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Nice systems, thanks!

Earthlink is definitely still around! They're active under Charter Communications these days.

Your videos make a difference.

Okay... my friend .. before destroy by open a HDD like that _(witch it looks it was mechanically fine by the way)_...... you need to clean his power contacts at the least.. _(that behavior is from an HDD that is not getting the enough juice to properly start running you know)_.... you need to see if it is getting the proper voltage in the board.... or some bad cap is pulling down the voltage in it.... or simple oxidation in the contacts of the connector are maybe loosing half the voltage right there............ remove the board from de HDD... clean it... inspect it you see some bad component??.......... veeeeery common... is the silicon thermal pads discomposing shorting thing with the nasty liquid they lose when discompose........... is contact in the board also... that connect to board whit the engine coils inside they needs to be clean and deoxid...... and one or more terminal with many springs contacts that connect to the heads and to arm coils.... all those needs to be clean and dioxide also.... _(this goes for modern drive too.. some times an HDD said that it have bad sector because is not getting in the heads the proper voltage because those spring contacts are dirty or oxidated.. is the first thing to do when a HDD show bad sectors clean all his contacts)_ ........... with a thermal camera.. you shroud see if it is any component in the board that look to be overheating/shorting by most probably some bad cap that needs to be replace... etc... etc..

you should be able to find the screws you need by using the term Philips head standoff screws.

You're so gorgeous 😍

Bill gates mode

16:42 Now THATS a smol boi! Anyways,keep up the good work!

I just found a Gateway desktop at a thrift store for $10. I think it's a few years newer than this one as it has an AMD Athlon 64 X2 badge on it. Haven't tried to boot it up yet but, yep, a capacitor plague victim as well.

Schmoo

29:50 nice to see how you do with the spider. he seems to have fear, not knowing whats going on and looking for a hide behind the cables. poor little spider. great you free him.

what is the white scuz on the bottom right backside of computer 2?

I was a dad during the 80's 90's Made my first computers after first buying an old 486 66mhz from Gateway. I''ll never forget having problems and being on tech support with a lady who changed one line in the configsys file. she put a comma in and it fixed whatever was wrong. I was sooo impressed. Before that I had a VIC20 I used to play space invaders on. Lovved making computers back then and still do.

I've broken so many of those plastic spudgers! They kinda suck honestly. It's ironic that you use a guitar pick because I've been using one for a long time as well. It's great what one used for tools back in the day before the internet/Amazon made everything readily available. Improvising and using what we had on hand to get the job done is how I grew up and I think the guitar pick gets put in the kit with the duct tape and channel lock for most versatile and used tools for diy or any job for that matter. Great content ! Keep up the good work! Also if you sprinkle baking soda on super glue it will harden instantly, greatly reducing the dry time. It also enhances the durability of the bond.

I had an AMD XP 2200 one of these with a fanless (custom zalman) ATI All-In-Wonder card. The graphics cards fins met the intake holes on the sides of the case, so it worked out perfectly. And I loved the heatpipe exhaust system. The only thing that kept the machine from being perfect was the loud power supply and exhaust fan. If I have time this summer, I’m going to build my silent SFF system with an AMD G series chip. It would probably take up the space of the 5 1/2 optical drive of the Shuttle XPC, and it wwould be the 20th anniversary edition of my original Shuttle XPC.

So those machines were sold as "bare bones" to OEMs to build up. They just added the CPU, RAM, Storage and optical drives. I owned my own company at the time, and we built and sold tons of those Shuttles, in a large number of variations. Small businesses loved them, since they took up so little space and were very quite. I don't think we ever sold a blue one like that though. Great little machines, easy to put together too.

can I have a retro pc

Mike, Any idea why the PG rating flashes on the Power Supply Tester at: 55:55, I haven’t had that before when testing PSU’s using mine?

First period business class at middle school in a room full of these machines - I think we had the 386 machines without CD-ROM or sound cards, but they did have Token Ring. At the teacher's instruction, they were all turned on simultaneously with that that two tone POST sound echoing throughout the classroom.

interesting. you say dust bunny. in german we say wollmäuse, translated in english like wool mice. thanks for your great videos and greetings from vienna.

I still have two Shuttle boxes in regular use, and another that gets occasional specialty use for Win 7-era programs. I built a work/play PC out of a box like that one for my niece as she headed off to college. Even put a TV tuner/capture card in it. The area (and panel) below the optical drive was made to accommodate a 3.5-inch floppy drive. In most cases, (by the time these boxes were released) the slot was filled with multi-function units, usually housing flash card readers, additional USB ports, or audio I/O, in addition to the floppy drive ...

At: 41:13 that Tab.exe in the root directory of C: Drive looked dodgy although I could be wrong, I have 3 of those E-Machine PC’s that’s similar to your RoboCop one! 😂 🇬🇧

I’ve found that Maxtor Hard Drives at: 36:45 were not very reliable from that Era to be honest! 🇬🇧

20:12, My Brio is 2 Days newer than yours and all the Big Caps next to the CPU Socket are Green and they’re all fine, How weird is that? 🇬🇧

I’ve got a HP Brio at: 15:45 which was Manufactured on the 25th of January 2000, 2 days after yours! 😂 Mine has a PCI Card with 2 x extra Serial Ports as my Father was a Ham Radio Operator & believe that’s what he needed them for and it was passed to me after he passed away! 🇬🇧

Wow, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a matching AGP Graphics Card & Slot before as they fit together perfectly, I do have One or more of those Graphics Cards but that’s the first time I’ve seen a PC that they fit in with that stubby bracket at: 2:05, At: 4:40 some of those CPU retention brackets on some PCs could be a right pain in the backside to remove, That’s for sure! I do have a LS120 Disk but have never had a Drive to try it in not that I’m particularly bothered as I’ve used ZIP Disks & Recordable Media without any issues… 🙂🇬🇧

great video, thank you

Wish I could find old PC Job lots here in the UK but as much as I search their’s none of the Retro/Classic type plus even if I was able to find some then I would seriously need to find more Storage as I live in a 1 Bedroom Flat (Apartment for those of you in the States), I have 50+ Computers & 100+ Laptops plus other devices such as a couple of Servers & Thin Clients etc and I’m having to find more creative ways of stacking & hiding them, My Dad used to be a Ham Radio Operator before he passed away, I used to be on the CB Radio & nice to know that you watch Gravis’s Videos (Cathode Ray Dude) 🙂🇬🇧

I’ve got 3 x 24” Full Tower Cases here although I’m not sure of what Hardware is in them now, They are ATX Cases as they have Micro Switches for the Power Buttons instead of the Mechanical Buttons, One is empty if I remember correctly, 2 of them belonged to Brothers who no longer wanted them so they ended up at mine, I’ve also got a 19” Intel Server with Dual Slot 1 Pentium III Processors and it’s bloody heavy! I was absolutely Gobsmacked when I bought my latest Case which is a Cooler Master Cosmos C700P as it’s close to 26” and weighs a Ton! 😂🇬🇧

I’ve got a couple of XPC’s I’ve been playing with over the last few weeks. An AthlonXP based one and a later Core 2 Duo one. I absolutely love these little beats. Back in my LAN part days these were *the* machines to have. For AMD based ones they even produced some nForce machines which screamed. Just be aware that the PSUs are a known weak point.

With 2 modems, you could "shotgun" your connections and get 2x whatever your speed was, in my case it was 28.8, the lines where I lived never supported 56K. So only way to get close to 56K was 2 DUN connections.

6:20 ASUS Pundit mini computer, they got hot as hell because the airflow was very restricted. Mine had a Pentium-4 and I used it as an XP media center, 2005-2008.

Doooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom 😁😁😁😁

It’s too bad so many systems of this era have the evil rechargeable ni-cad batteries, but those batteries also probably last way, way beyond the intended life of these systems. I mean, in the time these computers were built, they were obsolete within a year or so, so even a 10 year expected lifespan of the components would much longer than most of them were actually used. Now, 30 years after these systems were built, you can hardly fault the OEMs for using batteries that leak and destroy the systems decades after they were built.

That Aptiva CD-ROM drive sounds like an Apple II disk seek when they turned on.

If you're ever in Australia, bring this to one of my Win98 LAN Parties!

I had to Chuckle at: 44:57 “In a Holiday TupperWare Container that I definitely didn’t forget to return to my Mum’s House!” 😂🇬🇧

Interesting & good to watch one of your Vidz where you’re actually tinkering with Hardware that’s not as Retro as you normally show, Great Video all the same! 🙂🇬🇧

Believe one of my Brothers bought a Medion PC similar to System 1 from an ALDI here in Birmingham, UK, I was not a Fan due to very little flexibility with Upgrading it, Out of curiosity, Have you ever heard of a Piece of Software called Sequoia view (Think that’s how it’s spelt?), It runs in a Windows environment and It’s a great little utility that displays what is taking up space on a drive, I believe it also works with Optical & Removable Media too, Also, If i have an issue with a CD / DVD drive reading disks then I generally open the Tray and blow into it and you be surprised at how often the Drive will read the Disk after I’ve done that! Keep churning out the Great Videos while injecting the Humour where you can! 🙂🇬🇧

That power supply is not in fact fine. 12.7v is far too high. ATX spec calls for +/-5% on all positive rails and +/-10% on all negative rails. I'm going to say that the PSU has failed capacitors. It's also likely a junk group regulated power supply, so the rails are going to be way off with no load applied. Shuttle boxes are notorious for capacitor plague, their machines had worse capacitor plague than virtually any other computer manufacturer.

My roommate had an old Shuttle, over time (a few years) most of the caps went bad. And then never again Shuttle.

I’ve had it in the past where a Customer has had Multiple Sound Cards / Network Cards etc installed in their PC as the Technician they originally approached were unable to find Drivers for the existing Card/s so they just installed another Card… Unbelievable! 😂🇬🇧

how come you only use those brushes to remove dust rather than compressed air??

Hi Mike, Another fine Video, I certainly remember those old Conner & Seagate Hard Drives at: 1:27, 13:50 & 24:30 that were measured in Megabytes from when I first got into Computers back in the early 90’s, I do have a few boxes of Hard Drives and believe I have a few of those Old Drives in amongst them, I need to put out some Videos for my Subscribers at some point as I have far too much interesting Retro Tech for it to be gathering Dust! 😂🇬🇧

ati all-in-wonder

Tiny video for a tiny system. Flex ATX... Surely it's not a coincidence those arms are bigger and veinier than ever. 😂😍

I had a feeling that you’d watched NecroWare’s channel as mentioned at: 39:45 or thereabouts! 🙂

Anther good video as is the norm from your channel Mike, Surprised you didn’t blur the Picture/s from System 2 in this Video as you normally do?

This pc looks so good.

I loved my little Shuttle XPC I had back around 2007/2008. Thankfully I still have an old email (since Newegg orders don't go back before 2018 for me)... it was a Shuttle XPC SS56L with a Shuttle FS56 motherboard, and according to the email I was apparently running FreeBSD on it at the time lol. Memories!