Nice. I have acquired replacement RTC of that format from ebay. Took 2 tries to get a working one, but the computer was happy in the end with it.

I've used a Dremel like tool to go into the top of the Dallas chip right above where the battery is many times without issues. I go ahead and go "crazy" and make the hole wide enough to remove the CMOS battery completely. I've used 2 "AA" batteries that I Velcro to the case somewhere. It's really safe to go "crazy" on these chips. They have a normal chip with the battery and crystal soldered to the pins and encase the whole thing in a bigger epoxy shell. It's rather hard (if not impossible) to go too far and drill into the actual chip embedded inside. The chip inside is still being made and sold (without the epoxy shell) and people have made their own Dallas chip with a battery socket that fits in the original place.

Suggestion for the AWE 32 card: Adhere a stick-on heatsink to it to help preserve that unreplaceable chip. Also, the RAM slots on that card are related to the MIDI functionality. If those slots are broken, upgraded replacements with mteal locking tabs can be had from Jameco or PE Connectors. As for that Asus specific media bus slot, I've only seen a picture of a sound card that uses that slot from an Ebay seller in Bulgaria. Just look for that motherboard and you might find that sound card.

I love it! I remember when this stuff was still being sold, and how I was the coolest guy in school with my Pentium 2 based system

About 5 years ago I was tasked with cleaning out our IT closet at work. And there were AWE32's. Also 5 1/4 in 360, 1.2 floppy drives that are hard to come by these days.

I know you've commented on it before, but I'm not sure you truly realize how lucky you are that your local e-waste allows items to go back out. Where I live, I think it requires bribes and coercion.

The awe sound card is a really great find. One of the best cards before nice sound cards went away. The ram sockets aren't for a cache as such but for storing sound fonts!!!! You used to be able to buy sound fonts for the card and use it as a rompler style synthesiser. You could even play the sounds with a midi controller keyboard with a midi sequencer such as cubase or something. You can't buy sound fonts any more but there may be some hidden on the internet somewhere. I think the card also has built in general midi sounds.

I do this in NYC (keeping the place disclosed lol) & I often come out with a gem every once in awhile. Best recent find was a full board that was chucked that still had a 10900K in it & 32GB of DDR4 ram. Assumed it was someone that had more money than patience as the box it was in was found in was that of a Asus Rog Z690 board. The board the CPU was in was shot but the CPU & Ram worked perfectly.

the 2x 30 pin simm slots on the AWE were for loading the sound patches - other cards that allowed that were the roland ones as well as the Gravis ultrasound cards

That AWE 32 sound card often go for $100 or more alone on eBay so a nice find.

4:53 As cheap as it looks, that's an Intel-brand network card... I looked up the FCC ID to be sure. I do not know why they didn't brand the PCB itself, maybe this product was intended for OEM distribution.

The thing not booting from the A drive is indeed a problem with the Dallas chip. They do not at all hold any settings, not even through a warm reset and you ether get to boot from the Floppy - when the Harddrive is disconnected, or from the harddrive when both are connected. This problem did my head in just weeks ago when I was servicing and reassembling a similiar system. I though I had a broken Floppy drive because of the seek also being switched off.

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Here in Poland it’s not allowed to take anything from recycling center. Unfortunately. The good part is that they often don’t look… and just weight your car when you enter and leave (it’s free service to leave equipment there)

Thanks for the walk down memory lane.

Note on storing the battery: it can still die and leak even when not connected to anything. I had to clean out what appears to have been a 'spare' CR2032 battery in a holder that had no connections at all in an old electronic bathroom scale from a garage sale.

The reduced resolution back then was often a memory thing. Try 1024 x 768 with 256 colors. That May work.

Great find! Let's hope they have a matching case in good condition next time : )

The point of NT is that it does not boot to MS-DOS and it does not use real mode, it goes to 32bit protected mode. Take the drive and connect it to another 2000 Pro system or higher as drive D or higher and if it is not encrypted you should be able to see the contents if you log on using administrator access. Might have to set some directory/file permissions.

the AWE32 is a mega score! and the RAM slots were for WAVE tables aka improved instruments for music, was really sweet. mobo is neat as well for the early MMX Pentiums

I had one of those AWE32 cards, with 2MB of RAM in the 30pin SIMM sockets (Used for MIDI sound fonts from memory), but I also had the Yamaha XG wavetable daughterboard. It played a mean game of System Shock 🙂 (System Shock properly used the XG to generate some creepy dynamically changing background music)

I cut into a Dallas chip like that. Crudely connected a newer tab type battery. Didn't do a great job but it seemed to work

It is a common misconception that NT stood for New Technology. This has never been stated in any Microsoft documentation. One of the lead architects of NT came from DEC, where he designed VMS. Windows NT or "WNT" is each letter of VMS incremented by 1.

A dremel and old pc parts always mean a 'like' from me.

You could have the segmented display display HI/LO instead of numbers. Also, I know you're north of SF, but if you ever are near the Hayward area in the East Bay, there is an e-waste place I frequent. I've found some real gems there. One being the Apple Extended Keyboard I I'm typing on right now with the orange Alps switches. I've found two IBM 5151's a bunch of XT's and a 5154. Also found a broken SE/30 which I recapped and got working. There was also Excess Solutions in San Jose, but sadly they have closed their doors. I'm glad I bought a bunch of caps and resistors and a bunch of other "junk" before they closed. Replaced many RIFA caps because I bought 20 of them. Awesome video. I learn a lot from your videos. Keep them coming!

The floppy seek is left over from very long ago, when the drive head(s) could stick to the floppy medium if the disk was left in the drive long enough. The seek would break the head(s) loose so the disk could spin.

I'm surprised the leave the hard drives in them (for security).

I had a Hirens iso where you could easily reset a windows nt/xp/2000/7 password from a linux tool. Thank you for making these videos!

I had that exact same motherboard in 1996. First computer, p1 166mhz mmx

Dear Erin, thank you for this entertaining travel along the memory lane. As a MD, (in the last video I found out that you have diabetes type 1), I feel obliged to suggest to you to look into D-r Robert Bernstein (has a book named "Diabetes solution") . IMHO must read for any diabetic, especially those that have type 1). Best regards, D-r Riste Sekuloski, cardiologist.

I know you just misspoke about a sound card, but now I’m having fun imagining what a Creative Sound Cloud would be!

Morpheus and AudioGalaxy were the shiz back in the day!

I hated those IDE connectors and cables back then. I was so happy when SATA came along. As I recall, NT introduced the registry, something I learned to loathe.

The ethernet card is actually made by Intel and should be decent ... long name is Intel PILA8460 Pro/100+ Network Management Adapter Card ... you can find it by searching for the product code at the end of the bar code sticker.

I still have my Soundblaster AWE 32 that my late mom bought as a gift for me way back in the day in it's original box with all driver disks and manuals. It was a really cool card for its time. That and the AWE 64, if I remember correctly which was the better upgraded version. The extra memory slots were an interesting feature on the 32 that extended the sound banks or something like that...I think if you wanted. Eventually I started to get some compatibility issues with certain games if I remember, and was forced to go to a PCI slot sound card with newer supported drivers, but I really missed using that card with all its cool features! It's still a really great card for retro gaming rigs! 👍👍

Nice video and great scrap save. I remembered there was a way to use a linux bootloader to reset the Windows admin password? That would save the work in needing to get rid of the Win 2000 and install Win 98.

Might as well stick a little heatsink on that creative chip.

4:53 this Ethernet card is really a cheap one. Holding bracket is not even screwd to pcb. I see that it is hold only by those bend pegs.

On your IIsi jam in a SCSI Disk On Module (DOM).

Great project. Thanks! How do you find the ewaste to salvage?

Great vid. Thanks. Didn't hook up the power for the drive and floppy?! I resemble that! :)

First network server deployed on my own was in fact Novel Netware 3.12 *file server* First network and everything else related done exclusively by myself *previous one was working for someone else* was in fact a Windows NT4 Server, this was around the same time I started getting into Linux actually.

The lan card is a genuine intel 82559 10/100 adaptor.

Was there really nothing in the documents? The existence of Morpheus and visual studio suggests the machine was used for something more interesting than the usual fare. No weird music choices, super low quality pirate movies or one of a kind programming projects?

Most of all my computers were found on e-waste, I have three Gravis ultrasound cards that works and originates from this kind of place.

God there's so much old stuff that gets thrown into recycling at work that I'm not allowed to touch at all. :(

Not one of those Dallas chips! Who would throw that out? The sound card alone is worth keeping.

Nice job getting up and running. How about putting a heat sink on the video card's main chip to keep it cooler?

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I thought it was interesting they were running visual studio which would have been rare back then. There might be a developers source code on the computer.!! You also didn't look in my downloads or my music!

if you have two modems, you can do local call center, call directly to the other card

there is a trick to straightening pins in a few seconds using a couple of credit cards. I do know the struggle

The MAC address on the NIC is an Intel registered MAC

Maybe put a little heatsink on the hot chip? Heatsinks must be easy to find at the e-waste... old sat set top boxes etc etc

It's really not worth jump-starting those Dallas RTCs, IMO. For one thing, it's just not a great idea to parallel cells like that. It's "probably" fine, but really not good form. For one, there is an updated part, still in production, that is a drop-in replacement -- DS12884. There are two 8s in the part number now, and it's branded by Maxim instead of Dallas. In addition to the potted modules, you can also get them as bare ICs where you provide your own battery. I use a 12885 and made my own PCB with a CR2032 coin cell holder on top, so it's serviceable down the road. I wasn't the first, and there are a few different versions available online pre-built or as kits. No Dremel required. :-)

The last time i looked at a pent2 Around the Dinosaur age

NT does not stand for "New Technology", that is a very popular misconception. See "Dave's Garage", he puts the record straight.

no need to crack windows passwords even since you're not looking for covert access, in future try reseting password using chntpw (easiest perhaps with SystemRescue livecd)

another channel necroware created an opensource replacement part for the dallas chip.

Would it make sense to add a heatsink to the AWE32?

You can bypass the W2K password by deleting the SAM file. Just rename it. Boot with your Freedos and change to the \systemroot\System32\Config folder. Enter ren sam sam.old to rename the SAM, or simply delete the file. Restart the system. At the Windows 2000 logon prompt, enter the Administrator account with no password.

Nope not 1 486 or 586 for that matter *AM 5x86 DX/3/4 etc BUT, it will take Pentiuns, Pentiuns MMX, AMD K6, K6-2 and K6-3 *though some may need some voltage regulator tricks or adapters.Oh yeah, almost forgot, them Cyrix CPUS of the age as well, though those should have water cooling, no I'm not joking I had a PR200+ LITERALY MELT ITSELF when the FAN broke down while using Autocad for renders. The metal top of the CPU was about 45 degrees sideways, not centered at 90 degrees angles as expected.

cool but win 2000 was better then 98 and win xp I can win 2000 for a long time until 2006 when vista came out then jump to win 7 stayed there until I was made to got to win 10

Boot up Floppy Seek.? i'm only at that point in the video so I don't know whether or not you figured this out later.. If so then please accept my sincere apologies for my inappropriate outburst LOL. ;) My first PC was an all ISA 386DX2 No CPU Fan required and 1 pancaked (Flat) CMOS Battery so setting all CMOS settings Every power flip was literally second nature.. I THINK data sheets could reveal either multitool grinding locations or the details of the external pins for an external 2032 button cell. I still have the PC in the Attic and stumbled across the 8 x Quarter Meg Simms all donated me of course I can't throw them away i'm sure a mate of mine gave me a dual CPU 486 I'll have to look for just to see if it works. :) Cheers (Richard) < That's Me.. Don't worry I'm not getting confused and calling you, me.. Oh Dear.. Nurse...!!! It seems an age away despite the knowledge and skillset I had with this era of PC and electronic tech I don't feel I'd trust building and sourcing the parts for a PC from the last 5 years. So I'm happily resigned to a Shop Bought P.C. now so I don't have to read and match the interface clocks, pin details and all those unfeasibly complicated job it now seems to be. TTFN

Obviously an MSDOS boot disk will not see an NTFS partition. Linux will *well one that is not too early that is* Or the NT install disks/cds which do have a console

There were downloadable boot disks that would let you reset passwords on win2k and let you into that users account without destroying the win2k install. Oh well 😔

I remember using Windows 2000 instead of Windows 98 and its problems.

Built on New Technology Technology? Lol

Hmm, on that age hardware I'd rather use LILO *simpler and would do the trick usually*

Yes. Amazing what this country wastes.

Cool, now slap a voodoo 5 5500 pci gpu in there and load up some era correct games

Gee, I thought that NT stood for "Never Tested." Have you heard of Windows CEMENT? It's the convergence of Windows CE, Windows Me, and Windows NT into one operating system.

For me old hard drivers are very important if they work. Changing hard drive to SSD or Flash removes soul from retro hardware. You need to hear HDD head for full retro experience!

By the way, will you sell that AWE32? If so please contact me via the tube contact details or reply here! (Had exactly that model long ago and I miss it)

I once was paid to smash 100's of computers open from a big water logged pile and extract pcbs and copper from vacuum tubes. I remember vividly breaking open a silicon grafix indigo with a pick hammer because of how heavy it was. If I knew what I knew back then what I've learned since then, I would have dragged it home and attempted to salvage it

It’s really sad what people throw away. A lot of new stuff but a lot of vintage stuff too.

721383-006 resolves to an Intel Pro 100 nic.