It was very common to have DMI / IRQ conflicts between network and sound cards back in the day. This is why when Windows 95 came out, "Plug and Play" devices were all the rage. Of course, those of us who really lived it know that as "Plug-and-Pray"...
I haven't seen a Hypertec in yearrrrrs. Back in 1997 my local library got one, same model as this actually that they hooked up to the Internet via good ol' 28.8 dialup, for one hour every week I used the Internet on this machine. As a 12 year old Mac geek I remember devouring every Mac related site I could find, and also remember talking to people in chat rooms. I miss when the Internet was new and exciting and fun
Boy does this make me feel ancient! 🤣 The start up tune definitely brought back fond memories of my old PC's of yore! Don't believe I ever built a desktop box, always preferred the towers... oh the memories. Thanks for that 😊
Yep, I remember the Hypertec brand from back in the day. They rebadged a lot of generic components. That is a nice neat build and those blue buttons and wave decals are bringing back some nostaliga! Thanks for the video! Very enjoyable to watch
why would you pay for this - these are trash they have no purpose completely obsolete and useless in the modern world. all possible uses this could even have, a new computer could do the same exact thing, run the same software or the OS but why even do that when there is way faster and more feature filled software new. there’s literally no justification for these existing in the economy and taking them from recycling is disgustingly selfish and harmful to society.
In what world are you paying only 50EUR for that? Out here there is no local vintage PC market so I'd have to pay hyperinflated prices on eBay -- I'd have to pay $100 with $80 shipping, minimum.
You'd be surprised just posting an ad how many people have vintage stuff to give away if you're willing to pick it up. I was picking up all old hardware but tbh the market is pretty limited I usually fix / clean components and sell them for a minimal profit but yet I can't sell much of that old stock even if like new...
"Recycling centres" don't exist where I'm from, the closest thing are junkyards with washing machines and stoves at best. IF you find a TV it's always broken beyond repair, and never have I seen a computer. I love this channel and other similar ones but in all honesty, watching these make me really sad I cannot follow the hobby. People here charge you absurd amounts even for DDR2 RAM if you can at all find it, too.
I literally owned one of these beautiful beasts. Remember how I tried to get XP on it but it wounldn't work. I was so sad. I thought it would be my forever PC. (This was when I was a kid). Still a wonder of history though. :) Great video! I LOVE the camera angles!!
This was our first Windows PC in 1999, was an ex office workstation. Had a Pentium 100, 16MB RAM and Win 95, later upgraded to 32MB RAM and Win 98 when it became my own PC in my bedroom circa 2002-2003, as we had again obtained another old ex workstation around 2001 as the family PC (this time an MMX, 64MB and 98SE) This brought back some good memories. The last ex workstation PC was an IBM with a Celeron, 512MB RAM and XP that we got in about 2005 when we finally stopped dealing with second hand underspecced computers, but they did the job. That served us well for about 3 years and then I think we pretty much went with laptops as I had just started working etc.
7:17 Did you know that British musician Brian Eno (he worked with U2 and co-produced some of their songs) composed the Windows 95 startup chime? According to an interview, he composed the startup chime on a Mac, and said he never used a Windows PC and he just didn't like them.
Ah, brings back memories. The company I used to work for in the early 90s supplied Hypertec their bare circuit boards for their Hyperam, they used to be in North Ryde. I recall their voyage into building pc’s started with great promise but local manufacturing costs proved too much. They were brilliant quality computers however. Thanks for the video and the memories. 😊
Good to see others saving old hardware. I have several old/vintage PC's, the oldest ones being XT/8088's. My oldest computer though is my Commodore 64, the first (of 3) bought in 1983. But my oldest machine is a Coleco Telstar Ranger game console bought in 1977. I do not really collect computers, I just keep what me & my family have bought over the years & I have become the de facto owner of them after they have become obsoleted, simply because I just hate throwing away machines that still have some use in them, so that includes vintage computers.
1:30 this is an old school hardware license key usually used for certain proprietary software. Nowdays these are usually USB HASP keys that look like thumbdrives but are in fact encrypted with the hardware software license key
Not me. I remember crying like a kid, cause I couldn't figure out what was seated improperly on the motherboard, pins in the wrong place in the hard drives, a sysfig command out of place. Ide vs scsi. These are not fond memories. I stop building clones, round 2006.
I remember back in 1995. I saving my allowance for couple of years and bought this pentium 133 mhz. After college my dad threw it away to dumspter. 27 years later everytime isaw somebody post this pentium 1 pc. My heart is really sad. Thank god you rescue this pc bro.
I Vuagely remember the hypertec and this case. I think we had them in our school after OSBORNE and before IPEX. But when you say 'this really old pc' it sort of made me realise how old I am now :\
All versions of Windows 95 liked to assign conflicting resources to sound cards, most often the parallel port. If you'd manually change one's resources it would change the other device to match. So then the only recourse was to manually assign both the sound card and whichever device Windows was insisting on improperly assigning resources to match it. Windows 98SE was when Microsoft finally got Plug N Play working correctly. I encountered many PCs that had problems with Windows 98 original that worked fine with 98SE.
I would speculate that whole case was made by Enlight. It has all the hallmarks of an Enlight case. One of may favorite cases back in the day. Not as sturdy as some old 286/386 cases back in the day, but still a well built case.
That thingy on the back is some sort of hardware key. It would've been used for some proprietary software that requires the key to load up and function. A lot of HMI stuff I work with still does this.
Great work true legend never forgotten ❤️ old computer 💻 I love old laptops and pc tower take my back when I was at university studying computer science with Emily latree 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜 miss you my friend ♥️
Nice job cleaning it up and getting it working well enough. Am wondering why the 3.5" drive bezel front wasn't cleaned up as well to look lighter. No biggie, was just a thought.
I nice to see a old pc like this. It remindme why im in the 40 now. The problem is a conflic with the irq resources. This can be manually change in the preference of the device. Now it changes automatically.
It's useless to most people, so I can easily understand how they want to get rid of a big box that can't help them with tasks anymore. To retro computer enthusiasts though, it's gold.
@@MarcoGPUtuber Oh, okay. I've seen people in RUclips comments calling other people names for trashing retro computers, and the sad part is that they seem to not be few and far between. 🙂
It is a good idea to take a picture of the inside with your phone before taking apart a PC or part of the car so that you can know how to put it back together
The case design is interesting, back when this was sold new I wanted a "power tower", pizzaboxes where mundane School and office material to me but now I feel nostalgic about the format ...
When’s the next car update? I would love too see one, you should probably change the oil in the thing too. Those I6 engines are bulletproof, especially the Barra.
I have one of these. Came with with a 100mhz Pentium CPU and 850MB hard disk. I fitted a 200mhz Centaur "WinChip" RISC CPU and an 8.4GB drive and a network card. Mine has an 8x CD-ROM drive.
Okay, I was getting the impression this was a stoner’s computer the whole time, but the screensaver really confirmed it for me. What a piece of history!
I remember tossing a 1995 IBM Pentium into the dumpster in 2006 because it was taking up space. It was fine, it worked fine, it was a tank. What a regret.
I have two computers from 2000s and they have some issues I don't know what to do with them because nobody repairs them in these days,I wish if I can sell them to him
Yeah, it's not easy to find computers this retro in the trash anymore. It was way easier in the early 00s. I remember getting a few 486 computers that way, good memories.
@@8bitbubsy that's true today usually what you will find in the trash is a computers from the 2000s and leter but my goal is to find a laptop / retro laptop from the trash but i didn't found one yet it is harder finding a laptop then finding a pc from the trash
This is when I built my first clone. I was amazed how easy it was. Well, on my 2nd try. I fried the motherboard, the first time. I connected the p1, p2 power connectors in reverse. Ouch!
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Should I make videos about some of the other desktops I received in that pile? Which one looks the most interesting to you?
What usb do you use? And if you use Time Machine on mac what usb do you use for that? Can you link it?
absolutely
How about the eucalyptus oil again? ;)
I just wanna know how to get some eucalyptus oil in the US. Apparently, we don't like it here.
Could you try seeing my laptop
I love your chill narrative, knowledge and love for old hardware.
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It was very common to have DMI / IRQ conflicts between network and sound cards back in the day. This is why when Windows 95 came out, "Plug and Play" devices were all the rage.
Of course, those of us who really lived it know that as "Plug-and-Pray"...
Like with the Windows 98 BSOD on LIVE TV! 😂
But it’s a nice pc bruh
Plug and pray that it works and rage because you need to install drivers
I haven't seen a Hypertec in yearrrrrs. Back in 1997 my local library got one, same model as this actually that they hooked up to the Internet via good ol' 28.8 dialup, for one hour every week I used the Internet on this machine. As a 12 year old Mac geek I remember devouring every Mac related site I could find, and also remember talking to people in chat rooms. I miss when the Internet was new and exciting and fun
Boy does this make me feel ancient! 🤣 The start up tune definitely brought back fond memories of my old PC's of yore! Don't believe I ever built a desktop box, always preferred the towers... oh the memories. Thanks for that 😊
My nickname is also Moe thats crazy, well i guess we both find older pc's intriguing lol
Yep, I remember the Hypertec brand from back in the day. They rebadged a lot of generic components.
That is a nice neat build and those blue buttons and wave decals are bringing back some nostaliga!
Thanks for the video! Very enjoyable to watch
You find this in the trash while people like me pay €50 for that
why would you pay for this - these are trash they have no purpose completely obsolete and useless in the modern world. all possible uses this could even have, a new computer could do the same exact thing, run the same software or the OS but why even do that when there is way faster and more feature filled software new. there’s literally no justification for these existing in the economy and taking them from recycling is disgustingly selfish and harmful to society.
yeah
In what world are you paying only 50EUR for that? Out here there is no local vintage PC market so I'd have to pay hyperinflated prices on eBay -- I'd have to pay $100 with $80 shipping, minimum.
You'd be surprised just posting an ad how many people have vintage stuff to give away if you're willing to pick it up. I was picking up all old hardware but tbh the market is pretty limited I usually fix / clean components and sell them for a minimal profit but yet I can't sell much of that old stock even if like new...
"Recycling centres" don't exist where I'm from, the closest thing are junkyards with washing machines and stoves at best. IF you find a TV it's always broken beyond repair, and never have I seen a computer. I love this channel and other similar ones but in all honesty, watching these make me really sad I cannot follow the hobby. People here charge you absurd amounts even for DDR2 RAM if you can at all find it, too.
I literally owned one of these beautiful beasts. Remember how I tried to get XP on it but it wounldn't work. I was so sad. I thought it would be my forever PC. (This was when I was a kid). Still a wonder of history though. :) Great video! I LOVE the camera angles!!
dam ur old
@@agentburningbutters3655 he's so old that the milk in his profile picture didn't age
so what happened to that computer? do you still have it around ?
@@agentburningbutters3655 Dude, you're like 13. You think anyone not still going through puberty is old.
@@Γεώργιος-ε9ν yes what happened?
7:16 i still remember that legendary startup sound when i used Windows 95 in 2006
These horizontal beige towers are so nostalgic...
They're called "desktop cases"
This was our first Windows PC in 1999, was an ex office workstation. Had a Pentium 100, 16MB RAM and Win 95, later upgraded to 32MB RAM and Win 98 when it became my own PC in my bedroom circa 2002-2003, as we had again obtained another old ex workstation around 2001 as the family PC (this time an MMX, 64MB and 98SE)
This brought back some good memories.
The last ex workstation PC was an IBM with a Celeron, 512MB RAM and XP that we got in about 2005 when we finally stopped dealing with second hand underspecced computers, but they did the job. That served us well for about 3 years and then I think we pretty much went with laptops as I had just started working etc.
7:17 Did you know that British musician Brian Eno (he worked with U2 and co-produced some of their songs) composed the Windows 95 startup chime? According to an interview, he composed the startup chime on a Mac, and said he never used a Windows PC and he just didn't like them.
Ah, brings back memories. The company I used to work for in the early 90s supplied Hypertec their bare circuit boards for their Hyperam, they used to be in North Ryde. I recall their voyage into building pc’s started with great promise but local manufacturing costs proved too much. They were brilliant quality computers however. Thanks for the video and the memories. 😊
Would love to see a teardown and see how that weird colour Acer system runs :) It looks in fairly fantastic condition :o
Funnily enough when I got my Packard Bell, it also had the textures in 3d maze set to the psychedelic mode. Maybe that was a craze in the mid 90’s.
I grew up on Windows 95, so I have a fondness for it. Great seeing this video resurrecting a PC with that OS !
Good to see others saving old hardware. I have several old/vintage PC's, the oldest ones being XT/8088's. My oldest computer though is my Commodore 64, the first (of 3) bought in 1983. But my oldest machine is a Coleco Telstar Ranger game console bought in 1977. I do not really collect computers, I just keep what me & my family have bought over the years & I have become the de facto owner of them after they have become obsoleted, simply because I just hate throwing away machines that still have some use in them, so that includes vintage computers.
1:30 this is an old school hardware license key usually used for certain proprietary software. Nowdays these are usually USB HASP keys that look like thumbdrives but are in fact encrypted with the hardware software license key
Interesting video as always. Keep up the good work..
Definitely remember Hypertec. I have a few computer magazines with advertisements from them. Great video!
If you've got screenshots or scans I'd love to see them!
I love these old machines. great video m8.
This man found a classic, while I found a binge watching channel
Bringing back good memories, so do moore videos of old stuff..! Greetings from Norway..!
8:08, i thought the game required by law to test on old machines would be Planet X3 😁
ah, a fellow 8BG enjoyer?
@@bassboostedmoonchao of course
Another one? 😆 Great video man, it was great to see such a machine brought back to life!
I don’t know anything abt computers but i love listening to your excitement haha
HyperFormance is a nice play on words. “High Performance”. Clever!
I live in the US and I love watching these old computer videos. It makes me want to build computers again.
Not me. I remember crying like a kid, cause I couldn't figure out what was seated improperly on the motherboard, pins in the wrong place in the hard drives, a sysfig command out of place. Ide vs scsi. These are not fond memories. I stop building clones, round 2006.
I remember back in 1995. I saving my allowance for couple of years and bought this pentium 133 mhz. After college my dad threw it away to dumspter. 27 years later everytime isaw somebody post this pentium 1 pc. My heart is really sad. Thank god you rescue this pc bro.
Gday mate, I had a Hypertec 166MHZ upright PC with windows 98 from standard, was very similar to this one 👍
that's nice a retro computer that is neat and great to revisit a decade later
lovely video once again mate
Another fantastic memory, thank you.
I Vuagely remember the hypertec and this case. I think we had them in our school after OSBORNE and before IPEX. But when you say 'this really old pc' it sort of made me realise how old I am now :\
All versions of Windows 95 liked to assign conflicting resources to sound cards, most often the parallel port. If you'd manually change one's resources it would change the other device to match. So then the only recourse was to manually assign both the sound card and whichever device Windows was insisting on improperly assigning resources to match it.
Windows 98SE was when Microsoft finally got Plug N Play working correctly. I encountered many PCs that had problems with Windows 98 original that worked fine with 98SE.
I would speculate that whole case was made by Enlight. It has all the hallmarks of an Enlight case. One of may favorite cases back in the day.
Not as sturdy as some old 286/386 cases back in the day, but still a well built case.
That thingy on the back is some sort of hardware key. It would've been used for some proprietary software that requires the key to load up and function. A lot of HMI stuff I work with still does this.
Great work true legend never forgotten ❤️ old computer 💻 I love old laptops and pc tower take my back when I was at university studying computer science with Emily latree 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜 miss you my friend ♥️
Nice job. Thank you for sharing.
Love older tech amazing review true legend never forgot 🥰
Love retro tech nostalgia
That startup sound ❤
Nice job cleaning it up and getting it working well enough. Am wondering why the 3.5" drive bezel front wasn't cleaned up as well to look lighter. No biggie, was just a thought.
great video! luv ur vids
I nice to see a old pc like this. It remindme why im in the 40 now.
The problem is a conflic with the irq resources. This can be manually change in the preference of the device.
Now it changes automatically.
7:39 I had that game from an eGames CD compilation. I would lock up my Windows XP computer no matter what I did.
Who would throw such a nice beauty away?
It's useless to most people, so I can easily understand how they want to get rid of a big box that can't help them with tasks anymore. To retro computer enthusiasts though, it's gold.
@@8bitbubsy I get that lol. Was being rhetorical.
@@MarcoGPUtuber Oh, okay. I've seen people in RUclips comments calling other people names for trashing retro computers, and the sad part is that they seem to not be few and far between. 🙂
@@8bitbubsy Eh. There is no situation in which it's justified for people to be a dick and verbally abuse another person. IMO.
Ewasteben would be getting moist at the thought of a ceramic processor for gold recovery.
Great video
I was a 2010's kid but for some reason this gave me a weird sense of comfort and... nostalgia?...
It is a good idea to take a picture of the inside with your phone before taking apart a PC or part of the car so that you can know how to put it back together
I remember when I received my copy of Windows 95 beta floppy disks. It was the best day of my life installing it over windows 3.1.
Wow! I still remember that start up sound.
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I remember Hypertec! We sold them for a short time, it was sad to see them fail.
I can't wait to see the others especially the Acer and NEC units
The case design is interesting, back when this was sold new I wanted a "power tower", pizzaboxes where mundane School and office material to me but now I feel nostalgic about the format ...
Great video! I like it
I could imagine making one of these into a sleeper pc.
Good to see another old PC being saved.
Age of empires and celeron thing was same for me also
i love your videos just wished they were alittle bit longer
Great video!
Hypertec used to sponsor North Melbourne Football Club, they were their jumper sponsor when they won the 1996 Premiership!
The beige looks great 👍 👌 😀
When’s the next car update? I would love too see one, you should probably change the oil in the thing too. Those I6 engines are bulletproof, especially the Barra.
After all that hard work you got your self a fully working pc from the 90’s😁
This brings back memories...
I have one of these. Came with with a 100mhz Pentium CPU and 850MB hard disk. I fitted a 200mhz Centaur "WinChip" RISC CPU and an 8.4GB drive and a network card. Mine has an 8x CD-ROM drive.
0:27 i like that dell optiplex
I Totaly Enjoyed myself & was Satisfied...
Okay, I was getting the impression this was a stoner’s computer the whole time, but the screensaver really confirmed it for me. What a piece of history!
The term you are looking for to describe that PSU (and motherboard) is AT Formfactor... Rather than the ATX everybody knows today.
I remember tossing a 1995 IBM Pentium into the dumpster in 2006 because it was taking up space. It was fine, it worked fine, it was a tank. What a regret.
finally you repaire this next can you repair the red vaio netbook
How much RAM this PC has, and what capacity is the hard disk?
new video = great day!
Good old IRQ conflict
still have mine in the shed and a old tandys pc
so that's why old people don't use the pwr button but, shut down from start menu
Hey Nathan. What did you plug in the speaker at 7:18 with red cable. I had seen it in many videos and in the iphone reviews also.
My dad had one of these, I don't know why he kept it but its cool. He threw it out a few months ago.
Hey @Psivewri Keep this set this up as a retro DOS/Win9x gaming rig!
Am I the only one that desperately wants to see a magic sponge run over this? Oh I love to see the magic happen
Hell yeah, this is the sort of video I love!
After seeing the MS Excel-Icon on the Desktop: Would be interesting to run the Monte-Carlo Benchmark/Simulation on these machines.
Remind me childhood memories 🥰
Sounds like you need to change IRQ settings in bios for the sound and ethernet.
that monitor dust mark might have come from the monitor you used on it.
No that was there since I received the computer
@@psivewri okay dokie
You should be able to get the dark scuffs off the case with a magic eraser.
I have two computers from 2000s and they have some issues I don't know what to do with them because nobody repairs them in these days,I wish if I can sell them to him
I have a 486 Tandy 2100 that is in a very similar case to that one. Interesting.
I love your videos.
I wish i found a windows 95 computer from the trash it is hard
Yeah, it's not easy to find computers this retro in the trash anymore. It was way easier in the early 00s. I remember getting a few 486 computers that way, good memories.
@@8bitbubsy that's true today usually what you will find in the trash is a computers from the 2000s and leter but my goal is to find a laptop / retro laptop from the trash but i didn't found one yet it is harder finding a laptop then finding a pc from the trash
make music with this will be much fun
I used to sell and repair Osborne Computers back in the day.
CPMS were a bulk supplier of computers to schools/govt agencies. Might’ve been a generic ‘in house’ brand.
No wonder I saw them on computers back at school in 2002 👍
@@psivewri back in the dark ages of the 90s my school’s Acers and Macs all came from there. Think they had an Adelaide dist centre
This is when I built my first clone. I was amazed how easy it was. Well, on my 2nd try. I fried the motherboard, the first time. I connected the p1, p2 power connectors in reverse. Ouch!
jumpers, DMA channels, IRQ interrupts...WOW...the good ole' days!!!
Nice video
Hyper Tec made ram atleast up to the ddr3 era, I have some hypertec ddr3 sodimm modules sadly died but cool
Lookin Nice
In Australia in the 80/90 before Ethernet any use Novell network?