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Revisiting Viewer Comments… They Weren’t Wrong…
Revisiting Viewer Comments… They Weren’t Wrong…
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for the 386, it's possible you were using the wrong port on the cable itself – some devices want to sit before instead of after the split or vice versa
It's not only the Battery you gotta worry about in these old macs also the capacitors tend to leak and due damage just as bad as a battery leaking if not worse. I owned a Macintosh LC III pizza box mac and I loved that machine. My Parents bought for me brand new. Recapped it in 2009 and it got a blue scsi in 2023. The Circa 1995 hard drive (replacement) was just starting to have issues. Ended up giving that machine away to a good friend of mine so his kids can enjoy it and load it up with a bunch of games.
23:50 – wait, 30yr old IDE cable is bad? impossible
I better write home about this news!
6:00 remarkably compact for the era. truly an incredible build, thanks for cracking it up for us.
we all make silly mistakes sometimes 🙂
That 530 was a great system. Upgradeable as heck. I have the 530s, and shoved an E8600 Wolfdale 3.33 in it. Used to be a living room PC with a GT 1030, but it’s now my file and media server. Still runs great!
I told you so! 🙂
Just kidding I didn't say anything, I just discovered your channel and your honestly and transparency are nothing if not commendable. Great and very informative video, cheers!
Lithium Thionyl Chloride batteries are exceptionally nasty. Not only is Thionyl Chloride super toxic, so is the Lithium. It's very easy to poison yourself accidentally coming into contact with the electrolyte when cleaning the board.
Lithium has the nasty side affect of causing hallucinations and cardiovascular issues, and the effects can last for a very long time.
You should definitely pay more attention to this Dell computer because this is exactly the entry level computer that people thought was bad, but it was actually a great computer. Install Vista on it, or even 7, because they are technically the same system. Exactly the version that has support for Aero effects. XP will obviously work just fine because this computer is too fast for this system.
In Vista, the interface was completely drawn by the graphics card in 3D mode. If the video card is bad (and in this computer it is bad for Vista), simply dragging windows around the screen will slow down. Even if the computer has a lot of memory and a fast processor. And vice versa – an outdated computer with a gaming video card ran programs poorly, but did not lag so badly. How much the interface would slow down depended on the monitor – on standard square monitors the interface still worked acceptably, but not on the new cool widescreen ones.
A bad computer was turned into a good one by installing a cheap video card. Nvidia 7300GS, ATI HD2400, or something similar – this is the secret ingredient.
i just subbed
that macintosh classic looks like a very low hour unit judging by how spotsless every thing is… either that or someone had every part in it replaced minus the outer case…
In one of my previous support jobs one of the things as a team of 5 for PayPal we used to find a lot was getting a second opinion for a tricky issue. Often when looking at a problem for too long and you are convinced you have tried everything then asking another team member to take a look would solve the issue quickly. A fresh look at something from someone else could often work as they would try something you didn't think of. Likewise I would do the same for teammates and often solved a troublesome ticket in minutes. Usually also it was the most simple solution that you didn't think it could possibly be due to overthinking it !
My OCD was pushed to the max on the MAC Classic, when you left the computer on top of the keyboard cable when testing after removing the battery.
Also, the neck thingy on the CRT is called a yoke.
You have to recap the Mac Classic as well. I think I can see some electrolytic goop near the power connector, and like the battery it will eat at the traces the longer it's there.
The Analog board also needs caps replaced. The tops of them will look fine but they leak on the bottom.
there's nothing like making simple mistakes to humble the best of us . personally i had a machine that did the same thing but due to a bent pin hidden away on the underside of the connector so had already " visually " checked at least twice the cable orientation i hadn't once considered i may not have all pins actually in the connector .
The only thing I would have done differently from the start with that Dell machine is pull the PSU and put it in the recycle pile. You would have noticed the 4-pin connector at that point. Why you still have that old PSU in there, I don't know, but, I would have junked it if the rails are dead. I also would have just left the PSU out as a reminder that one needs to be obtained if it's to have permanent life.
[EDIT] For the 386, unless the cable was LITERALLY destroyed or pulled apart, I've never had one go bad on me. I've had a total of 5 SATA cables go bad on me (They looked fine, they just didn't work) I've seen the clips break that hold the wires in place, which immediately turned the cable itself into jumper wire, but beyond that kind of issue, I always found IDE cables to be rock solid. Also to note, that the PCB itself shows where Pin1 is. Always look at the PCBs first especially if there's no "holder" or guide, or whatever you want to call it that the IDE cable plugs into.
In all fairness, the "bad" IDE cable could have an intermittent open conductor. Only time or lots of wiggling will tell.
I may have made both of those cable mistakes before 😅
Love the seemingly elation/frustration mix when you got the Dell working! 😂
Great idea to go back and go through viewer comments/suggestions!
Having grown up watching many Dell commercials I can confidently say you're pronouncing Inspiron wrong. It's Ins-pur-on, like the word inspiration.
The brand "Saft" for the battery is hilarious to me as german native.
"Saft" is the german word for "juice"
When I started working at a private school in January 2002 on my first day the IT manager had the primary domain controller off due to a problem with the DAT backup drive. He had tried two new HP DAT drives and they didn't work either. My first words in the server room was, have you replaced the SCSI cable, and his reply was that he didn't think of that. So he did a purchase order and got me to run up to Maplins which was an electronics store in the UK for a new SCSI cable. After reinstalling the original drive and connecting the new cable everything worked perfectly. He learned from me that day to always think outside of the box when everything inside the box has been done.
As always another great TRR video. I always look forward to your videos.
@28:00 Yep, that's me, and the following half a minute I say the same thing and jiggle my hands basically saying DAYYUUMMMMN lol.
Yeah I told you it was highly unlikely that the IDE cable was shorted, that it was a bigger chance it was a different type or swapped around. I believed you had checked the 4 pin so I also suspected the CPU on the other computer but if I known you had this I would had said for sure this was your issue since the cpu won´t power up without this connected
I wouldn't sweat the 386 too much. The odds were just as good that the ribbon cable could've had a broken conductor. That's why it's important to have known good components and spare systems handy.
Great video! Im working on restoring a gateway 2000 at the moment. Looking foward to future videos.
Haven't seen a YouTuber do this before, revisiting an old video based on viewer comments. Great idea. Great video. Please keep making them.
As others said here on their comments, we are a community;)
Plugging in a 40pin cable in reverse, or missing the 12 volt complementary rail in any 478/775 socket mobo is easy. It's a bit difficult to say "I was wrong", but shows a great mindset! Keep it up, and we will continue to comment on your videos, with or without mistakes that will make everyone learn.
Good video we all make mistakes its how we learn and if repairing computers was easy it wouldnt be any fun i enjoy your videos i learn a lot from you and others on YouTube
The reason we all knew it was the cable orientation is that we've all made the same mistake ourselves.
Luckily you kept the dell PC LOL.
No need to be ashamed. We are all human and we all make mistakes regardless of skill level. Mistakes is how we grow and learn. 🙂 It’s awesome to see the community growing and helping each other. I’m glad to see all of these machines working again or still running, especially the Mac Classic and the 386 PC. Keep up the good work and we are looking forward to more videos. I picked up a ThinkCentre M90z that I am currently restoring.
I would keep an eye on those SMD capacitors on the logic board in the Mac if they haven't been replaced. They are notoriously infamous for leaking.
Also, never stop learning!
A most productive revist
That's a beautiful video. Thank you! Mad respect!
love to see this redone
It is what it is.
Looks like the capacitors have leaked on that Mac main board !
Have you tried jiggling the cord ?
How many times have i made simple mistakes like that and come back to it with a fresh brain and solved it? Just proves we are humans not 'computer gods".
Really? The only IDE cables I ever saw failing were from physical damage that was visible. In the 2000s some IDE cables were just not to spec to deal with ATA100 and higher.
You got lucky on the mac classic
usually you get both battery leakage and surface mount capacitors leakage all over the place xd
France made battery are superior maybe 😉
Hi! I'm glad you finaly see it! ^^ 😉
This Dell PC is good for max CPU,RAm and Video card upgrade!!of course bios update!!
i have the same old pc as that and definatelly has the cpu plug for power dont worry i have done stuff like that before to you have to folow up the leads next time hahahah glad you found that sometimes its behind the power supply and is hiden on other computers. That 3rd one made me laught i have done that to pluged old cables no notch in them bugger