Garage Find Pentium II Restoration
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A friend found this in a garage where it had been sitting for 20 years.I was convinced I'd be finding an infestation of bugs inside it, but it was (other than 20 years of dust) pretty clean! Another thing I was convinced I'd be running into, would be bad capacitors. After several days of running the system, I have not had any of them let go the magic smoke, but that is certainly something to look out for in the future, as this system heralds from the very very beginning of the capacitor plague era.
Finally, a shorter video! Hopefully you all find some enjoyment from this video, please, let me know in the comments what games or software you would like me to run on this system!
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Ahh the sound of that hard drive. Brings back memories..
I have the same struggle with dust an allergies and old PC's but we love retro hardware 😅
Nice restoration vid
Play some Total Annihilation on it, my dude. Quake II might be an awesome choice as well.
@LowSpecActionSquad
12 күн бұрын
I'll get those onto it for a future video, excellent suggestions!
Very nice
Good content. Subbed.
I believe my dad told me he thought it had 2 drives one for read and one for write to copy cds
@LowSpecActionSquad
13 күн бұрын
That seems to be what a lot of people thought. Probably some confusion when cd writers first emerged on the market, people may have not realized they could read cds just as well. You could usually copy a CD to a .ISO file, then write that to a new disk, so people didn't technically need two drives
I miss my pentium 2 system... back then it was a good and magical time to be into pc gaming.. cool hardware.. an operating system that actually wanted to provide usefull features (98 & 98se)... it was a different time back then
@LowSpecActionSquad
10 күн бұрын
@@cbm_doomworld I remember being scared of the opening to Unreal, hell, Dark Orbit (2001) was really atmospheric and I remember getting the heebie-jeebies occasionally when I played that game, lot of super underrated titles from the time!
@Scott-gx4rc
9 күн бұрын
Still have a Win95 system stashed in a closet and several Win98se systems stashed.
@cbm_doomworld
4 күн бұрын
@@LowSpecActionSquaddefinetly but I also remember the first alien breed game being able to make me scared back when it came out in 1991 :)
you broke the fan men!!!
@LowSpecActionSquad
12 күн бұрын
@@por77os I know, I was not careful! The plastic on these old cases gets super brittle over time, and I failed lol
Include "Standaed floppy and CD/DVD cleaning videos in description lonks. That will do.
For games i am thinking Warcraft 2, Age of Empires, Duke Nukem 3d, Wacky Wheels, even some Acid Tetris.
@LowSpecActionSquad
11 күн бұрын
All good options, I was actually thinking maybe Warcraft 3, as this PC juuust barely meets the requirements
@mattscomp
11 күн бұрын
@@LowSpecActionSquad why not eh? For some reason I feel like I completely missed Warcraft 3. Around that time I was still playing some Unreal Tournament but very little else!
my very first computer was a pentium 2 400mhz pc preinstalled with windows 98. I destroyed that so hard, reinstalled and installed and added linux and all sorts of hacks to it ;) Used the internet via serial cable to mobile phone. Good times. (mobile phone costs for internet was terrible business :D :D ) But i dont remember that special cpu placement. I have always had pcs with cpus on sockets on the motherboard...
@LowSpecActionSquad
9 күн бұрын
I considered putting an old copy of slackware or Fedora on this, but figured I should finish with some games before I did that lol. This stuff is so fun to play with! My first PC was an AMD Duron, I think 700-ish MHz? It's been a long time lol
I had a Pentium 3 unit awhile ago the hard drive was mounted in the beige grille on the bottom where you mounted yours it has two long screws you have to remove from the front of the case.
@LowSpecActionSquad
8 күн бұрын
I had a dual Pentium 3 Dell Precision 220 for a bit, I REALLY regret selling it lol
@plainsabertooth7828
8 күн бұрын
@@LowSpecActionSquad I know that feeling lol
what city do you live in?
How old is that pc?
@LowSpecActionSquad
13 күн бұрын
I believe it came out in 1997, and ran until mid 1998 after Windows 98 was released. So, around 26 years old
@TheNorwegian
12 күн бұрын
@@LowSpecActionSquad The 400 MHz Pentium II came in 1998, August-ish I think, so it's likely from late 1998, at the earliest
@LowSpecActionSquad
12 күн бұрын
@@TheNorwegian exactly! The v400 seems to have launched with a 300-ish MHz PII, and was offered with the 400 briefly before it was discontinued after the v440 was introduced. At least, that's what I think happened
Lentiiummm 😅😂
give it windows xp home and a zip 250 zip drive
@jarlah
9 күн бұрын
i remember zip drives. Dont remember what i used them for though. Guess it was mostly cool I guess.
@jjohnson71958
8 күн бұрын
@@jarlah u can use them for mp3 files pictures, text documents, midi files