Big thanks to Ridge for sponsoring this video! ridge.com/PSIVEWRI - PS: The systems shows up as being windows ME after a USB driver update. The CPU fan was never touching any IDE cables. Sorry for forgetting to add channel members to the credits! Thanks for watching.
Oh hello there, youtube algorithm sent me here heh. Got a pretty good windows 98 pc myself free a few years ago. AMD K6-2+ 400 mhz (swapped from a pentium mmx 166 mhz overclocked too 200 mhz.) 32 mb edo ram, could use an upgrade too 96 - 128 mb. quantum 4 gb harddrive, had a 60 gb western digital drive from 2006 as a secondary drive & briefly as primary after cloning the operatingsystem onto it, but lost the partition so it refused too boot on the 60 gb drive, but still had all games on the other partition. asus p55t2p4 motherboard, technically doesn't support the processor i put in but it still runs saying its an unknown amd processor lol. 2D gpu: matrox mystique 4 mb some software 3d rendering card, supports like 8 games or something like that & those were only ofc on the included software cd's. 3D gpu: voodoo 1 4 mb from diamond, the monster 3d version, most common one around probably. Soundblaster awe 32 pnp i think it was in this pc. pci to usb addon card which either causes the pc too lock up or its either of the graphics cards that are failing fighting over resources. Bios battery is one of those chips with a built in battery which i haven't bothered doing anything with as it still boots.
In 1997 I was in my mid 20s, and in my early days of working on, and building PCs. Watching videos of these old machines really brings back memories. Thanks for a great trip down memory lane.
What's amazing is that we treat these old throwaway pcs as relics of the past, but as a piece of engineering it's still absolutely incredible that humans made this thing.
3:41 The drive is made in Malaysia, so my country also made the drive. The Malaysia name at the drive in this Psivewri's video when he talking the drive has made on 1997. Thank you, Malaysia for buliding computer system to the world!
I noticed my last CPU purchase still said Malay on it. So I guess Malaysia still has a decent amount of involvement in computer fabrication, even if some parts have been farmed out to other nations for lower costs by now.
Oh, I remember a lot from 1997! One of my favorite years! My 16th birthday, amazing video games came out and the Internet was beginning to become affordable! Beautiful year! Also, I had the same WD Caviar 21600 in my PC back then 😍
Yes when broadband became a thing.. But the infrastructure was still in it's beginning stages and not many people had access despite the competitive prices it brought. Dial Up did become cheaper as well because of this, So yeah you could say the internet became more affordable by that time.. Although still out of reach for many. I was 17 in '97 and we had dial up, None of my friends did and only a few in the family had it.. But none of us had access to the new broadband - Yet.
Man you just took me back in time to my first computer that I had bought exactly that year, 1997. It was a Pentium 200 MMX with a 2.1 GB HDD, 32MB of Ram and exact same graphics card. The monitor of course was a 14” CRT. I just loved viewing this video as you brought the old grandpa back to life. Respect!
I remember being 24 years old too, except I will be 50 next year. Time goes REALLY FAST and then GETS FASTER. I got my own PC in 2000 but first used them in 1996. Oh wait.......my first paid full-time job in 1989 had DOS based computers in the office, which I used to print signage for the shop floor. All text menus and commands and no graphical interface or mouse.
@@Lotusrk123 I love Thinkpads and have about ten laptops, the oldest being a Thinkpad G41 and the newest a W520 2GB Nvidia GPU and 1920 x 1200 etc. Most of them are fully upgraded, and with docking stations. I've turned down loads of models, as they get addictive lol.
A friend of mine here in England, bought a brand new PC in late 1997 from Costco, a Compaq Presario 4504 and it had 16MB SDRAM, 2GB IDE HDD, 1MB VGA onboard chip and came with Windows 95b. It cost around £900 I think.
At that time, RAM requirements were doubling every 2 years. So, 64 megs was pretty high end in 1997 but it was already just OK in 1999 and complete garbage in 2001.
@@АлексейГриднев-и7р Yeah in 2001 I had a K6-2 500MHz with 256MB RAM, 20GB IDE HDD, GeForce2 MX400 64MB and that was respectable but not exactly cutting edge.
I’m an old fart that did a fair bet of gaming back in 1997. In the fall of 97, I spent $3,000 on a Pentium II 300 / 128 MB RAM system. That was a fortune at the time, just to play Quake. I remember the reading about the Cyrix MII processors, but they were inferior in gaming, so I never touched one. Even with a 3D card, the MII processor would have handicapped this system with gaming performance. I could tell by the sound that WD Hard Drive was making, it was dead as Julius Caesar. Nice job restoring this old box. I think I owned s similar case in the 90s. I think everyone did.
You made me feel nostalgic. My first PC in the year 1998 was: Intel Pentium 233Mhz 32MB RAM (later upgraded to 64) 4.2 GB HDD from Seagate Cirrus Logic VGA card with 2MB VRAM Non-ATX Cabinet 230W PSU Daewoo 14" CRT Monitor Logitech PS2 Keyboard and Mouse Opti Sound Card Creative CD-ROM Drive 32X with remote Creative Speakers 2.0 My dad bought me this PC. I miss him so much :(
the interesting thing about this channel is, the quality is timeless. Sometimes I watch these videos thinking its recent, and then I look at it was 3 years ago. Pretty impressive
@@aldwinpanny10 Yes, it looks weird, there is not such retro feeling anymore, that's why I prefer Win ME, it's still enough retro, but it already supports USB flash disks and such things.
I used to love restoring these as they were the easiest to work on. when I used to restore these, I always broke out ALL the blanks in the drive bays and expansion slots (the metal blanks) I also would punch out the serial and parallel slots and mount the RS-232 and printer sockets directly to the chassis. once they came out with the ATX chassis, things got even better! Even the Mother Boards! Love the walk down memory lane! Thank you!
Absolutely perfect. Thank you for refreshing that 24 year-old memories. I had my first pc in 1994 and it was 386 , 25 MHz core freq . when on Turbo mode , 5,25" floppy , 2 MB Ram and 20 MB hdd . I wrote diploma on that ,in Turbo Pascal , text in T602 text editor ....
You should upgrade this machine more than just memory. Put in here gotek floppy emulator, cf2ide adapter, voodoo 1/2&riva tnt or something other and go for ultimate dos machine! :) By the way, greetings from Poland!
Hugs from Portugal, I enjoyed remembering these times, I started using the Internet in February 1997 with a similar computer, and Windows 95, they were different times, Modem 28800Bps, Diskettes, 64Mb of Ram was very good at that time, thank you, remembering is to live. Good year 2023.
Same here, it was all so much more appealing to me back then. Back then, it felt really special to have a computer and discover the online world. Nowadays, tech devices are primarily surveillance and data collection equipment sold to consumers under the false pretenses of enriching and enhancing our lives. The Internet of Things is not a concept that was born to help anyone's lives become easier. Instead, it's automated market research that consumers are paying for.
Agreed, growing up when the Athlon 64 was king, Halo on Xbox was all my downtime, and cellphones only just started to play music, flipped closed, or were built like tanks. Started building a Athlon 64, socket 939, pc from some old parts I found as a counterpart to my more modern Ryzen rig, and a partner for the weird little Sony Mavica FD75 floppy disk camera I've been playing with lately
Don’t know why I like watching these but they are fascinating. It’s cool to see someone know so much about computers and is able to restore these things so professionally :)
I used to have 1 like this as well. My first one, in fact. Intel Pentium I 100 MHz, probably 16 mb of Ram and S3 TRIO64V+ Graphic Card. It was running on Windows 95 and I was able to run games such as Quake, Duke Nukem 3D or Earth Worm Jim quite well! :). That was indeed a decent time!. Perhaps the best time of my life!
This computer is extremely similar to my first PC I've got in July of 1999. Mine came with a Cyrix M-II PR300 (clocked at 233 MHz), 32MB of PC66 RAM, a similar, but smaller mainboard (type TX98-3D by some noname manufacturer) with onboard sound and USB 1.1, a 1MB video card (cannot recall the exact model, but I believe it had 2000 in the name), the same WD Caviar 21600 HDD (meaning it had two platters and 1600MB of capacity) and a 24x CyberDrive CD-ROM. I got rid of it about 4 years later, and was upgraded by quite a bit: AMD K6-III 450 MHz CPU (the best CPU my motherboard had support for), 2x128MB RAM, 20GB Maxtor hard drive, 3dfx Voodoo 3 2000 PCI video card, SoundBlaster Live 5.1 sound card, 3Com PCI Ethernet card, a USB 2.0 card, and a Lite-On 24x10x40x CD burner. I moved to a Pentium III 1 GHz which was at least less obsolete :))
yesterday i was encoding a video, figured out this way that my cpu, when load 100% hits lik 75C, room temp around 20C, not ok, (air cooled), took out my flashlight aim at fan, see too much dust, next day, cleaned up, did another encode run and the temps are now around 64C with max load and 24C ambient room, great stuff, ....so whats the lesson here, dont be lazy and clean ur cpu cooler from time to time especially if u are on air :)
@German Retro Guy Yeah, I don't have neither the computer nor the CRT monitor. 5 years later, I was already regretting that decision, as I was building my first retro PC...
When I saw you have the exact same case on your vintage computer as me, I had to click on this video. My first machine ever was a Cyrix P150+ running at 120Mhz with 16MB RAM and S3 64V+ PCI graphics. It was great for DOS gaming, but, quickly got upgraded to a Cyrix MII-333 with onboard SiS AGP graphics. I never had high end graphics as a kid, but loved those Cyrix processors.
I do restorations of these kind of PCs quite often because it's my hobby. And almost all of the PCs I received for free from friends or friends of friends that had no need for them. They never work when I receive them but so far I managed to revive every one I got. Don't know why why but bringing computers, especially older ones, back to life is quite satisfying
@@wasdagain2553 at the moment I have 6 of them in my room freshly restored during this last month. . When I restore them I usually give them away to friends or their friends who need it for like school or work stuff like doing powerpoint presentations or text stuff.I don't really remember how many computers I restored in total but I'm doing this for the past three years so I think I worked on quite a few of them.
Good thing about a PC like that can easily find a more powerful CPU more ram and bigger HDD and why not a add-on cars or two... You always Talk about Win98. Don't you have win98-SE (second edition) ??
it actually just shows "Windows 98" on the boot screen, even on SE. The unofficial service pack has an option to replace it with one that said Second Edition on it and replaces the cloud background with one that is inspired by XP bliss. Or just replace it with on of your preference.
Older socket 7 machines with K5, K6 or Cyrix chips. At that time Intel was moving over to Slot 1 for their Pentium II, so they left the old socket to the budget crowd.
Yep. Was generally defined as under 1k USD though. So it was only budget compared to the competition. It wasn’t like… $200-400 computers like you find today.
This bring back so much memories. Having build thousands of PCs to sell on eBay and also working at a computer store building and repairing computers it was a great time. The graphics of the games might not look that great but still a joy to play.
Man, I love these restoration videos. I have an old 1996 IBM Aptiva 2176-354 that I (sort of) restored and cleaned up, not entirely sure what to do with it but it's really cool to have. I even have the original keyboard, monitor, mouse and speakers too! Old pcs really are cool.
Man, that all-in-one case cover brings me back, dad and I would put together my PC's when I was a kid, had one that looked a lot like this, but they all did, mighty beige boxes.
My 1st computer (P3 350MHz, 64MB RAM) was built in exactly this grey case with the purple buttons on the front. Great memories. Best regards from Germany 🤩
If you aren't already you might want to try Self Etching Primer for the interiors of cases. It helps the paint adhere better to bare metal. A little trick I learned from painting cars.
I have a 2006 HP Compaq nx7400 with Windows 2000 Professional installed on it. The laptop itself is in amazing condition for a 14 year old laptop. I've always wanted a HP laptop from the early 2000's. Our first computer was a HP Pavilion 9000 series desktop computer with Windows 95. I remember playing Quake on that computer back in 1998. Oh how time files.
Seeing those cases reminds me of my younger years, I think most of my school mates inherited their parents’ Windows 98/Windows ME machine when we were kids.
This is insane, I just happen to own almost the same Computer. I have the same AT case, with the same motherboard. In fact, my system came with almost the same CPU. It's a IBM 6x86mx PR300, but it's being detected as a Cyrix MII PR300. Granted, the expansion cards and some of its peripherals aren't the same, but that's because I upgraded my system. The motherboard is PCChips M571, with the TX pro II chipset, which is just a rebranded SIS 5597/5598 chipset. The board already has integrated graphics and also features a mediocre sound chip, as well as a usb controller. Despite being from PCChips, it's really not the worst motherboard, i've ever seen. In fact, back in the late 90s this was quite a popular choice, for people who wanted to build a cheap system. There were 3 revisions of this board, but only the later revisions were considered as good. This board should support 128mb ram, at least mine does. There was also a rebranded M571 which was known as Amptron PM-9100A.
Good job on this restoration! My first PC in 1997 had a Cyrix M2 processor too (a PR200), 32Mb RAM, and a 2.1GB hard disk. I now have a Core i5 with 20GB RAM and close to 2TB hard disk space. How things change!
These PC's were the ones I used to assemble and fix as a tech many years ago...biggest problem with the old main boards were those cheap capacitors that puffed up and leaked.
I just finished fixing up this old Pentium 2 450mhz HP desktop. It was definitely a fun project. I ended up installing Windows 98SE after cleaning the entire hard drive of course. I also added a Voodoo 3 16mb AGP graphics card, and the sound blaster that it came with was a nice addition. I love seeing these kind of renovations. I will be gaming on it more. I will probably add another stick of ram and turn it into a 256mb beast! Although the manual says it can take up to 700mb of ram, Now that's crazy!
I bought a Tiny pc in October 1997, my first desktop pc as an adult, it cost £1500 and had 32mb ram, a 10gb? hard drive (cant remember if that was the right size), a pentium processor 200mhz (I just missed out on a pentium ll by a few months), a 56.6k modem, a floppy drive, cd rom drive, some bundled software (age of empires, encyclopaedia etc) and it ran windows 95. I thought it was the best thing since sliced bread at the time and a massive upgrade from the Amstrad CPC 664 I had as a child although to be honest that had been a great pc as well in the 80’s for playing games.
Oof, when I saw "Cyrix", I knew it would be a painful ride. Had one of those in my first build. Terrible, even at the time. Really enjoyed the video, though. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
The S3 Trio was one of the first low cost graphics cards that could keep up with full screen video, it came out late 1995 I think and before that you played video in a little window.. I had a PC very similar to that in my shop looping a 3 minute video at VGA 20fps full screen on a 14" color monitor and did a lot of graphics card upgrades that year. It was impressive for it's time.
i have a very similar pc that i restored recently myself too. It has a floppy drive and very small lights and buttons. But its funny pc cases havent changed much since 1997. Apart from the shift from ide to sata cables. Many of these older cases are made of metal rather than plastic. So build quality is not an issue.
64 MB of RAM definitely doesn't sound like a budget PC for 1997! I was in secondary school at that time and our techers decided to buy used computers for all the classrooms - IBM PS/Value Point 486 DX/2 66 MHz with a giant 8 MB of RAM and a 250 MB WD Caviar or IBM hard drive. Windows 95 was really pushing the limits on those computers, I asked if I could downgrade ours to Windows 3.1 and that actually made it usable. Adding a Citizen Swift dot matrix printer someone's parents wanted to get rid of (no sane person still used a dot matrix printer in 1997, except for some very specific tasks that legally required carbon copies) even allowed us to print at school. One of my friends had an all bells and whistles PC built in 2000 and that had 128 MB of RAM, I think a 10 GB hard drive, don't remember the other details. Except one of course - he paid as much for the computer as for a 21" TOTL CRT monitor and then bought the cheapest NVIDIA graphics card so he could afford the fancy monitor! For those who weren't really active computer users then, let me tell you: 21" CRTs were MASSIVE beasts and very expensive! Your average office PC had a 17" CRT running at 1024x768 and that was a fairly recent upgrade from 15" @800x600.
I built my first PC in 1997 and it was pretty similar to that one. I started with a cyrix CPU but had issues with it not working with my soundcard software and traded it for an AMD instead. I think it was soo megahertz. It had 64 megs of ram, creative 4 meg video card, sound blaster 16 clone, 1 gigabyte hard drive. I recall upgrading it several times over the years going to an MMX cpu and getting a 8 meg 3dfx video card down the road.
A painting tip for a more smooth finish for cheap is to sand between some coats not full sanding. Rather my favorite method is to prime, light sanding, reprime, first 2 or 3 coats of final color, sand lightly, add another 2 or 3 coats and sand lightly again. This alone can give it a really really nice finish just make sure for the final sanding to use a really fine sand paper. If you want some added smoothness this is an option but not required is to coat in a clear spray, matt or gloss its up to you.
![Felix "Unfair" | [Stray Kids : SKZ-PLAYER]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Oswujxm2Ag0/mqdefault.jpg)
Big thanks to Ridge for sponsoring this video! ridge.com/PSIVEWRI - PS: The systems shows up as being windows ME after a USB driver update. The CPU fan was never touching any IDE cables. Sorry for forgetting to add channel members to the credits! Thanks for watching.
Good video broo!!!
I like ms dos also the gateway i would put packabell program on it i like it LOL YOU GOT PRANKED MAN
Oh hello there, youtube algorithm sent me here heh.
Got a pretty good windows 98 pc myself free a few years ago.
AMD K6-2+ 400 mhz (swapped from a pentium mmx 166 mhz overclocked too 200 mhz.)
32 mb edo ram, could use an upgrade too 96 - 128 mb.
quantum 4 gb harddrive, had a 60 gb western digital drive from 2006 as a secondary drive & briefly as primary after cloning the operatingsystem onto it, but lost the partition so it refused too boot on the 60 gb drive, but still had all games on the other partition.
asus p55t2p4 motherboard, technically doesn't support the processor i put in but it still runs saying its an unknown amd processor lol.
2D gpu: matrox mystique 4 mb some software 3d rendering card, supports like 8 games or something like that & those were only ofc on the included software cd's.
3D gpu: voodoo 1 4 mb from diamond, the monster 3d version, most common one around probably.
Soundblaster awe 32 pnp i think it was in this pc.
pci to usb addon card which either causes the pc too lock up or its either of the graphics cards that are failing fighting over resources.
Bios battery is one of those chips with a built in battery which i haven't bothered doing anything with as it still boots.
c
You should find one of these old PCs and completely max out the specs.
Perfect, right after school.
I have 1/2 an hour left
Wtf where do u live its 9pm at my country Lmao
@cheesy same
@@haw8638 it 10pm where I live
I get out at 2:15
In 1997 I was in my mid 20s, and in my early days of working on, and building PCs. Watching videos of these old machines really brings back memories. Thanks for a great trip down memory lane.
Nice cat on pfp
2000: WOW you have 1GB ram? that's so good!
2020: how can you use google chrome with 8GB ram that's not even enough.
What's amazing is that we treat these old throwaway pcs as relics of the past, but as a piece of engineering it's still absolutely incredible that humans made this thing.
@@Ahsokaaepchromebooks dont need more than 4 gbs of ram
Most people had 128-256MB in 2000. 1GB was overkill.
16 gb ram dual channel :)
I have 8 gab AND a mechanical hard drive and it can game but it can sometimes crash
Let's power it up!
Cpu fan: HDHSHSHFHNFHSIR
It was the power supply fan, i hate that noise 😂
LOL
@@matiasvarela460 nope. Was the CPU fan.
@@psivewri I know this but on my RetroPC the fan bearing died.
@@psivewri Whaaaaat 😱😂 My power supply makes the same noise!
the pc fan sounds like my mom when I don't magicaly appear to help her in 2 seconds
NoobGyver that made my evening 😂
Is your mom Asian?
@@arwahsapi no but my family has roots in asia from my dad's side, but she is annoying as hell sometimes
@@arwahsapi that isn't specific to Asia.
Branding your Power Supply as “Hyena” is probably one of the least flattering product names I’ve ever seen. It’s like naming a processor as “Snail”
Hey, WD used to name their hard drives "caviar"
Quantum had the Bigfoot. Now that was cool 😎
wheat le !!!1,1,
the processor in this pc could probably be called snail today lol
3:41 The drive is made in Malaysia, so my country also made the drive. The Malaysia name at the drive in this Psivewri's video when he talking the drive has made on 1997. Thank you, Malaysia for buliding computer system to the world!
ok so what
@@mardylans people are allowed to have national pride for countries besides whichever one you live in
I noticed my last CPU purchase still said Malay on it. So I guess Malaysia still has a decent amount of involvement in computer fabrication, even if some parts have been farmed out to other nations for lower costs by now.
Thank you to the USA for inventing and developing the HDD concept. IBM was the first.
LGR might still appreciate this machine
Now in this modern-day, Some Old PC frame can replace and use Classic
Clint has a great channel and I wish him the best, but I prefer to view and support smaller RUclipsrs.
Oh, I remember a lot from 1997! One of my favorite years! My 16th birthday, amazing video games came out and the Internet was beginning to become affordable! Beautiful year!
Also, I had the same WD Caviar 21600 in my PC back then 😍
You born in 1981 and now you have 39?
@@alphaarchive5262 Yeah, exactly
You turned 40 this year
97 FTW!
Yes when broadband became a thing.. But the infrastructure was still in it's beginning stages and not many people had access despite the competitive prices it brought. Dial Up did become cheaper as well because of this, So yeah you could say the internet became more affordable by that time.. Although still out of reach for many. I was 17 in '97 and we had dial up, None of my friends did and only a few in the family had it.. But none of us had access to the new broadband - Yet.
Man you just took me back in time to my first computer that I had bought exactly that year, 1997. It was a Pentium 200 MMX with a 2.1 GB HDD, 32MB of Ram and exact same graphics card. The monitor of course was a 14” CRT. I just loved viewing this video as you brought the old grandpa back to life. Respect!
I remember being 24 years old too, except I will be 50 next year. Time goes REALLY FAST and then GETS FASTER. I got my own PC in 2000 but first used them in 1996. Oh wait.......my first paid full-time job in 1989 had DOS based computers in the office, which I used to print signage for the shop floor. All text menus and commands and no graphical interface or mouse.
1986 I got a IBM 248. Remember those?
@@Lotusrk123 76 computers if you include your own brain! 😂
I'm also turning 50 next year. Been a computer (ab)user since 1983. TI-99/4A, Xerox 820-II, a long string of various PC and Mac boxes.
I am 13.
@@Lotusrk123 I love Thinkpads and have about ten laptops, the oldest being a Thinkpad G41 and the newest a W520 2GB Nvidia GPU and 1920 x 1200 etc. Most of them are fully upgraded, and with docking stations. I've turned down loads of models, as they get addictive lol.
64MB of RAM seems quite high for '97, doesn't it?
it depends. in my primary school i had Celeron Tualatin with 32 MB of SDRAM, but my old home PC in those days had Celeron Coppermine with 128 MB :D
A friend of mine here in England, bought a brand new PC in late 1997 from Costco, a Compaq Presario 4504 and it had 16MB SDRAM, 2GB IDE HDD, 1MB VGA onboard chip and came with Windows 95b. It cost around £900 I think.
At that time, RAM requirements were doubling every 2 years. So, 64 megs was pretty high end in 1997 but it was already just OK in 1999 and complete garbage in 2001.
@@АлексейГриднев-и7р Yeah in 2001 I had a K6-2 500MHz with 256MB RAM, 20GB IDE HDD, GeForce2 MX400 64MB and that was respectable but not exactly cutting edge.
There's every chance that it had been upgraded already at some point 😃
I’m an old fart that did a fair bet of gaming back in 1997. In the fall of 97, I spent $3,000 on a Pentium II 300 / 128 MB RAM system. That was a fortune at the time, just to play Quake. I remember the reading about the Cyrix MII processors, but they were inferior in gaming, so I never touched one. Even with a 3D card, the MII processor would have handicapped this system with gaming performance.
I could tell by the sound that WD Hard Drive was making, it was dead as Julius Caesar.
Nice job restoring this old box. I think I owned s similar case in the 90s. I think everyone did.
Registered to:
Nathan
Failing youtube career
I'm dying! XD
Where exarcly?
Kourkutas2 Kutsukuta 2:17
You made me feel nostalgic.
My first PC in the year 1998 was:
Intel Pentium 233Mhz
32MB RAM (later upgraded to 64)
4.2 GB HDD from Seagate
Cirrus Logic VGA card with 2MB VRAM
Non-ATX Cabinet
230W PSU
Daewoo 14" CRT Monitor
Logitech PS2 Keyboard and Mouse
Opti Sound Card
Creative CD-ROM Drive 32X with remote
Creative Speakers 2.0
My dad bought me this PC. I miss him so much :(
*It is now safe to turn off your computer.*
(Isn’t)
Some motherboards from the era can actually shut themselves off through the os.
@@reecebower9934Yeah ACPI stuff
You treat trash with so much respect. I love it!
2:23 for a flood of nostalgia!
the interesting thing about this channel is, the quality is timeless. Sometimes I watch these videos thinking its recent, and then I look at it was 3 years ago. Pretty impressive
8:44 Why it says Windows ME on the System Properties? Did you install Windows 98 SE2ME on it?
Or the NUSB36E.EXE driver for USB sticks, which also changes that text string.
if you install unofficial service pack for Win 98, it makes defacto Win ME from that, maybe that's the reason
@@Pidalin It moslty looks more like Windows 2000 since that Windows 2000 uses Tahoma font while Windows ME still using the MS Sans Sherrif font.
@@aldwinpanny10 Yes, it looks weird, there is not such retro feeling anymore, that's why I prefer Win ME, it's still enough retro, but it already supports USB flash disks and such things.
I used to love restoring these as they were the easiest to work on. when I used to restore these, I always broke out ALL the blanks in the drive bays and expansion slots (the metal blanks) I also would punch out the serial and parallel slots and mount the RS-232 and printer sockets directly to the chassis. once they came out with the ATX chassis, things got even better! Even the Mother Boards! Love the walk down memory lane! Thank you!
Its shows it's windows ME on the System properties screen after the restore.
My guess is that he installed this USB-stick driver pack from the internet, which replaces some DLLs and make that happen, as a side effect.
It also says "Failing youtube career"
@@mattglad Oh Yeah that was funny. I don't think his carrier is failing though
@@mattglad Haha 8:48... But he is one of my favorite youtuber and i dont even speak english (sorry for any mistake)
@@Tech_Champ he is not talking about his career. Check the video carefully
Absolutely perfect. Thank you for refreshing that 24 year-old memories. I had my first pc in 1994 and it was 386 , 25 MHz core freq . when on Turbo mode , 5,25" floppy , 2 MB Ram and 20 MB hdd . I wrote diploma on that ,in Turbo Pascal , text in T602 text editor ....
I love old laptops or computers. It feels like owning an antique car. :)
2:18, I don’t think your channel is failing.. I enjoy your content!
A channel can be popular but not make much money
same!
Same.
You should upgrade this machine more than just memory. Put in here gotek floppy emulator, cf2ide adapter, voodoo 1/2&riva tnt or something other and go for ultimate dos machine! :)
By the way, greetings from Poland!
Hugs from Portugal, I enjoyed remembering these times, I started using the Internet in February 1997 with a similar computer, and Windows 95, they were different times, Modem 28800Bps, Diskettes, 64Mb of Ram was very good at that time, thank you, remembering is to live. Good year 2023.
This video is sponsored by |ridge wallet|
Replace ridge wallet with EUCALYPTUS OIL
Arnav Malhotra This video is sponsored by EUCALYPTUS OIL
Skip the sponsor at 3:21.
There's just something about computers (and technology in general) from the late 90s and early 2000s which just somehow "connects" with me
Same here, it was all so much more appealing to me back then.
Back then, it felt really special to have a computer and discover the online world.
Nowadays, tech devices are primarily surveillance and data collection equipment sold to consumers under the false pretenses of enriching and enhancing our lives.
The Internet of Things is not a concept that was born to help anyone's lives become easier. Instead, it's automated market research that consumers are paying for.
Agreed, growing up when the Athlon 64 was king, Halo on Xbox was all my downtime, and cellphones only just started to play music, flipped closed, or were built like tanks.
Started building a Athlon 64, socket 939, pc from some old parts I found as a counterpart to my more modern Ryzen rig, and a partner for the weird little Sony Mavica FD75 floppy disk camera I've been playing with lately
The way he says 'Hey guys welcome to my channel' that is so smooth
Don’t know why I like watching these but they are fascinating. It’s cool to see someone know so much about computers and is able to restore these things so professionally :)
Desktop: Windows 95 wallpaper
Psivewri: Hmm not windows 98 wallpaper... Let's Go edit: Windows 9X(8)
Fake dialog comments: ridiculous
@@TR2000LT That last one was from unofficial updates, possibly NUSB 3.6
lol it also said Windows Me in the about section. That hurt my brain
I always love watching reviews of outdated equipment
have your ridge wallet in your pocket while playing raid shadow legends on your casper matress while listening to an audiobook from audible
thanks for hearting nathan
and making your own website on squarespace and using honey for coupon codes
@@1EpiccGamer *while making your own website on squarespace and shopping on amazon with honey coupons
With nordvpn and the wireless pods
GOOD JOB GUYS
2:18
Name: Nathan
Company: Failing youtube carrer
😂😂
ahh i remember 1997 very well, we had an ibm aptiva. Loved that thing ha.
I used to have 1 like this as well. My first one, in fact. Intel Pentium I 100 MHz, probably 16 mb of Ram and S3 TRIO64V+ Graphic Card. It was running on Windows 95 and I was able to run games such as Quake, Duke Nukem 3D or Earth Worm Jim quite well! :). That was indeed a decent time!. Perhaps the best time of my life!
Oh there comes a lot of memories, actually good memories.. The noise the smell the games ❤️
This computer is extremely similar to my first PC I've got in July of 1999. Mine came with a Cyrix M-II PR300 (clocked at 233 MHz), 32MB of PC66 RAM, a similar, but smaller mainboard (type TX98-3D by some noname manufacturer) with onboard sound and USB 1.1, a 1MB video card (cannot recall the exact model, but I believe it had 2000 in the name), the same WD Caviar 21600 HDD (meaning it had two platters and 1600MB of capacity) and a 24x CyberDrive CD-ROM.
I got rid of it about 4 years later, and was upgraded by quite a bit: AMD K6-III 450 MHz CPU (the best CPU my motherboard had support for), 2x128MB RAM, 20GB Maxtor hard drive, 3dfx Voodoo 3 2000 PCI video card, SoundBlaster Live 5.1 sound card, 3Com PCI Ethernet card, a USB 2.0 card, and a Lite-On 24x10x40x CD burner. I moved to a Pentium III 1 GHz which was at least less obsolete :))
yesterday i was encoding a video, figured out this way that my cpu, when load 100% hits lik 75C, room temp around 20C, not ok, (air cooled), took out my flashlight aim at fan, see too much dust, next day, cleaned up, did another encode run and the temps are now around 64C with max load and 24C ambient room, great stuff, ....so whats the lesson here, dont be lazy and clean ur cpu cooler from time to time especially if u are on air :)
Brings me back to my highschool days in the early 2000s where they still had computers like these in the computer class room.
Lets turn it on =)
THE FAN:REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
: ) thank you I love coming home each day and seeing these types of videos you make my day!!
2:17 "Failing youtube career" lol
This is solid entertainment. Like this is where it's at. Not Netflix or anything. It's right here on RUclips and it's free.
"Basically the whole computer doesn't work."
".....luckilly I've got a surplus of old budget computers that do work. Thanks for watching!"
WOW! That was a blast from the past! I had an extremely similar one in 1998! Great Video!
You are called John too.
8:44 wait a minute it says windows ME on system so the wallpaper has a crossed out 5 and a added 8 but the real os is windows ME?
Thanks for the nostalgia.. This PC is VERY similiar to my first ever PC i had around 1996.
That computer case is so nostalgic to me... My first PC had exactly that case... Although it was a little bit better with an AMD K6-2 300 MHz CPU...
@German Retro Guy Sadly I don't remember the motherboard model, as we threw away that computer back in 2008...
@German Retro Guy Yeah, I don't have neither the computer nor the CRT monitor.
5 years later, I was already regretting that decision, as I was building my first retro PC...
My current case isn't much different, apart from having a silver/black front. I hate the fad of clear windows and lights on cases
Me too but 450 MHz
When I saw you have the exact same case on your vintage computer as me, I had to click on this video.
My first machine ever was a Cyrix P150+ running at 120Mhz with 16MB RAM and S3 64V+ PCI graphics. It was great for DOS gaming, but, quickly got upgraded to a Cyrix MII-333 with onboard SiS AGP graphics. I never had high end graphics as a kid, but loved those Cyrix processors.
Oh wow. I had that exact case for my PC in college. I think I had a Pentium 166 MHz.
Same, i had this case with a Pentium 133Mhz with sound Blaster 16 :)
Same, ours was housing a pentium iii 667mhz
When I was 19 I bought my first PC. It was Pentium 100 with 8 MB of RAM. Greetings from Poland. Great movie ;-)
Love your restoration videos! And please do retrobriting more :)
I do restorations of these kind of PCs quite often because it's my hobby. And almost all of the PCs I received for free from friends or friends of friends that had no need for them. They never work when I receive them but so far I managed to revive every one I got. Don't know why why but bringing computers, especially older ones, back to life is quite satisfying
How many have you got?
@@wasdagain2553 at the moment I have 6 of them in my room freshly restored during this last month. . When I restore them I usually give them away to friends or their friends who need it for like school or work stuff like doing powerpoint presentations or text stuff.I don't really remember how many computers I restored in total but I'm doing this for the past three years so I think I worked on quite a few of them.
Good thing about a PC like that can easily find a more powerful CPU more ram and bigger HDD and why not a add-on cars or two... You always Talk about Win98. Don't you have win98-SE (second edition) ??
Judging by version number 4.10.2222 A he is running 98SE
@@dmcemmet don't think as when booting. The boot screen should say Windows 98-SE instead there was only windows 98 on his boot screen
it actually just shows "Windows 98" on the boot screen, even on SE. The unofficial service pack has an option to replace it with one that said Second Edition on it and replaces the cloud background with one that is inspired by XP bliss.
Or just replace it with on of your preference.
@@HappyBeezerStudios thanks actually i don't remember lol even if i have a win98 se CD it's been so long i haven't used it. Thanks for the info
That kind of form factor isn't a desktop, it's a tower.
A desktop is when you can sit the monitor on top of the computer.
Was there such a thing as a "Budget PC" back in 97?
Older socket 7 machines with K5, K6 or Cyrix chips. At that time Intel was moving over to Slot 1 for their Pentium II, so they left the old socket to the budget crowd.
Yep. Was generally defined as under 1k USD though. So it was only budget compared to the competition. It wasn’t like… $200-400 computers like you find today.
This bring back so much memories. Having build thousands of PCs to sell on eBay and also working at a computer store building and repairing computers it was a great time. The graphics of the games might not look that great but still a joy to play.
1 view, 4 comments, 6 likes.
cool
Man, I love these restoration videos. I have an old 1996 IBM Aptiva 2176-354 that I (sort of) restored and cleaned up, not entirely sure what to do with it but it's really cool to have. I even have the original keyboard, monitor, mouse and speakers too! Old pcs really are cool.
Nice PC I have one aptiva too!
Pentium 2 MMX
64mb ram
4gb HDD
It works but I gotta find a crt for it.😉
Man, that all-in-one case cover brings me back, dad and I would put together my PC's when I was a kid, had one that looked a lot like this, but they all did, mighty beige boxes.
That's one of my favorite looking beige cases of all time! I used to call it Viper Case because of it's sharp styling.
2:18 What're you talking about my guy? Your RUclips career is doing great! Don't say your career is failing! I love watching all your videos!
Hi Nathan, nice to meet you! I love to see how you bring life back to very old computers, you leave it as new.
My 1st computer (P3 350MHz, 64MB RAM) was built in exactly this grey case with the purple buttons on the front. Great memories. Best regards from Germany 🤩
no such thing as a P3 350
If you aren't already you might want to try Self Etching Primer for the interiors of cases. It helps the paint adhere better to bare metal. A little trick I learned from painting cars.
I have a 2006 HP Compaq nx7400 with Windows 2000 Professional installed on it. The laptop itself is in amazing condition for a 14 year old laptop. I've always wanted a HP laptop from the early 2000's. Our first computer was a HP Pavilion 9000 series desktop computer with Windows 95. I remember playing Quake on that computer back in 1998. Oh how time files.
Seeing those cases reminds me of my younger years, I think most of my school mates inherited their parents’ Windows 98/Windows ME machine when we were kids.
I love these types of videos, they are so fun to watch.
seeing the games running on it brought in nostolgia waves from the games i used to play on my first computer, a windows 98 gateway. wow
You don’t have a failing RUclips career we love you
This is insane, I just happen to own almost the same Computer. I have the same AT case, with the same motherboard. In fact, my system came with almost the same CPU. It's a IBM 6x86mx PR300, but it's being detected as a Cyrix MII PR300. Granted, the expansion cards and some of its peripherals aren't the same, but that's because I upgraded my system. The motherboard is PCChips M571, with the TX pro II chipset, which is just a rebranded SIS 5597/5598 chipset. The board already has integrated graphics and also features a mediocre sound chip, as well as a usb controller. Despite being from PCChips, it's really not the worst motherboard, i've ever seen. In fact, back in the late 90s this was quite a popular choice, for people who wanted to build a cheap system. There were 3 revisions of this board, but only the later revisions were considered as good. This board should support 128mb ram, at least mine does. There was also a rebranded M571 which was known as Amptron PM-9100A.
My second PC had almost the same specs. Really enjoyed the video. Thanks.
Good job on this restoration! My first PC in 1997 had a Cyrix M2 processor too (a PR200), 32Mb RAM, and a 2.1GB hard disk. I now have a Core i5 with 20GB RAM and close to 2TB hard disk space. How things change!
These PC's were the ones I used to assemble and fix as a tech many years ago...biggest problem with the old main boards were those cheap capacitors that puffed up and leaked.
I just finished fixing up this old Pentium 2 450mhz HP desktop. It was definitely a fun project. I ended up installing Windows 98SE after cleaning the entire hard drive of course. I also added a Voodoo 3 16mb AGP graphics card, and the sound blaster that it came with was a nice addition. I love seeing these kind of renovations. I will be gaming on it more. I will probably add another stick of ram and turn it into a 256mb beast! Although the manual says it can take up to 700mb of ram, Now that's crazy!
All these old systems are coming back
You have a file cabinet of old parts? I had one as well! shame I had to get rid of it 😥
1998: I just got this pentium 3 and its so fast!
2021: How do you game on on a I5 11400.
Credits:sound effects central
I randomly found your channel and i love this content,keep it up bro :)
I bought a Tiny pc in October 1997, my first desktop pc as an adult, it cost £1500 and had 32mb ram, a 10gb? hard drive (cant remember if that was the right size), a pentium processor 200mhz (I just missed out on a pentium ll by a few months), a 56.6k modem, a floppy drive, cd rom drive, some bundled software (age of empires, encyclopaedia etc) and it ran windows 95.
I thought it was the best thing since sliced bread at the time and a massive upgrade from the Amstrad CPC 664 I had as a child although to be honest that had been a great pc as well in the 80’s for playing games.
wouldn't have been 10GB, more like 2GB or 4GB
I’ve never heard of that processor! Interesting. I enjoy your videos! Very nostalgic for me as an 80s baby!
It's nice to see a young lad restoring a Pc that is basically as old as him rather than smashing it up🙂👍
Oof, when I saw "Cyrix", I knew it would be a painful ride. Had one of those in my first build. Terrible, even at the time. Really enjoyed the video, though. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
Great work true legendary man never forgot about ❤
The S3 Trio was one of the first low cost graphics cards that could keep up with full screen video, it came out late 1995 I think and before that you played video in a little window.. I had a PC very similar to that in my shop looping a 3 minute video at VGA 20fps full screen on a 14" color monitor and did a lot of graphics card upgrades that year. It was impressive for it's time.
2:34 its so funny that the company he named was "Failing youtube carrier" lol
Thank you for the trip down memory lane. My first PC was a Intel 333mhz, 96mb memory and 6gb hdd ... if I remember well.
I really love these old mashines and bringing them back to life for retro games etc. Just nostalgia
I love this kind of video. Reminds me of my first computer back in 2001 !
i have a very similar pc that i restored recently myself too. It has a floppy drive and very small lights and buttons. But its funny pc cases havent changed much since 1997. Apart from the shift from ide to sata cables. Many of these older cases are made of metal rather than plastic. So build quality is not an issue.
64 MB of RAM definitely doesn't sound like a budget PC for 1997! I was in secondary school at that time and our techers decided to buy used computers for all the classrooms - IBM PS/Value Point 486 DX/2 66 MHz with a giant 8 MB of RAM and a 250 MB WD Caviar or IBM hard drive. Windows 95 was really pushing the limits on those computers, I asked if I could downgrade ours to Windows 3.1 and that actually made it usable. Adding a Citizen Swift dot matrix printer someone's parents wanted to get rid of (no sane person still used a dot matrix printer in 1997, except for some very specific tasks that legally required carbon copies) even allowed us to print at school.
One of my friends had an all bells and whistles PC built in 2000 and that had 128 MB of RAM, I think a 10 GB hard drive, don't remember the other details. Except one of course - he paid as much for the computer as for a 21" TOTL CRT monitor and then bought the cheapest NVIDIA graphics card so he could afford the fancy monitor! For those who weren't really active computer users then, let me tell you: 21" CRTs were MASSIVE beasts and very expensive! Your average office PC had a 17" CRT running at 1024x768 and that was a fairly recent upgrade from 15" @800x600.
I built my first PC in 1997 and it was pretty similar to that one. I started with a cyrix CPU but had issues with it not working with my soundcard software and traded it for an AMD instead. I think it was soo megahertz. It had 64 megs of ram, creative 4 meg video card, sound blaster 16 clone, 1 gigabyte hard drive. I recall upgrading it several times over the years going to an MMX cpu and getting a 8 meg 3dfx video card down the road.
Nice basic computer! Miss this elegant style chassis! Today's cases look so cheap and has all the RGB lights and clear sides!
I hope you are healing nicely from your injury. Your channel and at least one subscriber will be here when you're able.☺️
I had exactly the same PC in 2001 haha pretty fun to watch. Thanks!
A painting tip for a more smooth finish for cheap is to sand between some coats not full sanding. Rather my favorite method is to prime, light sanding, reprime, first 2 or 3 coats of final color, sand lightly, add another 2 or 3 coats and sand lightly again. This alone can give it a really really nice finish just make sure for the final sanding to use a really fine sand paper. If you want some added smoothness this is an option but not required is to coat in a clear spray, matt or gloss its up to you.
bro your channel is so underrated !
Ahhh, yes! The golden age of pc's. And Windows 98 was a great OS for it's time. Still fun to play around with the software and old hardware. Cheers!