Since I was speaking without a script throughout this video, there are a couple of things I feel like need clarification beyond even the captions that I may or may not have added later: * Sorry about some of the moire effects from shooting directly at the monitor. As you probably know by now from basically every other video shooting directly at an LCD on KZfaq, that effect is not visible in real life. * For the SATA SSD, I did also try the Inland drive with the old IDE-SATA adapter (after it was working, specifically to check if the original problem was the drive or the adapter). It didn't work, and from what I've read it's probably because that original adapter does not have a master/slave jumper. I bought the second adapter specifically because it does have that jumper. Some BIOSes just seem to need that. "Cable select" just doesn't always work (and I remember that from the old days too). * I waited 30 minutes after switching the PC off before even touching the PSU, and 24 hours before opening it up to let the capacitors fully discharge. I had originally mentioned this but apparently cut it for time. Please make sure to do this if you work on a PSU, and then test it to make sure there's no voltage remaining before touching any of the important bits. And maybe watch some other videos on power supply safety; this video isn't intended as that. * Yes, I'll eventually need to figure out a TRIM solution for the SSD, since none of the OS's I'm running support it. But it's not that important right now.

@Modern Classic For the front panel I/O connector going through the back, that’s a "D-subminiature" connector (example: the joystick connector is a D-SUB 15). I couldn't tell how many pins were in it, but it seems to be very similar to the external floppy drive connector for the OG IBM 5150. If you were to do continuity tests between the connector and the ports on the front, you could build your own dongle, if that's your goal.

I remember going through the "silver" phase. I paired a silver Viewsonic CRT monitor and keyboard with a silver Antec tower case. Beige begone!

Yay, another modern Classic video!

Freezes like you're seeing in GTA could also be the IDE channel running the SSD not set to use DMA. Worth checking that in 98 AND XP.

Very cool, looks great! Nice to see another system saved, I’m sure it took a while to swap out all those caps. Definitely worth it though as they aren’t getting any newer, I’m sure it’ll last a long time!

Woah. Knew I'd been around since the dawn of time but didn't think I'd been around for THAT long. Always fun to watch your videos

Good to see you again

I so want to watch this but it's two in the morning here! Good to see a new upload out, thanks. On save list 📌

If you're going to replace all the electrolytic capacitors on an older board like this, this will probably be a moot point. However, you really need an ESR tester to check the internal resistance of these caps. I actually use both a capacitance meter, and an ESR meter to check these older caps. I have found that they can sometimes have specified capacitances using a capacitance meter, but are still defective, with a high ESR. Conversely, I have found caps with acceptable ESR, but then read out of spec capacitances. ESR meters are cheap and a great edition to your testing devices. I also bought a power supply tester, also fairly cheap, that can run most voltage tests on your PSU, once it's been disconnected. Once you've OK'd the voltages, you can plug everything back in and place the PSU under load. This testers can also help find faulty connectors and has most common sockets to plug the PSU cables into. I got both of these devices on Amazon. I do a lot of electronic work and troubleshoot older PCs and video consoles, and they save a lot of time. Just a suggestion. I enjoyed your video and like to watch how other people diagnose things.

Hello, I might just have been lucky, I have bought the cheapest IDE to SATA adapters from China and used what ever 120 Gb SSD's I had lying around and they have worked, the only difference I can think of is I am using the newer 80 conductor IDE cables, looks like you have the older IDE cables? Like you I have the SSD/ IDE adapter as master no slave. Cheers, Dave.

That case looks like a case that LGR has. Great video and detailed

I love the Lian Li Aluminum cases, to me they are still cool and all I want to kinda use nowadays, I have one now that I can never part with that I have had for like 12 years now.

New Modern Classic!

Cool

I had just gone though inspecting recapping the Antec SL300, SL350, SL400 and SL450 PSUs. The high voltage caps were fine, any low voltage side caps are best replaced. I have found most to all had leaked.

Sweet, max payne mouse mat 😊

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sound card should always go in the top pci slot, as its the primary and gets the full 33 / 66mhz bus speed...

Such a chill build video that I could relax to after work, lying on the couch, with my cat lounging on my gut. Mood. What's the name of the background track you used during the build phase, btw?

Mouse wheel up / down changes weapon on those GTAs, which that mouse seems to be missing. There are no cd patches for those games, yes sir. Best wishes.

I have a Lian Li PC7B Plus II in Black (an aluminium case), for my athlon xp build. I also have a boxed Coolermaster Atcs (110-XS1) i managed to get cheap on ebay; lovely case but im missing ALL the weird square clip style motherboard standoffs and I've never seen them anywhere! Rather than buy a crappy old power supply and recap it, i just bought a cheap Corsair rx550w 2nd hand as it has: 25a on both 3.3v and 5v rails, is gold rated, modular and a zero rpm mode. 25a should be fine. It's literally just a system to run my 3dfx Voodoo stuff, i have voodoo 2 sli with a AMD k6 iii+ at 500mhz but i know a lot of people run pentium 3 in slot 1 440bx boards to lessen the bottleneck hence the overkill AMD Athlon XP. So I'll probably fix the damaged cap on my voodoo 3 for the K6 iii+ and put the voodoo 2 sli in the Athlon XP so i can run a fast Radeon next to it. I heard the story about the capacitor plauge guy. I always just assumed manufacturers used cheap caps, i didn't know the formula was incorrect untill i read about it like a year ago!

There are updated versions of close combat series - same graphic styles / gameplay but built for modern OS

Whilst the SB16 might be green - I'd argue that in this case, it actually goes very well with your colourful theme, since nothing else in there is green.

Great video. I'm wondering if the issues the SB Live are driver related. Phil's Computer Lab put out some content on this, and in fact he recommended avoiding the Dell version of this card, and going with the standard card. Even then he cautioned to use a specific driver to avoid issues.

I would double check what driver you're using for your Live card. The Dell cards use strange proprietary drivers which is the only reason avoid them. The drivers from Creative seem to have compatibility issues. That being said, to get proper sound in DOS, there is a special driver on the install CD that doesn't load by default. I struggled with this forever and finally, one day, found my original install disk for my Dell SB Live card. The drivers from that original install CD worked perfectly and cleared up all those sound issues you are having. Good luck though.

If you haven't already done so, don't forget the legacy XP update mod.

I'd say that even if the measured cap is within spec, you should replace all of them, as older capacitors start to fall out of spec after 20 years.

I HAD THE KT7 RAID and it crashed locked up for a week or 2 then a bios update came out and it was ok after that then abit went bust cos of the capacitor plague i used there boards a lot i went to gigabyte after that for the p4 to keep the house warm and they run hot

You can improve CPU temp by inverting the CPU Fan, suck air form it is less efficient that push it trought it.

i can't really tell in the video but if your motherboard has USB headers you could just desolder the big cable and build some custom ones. If you don't have a dupont wire crimping kit you'll need one of those. not too tough to learn.

Gta vice city runs very decent on my athlon xp with radeon 9550. With game running off cf card but im using no cd patch so i wonder if that help loading hiccups on your systems.

Isn't 12V rail on +-10% spec?

the ram is thermaltake, and it was i whom told you about the bulging caps on the geforce....

computer case counts as cable management pretty sure

As a pilot what do you think about Boeing bad quality and deaths issues? Could you make a videos? Best wishes.

please replace the words "sound blaster 16" by "gravis ultrasound"

I Have Idea Get 3.5 Aux Cable One Side Of 3.5 Aux Connect To Line Out Sound Blaster Live Connect Other Side To Line In Of Sound Blaster 16

Never, ever reuse a PSU, always update with a new one; I suspect that would have fixed all the instability issues. It also helps with the wire management as all new PSU's have the wires wrapped!

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