, PLEASE!
30:53 the faceplate of that HP burner looks very Mitsumi. Like a CR-4802TE, CR-480ATE, CR-2600TE or other from around the same few years. I have a 8x read 2x write model somewhere from back in the day with the same pill-shaped eject button, raised bar across the bottom and flip-down door.
The first "modern" PC I purchased was a Pentium 233 w/ MMX Played a lot of Abe's Odyssey and Jane's Longbow Gold on that rig.
That third one looks just like the first computer I purchased with my own money, back in the year 2000. P3533 4g ram and I think the HDD was a 30 gig WD Black. IDE. (PS: I'd format your hard drive any day)
I love these motherboards with dedicated 3D onboard video. 👑
Lots of good memories playing AoE on a friend's Compaq which also had this bubble styling. I often think about computers in this style of chassis as ones that ran Windows 98, got upgraded to Windows XP, and always ran like crap because of it!
TriGem is best known in the USA for the eMachines brand and HP using their motherboards, the same ones used in eMachines.
My mom had one of those small HP bubble systems with Windows ME, I hated that thing
I've had an HP Pavilion 8580c desktop since I was about 8 years old. Still have its original mobo transfered into a later HP Pavilion 8756c case that's next to my bed and in working condition 25 years after it was built. These were great little machines, and I even used the case of one till 2016 as a portable full atx case that fit in a suitcase for my main pc back then, too. TSA kept stopping me to ask what was in it, though. 😂
Fair play to the previous owner of S4 for getting use out of a system that would have been a decade old at that point.
Seeing XP on a 9x based machine was a surprise too! (although seeing as it was designed for 98, this machine would've been 2-3 years old by the time XP came out)
I worked at a warranty repair and refurbish facility for Asus in the early 2000's, only once have i ever come across a zip drive that wasnt Iomega, it was a LaCie external zip drive, and im pretty sure that was just Iomega guts in a lacie enclosure, I wonder if iomega had the format for zip under patent for the entire time it was a relevant format.
Hey Cutie, sorry to hear about your malware infection. I got my Covid and influenza vaccine (virus definition update?) the other day and felt like I got ran over the next day but now I’m fine again fortunately.
Get well Mikey bro i am also getting over flu amazing how your not immune what ever planet side your on, keep up with the vids brah most enjoyable ( in non wierd way) *pun* , love ya vid's mate keep em comming brah :)
OMG UR BACK YAY... So glad ur feeling better
I've heard that Intel has come out with a new successor to the Celeron called the Intel Moron. Its for your friends and neighbors that don't know any better.
I want to see him teardown some early 2000's enthusiast systems, wish i had kept mine from that era but a series of small apartments taught me to downsize old posessions.
Welcome back 👍
Cool, I actually had a 4550Z, that very same Pavilion model. It came with a Maxtor 10 GB hard drive (I remember, because I changed it out for a bigger hard drive). $999.00 at my local Office Depot in 1999. Also, I remember I put an AGP video card in it. You had to switch 2 jumpers, to tell the computer to go to the AGP slot for video instead of the motherboard video, which was an ATI Rage IIc with 4 mb of video RAM, if I remember right.
I hope you will get better soon. Currently installing Windows 2000 on a Dell Optiplex GX1 !❤
Can you record a 2 hour special for Christmas please? :D
Good to see you Mike ! And, OMG, I definitely always enjoy biceps action everytime it happens when you lift some PCs or case covers. 👍😜💪
Please accept my greetings, from France.
Nicolas
29:45 bro stop confusing B with 8 😅😅 Its Asus P2B, not P28
10:25 That would be a ruined bearing, probably a motor bearing..
Those are some pretty futuristic cases for the late 90s
these are the styles I learned how to internet on, super hype for this video.
I used to have one like the one on the right which was running Windows XP. Since 2021, I've been getting the flu shot every year after I got sick in March 2020 (before the COVID shutdown)
I’ve never had it this bad before as far as I can remember. Never skipping the flu shot again!
I still have a couple of those translucent HP towers at my parent's house. This video made me a bit nostalgic for that era of computers. I know everything today is about perfectly machined all metal cases but I still have a fondness for those colored plastic pieces and the rounded shapes of the front facade. Thanks for another great video!
Glad you’re feeling better. We all had a human malware disruption here too. I had just gotten a human malware vaccine. I remember seeing systems like this in the stores. The disc door in the third system sounded like a fart. I’m glad your sense of humor is intact, you crack me up! I’m a fan of the systems that have a grayish transparent front. They always called to me. Happy you’re back in action, I’ve missed your videos.
The revision 2 Celerons were pretty good, often better than the Pentium 2 in some applications.
(I'd still go with a Super 7 and K6-3 all day though)
That RAM on the first system is from PNY. They are still around.
38:41 this there tells me that this PC is specifically made for KDE in mind
At 4:42 if I recall, PNY are/were a hardware manufacturer. They made graphics cards of the Voodoo/Voodoo2 variety.
PNY is still very much alive, making mostly memory and flash drive products.
PNY is (and was) first and foremost a memory manufacturer. In addition to those Voodoos, they've also made GeForce cards. I have a PNY Verto FX5200 in my Win98 machine.
I once left a screwdriver on a open PSU (I think I was making an N64 power adapter) when I was distracted or something, it fell inside and arced like crazy, looked like lightning and had all the hair on my body standing.
Removable mobo trays is a such great design, you see this PCs from the past and ALL of them was designed to be serviceable.
You look at todays cases and mobo designs and it's like they were make to hate the user.... Ever tried taking out a big current GPU (330mm, 3 slots) installed on the first PCI-E slot while having a current heatsink that covers 30% of the mobo that leaves no gap between it and the GPU? yep... once the GPU gets inserted and it's locked by the SLOT... good luck taking it out without having taking everything apart first. My solution is always tie a fishing line to the PCIe lock so I can pull the damn thing to release the GPU. It's just bad designs...
I miss those days where everything is: "if you pull this thinggy and it realeases that thinggy"
as a fellow mike with the same hobby i approve! this is awesome
That first pc was built the day I turned 1
Good vid. Good vid thumbnail. 💯
WoW windows 95 with USB
Google was founded in 1998 and just celebrated its 25th birthday
LG is not high quality lol
LG is high quality....
.... Compared to HiVal....
The last system was used until 2009? Well, I have an eMachines eTower 466i with the same Intel Celeron 466MHz as the last system, though it has 512MB PC133 RAM and a Seagate 40GB HDD (upgraded from original 64MB PC100 [or was it PC66?] RAM and TriGem 6.4GB HDD). I actively used that PC with Windows XP Pro SP3 intul June 2015! I even used to watch RUclips videos on it, though it did struggle a lot. Still have it and it's working. It had stabillity issues for years, I had no idea what it was, but a few months ago it truned out on of the RAM sticks was faulty (completely stopped booting and after removing one of the sticks it worked), now it again has two good 256MB PC133 sticks of RAM.
That first pavillion was my first custom modded pc. I cut a hole in the side and made a window and painted the outer shell to be electric blue with gloss black drive covers. Mine was a hand me down from my dads boss and was my first pentium 2 system. I was thrilled because my old pentium couldnt play half-life uplink. I played uplink for a half a year until i could talk my dad into a 3dfx voodoo 2 card. This point in my life was like a religeous experince.
Get a bottle of MG Chemicals "Rubber Renue" (yes, spelt right). Make sure you open the window when using! I've used it for 70s and earlier tape decks & turntables on all the rubber parts, belts & idler wheels!
BTW, Im the original owner of an HP 760n (exterior perfect, I updated h/w & s/w a while back)
"pinocchio style eject button" has been added to my internal dialogue. glad to see you back kitchen ace and taking names
I had the innards of a Pavilion 4450 inside a 6535 machine that ate it. the case was the best part, bit roomier than the 4450. XP Home flew on it with 512MB of RAM and an 80-gig drive, but had to also add in an AGP graphics card of some flavor because the onboard video was terrible.
Me and my brother watches your channel. Happy you are up and about again. We were suffering some withdrawal symptoms...
In 2000 when I was 2 or 3 we had a bubble Pavilion exactly like the 3rd one from the left that ran Windows 98 and had the Plus package that we used until the fall of 2005 when we got a Dell Dimension with Winxp Media Center Edition 2005. When I was 13 I unfortunately thought it would be awesome to destroy it. I will never destroy an old pc of ours again.
still cyute as ever
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Matthew 5:9
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damn, that first board is JUNK.
No L2 cache makes it pretty much useless...
i like the hp 4550z 16:42
You didn't need thermal compound for Socket 7 CPU's. Many of them that I use to build didn't include a TIM until the Pentium II era. I started using thermal compound with AMD Athlon's and Pentium 4's.
Ok what about this for mishearing words. Mike, you said "ASUSee in general". I heard "Assusian general". Could that have been an alien warlord of some kind? 🙂
Apparently trigem manufactured e machines according to wiki
Mach 64 video cards always were the first thing to disable, they put them in everything. They stink. The Teac cd drives are great drives, among the best. The HP cdrw sounds like that.... it's weird but true. Rock solid drives.
decent designs of these systems, but I had a few friends in college with these out-of-box and they were terribly slow even with RAM uppgrades and reimaging (about all I knew how to do before learning the ins and out at IT college)