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Test and try: What’s inside this dusty old PC?
Test and try: What’s inside this dusty old PC?
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On today’s video we have an old mini tower PC. What’s inside? Does it work? Let’s find out together! — Video Links Adrian’s Digital …
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The answer: Trash.
A PCChips Socket 7 Motherboard, a Pentium MMX 233, a S3 Trio64VX, a Rockwell modem and a no-name YMF719-based soundcard.
2:38 PS/2 ports were also seen on newer 486 PCI boards. Sometimes in the form of a header, other times it was noticeable on the board that a classic DIN5 connector or PS/2 had been installed in the same place. I also saw a variant where the DIN5 connector on the keyboard was fitted, but next to it there was an empty, unfitted place for the PS/2 mouse connector. Some cases even had a preparation for this and right next to the connector on the keyboard there was a small, break-out plate just for this. In several cases, I used this preparation, soldered the connector and broke away the case plate. It is possible that I have a piece like this somewhere in my archive.
4:19 boards in AT format with an AGP slot were commonly sold. For Soctet7/Slot1/Socket370 platforms. Examples Gigabyte 5AA/Pine TL-SI21/Tomato ZX98-CU etc.
White balance: if you have recent iOS, you can go into Settings > Camera > Record Video > Lock White Balance and flip that on.
A lot of times you can take the sticker off the back of the little fan and drip some oil in the bearings and reseal it with the sticker, or maybe replace it with another. Just be careful to not to get oil outside of the bearing hole.
Is that an AWARD Bios sticker? I always liked the look of their POST screens vs. AMI. Edit – yes, it is. I should have waited for the bench test!
That sticker on the CPU looks like a price sticker, with the underline on the last two digits; no dollar sign so it's more likely a warranty serial number, which means they deliberately put that sticker on there. Even though the machine looks pretty well assembled besides that (at least an attempt at cable management rather than the standard rats nest, full compliment of screws and mounting posts), if I found that sticker under the heatsink, I'd never buy from that computer store again.
I had a computer with similar CPU 223 MhZ
95B is just Win95 w/ USB support. The Readme and 95% of other files are likely the same.
I have that exact case you've got there. Mine currently has an AMD 5×86 150MHz CPU in it. The case came to me many, many, many years ago with a 386 in it, then I upgraded it to a 486. When I originally got the 5×86 150MHz, I put it into a different case, and the old case with the 486 still in it went out to my grandpa's workshop, where he never used it. Years later, I wound up with both systems in my possession again, and installed the 5×86 motherboard into the 486 case, and that's what it is today.
Good vid Adrian! But I'd say that, in running old games, beyond the 386 barrier, you may collide with a harder issue than just speed: 286's protected mode instruction set is different and incompatible with 386's & up. That's why I always keep my M209 board up& running.😊
P.S.: a good use of the 2-digit LED display I found is, precisely, the output of the ISA Post-board! It's not quite straightforward, needs some crimping & soldering, but it's magnetic to me…
If you’re using something like OBS Camera on your iPhone it does have remote web browser config 🙂 might be of use..
I keep a little netbook nearby when I’m doing some capture for monitoring and quick adjustments of the camera
Old atx case….. how many bloody mess did a made
My first pc, different motherboard but same 233mhz processor Intel mmx and isa + pci slots with a S3 vga card, at one point I had a voodoo 3d card with a second support card installed, a hand me down because it became obsolete.
Good old days of paper thermal pads, the grandfather of graphene thermal pads !
Hi Adrian!
9:19 I like the flexibility of InWin A500/Q500 🙂
About board layout differences: always check for revision version.
Lucent winmodems were decent at least compared to USR/3Com winmodems
I am so jealous. Slot loading Pioneer CD-ROM. RARE find.
Several decades ago, some of my PC wholesale suppliers usually served me computers without thermal paste and with paper stickers on the CPU (11:24) … I had to check all the processors that passed through my hands one by one.
Ironically, the supplier himself warned in the small print that 'the absence of thermal paste would invalidate the warranty', … but they themselves were the first to forget it! 🤦🤦♀
@17:05 No thermal paste?
Next time just peel the sticker on the fan and give it a drop of sewing machine oil.
As I recall the north bridge was nearest to the CPU whereas the south bridge was nearest the ISA and PCI locations.
I have a similair pc, maybe slightly taller but with a P233mmx too, 256Mb SDRam, 3 HDD's (6.5, 7.6 and 32Gb), Voodoo 3 2000 PCI, SB16 CT2950 and a 3Com nic so a pretty packed old pc.
It also run win98se instead of 95.
It's my old games rig if you will 🙂
I love this slot in DVD-ROMs. Had two of them in the past. 🙂