I could do nothing but watch Clint restore vintage towers for hours. He's the Bob Ross of vintage computer restoration, there's something just so therapeudic about it.

@lanuhsislehswolfchild146

Ай бұрын

You are not wrong buddy!

@stellarproductions8888

Ай бұрын

IKR? I would totally love to watch him do an entire video talking like DukeNukem throughout the entire thing, nothing like releasing your testosterone through manly mannerisms, questionable innuendo, with a complete lack of civility, to touch and feel that sweet delicious vintage innards, to bring fourth classic nostalgia of computer-orgasmic proportions, while saying, "where is it?" As you begin to fondle the CR32 button to replace it, making the system happy. And when that 56X CDROM drive spins up, well, its just happy to see you, so much, it lost its gear!

@humanpr0ject1

Ай бұрын

For real. I'd watch this man do anything

@FroggyMosh

Ай бұрын

Listening to Clint in a background tab really has the same vibe as having Bob Ross there. At times I half expect a _[Klang-a-Lang-a-Lang-a-Lang] "Beat the devil out of 'em."_ ....Then the Duke does a quick cameo, and I go "ahhh. That one also does the job".

@jonnyc429

Ай бұрын

Just going to pop in some happy little RAM, right there.

For the record: definitely not boring. You'll always run into troubles along the way, and the troubleshooting is satisfying, on top of seeing everything come together

@blakecasimir

Ай бұрын

Agreed. The trials and troubles along the way make this the restoration journey it is. Always enjoy one of these vids.

@sadmac356

Ай бұрын

And even if you get lucky and don't have any trouble with the machine, it's still satisfying

@FroggyMosh

Ай бұрын

As a wise man said, once; I love it when a plan comes together

@keithbrown7685

Ай бұрын

come together, yets... except, not... right now. : ) I'm so ****ing impatient I'd have wanted to see that thing running in some form, as of power-on. Good thing LGR doesn't have my disposition.

@FroggyMosh

Ай бұрын

@@keithbrown7685 To be fair, impatience has a place in this world too. Having less patient people around helps me stay grounded, and get things done. As I know I tend to be overly patient. : )

This computer changed my life. It was my first computer that was just for me and not the rest of the family. My parents spent $3k for this back in the day and I remember feeling so guilty that they were putting out so much money for me. I used this computer for 5 years throughout highschool (1997-2001). Having my own PC gave me the freedom to experiment and learn computers, prompting my desire to go into computer science later in college. This machine holds a special place in my life and I'm so grateful my parents understood it's potential to shape my future.

@Cenot4ph

Ай бұрын

​@@mattstone8878that's where the poo belongs

@loganmitchell1382

Ай бұрын

What did i just read​@@mattstone8878

@epicareplicas

Ай бұрын

Same buddy this machine started it all for me back in 1998, I upgraded it with a voodoo banshess as I could not get a voodoo 2 to work for the life of me. Comp Science graduate here as well, Im so glad to see this machine again :D

@LethargicSquirrel

Ай бұрын

Ha! I just got done posting a comment similar to this! ALSO a CS graduate!

@lievenvv

Ай бұрын

Same 😅

"PC beeps twice with concern" those subtitles are worth keeping on

@SaraMorgan-ym6ue

Ай бұрын

note farts balls farts is a valid windows 95 cd key🤣🤣🤣

I LOVE that in the subtitles it says “PC Plops down”

@FluffyTheGryphon

Ай бұрын

"Unsponsored screwdriver unscrewing"

@FluffyPuppyKasey

Ай бұрын

At the beginning "[MMX-compatible jazz music plays]"

@AgentAsteriski

Ай бұрын

the subtitles on LGR are always gold

@strra

Ай бұрын

You're definitely missing a lot in LGR videos if you don't have subtitles on!

@ericwood3709

Ай бұрын

@@FluffyTheGryphonI love that one of my recommended videos today is "Retro Computing Enthusiasts are Masochists"

ahhh the mid-tier beige box, truly the height of nostalgia for a large amount of us

@JeffDeWitt

Ай бұрын

I worked for IBM during that period and I got to calling that color "power beige".

@morgansinclair6318

Ай бұрын

@@JeffDeWitt Sounds like the kind of colour StrongBad would like for his computer type objects.

@keithbrown7685

Ай бұрын

It's not quite nostalgia for me. Such computers have starred in some of my nightmares. : )

"MMX-compatible jazz music plays" - always good to have the captions!

Oh man, those hard drives have this very special kind of whine that only they make. It brings back so many memories of messing around on my computer _all night_ from like 4pm until 6am. After 14 hours straight of sitting in a small enclosed den listening to that whine, when I would finally shut it down and the noise stops, it's like releasing a vice from my head. It's like a pressure in your ears stops and it's relieving. You don't realize how loud and annoying it is until it goes away.

@volvo09

Ай бұрын

Yep, reminds me of leaving my computer on at night to download MP3's. I normally like the clucky and clunky noises that hard drives make, but those "whiney" drives I have never liked at all. Some were just like that from new...

@keithbrown7685

Ай бұрын

Kindof like an in-law.

That power button deserves its own episode of LGR oddware Nothing like a classic LGR old PC video

@OneLifeGames

Ай бұрын

Now that would be a powerful episode.

@volvo09

Ай бұрын

It's nothing special, it's just trying to clarify ATX power supply operation (modern power supply operation) to people who most likely never experienced it before, and are coming from physical "clunk" on / off switches from AT power supplies. This is an early P2 system, so this is right when motherboards first started supporting soft power buttons.

@seanlavoie2

Ай бұрын

Hehe 👍

@knuckles9250

Ай бұрын

@@volvo09 thanks for explaining it for me!

@volvo09

Ай бұрын

@@knuckles9250 no problem :) But it would be cool to see an LGR episode on power supply history, not everyone has experience with that era... It was confusing to people back then. If your computer locked up hitting the power button didn't do anything, you had to know to hold it to "reset" the computer and do a hard power off. Same with sleep mode, people were not used to computers going to sleep.

that organic fps drop with resonance cascade in hl1 is just pure nostalgia

I may have built that PC! I worked at Gateway 2000 from 1995 till early 1998 in North Sioux City, SD. I hated those power buttons, they used to like to fall into the case if you pushed just a little to hard. As a workaround we used to put tape on the button so it would not fall out until the third party manufacturer fixed the design. That 'blank' fan was covered because this was a holdover design from the awful tower/desktop convertible case design released before this one. That is not the original HDD. It would have been a western digital caviar blue or orange. Any part that does not have a date code sticker on it is not original to the PC, other then RAM and CPU. ( you see it on the back of the sound card at the right of the label - 12/31/1997 and Power Supply on the right) Motherboard one would be located the last ISA slot on the bottom out of view. The CD-ROM would have been either Mitsumi, Panasonic or Toshiba depending on inventory that week. I think Video card in those were the AGP 4MB ATI 3D Rage cards...don't hold me to that. Those were the mid-tier sound cards of choice. Loved those cards, I still have a few. Sound Blaster was top tier or if we ran out of Ensoniq cards. Really cool to see an old friend of mine on your channel. Thanks for restoring it! I'm working a P-120 full tower from 1995.

@MrWolfSnack

Ай бұрын

Do you know if Gateway would have used Pioneer CD/DVD drives in their "Essential" full towers? This would have been in 2000 that I got my PC, so after you left. I have found the Pioneer drives date stamped to summer of '99 at the earliest.

@jonr3671

Ай бұрын

@@MrWolfSnack - DVD drives were not really an option until about late 1998 if I recall. Heck, the Destination Big Screen system didn't even have an option for DVD drive when it first came out in 1996. But for the most part standard fair was x8 or x16 speed CD-ROMs for the Essential Systems.

Not boring at all.

@Periwinkleton

5 күн бұрын

Or is it? *dun dun dunn*

I worked for Gateway support back then, I remember having non-computer users go into their cases to replace parts. Or doing the "FDISK Format Reinstall doo-dah" (sung to the tune "Camptown Races"). The customers didn't hear it, but we needed some "fun" to take off the stress.

@megashilba

Ай бұрын

😂 LMAO just inputting the first lyrics to the song made my morning, I need to come up with the rest of that song , from one IT person to another, thanks for that

@MR-co2ti

Ай бұрын

I worked at Gateway County for 4 years - Great times! Here is a new Odd-ware video: "Gateway GoBack" recovery tool? That was when Windows added System Restore to Windows....

@TheWizardOfOunce

Ай бұрын

Yes and it resulted in countless hours spent on the phone with Gateway support when I was 14 years old. Fun times indeed and completely my fault.

@AaronOfMpls

Ай бұрын

@@megashilba Maybe something like... FDISK Format Reinstall! doo-dah, doo-dah Windows doesn't work at all, oh the doo-dah day.

@johnporterfield4577

Ай бұрын

Worked in corporate/executive support for years, then general a couple years after. The generic nature of these systems made them way easier to upgrade than the more bespoke systems that came after (I looking at you gateway 3250 where the motherboard WAS the riser card)

Someone loved this PC, given all the upgrades.

@davidt3563

Ай бұрын

I'm betting many games of TombRaider and Quake 1 & 2 were played on this bad boy.

@MrWolfSnack

Ай бұрын

If you look at the video from Clint's friend who he mentioned at the beginning, the guy in that video says it was a longtime collector who decided it was time to stop collecting and just gave it all away. They were entirely all Gateway equipment so I'm sure the guy made a themed rig or fully kitted it out. I'm doing the same thing with a spare tower I have.

I absolutely love your restoration videos! Even though this must've been a frustrating one, I just want you to know that your restoration videos are great!

@LGR

Ай бұрын

Thanks!

@WNR_Wiki54800

Ай бұрын

​​@@LGRLGR ... The news of Denis Nikolaev birthday has come to you ❤❤☺☺😄😄😃😃

Run of the mill machines like this are so interesting to see nowadays. Unlike rare or noteworthy ones, very few people bothered to keep these around so they've become rare in their own rite, it's like seeing an 80's Corolla still being maintained. Props to you for caring about these sorts of machines!

@MrWolfSnack

Ай бұрын

I actually bought back my old PC - not the same one but you know the same model - Gateway Essential high level tower. Let me tell you - it's not easy. Even with the original build sheet from 2000 it was hard finding all the parts. The 2008 financial crisis and the scrap drives of the time seen about 95% of vintage PC's erased from society.

That transition to a stationary camera at 9:25 was just like the transition when sitting down to a computer in a 90's adventure game!

Oh man! A Pentium 2 Gateway with an AGP slot?! In 1997 I was in my mid teens, still rocking a NES and SNES and dreaming of getting a PlayStation. I knew just enough about PCs at the time to know that a machine like this would have stomped the PlayStation, and PC hardware was exploding in performance fast. I did get a used PlayStation in 1998, and it got a lot of use, and I forgot about PC gaming to be honest. Bought a brand new PS2, 6 months or so after its release. 2004, I built my first gaming rig. I have not bought a console since. My roommates and I do have an 1st generation PS3 with full backwards compatibility. We need to get it repaired/upgraded soon. That was the last of the truly good, stand alone consoles ever built in my opinion.

@OnlyDadz

Ай бұрын

k. your launch ps3 cannot be fixed. its a problem.

44:48 - Definitely not boring. I wouldn't call it roof raising excitement but seeing things like this is always fascinating. These little time capsules deserve to be shared.

Great stuff! Those biscuit tin snares on the 4MB wavetable were hilarious.

@LGR

Ай бұрын

Perfect description 😁

@rommix0

Ай бұрын

It's like the tinny version of the St Anger snare on that one Metallica album.

@YTKeepsDeletingAllMyComments

Ай бұрын

​@@rommix0Does your lifestyle determine your death style ?

@YTKeepsDeletingAllMyComments

Ай бұрын

@@rommix0 You live it or lie it, you live it or lie it ! Keep searching, keep on searching This search goes on, this search goes on

Restorations are my absolute favorite of your videos. Pure comfort food.

omg the Red Alert sounds were such a massive hit of nostalgia - I need to play that game again

@initial_kd

Ай бұрын

Play the CNC and Red alert remaster, so so so good.

Boring? Dude, that is like one of THE reasons why I watch your channel! Keep 'em coming!

Yup to those who are thinking of repasting a slot 1/A CPU BEWARE. Those P2s and Athlon As of the time used an identical horrible plastic clip on mechanism that once its on, its a bit of a destructive way in, you have to go in the bottom with a metal flathead, plastic tools snap, catch or get ruined, then you can ride the sides with a guitar pick, the later pentium 3s were much easier with the bracket you could slide off. The paste has long pushed out and is usually this pink putty that has hardened. Sadly with the athlons of the thunderbird variety like my 900A, its best to get a graphite sheet so you can set and forget as they do run hot as the thermal diodes are in random places and aren't directly comparable between models.Thankfully if you don't care about looks the damage is able to be hidden, the metal clips will put up a fight aswell. Its probably best on higher spec models but sucks on a higher Sku/value offering to get in so brutally. if you haven't at this point decided to just get a P3 anyway, to do a backplate mod, but at that point its just a slower P2 in a P3 cooling assembly so..yeah, not a good design at all.

imagine its 2077. grandpa LGR builds an ultra old school RTX4090 rig with windows 11.

@chasesmay7237

Ай бұрын

Do you think people will be nostalgic for ‘modern games’? Idk, there’s a lot less charm with battle passes and microtransaction filled gambling simulators but maybe they will look back on it and think it was quaint lol

@razgar02

Ай бұрын

@@chasesmay7237it might depend on how much worse the future is (:

@Death_MTL_Dude

Ай бұрын

That’s if the world doesn’t end in nuclear annihilation that year..

@himbourbanist

Ай бұрын

I think there will be highlights that shine through all of the crap that comes out. Cyberpunk 2077, for an example, will be remembered fondly for quite some time. But all of the live service style games will likely be unplayable anyway when those companies turn the servers off or go under. It will be really difficult to preserve, if they're able to at all. @@chasesmay7237

@rommix0

Ай бұрын

@@razgar02If your comment doesn't scream 2020s doomerism, I don't know what else to say.

Great video, LGR. Brings back a lot of fond memories. I'm 39 now, but I grew up in the era of the first home PCs. I played a lot of Sim City 2000, Doom 1 and 2, Strife, Blood, Age of Empires 1 and 2, Command and Conquer Red Alert, Warcraft 1 and 2, Diablo 1 and 2, Starcraft 1, Lode Runner the Legend Returns, King's Quest 6, Oregon Trail 2, The Dig, Myst, Riven, and many other games growing up on our home computer over those years up through high school. When I left home and moved to campus at university, that was the first time I had access to "high-speed" Internet with no dialup. That was in the Fall of 2002. That was incredible. I also had a brand new desktop to take with me during that time. It was during those years I got into WoW, which came out in 2004. That rig lasted me all through undergraduate, and even grad school after. By the time 2009 rolled around, that thing was ancient, but I was still using it to get things done. I finally upgraded with a new rig in 2010. My guildmates in WoW were very happy about that, especially since I was the guild master and raid leader. Ha! I finally hung up my WoW hat in June of 2022 due to various reasons. Anyways, thank you for making these videos. They are very special.

I got my second computer for Christmas in 1997. I went from an IBM PS/1 to a G6-233. It's when my love for computers became solidified. It's when I began gaming online for the first time. Join gaming clans. Countless nights hanging out on Kali and playing Descent and Descent 2. Learning to sail the seven seas using ftp and mIRC. It's when console emulation as we know it really hit the accelerator. Then, one year later, added in a 3Dfx Voodoo2 and experience one of the most significant leaps forward in computer technology ever. Learning how to play fps games when mouse and keyboard control was practically a new concept. So much of who I am and what I enjoy are centered around my memories made on that Gateway 2000 G6-233.

This is my favorite type of video - an average (or below-) computer is what most of us would have experienced back in the day. Seeing it come to life, solving its problems, and upgrading it - all 100% relatable and pure good feeling. Can't get enough of this type of video.

As always in our hobby, "a silly series of flubbs" does tend to lead into "a silly series of [swears]." I love these old Gateway 2k machines.

Not all IDE cables worked for Cable Select. The newer 80-conductor UDMA4/Ultra ATA 66 cables should always work. Most 40-conductor cables (as that machine has) needed to be modified for Cable Select to work, the conductor for pin 28 to be cut between the two drive connectors (so one sees pin 28 grounded & becomes master, the other isn't grounded & becomes slave). Although Cable Select drives were the norm, ready-made cables which supported CS were rare - I never came across one. This caused a lot of problems back in the day, troubleshooting 'dead' drives which in reality were just set to CS but connected with a standard cable (as provided with the drive).

@Lordogre420

Ай бұрын

now that is a useful comment, always suspected that but didnt know!

@ibex485

Ай бұрын

@@Lordogre420 Thank you, glad it was helpful.

My dear LGR, I was waiting for a video of this kind for ages. Thank you and bring mooooore

The nostalgia ... I played so much Red Alert on a similar (less pricey) machine - thanks for showing us this!

@YTKeepsDeletingAllMyComments

Ай бұрын

I can hear Hell March playing right now.

Not a boring video at all. I love these longer restoration videos. You're doing important preservation work on a part of computing history that is special to many of us. Thank you!

It's been SO long since we've had a computer restoration video from LGR. I miss these.

I've always enjoyed your videos on random PCs, I try to refrain from filling my house with old PCs but at least these videos scratches my itch to try fool around with slightly different hardware to what I already have. Please keep making them!

I adore these kinds of videos. It’s so soothing listening to the music and your voice as you explore and troubleshoot old PCs.

These videos of these fantastic machines are a pleasure for the eyes. show for nostalgic old people like me🤩

Thanks for another fasinating 90's PC restoration Clint! I always look forward to an LGR video to break up the Friday work schedule :)

Great video, thank you for continuing to share your projects as you see fit.

These system restoration videos are my favorite content of what You put out, so personally I’d love to see them continue 🙏

Very durable and quiet case BTW. Used one till mid 2010-s. Just milled back panel a bit to fit modern motherboards and PSU.

A restoration video, and from my favourite era of computers too? Christmas has come early! AND it’s 40 minutes long to boot!

The first LGR videos I ever watched were PC teardown and restoration videos, and I enjoyed them very much. Thanks again, Clint!

I love these restoration or similar videos. I like the feeling that we're working through the investigation and discovery process with you. Great vid!

Absolutely not a boring video! Retro builds, restorations, or just looks back at bland machines are always my favourite LGR videos, especially when they're in the ballpark of an hour long. Machines like this would most likely be totally forgotten about otherwise

I remember that Gateway used to have their own branded stores, there was even one here in Perth Western Australia.

@volvo09

Ай бұрын

Yep, the Gateway Country stores.

@signalcabin

Ай бұрын

There was a Gateway store in Liffey Valley shopping mall County Dublin in the year 2000 !

I love these videos! They are not boring at all. I enjoy the endless tinkering and troubleshooting, reminds me of my own early 90s PC days. Thanks!

Oh man, these are the videos I missed so much. You absolutely made my day!

now THIS is the Friday content I love. LGR, MIKETECH and RETRORECALL are my favourite Retro PC channels.

@LuminalSpoon

Ай бұрын

This Does Not Compute as well.

@Clip.Collector

Ай бұрын

No 8 bit guy? 😮

There isn’t a day that goes by where I don’t long for the ninety’s. In my home town there was a gateway store within a mile of a comp USA. Even though they are long since gone I Still get the fun feelings of fresh electronics, computers and big box software while driving by where they once were.

These are my favorite type of videos that you make! Sometimes I'll just have the playlist of all of your restoration vids on while I work, and the "average PC" ones are my favorite. These are what most people had so they're fun to go back to.

I love the restoration and build videos. They're some of my favourite LGR vids and that's coming from somebody who's been here since this was entirely a game review channel

I'm 99 percent sure this is the exact computer I have in my basement, It's really wild to see it get a dedicated video like this lol.

Clint, I just wanted to say I appreciate the work you put into the captioning on your videos!

@LGR

Ай бұрын

Glad to hear it!

These are some of my favorite videos from you, they're just so cozy!

Thank you very much for adding subtitles. Just so much more exciting to watch. Love your videos!

Clint, gotta compliment you on better footage cutting. Editing is evolving which is nice. Video is more engaging because of it, keep it up.

@LGR

Ай бұрын

Thanks, glad to hear that!

love these kind of videos from you man just this nice chill time while watching you fix this stuff

Not boring at all, these are so comfy to watch and listen. Normally I would find these types of "why is it not working, god do I have to unscrew the WHOLE THING" situations very stressful, but there's something so comforting and enjoyable about you being curious and so knowledged and just figuring things out. You have a love for these machines, and we love them through you.

My grandparents bought a Gateway 2000 in the late 90s or early 2000s (IIRC, it had a Pentium III), and just kept using it for the rest of their lives. I remember playing Runescape on it, and waiting for an hour or so to load up my first ever KZread video (which was probably only a few minutes - it's private now, so you guys can't see it 😛) to show them over their dial up connection.

I rebuilt and upgraded many of these after they had finished their work like in the office i was working on, then we gave them away to employees as their first home computer in late 90's. Strangely though I always thought they were just a UK brand? Obviously not. Pretty sure most of ours were branded just "Gateway".

REALLY enjoy these videos amongst others you do. Not boring at all. Keep them coming!

Love your clean up and review vids mate, keep them coming.

90's/00's desktops were like the wild west. You never knew what you were going to get. The internet was much the same, at the time. Not just ruled by a handful of tech giants.

@FroggyMosh

Ай бұрын

_"Not just ruled by a handful of tech giants."_ ...and a handful of banks (and/or Financial Conglomerations). Maestro/MasterCard don't want to be affiliated with one service(sector) or another?... (non-US people) Won't even get to pay for that service. Something-something Monopolization, Something something Cartel Formation. I'm done griping, now 😁 I miss the 00's internet.

@YTKeepsDeletingAllMyComments

Ай бұрын

"You never knew what you were going to get." Aaah, yes. "Am I going to regret clicking on that link ?"

@koilamaoh4238

Ай бұрын

They were easy to work with and to put together or to take apart in the old days.. Compared to todays custom parts, very "clunky" B IG.. , where it can be inconvenient; harder for some parts to work together with, not enough space, etc.

This exact model was my FIRST PC, I have fond memories playing UT, Quake on it among others. Mine came with 32mb RAM and I remember upgrading it with a Voodoo Banshee since a VooDoo 2 would not work IRQ conflict or something.. Great video brings back a lot of memories of me sitting on the phone with Gateway tech support and them walking me through re-installing the operating system with the included restore CDs. Also mine had a 18" CRT monitor I loved this machine and still have it in my attic lol. When it first came it included a CD version of Encarta and MS office and windows 95 great video my friend :) It also came with RedLine Racer, Monster Truck Madness and a game called G-Police :)

This was a joy to watch. I grew up with PC's like this so it was quite a blast from the past. thank you!

I love these kinds of videos; always glad to see you do more of them.

great way to start the friday, I've got a gateway of my own!

Buddy, not boring. Entertaining and informative. I just picked up a gateway 400c (and an ibm 5170 with a 5153 monitor AND a mystery 486 with a turbo button and megahertz display) and I've run into a similar issue running direct 3d games but sim city 3000 works just fine. I actually just purchased a geforce mx 400 hoping that would fix my issue but now im confident it will after seeing your own experience with the same kind of thing. If anyone was curious my issue was sim theme park freeze in exactly the same way and i suspended this old ati (128?) was the issue since software rendering ran fine even though it was slow. But definitely keep it up man, also thanks for the inspiration you gave me to start my own collection!

Watched till the end! I love these kinds of videos, because this is exactly what I enjoy mucking about with old computers. Giving them a really nice tune up, maybe swapping in some slightly upgraded goodies, is a great way to ensure they are around for a few more years.

Keep up the restoration videos, I love all the nuances of the old systems with old games too!

Billy is great. I really enjoy his channel, the nostalgia mall too

That intro was single handedly the most adorable and most horrific thing you've ever done, thank you. That was truely an unsettling combination of enthusiasm, obsession, and a complete loss of sanity.

This was a great restoration video! I really enjoy your restoration videos, they are some of my personal favourites from this channel.

these restoration vids are probably my favorite thing you do. it brings me joy seeing these well-loved computers from a bygone era getting a new life. makes me wish i still had my childhood gateway pc that ran windows 2000 on it haha

I remember walking into the Gateway store for the 1st family computer. Still have it too.

ive said it before, ill say it again - this is the best type of LGR content!

These type of videos are relaxing bro, keep it goin!

This was an amazing trip down memory lane. This was my family's first computer. Where I learned about PC games, the internet, etc. It was also the first computer I ever took apart to look at what was inside. Thanks for this!

Aw man... NFS4 High Stakes was always my favorite NFS game-- NFS III was fun cuz you could mod it so easily and make it do silly things, but NFS 4 was just more polished. I remember downloading Super Heavy Bus and just flying around the tracks blowing other cars off the road. The replay mode made it almost infinitely replay-able, and I got a LOT of laughs from the crazy stuff we did.

I've owned that exact CPU before, and those are rivets not screws. You'll have to drill them out, or just leave them be

@volvo09

Ай бұрын

There's pretty much no point in messing with the thermal paste on an old P2 or P3 anyways, they didn't run hot and didn't dissipate the heat that a modern high end CPU does.

Never boring, one of my favourite kinds of video from you.

I'd say more chill than anything you have been helping me sleep while being entertained simultaneously for years so cheers for that

A classic Gateway PC restore video.

I agree Clint, Pod in software mode has a nice crusty style to it. Gives me PS1 vibes

...this is what im talking about. This is why I love this channel. Thank you and I need more of this exact content. PLEASE

I love that you show real struggles with restoring a older pc its such a tough thing dealing with drivers and stuff I hope to see you find more obscure pcs and restore them

And thus, Billy's Gateway Curse has been passed on to you. If you haven't seen the videos of him restoring the other computers he got, buckle up; he experienced so many different problems on all of them.

Ah, nostalgia. Hearing that high-speed CD-ROM drive speed up like a turbine, knowing it was about to spew some gaming goodness onto your hard drive at unbelievable (for the time) speeds.

@MrDuncl

Ай бұрын

At the time people said that if they went beyond 56x the CD would disintegrate due to centrifugal forces.

These are my favorite types of videos. The average computers of the 1990s will always be my favorite. Please make more of them just restoring and cleaning.

I enjoy these restoration videos! Thank you for making them!

At the time Gateway was competing with Dell. They were trying to get regular customers as well as regular business contract similar to what Dell now. Nvidia tnt2 is quite nice at the time. 128MB is also quite an update as that is a requirement for games later on (1998+)

@YTKeepsDeletingAllMyComments

Ай бұрын

I just made a comment that ties into this. I wish Gateway had come out on top. I do not like Dell.

The cool kids have no idea of the struggles us old farts had to endure to play simple games.

@guzzdoritos4708

19 күн бұрын

I'd say the old farts were the TRUE cool kids!

This kind of comfy restoration video is a perfect way to start weekend because LGR's videos get released during Friday evening in my time zone.

Love your restoration videos! Keep up the great work!

Clint, is that your storage room or a Micro Center?

@DerekLippold

Ай бұрын

FOR REAL

It’s neat computer time. *grabs coffee*

@kunka592

Ай бұрын

More like cool crabs coffee amirite.

I love your computer hardware videos, including this one! Your series on building a 486 is one of my favorite things on your channel so I hope you keep doing more of this type. I understand if they don’t get enough views to be worth making though.

i love ur video , ur voice is soo satisfying to hear when u fix something and explains what the bug is