“You’re a hard drive, you don’t get to decide if you’re ready” 😂

A bunch of old USB drives started a band, but people today think they're lame. They only had 1 gig.

been loving this "but everything goes wrong" series, because it's 100% what the channel was built up from. We all experience issues over and over and can't find a solution until you realize you have to click 1 button. And this channel repressends all of that stress in 10 minutes for regular a regular everyday joe to understand. Love your videos, Keep it up Michael.

10:30 Old PCs relied more on the 5v and 3.3v Rails for most of the power, with 12v Supplemental power being a thing only after 2004 with the EPS Connector. No modern PSU has enough amperage in those rails because nowadays, almost everything is fed through 12v, with only SATA, USB, and some Fan Controllers still relying on 5v and 3.3v; heck, the one reason why Berg Connectors (Floppy Connectors) still appear on modern PSUs, is because some fan hubs and Liquid Cooling pumps use the connector. If it isn't a capacitor issue, the issue has to do with how modern computers are powered compared to older ones. The ORION PSU has over 32A on the 3.3v rail and 35A on the 5v Rail. I have a modern SilverStone Strider PSU with 500W. Its amperage? 13A on 3.3v and 17A on 5v. This thing wouldn't fly in 1996.

1) You need to check the 5v rail when you combine new PSUs with old systems. The last PSU you used worked fine because it has 34A (or something like that) on the 5v rail, but you should watch that more closely next time. The lack of a -5v rail can also cause issues with some cards. 2) Your ST340014AS hard disk is a 40 GB unit, but the motherboard is clearly hitting the classic 8.4 GB ceiling, that can (and will) cause problems. You can use a smaller drive, mod/patch the BIOS, or use a DDO like Ontrack. At this point, I'd ditch the entire hard disk, buy a CF-to-IDE adapter and use a 2GB CompactFlash card. 3) There's an old low-level format utility, MAXLLF. It works with any drive but it was made by Maxtor, so you could try that with the other hard disk. 4) That last bootable CD-ROM you were using is a mess. It's using UMBPCI and creating a RAMDrive... just because. A cleaner environment (like copying the W98 CAB files to a temporal folder on the hard disk and installing from there) is recommended. 5) Test. The. RAM. You're dealing with 20+ years old memory modules. This definitely deserves another round. Good luck!

_"Alright guys i think it's about time for some hard drive errors wooooo!!!"_ Best intro yet XD

Ah all the pains and troubles fidling around with a 90's PC brings back so many memories... I love it!

The power supply issues of the replacements are probably either certain lines not being powerful enough or maybe some inrush current being too high. Perhaps degraded capacitors made the old and possibly new ones more sensitive to this.

Modern Atx have different amperages too. I forget the details, I think it's the 5v amperages are lower then a typical AT power supply, and the MB expects the higher 5V amperages... It might be worth doing some research into this.... Every problem you had could maybe be related to this.

That intro made me laugh! Your humour is one of thr reasons I love this channel!

Love your videos. Already died from laughing just from watching the intro when you said "Alright, it is time for some hard drive errors! Wohooooooooooooo!". They always make me laugh and it is just amazing content! Good job. Probably the best KZfaqr out of my entire subscription list. Btw, loved that sponsor spot! It was so funny when you trew everything on the ground.

90's mysteries have always been complicated

Let’s go!! I’ve been waiting for part 2 to come out. This’ll definitely be an interesting watch.

The BIOS only detected the Hard Drive as 8GB, you might need to set the CHS manually.

The part of "it's time for hard drive errors" had me laughing out loud! 🤣💪 Awesome video!

I was so impressed on you when at 8:00 minute mark you casually plugged and unplugged 3 molex connectors in the row like its not a big deal. Those connectors were absolute monsters and I usually had to spent 15 minutes every time and hurt my fingers to unplugg them. I also hated old hard drives cables, they were clunky and hard to connect...

@Michael MJD Normally, to overcome the lack of a -5v supply, I would recommend getting a "Voltage Blaster" that was designed by Phil's Computer Lab and Necroware. In this case, the first ATX PSU does have the white wire which is that supposedly missing -5v. The second one does not, so it's your choice which avenue to pursue. I have a feeling that the dying hard drive was the issue with the power consumption. The extra wattage seems to be what kicked that hard drive into gear. One note for the floppy drive; systems this old don't detect floppy drives in the same manner as IDE drives. And speaking of IDE drives, why not invest in some SD or CF cards and the appropriate XX to IDE adapters? CF cards are getting scarce, so an SD to IDE adapter would probably be prudent. Those usually sell for around $20 anyway, minus the SD card. If you need anything, please don't hesitate to email me. I know that I can help you out with the PC showcased here with 100% certainty.

I love the way he says "480 WATT POWER SUPPLY" Also, like the fact that he just piles like 2000 floppy disks on his floor just for Linode

"Alright guys, I think its time for some Hard Drive Errors wooooooooooo..... Not Ready? What do you mean Not ready!? You're a fricking hard drive you don't get to decide if you're ready or not!" I laughed soooo hard 😂😂 Well done Intro, Michael 👍😂

I'm fairly new to computers and most of the things you do are foreign to me but I find something oddly satisfying watching you talk about it. Thanks for the content.

Oh yeah you know its going to be good when its an 'everything goes wrong' video.

These videos crack me up I love it. Reminds me of a lot of the frustrations my dad and I went through on older systems. Please definitely keep ‘em coming

Even if *EVERYTHING* did go wrong in this video I still enjoyed it! 👍 The thumbnail really looks like *EVERYTHING* went wrong... 😂

"and maybe take me with ya because this freaking computer is driving me nuts" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Dude, your videos legitimately make my day. I've been having an awful Friday and this video radiates the energy I needed lol.

Well, it's a tough one indeed. I don't really care if you finished the thing or not, all I was enjoying is the excitement you gave us through the tries and the knowledge you gave me. Thanks for this fantastic content!

That floppy disk drop really hurt

Really like your videos Michael! They make my day better!

Love you!!! Really entertaining channel you're running! It's so hard to find good channels these days...

I "HA"d so loudly at 31:28 lmao. I loved growing up in this era because problems like this made me an absolute expert troubleshooter, not just with computers either. Transferable skills from annoying hardware/software issues. Nowadays you plug it in and it works, which is great but holy hell the satisfaction from working on something for 3 hours and swearing the house down whilst doing so only to realise the cable is damaged or something is amazing. I love this video.

I am with you since your 60k subs But the: Everything went wrong STILL amazes me lmao

You have a godly amount of patience Michael.

this is the best mjd video i have seen so far, and i liked the coming up at the beginning

Thank you for another very enjoyable video. I'd suggest that the split-second explanatory cards you put in would get vocal time and expansion in situ, as I find them really very interesting and gratifying. Keep doing though rather than adapting, if they conflict :)

Now this, definitely like Krazy Ken’s Tech Misadventures esque. My favorite video from you, finally!

My favourite quotes “Time for disk errors WhOoOoOo!” “Disk not ready? Your a hard disk you don’t decide that” 😂

Damn, this video hits so close to home. You're definitely not the only one who's had those weird issues happen; getting one step further and hit a completely new issue.. ahhh, good times.

Michael, I think you've been getting increasingly funnier over time with these videos and I love it!

There must be a short circuit on one of those drives, the other PSUs are probably going into protection mode and switching off.

FINALLY you featured that pc i was waithing for this for a long time

"Not ready?! What do you mean not ready?! You're a freakin' hard drive, you don't get to decide if you're ready or not!" Oh boy, that had me laughing my ass off xD

Michael, if you get stuck with corrupted video files from your phone again, transcode them in cmd with FFMPEG. It's what I've done for years when things have seemingly gone wrong and/or worked on the camera/phone but not on anything else. Works with a bunch of different encoders and file types, and worked with all bar 1 of the video files I've thrown at it. Looking forward to a follow up video on NT!

Awesome video, Michael!

These beginning edits are beautiful.

Fun fact for the screws popping all over the place, a lot of hex drivers, possibly including the one you are using with the phillips bit, directly fit the hex head on the standard PC case screws. Remove the bit and see if it fits. Love your vids btw!

33:48 Never saw "format terminated" before. I couldn't help myself to this funny piece. I've installed OS in my day, and I've encountered that error before.

You're slowly becoming dank and I love it.

Oh the 90's... Terrible PCs. I had a 386 DX 40 mhz with 4 mb ram. Power supply was always a issue. Great video Michael!

I know what it feels like. Back in the days, I loved to repair old computers. But the pain when you think the machine don't want you to repair it, incomprehensible. But when you success, the feeling is indescribable

Hello Michael and love the WOOOOOO at the start

This was literally every day of my working life back when I did hardware in the mid to late 90's. I feel for you.

I'm ready to put my hand in the fire that the major cause of the weird issues you're encountering is because you're using a Cyrix / IBM cpu. That's the first thing I noticed. I used to have an IBM-branded Cyrix cpu (Cx6x86 PR-166 more precisely) and it was giving me all sorts of issues when installing Win98 / Me / WinNT (Invalid DPMI return when loading the GUI part of the setup, for example). Had no issues installing DOS / Win3.x / Win95 though. Granted at the time I did not know I could improve stability and performance of Cyrix cpus with special registers. You should try just swapping the cpu for either a Pentium or a K6, and your issues should be solved. You should give it another go with another cpu. Keep up the good work, Michael ! 👌

12:00 "Maybe it needs this much wattage, I don't know" You should check the table to see what the maximal amperage is per voltage output. Modern PSUs are designed for their expected voltage draws. This used to be wildly different in the past. So you don't need the full amount of watts, you just need the full amperage for a certain voltage channel.

This is why i love this channel even more ♥️.

6:31 The 8-Bit Guy nervously sweating from the thought of jumping a PSU with a paper clip.

Love this descent into madness

Having got my start with technology right at the end of 9x and the beginning of NT with XP, I can say that I understand the struggles from watching my dad try to build budget gaming pcs during the era

the timing and sound at 28:38 is just really ironic 😂

Old computers and old cars have this thing in common:you do not know what is going to fail in a near future.they sometimes decide not to cooperate for unknown reasons.

So the “Not Ready” message is most likely caused by the old bios some boards don’t like drives over like 20 gigs and freak out so while it was detected it may be configured incorrectly however the Sata to Ide adapter could also be the cause.

Technology doesn't give you any breaks lol, I wasn't expecting so many things to go wrong in so many ways, but I guess that's gonna be expected for old tech, it can be quite finicky I love the video, it was vvv fun ^^ The visual effects you do are v good too, keep doing

You really committed to the mess for that Linode ad. Impressive

Jesus his sponsor spot made me think he lost his mind and just chucked the pc on the floor

michael seems extra deranged/chaotic (in a good way) in this video and i'm kind of living for it???

As someone who also restores and tries a bunch of stuff on old PC's I can sympathize with all the issues you're having. First off, reading through some of the comments, there some misunderstanding about ATX specifications a power rails. On ATX versions 1.0 through 1.3, the bulk of the power is still provided on the 5V (and 3.3V) rails. It was only until ATX version 2 and beyond where computers started to use the 12V rail as the main power source. Version 1.x and 2.x of an ATX power supply can be differentiated by the additional 4 pins on the motherboard connector (switched from 20 pins to 24 pins). The two power supplies you used that shut off should have worked with the computer, as they were ATX 1.x power supplies. The over-current protection probably tripped on the first two supplies. From what I saw in the video I would surmise that there’s some sort of “short” or abnormal current usage on the board or drives. It’s not a dead short, because you were able to power the computer with a beefier supply. It could be a misbehaving power regulator or bad IC somewhere. It should get abnormally hot if that’s the case. The power problems could also explain some of the weird issues you were having during the video. There’s nothing odd about that board or drives that would have prevented you from installing NT4 (baring any other faults like bad RAM) Also even with an ATX 2.0 supply, unless it is cheap or the computer is particularly power-hungry, you should still have sufficient current on the 5V rail to power an AT or an ATX 1.x motherboard. This is the reason why the last 4 pins on a 24-pin motherboard connector are detachable. Of course if there’s a problem, I would check this out first. As a side note: The -5V rail is still required in the ATX 1.x standards. Even if you’re using an ATX 2.x supply without the optional -5V rail, most ISA cards work fine because they do not use it. Only some of the older cards like the SoundBlaster 2.0 used the -5V, so check the card. If the 5th pin on the bottom of the card (closest to the bracket) is either omitted or not connected, you should be fine. Regardless, thank you for posting on KZfaq. I always admire people who are willing to take the time and share these things with everyone. It takes a lot of time and energy to do these videos so I greatly appreciate it.

11:30 PM (IST).... It's time for bed and watching a MJD video really helps me out 😌

Re: the power supply "third time's the charm." It wouldn't be an MJD video if things didn't go wrong. 🤣❤

this content is cool, ive watch mjd for a while now, and his content is great

That Woo at the beginning is perfection. He sounds both excited (somehow) AND so exhausted at the same time

"I've been moving".... You, LGR, MVG... My whole subscription list has moved this year ha!

Looks like a typical experience, when I decide to mess with some old PCs. I wasted more than half a day trying to install anything at all on a laptop several months ago. When I started, the laptop was old, but in good working condition. When it was over, the laptop was in numerous irregularly shaped pieces in the garbage can outside.

I was being like "meh, I've had worse" the entire video, up unti the point the WIndows ME CD wouldn't even load in (31:19). At that point I was just cry laughing and really feeling your pain. That was ridiculous hahaha

Oh look, another dead Maxtor...had a few die myself, just absolute crap. Got my MCSE on NT4 ;) Awesome channel btw, so much binge-watching-worthy vintage goodness! Happy holidays! 🍻🍻 Edit: You sir have the patience of Job...I would've went Office Space on that thing! :D

All I can say about this video, keeping mind I have worked in IT for well over 30 years now. I have been there and done that... MANY TIMES. After while, I just have to walk away, do something else, the next day come back the PC....

Great video my friend!

You probably have a few issues with this setup, first using a SATA to IDE adapter if the CD rom is also connected. Most adapters do not allow you to set a master/slave setup or Cable Select setup. So there will be a conflict if both are on the same cable. Adapter may have a jumper for selecting. Second, the BIOS is probably limiting you on the hard drive, DOS use to have a set limit of 504MB. Looks like it's reading the CHS and maxing out around 8GB (bios limit) even thought the drive is larger. You need a DDO program like EZ-Drive 9.06W to write to the first sector of the drive before doing anything to "limit" the size of the drive.

Hi Michael! I totally feel your pain. I've spent last two days on trying to move my Windows XP installation from an old, dying hard drive to new SSD. First problem was with laptop: IBM T43 with HDD whitelist. Second problem: old HDD was ATA66 (IDE) and the new one was mSATA II with an adapter. Third problem was: Windows XP doesn't really like when some tries to change the HDD it's been installed on. But finally!! After almost 20 hours - I've got it working! But I still have no idea why didn't I just take another Hitachi HDD...

Hi MJD! I’m pretty sure “not ready” was a common error amongst MS-DOS versions Can you try using the /U parameter when formatting It should work like this: Format C: /U

It was interesting to see a man who knows more about computers get the same kind of results I would. I hope you have better success in the future

I enjoyed this little trip down memory lane. Hiren’s and mini tool partition wizard, if they didn’t fix it nothing would.

I usually skip a lot throughout videos because idk adhd? but this was totally entertaining through and through

I feel so bad, but couldn't help to laugh of the segway to the sponsor, it was so perfect but also I'm so glad I never had to deal with that

A the classic "But Everything Goes Wrong Video"

I feel your pain. Every time I try and do something old computers something like this happens.

This is like reliving some of my worst PC repair nightmares, but worse.

Love when everything goes wrong. In all My life as a technician that happend me a lot of times so. Thumbs up!!

Excited for a Kolibri OS video!

28:41 **GONG !!**

"everything goes wrong" - again? If I wouldn't know better i'd say you do it on purpose but props to you for keeping up with this stuff just for us to enjoy 😂👍

This is the video with the most MJDness ever!

28:41 this is such a good sound dude

@Michael MJD: At 34:32 did you, in fdisk, set the active partition? (option 2) I once [long long time ago] forgot to do this and got al sorts of errors etc. when I wanted to format. At that time I didn't know jack shit about what to do. Just to start again and by accident come to the right solution. 😎

man, I wish i was there with you. This looks like so much fun.

Of course everything goes wrong here at Micheal MJD. LMFAOO!! I love your videos sooo much, they're so entertaining! XDDD

Try to replace old parts with similar parts. Don't swap out an AT power supply with an ATX one. Try to find a hardware diagnostics disk and run that to check for memory errors, hard disk errors, etc. With old machines, hardware problems are likely to happen. Replace one part at a time to troubleshoot. Try to boot and install an old version of Linux to at least see if that works before installing NT.

Michael says "power supply" like eight times in 2 minutes and next thing you know I'm humming 🎶 Lost in love and I don't know much Was I thinking aloud and fell out of touch? 🎶

4:15 😂 many years ago I was shocked in this way when, like a fool, I forgot to unplug the power cord

27:00 this is such a relatable experience. Jank level 10/10

My man MJD just raged hard 10:44 damn bro!

Two immediate problems. 1) That IDE to SATA adapter. I had one of those years ago and what I was experiencing is EXACTLY what you are seeing here. I believe the issue is a buffering problem with the adapter and since you really can't adjust that, those adapters are absolute garbage. Yeah BIOS sees the drive and can access it, but once you start to really interact with it, you will find the performance is so bad that programs like this will fail. Find an old IDE and stick it in there or try a SD card drive emulator board like LGR uses on his older machines. 2) The fact that you need 400 to 500 watts to me implies that one of your devices either has some bad capacitors or voltage regulators that is bringing the current on the power supply down. By increasing the wattage your basically blasting thru the bad components and eventually those components will fail completely. I know I have seen this with wall wart power supplies converting 120vAC down to something like 12vDC for network switches and routers. People would give me the original power supply and the switch wouldn't work. The power supply was giving out 12v but I suspect it would not give out the full 1amp that it was rated for. So I replaced it with another 12v 1amp supply (known working) and the switch still wouldn't come on. Then I replaced it with a 12v 2amp supply and the switch came on just fine. Took switch apart and replaced 2 electrolytic capacitors and then I was able to power on the switch with the original power supply.