Replace the yellow CMOS battery. My 910N (486, very similar in construction) stopped working after years of use. There was a coin cell battery on the processor daughter board and replacing that instantly fixed the problem and brought it back to life. I wouldn’t be surprised if all of your 950N’s just need new batteries!

On my AST Ascentia 910N (which is extremely similar in construction to the 950N), it randomly stopped booting after years of working great. I was amazed to find a *second* battery soldered to the bottom of the CPU daughter card. Easy to miss, and it totally solved my problem when I replaced it. I noticed that you had a coin cell battery on top of your daughter board, try replacing that and I think you’ll be in business.

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there's a big difference between 5400rpm drives and 7200rpm drives. just this upgrade will up the speed. also, i remember reading that up to winxp, depending on the amount of ram you have, it will determine what will be installed by the OS. After installation, you can add another stick of ram to speed things up.

Have a UPS with serge protector for everything in the network cabinet.

where are you...???? you ok?

One of the issues with the p4 is a long,long pipeline. One wrong branchprediction and it had to flush the pipe, wichs costs countles cycles.

RH 5.2 was my introduction to Linux, I didn't get the box set though, just the system CD which was 10 bucks from a local business. I stayed with RH through version 6 then switched to Mandrake which was very popular at the time, then switched to Gentoo shortly after that came out and stayed with that ever since.

Strange to see them without the tape drive they used to have. Good memories, it was my first home server back in 2007 :)

'Mach' is pronounced "mok" or "mahk", FYI. EDIT: Nevermind; you started pronouncing it correctly a minute after I heard that...

It's SepTandy 2024

When I saw 5.5 I got chills! NT4 and Exchange 5.5 was a techs email server! Kids these days with their Cloud and Facepages!

Miss your videos dude 🤙

sweet memory sweet

Watching these "retro" videos, of my prime learning / hobby times, surely gives me some "PTSD" feelings, like in this..the ACDSee app...forgot all about that but it all came back, actually that was one of my favourite picture app back then...anyhow, crazy how lot of my brain has erased, all the hardware iterations, GFX card upgrades and so on.. All started from a MS-DOS 6.x + Win 3.1. Now i'm running a MacOS and only been using some of these via x86box running inside an ARM CPU (MacOS)...anyhow, still having a day job doing IT, LOL !

Had a 500Mhz Dec Alpha ages ago. It absolutely thrashed my 180Mhz Pentium Pro. I had Windows NT4 running Fx32 Conversion software that allows you to run x86 binaries on it. Had Office2000 running and native Alpha Corel Draw. Wish they were still around.

This was my exact first computer when I was 8! It's definitely very odd the video card bundled with this unit may not be the factory item. The V in the SPC-3000V designates VGA which my system had. Also it's probably been mentioned, but it had a high speed turbo mode either via a util called turbo.exe in the OEM Dos directory or by pressing Control + Alt + "+ key on numeric keypad" or "- key on numeric keypad" the LED will be either green for turbo (9.54Mhz) or orange for normal mode (4.77Mhz). Thanks for the nostalgia trip. 🙂

Amazing that you were able to fix it so skillfully. Good job! As others here mentioned, it's time to invest in a UPS. But mission critical devices like this shouldn't be this vulnerable to power loss. Poor design Synology!

Hi, I worked with SCO Xenix, SCO Unix in 1989 here Merhaba, Turkey...

I stated using email in 1976 on VM/CMS.

The power button isn't "clunky" sir, it's "robust". 😁

That ICQ "uh-oh" notification sound really hits the nostalgia button for ne

I was fortunate enough to get a 1985 5160 XT from a place that dealt with vintage computers in 2013. I only got the system unit. I thankfully had quite a few parts from other boxes given to me from old unwanted collections. I got a keyboard with a XT and AT switch. Finally I got an 8-bit VGA that works with my modern screen and KVM that connects to my other vintage systems.

i was there 3000 years ago

would have wanted a tutorial like that 20 years ago.

Um, so you're telling me that you suspected the BIOS ROM chip over everything else that could have been damaged by the power loss? The very first thing you should have checked was the actual power supply voltages. Sounds like you fell backwards into that solution but in the end it worked (for now). Get a good quality surge protector or even better add a whole home suppressor to your AC panel.

I remember installing this when I was 11 years old, 1999.. it took me a couple of days to realize you had to use the dhcpd command manually to get an IP-adress from your router haha! those were the days

I'm sorry to say that mine went to the recycling centre, along with the green screen. My monumentally poor judgement still shocks me.

computing/server work in early 00's and late 90s was something else. so personal and perfect

5 months later no part 2, that's awesome 👍🏻

Why is my Pentium 4 so slow ? ... cause it's a P4 They suck

Back when Windows was good.

Nice retro build again and i hope that you can repair the other motherboard. Battery leakage is terrible. Greetings from Steven from the Netherlands

Slackware 2.0 was my first Linux encounter. It was over my head at the time, and I didn't have the knowledge or patience to get X running. It wasn't until 1999 that I started learning.

You need a sticker in front of that case😅

Miss your regular content. What happened ?

It's a great explanation I enjoy it, I had DS712+ which has the same issue, but from where I can get the firmware to flash it on new chip?

I'm really looking forward to seeing you play Quake on that computer.

👍⭐🏆⭐💖Microsoft 💖⭐🏆⭐

They really made new windows 3.1 when they still had a new ui

I ran Exchange 5.5 for several years in a corporate environment.

Cyrix 6x86 PR120 is my First computer!

Synologys hardware is way overpriced and the only reason they are selling their stuff is the software. I switched to QNAP a couple of years ago. Booting QNAPs takes its time but they're working great and have much more bang for the buck.

Like in old times. Your doughter keeping up with the coomodore sixty four... I spend so much time in this Maschine. Now I think I neede "The 64" again 😊 The Competition Pro was the best Joystick ever !

Oh I ran an exchange 5.5 server in 2000 for a small isp. And their iis server. What a flashback 🤩

Got my MSCE with MS Mail 3.2 as one of the electives. The class was a short 2 days. Long enough to create a postoffice, mailboxes, integrate with the client and send some test messages. Also, think there was some routing between postoffices. Took the test with a minimum of 650 to pass. My score on the mail test? 650. Whew!

Did someone replace the known good hard drive with private data on and replace it with something that had nothing on it worth keeping and creating a buggy install as it was going to be left on the kerbside.

Ahh. Those were good days.

Do you now if is possible to split the keyboard and clean the board. Coolant has leaked on it. And some keys dont work. Any thoughts?