Renew 20 Year old Abandoned PC IBM 300GL - Does it run?

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IBM PC 300GL
The PC 300GL used the Celeron, Pentium I, Pentium II and Pentium III throughout its lifetime. Celeron-based models had processors clocked at 333, 366, 433, 466, 500 or 533 MHz; Pentium I models had processors clocked at 133, or 166 MHz; Pentium II-based models had processors clocked at 350, 400, 450 MHz; and Pentium III-based models had processors clocked at 450, 500, 533, 550, 600, 667, 733, 800 or 866 MHz.
These systems were packaged in two case form-factors, desktop and micro-tower. There were two variants of the desktop case, one with two expansion slots and one with four. Both variants had four drive bays. The micro-tower case had four expansion slots and four drive bays.

[@TurntableTV]

We had those same PC's at highschool. Can't believe how fast 20 years have past... Very nice job on the restoration!

[@MRNVCDIY]

Thanks. All warranty stamps are still available.

[@budaibence720]

Now its just Nostalgia😥

[@tostedt1337]

the kids today are probably still using them

[@JonJon-vg2nv]

Well clearly it's been 20 years since you went to school since you don't know the difference between "passed" and "past" 🤣

[@Navetdubled]

@@tostedt1337 non ils sont encore moins bien (pour l'époque)

[@foush95]

the last 5 mins, just turn me back to the old 90s. Such a nostalgia, Truly miss these days, everything was clearly beautiful, no Facebook, no smartphones. Just your old PC and enjoy playing on it.

[@rept1le]

People hang around on too much social media these days

[@TommyViper]

I absolutely love watching your methods. Such a nice restoration! These old machines deserve love as well!

[@PeBoVision]

I have done this so many times for so many friends' "garage finds", I've lost count, but never with such outstanding detailing and re-use of original parts. Deepest respect sir. Earned my subscription with ease. I have lost the patience (and eyesight) of my youth, both required to restore or retro-mod/stealth old machines, so now I get my 'fix' watching others do it. Sure do miss getting my hands dirty though (but not in the spiderweb/dustbunny sense).

[@GrazzaD]

A beautiful computer, once again restored and fully working, what a fantastic job!

[@roberttrufant2530]

Excellent job on this. Loved the trip down memory lane 😎

[@Huyngo-bb3ql]

What a beautiful restoration. Good as new.

[@WilliamPetersen01]

This was so satisfying to watch. I had one of these PC's and ran games like Doom 1 and 2. And Network Q Rally. Those were great times.

[@DariuszNawrat]

I'm impressed. 24 years old PSU and capacitors are still in good condition.

[@andygozzo72]

yep, very possibly, before the capacitor plague era 😉

[@Ahfeku]

@@andygozzo72 that disease was in the 90s and early 2000s right?

[@andygozzo72]

@@Ahfeku yep, mostly 2000s, although 90s caps werent that brilliant 😉

[@JeffDeWitt]

@@andygozzo72 Yep, just what I was thinking. I worked for IBM in those days and we tore down hundreds (thousands?) of lease return PCs to harvest the motherboards (or planars as IBM called them) for service parts to repair capacitator plague machines.

[@tipsandlifehack7080]

Good video. Bring Back Bring back my childhood

[@MRNVCDIY]

Me too

[@iron2006fet]

Mine too🤛

[@rajeshamazie]

Very Glad to see your IBM Desktop good to switch On once again in 2021 ....Big inspiration on this video for me to revisit our 1st Desktop PC "Datamini Technologies " purchase in 1999 still in my Garage area...

[@toe21510]

Отличная работа! Потрясающе!!!

[@barsbigyt]

У меня типа такого есть ПК😎🐈

[@robwebnoid5763]

We had these IBM 300's at work, but they were the desktop formfactor (horizontal, not towers (vertical). I don't recall the specific model, but the look of it with the blue accented case parts are memorable. This was at Intel Corporation where I used to work & I had since left over 15 years ago. But these 300's are a part of my memories working there.

[@pedroselister456]

Tenho 2 desses, este modelo é muito bom para transferir áudio externo, tipo vinil ou k7, pois o áudio já fica filtrado, igual às entradas REC. Parabéns pelo seu trabalho.

[@basylyo300]

Amigo vc venderia ou trocaria um desses dois?

[@lucklassen]

Great job, my goodness the nostalgia!

[@Obie327]

Nice clean up job! I did a whole modern PC transplant using a 2005 IBM Net Vista. (grey version, mini tower) IBM made some cool cases back then.

[@mfc4591]

Well done, some effort and a bit of paint, looks great. Have a great day

[@MRNVCDIY]

Thanks

[@dwaynewladyka577]

Looks as good as new. Awesome restoration. Hope you have a Happy New Year. Cheers! 👍👍✌️

[@MRNVCDIY]

Me too. Thanks

[@careycraig4360]

Nice Job!! Lots of Patience and Elbow Grease I am sure to achieve this result. Again, Nice Job!

[@smithkakuta7361]

Great Job,MR NVC!

[@mr.retrowave4929]

Это просто шикарно!) Прям захотелось свои два вторых пня так же в чувства привести)

[@baburajm2023]

I had great experience as a computer hardware engineer, hundreds of IBM 300GL machines , in our LAN / WAN Setup , Nostalgic still remember this model number.... No doubt great job👌👍

[@raziel3726]

Amazing Restoration 👍👍

[@loureiro.marcos]

nice restoreation, love win98 intro sound, and bringme up some good memories back in my day.

[@abx42]

Beautiful PC restore God I love the look of the old IBM's back in the day

[@DFKARGUNSOCHI]

Круто👍👍👍вернул на 25 лет назад в детство!!! Первый компьютер... очень хорошее видео, спасибо.

[@barsbigyt]

У меня 96 года ПК есть😎🐈

[@teoechico]

Great job man!

[@John-uc6gb]

Cool rebuild. Great video. Thank you

[@candidosilva7755]

I had one just like that one it surved the family well for more than 8 years. Shure we bought knew ones but that one stayed saved in a garage stil works with some problems but its a good piece of history.

[@CHITUS]

I really like the full tower case of these it had a standard psu instead of the crappy small ones that are very difficult to replace. Well done tho.

[@alfredsitko4676]

cool job, keep up the good work mate

[@prinzchen17]

omg the P3 500mhz successor of this series was my first own PC, got it for my 14th birthday.. gosh this case design is still nice to look at, imho the peak of IBM desktop PCs!

[@kathleenhensley5951]

I wish I could send all my husband's old hardware to you! I've even got Windows 95 and 98 if I am not mistaken! At least it would all go to someone who loves old hardware

[@augiedogie561]

Thank you for bringing back great memories.

[@carlosbruk9469]

Nostalgic. Great 👍🏽 job 👏🏽

[@monti409]

This makes me feel like restoring my Win-98 PC , great work.

[@TorontoPopulistConservative]

My parents had an IBM PC until they upgraded to a Compaq in 2004 when I was 5. I have very faint memories of it, but this might have been the one. Very interesting to see what hardware could have been inside. I now have seen many systems this old and older, I have a few pentium 3's and even an AMD 486 CPU in my collection.

[@sealy009]

didnt only intel have the 486 cpu? please correct me if im wrong since idk of AMD ever made a 486 cpu

[@user-sv3de7xg8e]

П

[@shutterup_flutter8321]

various good childhood memories are attached with those windows 98 computer... thanks for reviving them...👍🏻

[@nagavenkatesh2032]

Thanks a lot. you took me back to my childhood days.

[@Gookrak]

Wow, a real PII CPU....I only dreamt of it as a kid. Nice resto!

[@warrax111]

you could have it as Celeron 300A, just buy 440BX (intel chipset) motherboard, that can overclock to 100 mhz FSB. Then you've got Celeron 450 Mhz, which was equal in performance to Pentium II 450. Which was highest Pentium II. :) It was one of the most famous overclock of all time.

[@CotyRiddle]

@@warrax111 Had a katmai core PII that i overclocked to 500 MHz got hotter than hell but ran shit it was not supposed to.

[@warrax111]

@@CotyRiddle deschutes or klamath. katmai was PIII.

[@williamt4271]

It is amazing that motherboard is still working fine! Internet was a luxury during that moment of time.

[@gamesguardian3027]

couldn't agree anymore, still can remember the dialup connection sound.

[@fatihgokcayoglu]

Veery good job mate. You are really professional. Congrats!

[@advantage.network9441]

Nostalgic build! So cool to see it boot up and run solitaire on that crt montitor

[@BalancedSpirit79]

This could be turned into a sweet retro gaming rig. Max out the RAM, get a Voodoo card, maybe upgrade the CPU to a Coppermine/Tualatin PIII...

[@mrCetus]

Cheirinho de nostalgia ❤️❤️❤️

[@mariojosesouzasouza1415]

Um brasileiro quem diria mais um pobre

[@Alex-bc3xe]

You are a genius, never saw something so satisfying. Okey maybe not really but was amazing.

[@tatalito]

rock solid construction...great job!

[@Mr.Bearded.Mechanic]

Better use PH bit for regular Phillips head screw, than PZ bit. They have different conical angles. Less chance to round the screw head. Great video!

[@amenazacaos]

Nice restoration!

[@retroarkx]

i do like the fact that you preserve the labels, even the less important

[@Romic.0000]

I use headphone and see this video it's like a pc reparing asmar 😍

[@YeridaBills]

Thanks for restoring my old PC. You even upgraded it ala Build Back Better act.

[@CRAZYHORSE19682003]

You did such an amazing job on almost everything but I was shocked at how you half assed the heatsink.

[@jesustamezcardenas9543]

El problema real son los capacitores electroliticos que se vanian Los IC, por lo general se conservan Le falto desarmar la unidad de floppy y limpiar cpn alcohol isopropilico los cabezales Por lo demas, muy buena reconstruccion de la PC

[@dangson302]

It's amazed me that many standards are still there unchanged after 20 years: VGA interfaces, PS/2 port, 3.5" HDD size, ATX PSU and those power cables.

[@illussiondark]

atx psu just upgraded from 20 pin to 24 pin and additional 4pin +12volt for processor, so its backward compatible

[@ivaniliev2272]

@@illussiondark You can use 20 pin psu on 24 pin motherboard, but most of the newer cpu/ motherboards consume more power than required for 20 pin and they can burn the connectors, because these 4 pin distribute electricity between them so they don't get hot. Like I used my rx 580 with 6 pin connector, when the needed one was 8 pin, but I knew that it is not using that much power especially undervolted.

[@Oyashiro_Chama]

@@ivaniliev2272 Actually interestingly most new PSUs can't work on older machines due to voltage pull differences. Older P3 and AMD varients like to pull 30-80W from the 5V rail and new PSUs aren't designed for that much pull especially sudden.

[@GGigabiteM]

@@illussiondark Not really correct. ATX power supplies have changed significantly over the past 20+ years, with the biggest difference being which power rails most of the power budget is available. There was a design change that started in the early 2000s where CPUs moved from being powered from the 5v rail to the 12v rail because it was more efficient for the higher power demands seen by the Pentium 4 and Athlon. PSU manufacturers then started adjusting the power rail load limits to move more of the overall power budget to the 12v rail and less on the 5v and 3.3v rails. This eventually lead to the situation we have today where almost all of the modern power supplies' capacity is in the 12v rail(s), and very little is allocated to the 5v and 3.3v rails. So when you try to power an old system with a power hungry CPU with a modern PSU, it can result in the PSU constantly shutting down from overloads on the 5v and 3.3v rails. If you look at a 15-20 year old power supply, you may see one where the 5v rail is rated at 30-50 amps, where a more modern PSU will only have 15-25 amps. The internal topology of power supplies has also changed significantly, from the old crappy inefficient half-wave group regulated output designs to modern APFC designs with buck regulated output.

[@cashbonanza963]

not to mention software standards like JPG, DLL and all

[@TKSubDude]

Nice job! Love the silver paint over the beige original.

[@gajaharish9193]

20 year old PC's screen saver style is awsome.😀

[@Ayixlia]

Great video it was relaxing watching this ASMR on restoring a IBM PC, but my dad is 52yrs old think you could restore him too? He's missing a lot of parts Lol.

[@MRNVCDIY]

Lol

[@roberttrufant2530]

Lolol

[@GGigabiteM]

Good restoration. You're lucky you didn't receive an IBM system from just a year or two later from the Pentium 3 era because those things were horrible. They had basically 100% failure rates from the capacitor plague and IBM's own "Deathstar" hard drives. I remember having to repair dozens of those crap machines back in the day. When they were still under warranty from IBM and you sent in a Deskstar drive, they'd actually send you back a Maxtor drive because theirs were so bad. Maxtor drives weren't much better and they usually failed in short order as well, but it was often outside the remaining warranty period so they could wash their hands of the matter.

[@deere3350]

Is that the IBM NetVista you're referring to GGigabiteM?

[@GGigabiteM]

@@deere3350 the black Netvista mid towers, yep. The capacitors on the motherboard and in the power supply would always fail. Sort of like the Dell Optiplex GX and SX series in the 2x0 line.

[@jonathanmillar7519]

Always loved playing solitaire excellent restoration

[@dbyrd7827]

Fantastic restoration! Thanks for the video.

[@JeffDeWitt]

I was working for IBM when these were new, and my part of IBM took in equipment that came off of lease. I must have seen thousands of these things... as a matter of fact I probably have a couple of the desktop (horizontal case) versions around here somewhere.

[@ENPIus]

I remember when 2 USB ports on a motherboard were a luxury.

[@beinghumandwd2446]

Remembering school day's good work 😊

[@adamvavra9018]

Thanks for the trip down memory lane

[@seancdaug]

It's really weird to see a computer with a 3.5" floppy drive, USB ports, and no optical drive. Nice restoration work, though.

[@adelb3939]

18:31 No one talks about the title of the video ? it seems interesting

[@drpepin]

I was gonna say... LOL.

[@khalilawwad9234]

Great old time.... good work 👏

[@Kspcs909]

very nice video, and very good paint job! :)

[@FunBunChuck]

Now upgrade it with maximum RAM, add a dedicated PCI graphics card like a Matrox 2D/3D accellerator with 16MB video memory and a sound card like the Sound Blaster AWE 64 Gold, add a 24x speed CDROM, replace the existing HDD with an 8 gigabyte hard disc, add a PCI USB adaptor card, get a Sidewinder-X 8 button Windows gamepad, reasonably new PS/2 keyboard + mouse combo and Creative Labs media speakers or Altec Lansing 3 piece speaker system. Then you could have loads of fun with some classic old school retro gaming. If you can afford it, get a PCI Voodoo 3 or Voodoo 4 graphics card as those don't need a 2nd gpu for 2D as they actually have 2D capabilities. You could also opt for the ATI 3D Rage Pro 32MB PCI graphics card though the Voodoo 3 and Voodoo 4 beat it in most games. There's no AGP slot on that motherboard so your options are limited.

[@MRNVCDIY]

Wow good idea. Thanks.

[@FunBunChuck]

@@MRNVCDIY Check the compatibility listings for your motherboard to ensure that it can handle the power demands of a PCI graphics card like the Voodoo 4. Some OEM systems back in the day had issues with high energy demand cards. Just remember to be careful. That machine is like an old lady,... and some old girls can be a bit tempermental! 😁

[@FunBunChuck]

@@MRNVCDIY Definitely get a good sound card though. The Creative Labs Sound Blaster AWE 64 Gold also had the media control center module that fit a 5¼ drive bay. Real sweet addition, plus some models even came with a remote! There's an ebay listing for the CT4520 model for only $45!

[@xrqckszar7077]

@@FunBunChuck do u have like a auto typer?

[@FunBunChuck]

@@xrqckszar7077 uhm,... no. Not even sure what that is.

[@user-rw1vx9sl5d]

Не отреставрировал а максимум помыл, внутри косы питания можно было стяжечками сделать а не так небрежно бросить, про проц вообще молчу, в его радиаторе оставил пыль, термопасту стоило поменять т.к. там уже камень вместо неё

[@adrenput5916]

Главное красиво показать вот как мы можем :DDD

[@user-dq2ci5ln5g]

Термопасту... вы серьёзно? Этот проц на холостом ходу даже без радиатора сможет работать, у него в максимуме тдп 20 вт, там греться нечему... Вот привыкли же все за последнее время к печкам по 90-120-150Вт... термопасты по 50 баксов, радиаторы с пол-корпуса с 8-ю термотрубками, или 3 вертушки 140мм с водянкой... а на старые процы ставили простенький радиатор без пасты на пластиковые защёлки, и жили - не тужили! 👍😁🤪

[@antonio_pripizduchi2157]

там керамический проц... умник.

[@user-dq2ci5ln5g]

@@antonio_pripizduchi2157 Ну эт вы тоже подзагнули! 😆 Процы всегда были кремниевые, а вот корпус был керамический, но эт было чуть раньше, времён Pentium MMX! 🤔 А тут Slot 1, и довольно специфичный корпус у проца! 👍😁🤪

[@axiss007]

puiki restauracija!!! Ačiū!!! win98 kaip ir 95, jau nostalgija...:) bet matant jų aplinką... labai geri prisiminimai užplūsta. Ačiū!!!!

[@geistonius]

very nice, my early days with the 3.1 dos, keep it up...

[@alaidsakhalin484]

Просто, тупо отмыть, повезло. Без замены шлейфов и кондеров, без теста флоппика и сидишника, и винт живой, рука-лицо

[@user-bj9qk9er8y]

А что значит повезло?Я вон в том году с чердака деда,взял 386SX40!Он там без отопления лет 25 провалялся, оказался полностью рабочим, со всем оборудованием)))

[@kotenmau]

Те компы, это на века

[@_luck_or_death_2136]

А ведь такие компьютеры должны работать по 50 лет,чтобы отработать свою стоимость...

[@wajidali-pi6bb]

gteat job bro u return my old memories when i am using win 98 and the biggest achievement on that days the drivers installation 😍😂

[@dylanlindsay1993]

Great Job!!!!! Looks New!!!!

[@user-zx7uk5od4t]

Made in Taiwan

[@ArteGamingHQ]

Ahh all those old-school 7MB porn videos. I had a few on my old P4 back in the day.

[@RETROMachines]

Real retro hardware, thanks for renew..

[@fra4455]

Great restoration

[@danielyazbek9910]

Why silver if the pc was cream color? But nice work

[@MRNVCDIY]

I like silver, haha

[@speedyboishan87]

@@MRNVCDIY could use beige cream color paint if needed

[@Nosfeu13]

Мажорный комп для 98-го года. Память SDRAM, пень второй слотовый. Кстати, радиатор у процессора так и остался пыльным. А вот винда грузится быстрее, чем у любого современного компа)))

[@MRNVCDIY]

Yes

[@Nosfeu13]

@@user-ip1cm4tm4q это потому что она у тебя свежепоставленная без софта и дров. Посмотрю я на твою винду через полгода)

[@FM7AM]

@@user-ip1cm4tm4q А чё уже 11 виндовоз вышел? Привет с семёры!😁

[@samuilrivkin4558]

у меня еще хранится рабочий пень 4 на 2,4 Ггц

[@RepairingExpert]

great work

[@ilijayt]

Super. I have an iMac case and looking at you I wanted to build it into a gaming pc. Thank you.

[@m1nsk_d4]

Поставь этому ПК 16 Гб оперативной памяти, видео карту хорошую и ещё что нибудь чтобы все игры на максимально тянул, я уверен друзья позавидуют 😂😂

[@gleidsonripardo]

18:30 só no pornozão né safado?. 😏 kkkkkk mito

[@ENOQUE_RIBEIRO]

Br por aqui perdido kkkkkk

[@duffyfanpagebyjeff]

great video i like vintage myself show my computers and a great job look like brand new

[@scittw22]

I was a computer tech for my college back in the early 2000's and they had an exclusive contract with IBM. I could probably still take this thing apart blind-folded

[@CYON4D]

Beautiful IBM PC. I love it.

[@Fregatte86]

Amazing. Even get cool rusted pci slots

[@ceebee23]

those Pentium 2s were HUGE on the market from mid 1997 to 2003.... great restoration ....

[@antoniodazs9818]

Bah poderia ter um dinossauro dentro desse gabinete! Kkkkkkkkk Parabéns pela aquisição e vídeo!!! ; )

[@wiroonkk]

Amazing job.

[@Chatsworth1979]

Labor of love. NIce work! +1

[@captainkeyboard1007]

That computer was perfectly cleaned and still works like a charm. That is the workmanship of a computer technician. Now that Fujitsu monitor needs to be renovated or replaced with an IBM monitor. It could not get any better than this. Mr. NVC Restoration, you did a superb job!

[@MRNVCDIY]

Thanks

[@captainkeyboard1007]

@@MRNVCDIY You are welcome. I enjoy stories about computers and printer fonts. Thank you very much for tapping or typing so instantly to me.

[@igcas]

i have so much memories with this IBM Model 😢

[@LuisPauloMarques]

I had the exatcly same configuration!! Nice!

[@oppie47]

In the summer of 1999, my grandpa bought a brand new IBM computer with a 450 MHz Pentium III processor. His computer looked almost identical to this one. It had integrated audio like this one, but it had an nVidia AGP card for the video. I think his had a 10 GB Maxtor HD, but it’s been a long time, so I don’t remember the exact specs. At the time, I still only had a 150 MHz Pentium 1 at home, so I was very excited to try out all of the games that ran slowly at home. It’s hard to believe it’s been 20 years since then. Back then, when I was still a teenager, a 20 year old computer meant an 8088 processor running at 4.77 MHz, no hard drive, and CGA or Hercules graphics pouring out of an amber screen. It’s amazing how little computers have advanced in the past 20 years when you consider the previous 20 years of advancement that came before it.

[@MRNVCDIY]

Yes

[@renatoigmed]

watching listening to top rock hits 98 on Spotify was a trip back in time. nostalgia.