Sounds like it has dead pci X16 contacts, the slots can get damaged over time, did you clean it out?

@BudgetBuildsOfficial

3 жыл бұрын

Fully cleaned out, and repaired. I think the tar may have corroded it and destroyed a power trace

@HappyBeezerStudios

3 жыл бұрын

Especially weird since the card works in other systems and the HD4670 was the only thing to run in this one. Which should be a x16 card, and most can easily run x8, x4 or even x1 if thats all they can handshake with.

@DGTelevsionNetwork

3 жыл бұрын

Did you try to wash the board in the dishwasher? Make sure there is no rinse aid or detergent and take the cmos battery out. Let it dry for a few days in ambient air and you're set.

@bitelaserkhalif

3 жыл бұрын

@@BudgetBuildsOfficial try gt 1030 It's pcie x4. With x16 connector (doesn't make sense why no one made x4 ones with gddr5)

@jskyg68

3 жыл бұрын

the power supply is bad.....

Description: barely used

@howtofixyourtech9945

3 жыл бұрын

That would be the craigslist description then

@sachatrin2981

3 жыл бұрын

barnly used*

@coffeemakerbottomcracked

3 жыл бұрын

It may be barely used by a human but very used by spiders and bugs

"storage not needed" Laughs in modern warfare

Hats off to you for not throwing the pc under a bus, torching it or beating it to pieces with a sledge hammer.

I've had lots of hardware that happened to be temperamental like this, seeming to defy common logic and work in situations that just seem almost stupid to explain at all.

@krazycharlie

3 жыл бұрын

It's like winning the silicon lottery. Or shall we say losing it :/.

@TheRealFobican

3 жыл бұрын

Isn't that what you call broken to the point of being almost dead.

@ryanjofre

Жыл бұрын

I ran the Artic Freezer 64 on my Phenom II for 9 years. Fantastic cooler & super affordable.

"I don't know why you'll need that much storage" As someone with 9TBs spread throughout a bunch of drives I feel personally attacked.

@Kevin-rk3ef

3 жыл бұрын

Its homework

@TheSpotify95

3 жыл бұрын

I have a 2TB HDD, a 1TB HDD and a 500GB SSD in my tower PC :) the only reason I don't have any more is because I'm out of SATA ports (the 4th is for a DVD drive). I also have tons of spare 2.5 and 3.5 hard drives scavenged from various sources (mostly satellite and cable TV boxes).

@UKVampy

3 жыл бұрын

NAS with a 3tb and 4tb, 2 x 6tb and 1 2tb nvme, and a laptop with 1.5 tb of nmve

@ScienceAlliance

3 жыл бұрын

Lol I have large games do 3D animation and video editing and I only need 1tb max

@nekomasteryoutube3232

3 жыл бұрын

I have to keep managing my 2+2TB setup by keeping less used files and games off my M.2 and put them on a 2TB constellation hard disk (so its not too bad for speed but 180 MB/s versus 3000 MB/s for a M.2 is slow in comparison). if I had more money I'd love to have another M.2 or a larger rust spinner to store less used files.

All those hard drives stored grandpa's "collection."

@diezeeshoodie

3 жыл бұрын

At this point I don’t know what my mind will think next.

@curbyourshi1056

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I'd rather see a video based on HD finds to be honest.

@nuyorican91st

3 жыл бұрын

If gramps got 70s fuzzy bunnies bonanza I have cash for his treasure

@PhilipAnthonyTV

3 жыл бұрын

@@nuyorican91st Please seek jesus.

@martinsmith1870

3 жыл бұрын

Nasty!

Dude, my heart goes out to you having to handle a smoker's PC. It's never been quite so satisfying watching you hose down a case as it was this time 'round.

@hexagonist23

8 ай бұрын

Why does it put sticky tar everywhere...

Perfect! A true representation how it feels to restore a PC. Awesome work.

@mabeSc

3 жыл бұрын

For real though , I had so many problems with older hardware that literal made me go insane and close to a mental breakdown. I then watch some KZreadrs play around with older hardware SEAMLESSLY and PROBLEM-FREE and I wonder what kind of blessings they have got going on. To this day , am still reluctant to go anywhere near older hardware , I'd rather pay more for a newer component , seriously. This video did feel kind of good though. Finally I can see someone sharing my pain and experience hahahah

@DanielCardei

3 жыл бұрын

@@mabeSc its very important to attach yourself to a group of people who shares the same values. i came in UK a few years ago and i had no friends. i knew nobody. I bought every soldering tool from iron to BGA station and i join a few forums. made a KZread channel and kept me from not going insane. I mean i had 0 time free. Always doing something. You know what? best choice ever. You really want to learn how a PC works? buy DMM and start probing. You found something with a electronic PCB inside on the street? take it apart. try to understand how it works. at one point you will will have different type a view about everything around you.

@mabeSc

3 жыл бұрын

​@@DanielCardei I do have experience with PCs , is just that , for some reason , I have always had CURSED old hardware. Even older Android phones would refuse a new ROM , no matter what I did. I built my PC myself but it was all newer components. Am planning on a huge build next year which will be composed of both older and newer components. A Xeon E5 V2697 v3 (or something similar which will allow for faster clock speeds) and the motherboard + RAM (64GB DDR4) will be coming in the same bundle for under £350. Planning on building a custom cooling system and modifying my case and motherboard (especially cooling all of the motherboard evenly) which I will need since I want to overclock (especially the CPU). The GPU will also most likely have a custom cooler , thinking of a CPU-style cooler modified to fit the GPU better.

@virgilwalker683

3 жыл бұрын

but when he lies about the Core i5 or Core i7, there is clearly IDE. the i5's and i7's are Sata technology, not IDE. Common sense buddy.

@Straycatstrat10

3 жыл бұрын

@@mabeSc I love messing with older hardware. Trust me, it isn't anything like what you see on KZread. I have an old Windows 98 PC that the front USB ports won't work the first time I plug something in. I have to plug it in, unplug it, plug it back in, wait for Windows to tell me it detected it and reject it, unplug it, and plug it back it back for it to finally work. Older hardware is quite cantankerous, but oh so fun.

"I don't know why you need that much storage" 👀👀

@TheSpotify95

3 жыл бұрын

Well I know I would - a drive for games, a drive for music, and a drive for documents/photos/videos. that's the three hard drives. and of course the OS and programs go on the SSD :)

@komradkat1073

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheSpotify95 grandpa had a different mindset with those storages. :P

The legend is back

I just found an i7 7700 with a 1060 mini 6gb near a street. I think i have just used up my luck for the next few years.

@DIV9WARRIOR

3 жыл бұрын

noo wayyy

@LBSiUK

3 жыл бұрын

I found an NEC EA232wmi on the side of my road. Also grabbed an iPhone 6 (which needed a new screen and home button) and other things from the dump.

@DIV9WARRIOR

3 жыл бұрын

@@LBSiUK holy crap what dump do you go to 😭

@DIV9WARRIOR

3 жыл бұрын

@@LBSiUK how do u even find ANY monitor on the side of the road 😓

@deniahmetaj

3 жыл бұрын

Was the owner far enough for you to run away unseen?

My previous PC used to have the same problems. As it turns out, my PSU's 12V rail only had 11.20V at idle and would drop all the way down to ~10.95V under load, probably due to weak capacitors or something. For comparison, ATX specs recommend at least 11.40V under load. Hence it's usually a good idea to test old PSUs with either a multi-meter or one of those fancy PSU testers before putting to good use.

wait whats my pc doing there

@Kevin-rk3ef

3 жыл бұрын

M - mOM?!?!

Thanks god you are back I thought the worst had happened I thought you had gone to twitch!

Yesss been waiting for this vid for the last 2 months

Should just slap together the super clip of this Pc tearing your soul apart for our viewing pleasure 😂

Great video yet again, well done for putting up with the PC. I feel for you, PCs can be so strange sometimes. Anyway its great to have you back making content again.

No matter if machine costs 10$ or 2000$, cable managment is a must. :D

@vamwolf

3 жыл бұрын

After testing all the parts first

@daemonspudguy

2 жыл бұрын

You'd have a heart attack if you saw the insides of my computer. Cable management? Not here!

@BukanIbuMu

2 жыл бұрын

Cable management is pointless

@TheCheemstar

2 жыл бұрын

For me it only matters if it has a window side panel. On closed cases, as long as all the fans are free to move I’m content

@beardyface8492

2 жыл бұрын

They fit in the case & don't block any fans, then they're managed.

Just updated my old Pc (i5 760 with GTX 750ti to an i5 4660 and GTX 1060 6Gb off my stepson) and that came in an Antec 900 case with the Artic 7 CPU cooler. I ran Manjaro KDE on it and it flew compared to Win 10 which was on it previously. Try a linux distro and re-install the Radeon 7870 in it. You never know. Great video and welcome back.

This is a little weird I just finished a build whith a i5 750 HD 7850 and a 500gb hard drive fore $35. Thought I dont have a case as of yet.

@Scuffedalex

3 жыл бұрын

Get a cheap diy case

@Sohzy

3 жыл бұрын

@@Scuffedalex or make your own and use some cheap leds, will look better than the diypc case even if you use cardboard

@SummonerArthur

3 жыл бұрын

I was also about to do that build, but my 1156 board said "nope" and I went for a xeon x3440 instead, and I didnt bought that 7850 yet also

@Crus0e

3 жыл бұрын

Shoe box pc build

Appreciate the use of Ty music, never gets used enough in videos and it has some nice sounding backgrounds

Great video right here. I remember having the same problem of having weird graphics card issues with a PC I built months ago. The card works in my main PC, but not on the new one. The slot is working fine since I installed another card on it. You can be fiddling with PCs for a long time and still encounter weird stuff like such to happen.

While too bad about the HD 7870, the revelation of the HD 4670 doing yeoman's work and doing it well was the real star here. The reason behind the finicky nature of the motherboard is likely not worth anyone's time but I suspect it may have to do with reason the RAM slots were gunked up. Whatever was causing that may well have interfered with the GPU slot as well.

Another good one! I just found this channel today. I subscribed and I am excited to see how many of these computers you go through!

Hello There, a decent video and it was fantastic to hear your perspective on it, a very interesting project indeed. Great camera angles as well. Cheers Peter :) p.s. A really decent restoration video throughout. p.p.s. It's interesting to see how that AMD Radeon HD 7870 didn't actually work at all with that build at all.

I was getting worried... luckily you’re back!

Gosh, the £112 gaming pc video was 3 years ago? Doesn't seem that long ago that it popped up in my subscription feed. 😅 Anyways, great video as always. I always love seeing computers being restored back to a presentable state.

Love these barn/garage/shed/loft builds! Toolbox and cuppa at the side ready...yep, all good!

Reminds me of a laptop I've got - NEVER let the thing go to sleep, or the graphics driver gets fucked up and has to be reinstalled in safe mode.

Great video. I can certainly understand your frustration. A couple of thoughts. Did you try a different power supply? I also wondering even after cleaning if the PCI-E slot is making proper contact. Maybe sonic cleaning the motherboard, followed by an alcohol rinse, and then some Deoxit in the slot would help. Of course as was said in another comment it could be a bad trace. Since it's working now I'd probably just let it live out the rest of it's life as is.

Thoroughly entertained. I love seeing old pcs being brought back to life.

I'm so happy that you are back. Was worried a bit, especially when even your Twitter went silent also for like 2 weeks... but it's over now. New video, yaaaay!

Hi, first time on your channel, nice to find another UK based tech channel as KZread always seems to recommend the USA based which is fine but it's refreshing to find someone who is also in the UK. You earned a sub, you did a great job with this PC and the video was entertaining to watch ^_^ Greetings from Scotland

Much appreciate all the time you spent on this computer and since i also build computers i know the struggle you went through since i have some (cursed) parts lol

Another great video mate. Only tech channel where I've watched the same videos more than once. Very entertaining delivery as well.

G'day BBO, I have found quite a few of the same weird problems with older PC parts over the years (Mostly freebies), but I do get enjoyment when I clean them up & get them working 😁

That was good fun!

welcome back, also i love all of you videos!

The way you handle cases makes me cry... Shoving them over the table and that moment you shoved it over the rabbit house just hurt me..

@BudgetBuildsOfficial

3 жыл бұрын

What?

@gp3328

3 жыл бұрын

Lol

the literal pain "Barnyard PC" could be an alternative title

If I'm not mistaken, the bit of music in the background is from Ty the Tasmanian Tiger. Loved that game! Loved the restore! So much tech gets thrown out before it goes kaput!

I had access to loads of free computers in the past, data recovery to see what people were up to was the first step. Some of the personal photos they left on the drives were interesting, to say the least.

I feel your pain, bother. Great video!! Keep up the Good work!

i love taking the old rigs and stuffing them full of components to see what would've actually worked back then . sound cards, pci/e, proprietary, cards and dodgy mods , so cool out there.

Nice barn find! I've got a bunch of laptops that are in varying condition that I would also class as 'barn finds' as some are really filthy and even have dead spiders inside!

BRO! I legit thought I had a phone call because I was actually expecting one, and then at 10:40 that piano tune is identical to my ringtone!

Great video as always!

I still own a socket 1156 motherboard with a Xeon X3460. The problem you have with booting is that you did not set the primary boot device in the BIOS as the USB stick, let windows set things up and after the requiered reboot that the install ask for, go back in the bios and set the primary boot device the SSD/HDD where you installed windows. All the boards I worked on from friends and my own needed this to be done on socket 1156. Good to have you back again, I missed these budget builds.

broooo i laughed so much at your video.. those PC / laptops sometimes the make strange shit and after that other strange shit, I also had a build, AMD athlond 5000+ dual core that would refuse to boot anything beside DVD rip that poor thing. Thank you for the smiles

Nice find :D Weird that the rear fan and CPU fan are configured for positive pressure. Don't usually see that config. You forgot to reverse the rear fan though when you reversed the CPU fan though so its blowing inwards while the CPU is blowing towards it ;)

@CreeplayEU

2 жыл бұрын

I actually have the exact same case for my personal PC and I see why he did it like that, It is because that case has option only for one case fan on the front and it is on the place where he has these hard drives and DVD drive and you can't even put fans on the top or the bottom of the case so if you block the front of the case you got basically no aiflow. But from the back you got space for one case fan, one GPU fan and maybe get some air from the PCI slots if you remove the covers and one fan on the case panel, seriously if you had that case you would understand

Man budget was determined to get this working, it would be cool to see all the troubleshooting footage though as that could probably help with some people with similar problems to yours.

Great to see you posting content again

Great to see you posting again after 2 months 😁

Great to see you again. I saw those updates and knew something great was coming. Also 25fps?

This video is amazing! Well worth the wait!!

Given the amount of issues you had with that PC, specifically with the mainboard, I would guess at some point it was involved with some sort of power related issue like a power surge or lightning strike. I've seen some computers do some wacky things because of that! Many years ago I fixed a custom built PC that took a power surge via a phone line. Blew out the modem but the rest of the machine appeared to be fine. Funny thing is it had a Celeron 566 mhz CPU in it and the machine would only consistently POST and boot properly if the FSB was changed via jumpers from 66 mhz to 100 mhz which overclocked the CPU from 566 mhz to 850 mhz. I never understood why that started happening but the machine ran for years afterwards with a CPU overclock. Took me a couple of days of swapping out almost every part except for the main board to figure that one out. The person who owned that machine appreciated the extra speed boost too!

Really not a bad deal in theory, pity about the weird stuff. Great to see you back as always

Oh damn, i had a 4600 for a while few years ago! I totally understand the suffering.

I understand the problems of old prebuilts and custom builds. I even wasted months on an i7-970 build (mostly long because I was trying to save money waiting for parts, case/power supply cables being frankensteined, and inability to boot Windows 10 from USB as Windows To Go). I also encountered the issue of many older computers not supporting USB booting. Plop Boot Manager can semi-help. I recommend you replace all case feet with new ones.

I was actually worried about you... don't scare me like that! I'm glad to see you ok though

Way to keep at it dude!

I feel for you. As a person who like to play around with systems and older parts in my spare time. Sometimes things just don’t make sense and won’t work when they just should. If you didn’t make the disclaimer about trying to update the bios you would have had a billion people posting it in the comments section I bet.

I have that case! It was in the trunk of a broken down car...the entire thing was water damaged, only usable part was harddrive and the case, minus the usb ports.

I see you’re rocking that Ty the Tasmanian tiger music in the background

I felt so bad for you spending so long troubleshooting that 'thing', I sat through a 5 minute ad. Keep the change :)

Dude I thought I left my game of TY open at the start of this video. 10/10 soundtrack my man, made my day.

Finally an upload after two months!

Good to see you back bro

2:00 I wouldn't have put my mug of tea that close to this particular PC! 😮😮

Amazing video welcome back.

Love the Ty the Tasmanian Tiger music 😂

Thank you. Had the same problem for me it was pcu that needed new caps...

Well done. No pain, no gain. You gained a lot of respect from us viewers.

My Old HD4670 was finally tested ;D I don't know if you remember me but I still binge watch all your videos sometimes -Kakoka

Great video, worth the catch for de hd 7870 though haha.

puzzles me the way some people set up thier fan orientation sometimes

i have had pcs like that just wont do what they are supposed too excellent video too :)

I have an old C2D E4600 with a XFX HD4870 sitting in it, this video brought me memories :’)

Thank God you have finally uploaded

Liked the ty usic in the background.

thank you for turning the cooler around

Welcome back man I've missed you

Glad to see you back!!!!!

I had the same case a a teenager, brings back memories

I'd wash the mobo under water, but first, take the battery out and PSU cables, let the electricity drain out fully, and go with some soap and a soft brush. I'm an electronic engineer and we do this all the time, just let it drain out a couple of days and be sure that there's no moisture, also spray it with some WD 40 so that there's no chance at all corrosion could strike, and hope that this could fix the PCI-E issues, if not probably some of the signal/power lines are down OR there is an issue with MOSFETs/power diagram scheme...

The TY the Tasmanian Tiger song hit me hard. 🙂

I recently built up a machine from Parts, an old Intel H61cr motherboard running an i7 3770 i had kicking about, stuck an RX 580 4Gb in there and it would not recognise the Graphics card at all, i ended up having to revert the Bios back a couple of revisions, it was a pain in the bottom for sure but it seems to be running very nicely now.

nice upgrade from the Astra you have there, love your videos by the way

@BudgetBuildsOfficial

3 жыл бұрын

Still have the legendary Astra

@petermbrid

3 жыл бұрын

@@BudgetBuildsOfficial can’t beat an Astra G

I've used a library card to clean crap out of some PCIE slots before. Not sure if that will save this but it does work.

That background music brings back a lot of memories

HD 7870 would do alright today still, roughly gtx 1050 performance. Guessing the motherboard having a spill on it near the ram ports has damaged it enough so it doesn't send power too the pci-e port properly, so either cpu or motherboard swap should resolve that if you have confirmed the powersupply can power the gpu in another computer already. Also possible the power supply has partially died if it can't power anything with pci-e power connectors in another motherboard if its a multi 12v rail powersupply. Also as the HD 4670 is working using roughly 65w out of the pci-e slot but other cards are struggling or not working at all I'm thinking its something too do with the pci-e slot on the motherboard itself, specifically the detection pins if you have tried another powersupply already. Check the pci-e slot if that has anything spilled into it as well.

YES! I have been really excited!

Back around 2009 I crossfired three 4670s on a DFI Socket 775 LanParty with 8gigs of ram and a Q9550. Still have all of the components so I could build it back up if I got the inspiration to do so.

the award legacy style bios is probably the problem, they don't support GUID partition booting usb drives which are support on UEFI with legacy style CSM bios.

The Ty the Tasmanian Tiger music caught me by surprise.

For this type of cleaning I use soap and water, works every time, it's just long and painful to dry but after, looks brand new and smells good! It does repair all sort of things

I love you choice of test games, Crysis, Oblivion and Skyrim are my favorites

It sure was a barngain.

1:55 Now I want coffee. Also I recently upgraded my PC with an NVMe->PCIe adapter and Windows 10 refused to boot from that card. It even showed as a "bootable add-in card" in the BiOS but W10 wanted nothing to do with it. Instead I used a standard SSD which is fast enough for an OS and used the NVMe for games. That's the sort of thing that happens with older hardware. The mobo is 10+ years old with a 2500k. There's not really gonna be guides out there about it either, since so many people have moved on to something newer. Kinda glad it worked out that way though since Halo:Infinite is a beast of a game that apparently expects NVMe speeds.