The Blender PC!

[@halfdone_com]

I'm the developer of Unknown Devices and I wasn't really expecting a reference to my old program in my feed :) I'm glad to see it's actually still being used although I haven't touched it in almost 13 years! I wrote up the program while I was working in a computer repair shop back in the early 2000s (PCs for Everyone/Thinkmate) but have since moved over into the IT field and haven't thought about that program in years.

[@eDoc2020]

PCs for Everyone? My PC case was originally part of a system built by them (maybe in 2004) but when I found it it was just the case, power supply, and floppy drive. Perhaps back in the day you built the original system.

[@Rhakyr]

I used to rely on Unknown Devices so much, thanks for making such a handy piece of software!

[@gordoncreAtive]

Would you mind releasing the source code?

[@Turnbull50]

Well done you great to see your program has a future.

[@z80dad61]

Really love this program! I reccommended it a few months ago to somebody who was trying to do something similar. Understand the bit about AC97 sound cards not being that easy to detect; for a standard its not that "standard". What an awesome contribution to PC repair, Thank you so much!

[@onometre]

My nephew said he wanted a pc to learn blender on for Christmas. This must be what he meant, thanks!

[@clemensruis]

I'm still searching for a pc with a chess board on top! My nephew wants a pc to play games on.

[@Bond101_Studios]

That’s great, but I need a PC that has a portal into the 3rd dimension, my son wants to play 3D games like quake, Doom, Duke nukem, etc

[@minty_Joe]

@@clemensruis Hahaha! Very "punny"!

[@dungeonseeker3087]

Be honest, who else thought was was actually a PC with a real blender on top of it until Adrian removed the top?

[@TheCode-X]

i thought it was a weird machine like the Avon suitcase

[@zehph]

He got me for real on this one! I did think it was one of those crazy contraptions like the telefone mouse.

[@stitchfinger7678]

Watching LGR, Techmoan, ADB et al, you never know

[@alessandroamoroso7650]

I thought it was a Smart blender :-)

[@larsmuldjord9907]

Absolutely I did, and in my mind I was trying to anticipate how in the hell it would work since it clearly had USB ports and sound. Then he removed it and I kind of laughed at myself for even believing that in the first place. I guess LGR's Oddware made me so I don't even think twice about odd machines existing anymore. :D

[@vwestlife]

That's the old version of CANYON.MID, which has the drums on both MIDI channels 10 and 16, because when it was first written in 1990, there was no standard for MIDI mapping. On newer sound cards this causes it to play a piano note along with the drums. I believe beginning with Windows ME, Microsoft updated CANYON.MID to have the drums only on channel 10, which had by that time become the General MIDI standard.

[@cptcrogge]

This is a new level of geekness :)

[@coffee115]

This tracks, because Sequencer Plus Gold that I used require drums to be on channel 16.

[@henryca03]

This is basically a better thought out version of the Hot Wheels/Barbie PC, at least from a serviceability viewpoint.

[@rwdplz1]

When the blender goes out of production but the tooling is still good

[@tombarber8929]

There's a dental camera that's made using the same molds as the Atari Jaguar, including a memory card going into the cartridge slot

[@thinkzinc100]

And you see 15 different models, all with different Chinese brand names on Amazon.

[@fluffycritter]

Computer: Came with Windows ‘98 Second Edition Computer BIOS: (c)1999, calls out Windows 2000 as a boot option Adrian: Must have been made in 1998

[@RWL2012]

The PIII 450 didn't exist in 1998 let alone the 733 haha

[@Spyd77]

About AC97: this standard was about making audio cards at lower cost for a compatible PC. Chipsets contained part of the audio system, and a small controller completed the system. That's why the audio has two vendors: Intel and SigmaTel. That's also why "Unknown Devices" can't tell you the correct device, as you need a driver that is compatible with both pieces of the AC97 sound card. They did the same with modems, even created an special slot on motherboards called AMR (audio-modem riser) where you can put an AC97 audio card or modem; those cards were cheaper because there's only half of the hardware, the rest is in the motherboard's chipset. About having only front audio: One possibility that made the designers not put an audio jack at the back is the best feature of the successor of AC97: HD Audio: connector sensing. Before conector sensing was a thing, managing front audio connectors was a mess. Having only a connector avoids lots of calls to support. About making the sound blaster compatibility work on DOS games, you need the DOS drivers for that sound card. In those cases running the games from Windows worked with some issues, but if you rebooted to pure DOS and had the DOS drivers loaded, Sound Blaster compatibility was somewhat ok. I don't know about Adlib, I somewhat remember that AC97 cards didn't offer any kind of Adlib compatibility, but I'm not sure.

[@cora584]

That plastic isn’t yellowed from age. It’s yellow from the factory! I’m not sure why, but I love it! Also after a quick bit of research, there’s supposed to be a keyboard (and presumably mouse as well) with it. Not sure about a monitor though

[@dreamyrhodes]

This seems like a thing LGR would love

[@lifeofbroggio5019]

Greetings, and welcome to LGR things!

[@douro20]

Pronounced like "curium". And yes that is supposed to be yellow.

[@mattelder1971]

I was about to say the same about the color. Unless every one I can find a picture of online is discolored in exactly the same way, they were that odd yellow and purple color originally.

[@mrt1r]

It's amazing what 5 minutes of google searching can get you! Even tells you the year that the computer was released and gives you the owners manual.

[@Okurka.]

@@mrt1r This was a rushed video; he didn't even try the computer in MS-DOS mode.

[@mrt1r]

@@Okurka. I get that it was a quick video but not taking literally 2 minutes to find out at least basic information about the computer seems just sloppy.

[@erik365365365]

Lol it would look good in beige or yellow tho!

[@scharkalvin]

You should run "blender" on it! I was yelling at the screen, you forgot to remove 4 side screws!

[@adriansdigitalbasement]

Yeah TechTangents suggested the original blender too. I ran out of time LOL

[@jurviz]

This would be awesome for a sleeper build that's powerful enough to actually run modern blender

[@paulstubbs2778]

I was yelling too - can't you see those so obvious screws

[@OjStudios]

It might be possible to fit itx build in there.

[@kke]

3:27 Oh boy, a free Windows 98 product key, christmas came early this year!

[@8BitRetroJournal]

My friend had a car made by Daewoo, a crappy little hatchback. I did have a small CRT TV made by them and that seemed normal. Funny enough, Daewoo also made kitchen appliances and you can find plenty of their blenders in a google search.

[@sgl.888]

That's a "Panettone" box ! And being in the Christmas period it's absolutely perfect 😂.

[@0toleranz]

So one question still unanswered: DOS IT BLEND? See what I did there?

[@CraftyZanTub]

It might blend in Pewee's Playhouse!

[@erik365365365]

I didn’t until you called it out! Ahaha

[@minty_Joe]

Will it run Crysis?

[@spitefulwar]

As cute as this machine is, it basically screams for an ITX mod.

[@360alaska6]

You can always google the hardware ID to figure out what you got. Also, the W98 unofficial Service pack copies the usb driver from Winme.

[@WesleyNixon]

A glossy "avocado" paint job on this would be amazing. You absolutely need to thrift store a blender glass and stick it to this!

[@chloedevereaux1801]

oh its supposed to be banana yellow.......

[@tombarber8929]

Yeah, it's too nice of a yellow to be just due to typical yellowing

[@shadyoakum9978]

That is what I recall as well.

[@hiredgun7186]

just googled the machine , the colors you have is OEM, it has not yellowed

[@christophertstone]

The yellow is far too consistent to be yellowed plastic; that's definitely original.

[@clemensruis]

I think in the 90s, early 2000, some pcs must have come pre-yellowed.

[@EnderMalcolm]

3D depth is a really awesome thing that somehow made the audio from those old computers, mainly laptops with dual speaker outputs, seem 3D or like surround sound. I found that out randomly with an ancient HP laptop. It was the coolest thing ever. Surround sound with two junky internal speakers from a 90's laptop. Insane stuff.

[@orinokonx01]

My high school upgraded their computer rooms in 1999. They got about 50 Daewoo branded machines. They were really quirky baby AT tower sized ATX systems that included a Celeron 300, 64MB RAM and Windows 98. A few years later, they ended up giving them away to a few lucky nerds like myself. I got to get a much better look at them - they were pretty cool in that they had a small ATX PSU connected to a really tiny ATX motherboard which had 1xISA, 2xPCI and 1xAGP, standard PC100 RAM slots, 2xIDE, Floppy, and so on. Actually quite a zippy machine. I wonder what ended up happening to that machine...

[@siberx4]

Mechanically, this is a shockingly well built machine in terms of accessibility and maintainability for something that was sold to people who would never open it themselves. Daewoo really outdid themselves!

[@adriansdigitalbasement]

I agree, it is very well made! I am working on another Daewoo machine in an upcoming video (an older machine) and it's super well made.

[@LUNATIC75]

One good thing did come from this oddball PC. I used that Win 98 code to get my 'new' retro PC up and running this morning. It's been a very long time since I last installed Windows 98 and I even managed to get it networked. Thanks, mate ;-)

[@shadowdraxx]

I’ve been looking for this thing for years, they were a funky pc for living spaces like a kitchen etc. I wish I could find one so much, they come up on eBay at random but they usually are dead with bits missing

[@frinklefoot2112]

my stepdad passed away left year and left one of these in the basement.

[@erinwiebe7026]

I genuinely thought the blender was part of the PC at the start of the video, but I couldn't wrap my head around how or why that would even be a thing, even for a bizarre late 90's era PC!

[@andysimkin5200]

Pretty sure the soundcard was on IRQ 9 not the normal 5. Edit: just watched the vid again and at 25:39 it deffo says IRQ9 in the device manager

[@Cherijo78]

I was pulling my hair on this too screaming at the TV, "Try IRQ9?!!". Adrian truly is experiencing the classic DOS on a late 2000 "Legacy Free" PC. We will use strange IRQs because we can! We don't care about Legacy!

[@erik365365365]

So would this fix the adlib?

[@ovalteen4404]

@@erik365365365 No, Adlib doesn't require an IRQ. Also, if there's SB emulation for DOS, it doesn't necessarily have to use the same IRQ as the hardware, since the DOS program will be talking to a virtual device instead of the real hardware.

[@ropersonline]

Turning that thing into a functional blender, that's now your job.

[@adgarza]

Perhaps if you install Windows 2000 it will detect and install the drivers for the Modem and other stuff automatically.

[@paulstubbs2778]

Is there anything left that you can dial into with a modem?

[@TheAkashicTraveller]

@@paulstubbs2778 There's probably a bunch of random modern stuff run by enthusiasts plus the odd ARG.

[@kofteburger]

Will it blend? That is the question.

[@fromfin90]

what a cute little machine, i'd be tempted ot make it into a sleeper, small form factor powerhouse

[@prochazkaml]

30:00 Not too long ago, I added experimental MIDI support into Planet X3. It's not quite done yet (especially some General MIDI tunes still need to be converted from the MT-32, and there still may be some bugs), but if you're interested, you can grab it over on the Planet X3 Facebook group :)

[@thepfeiffenator2990]

I legitimately thought it was a blender at first. Lol.

[@adventureoflinkmk2]

So did I.. it'd be awesome if it were an actual blender

[@Skios]

I thought that too. I thought it would be a video about installing a computer into a blender, and I thought how convenient it was that it already had a bunch of ventilation areas in the plastic.

[@MattyEngland]

I read your comment and still legitimately thought it was a blender until he lifted the jug.

[@countzero1136]

Hey Adrian, I'm not 100% sure of this, but try this command in the autoexec.bat file; SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 T4 P330 I've never seen the BLASTER command without SET before it. Not sure if this is the problem or not, but it might be worth a try. Good luck. Love that tiny PC by the way - a really cool find!

[@xPLAYnOfficial]

I would love to build a modern PC inside that challenging case design. Would be such a superb build. What a lovely machine!

[@CommodoreFan64]

an AMD APU Mini ITX board would be neet with a Blu-ray burner just to fill that slot.

[@meh78336]

They are a bit larger, but your issues with this type of mini PC, are among the main reasons why I settled on a Shuttle XPC for my 98SE/Dos PC. The way I see it, its easy enough to make a 98SE pc, but for most people, its likely to see little use if its a tower they have to keep lugging around and keep connecting and disconnecting due to space constraints, so is likely to end up just being put away and rarely used. That's why I advise people to try for a mini PC as its small and not to big a hassle to move about, and can in many cases just be left on the desk or under it as it takes up very little space, meaning its on hand and will get more use. The shuttle XPCs solve the main issues with mini PCs like this one as they come with 2 expansion slots, so you can pop in a video and sound card, plus the drivers are still available and easy to find.

[@johnsonlam]

The MIDI of Windows 95/97 was devastating, so someone in Finland created TiMIDIty which use Gravid Ultrasound sound PAT, it work really awesome until the Foobar2000 MIDI support with BASSMID and soundfont which complete replace it.

[@tech34756]

One option in case you think you may have similar power issues in the future, may be to use a bench power supply with a set of laptop power connectors, I got the latter for around $13-15 on ebay with the necessary cable/banana plugs. That may you can have way more control over the power voltage/amps rather than messing around with different adapters.

[@MrArtMorris]

I love everything about your intro: it's brief, it has a great soundtrack, looks like it was shot on VHS, and has great example clips of what we're gonna see on your channel.

[@kaitlyn__L]

Pretty sure it's a real recording of VHS, all the digital filters have too much chromatic aberration while looking too sharp, and too many little glitches but also lacking the consistent bottom few lines being black/static. But the intro has all of those features. So I think he took the time to record a tape and then digitise it back again, which is awesome.

[@terminusaquo1980]

This is a machine that was part of an initiative by Intel and several PC manufacturers to remove what they determined to by "legacy" ports from PCs. This included MIDI/Game Ports, Parallel Printer Ports and COM Ports. It kind of worked as PCs today also lack those ports.

[@SparksNZeros]

i love little machines like this! its just so much fun trying to upgrade them as far as they'll go (without butchering it) and using them as little convenient go betweens for modern machines and more vintage rigs :D

[@racer4200]

I totally thought that was an actual DOS blender lol.

[@GauginProductions]

same lmao

[@RWL2012]

yep, fooled me as well!

[@majormojo]

When the marketing dept determined that what was needed was another "internet appliance".

[@tankgrrl]

AH! I used to work at Intel (Jones Farm in Oregon) and remember fishing one of these out of the recycling one day after lunch (Josh? You still have that thing?). Except it wasn't exactly this one, I don't think, but a prototype. It didn't have any indicia on it, probably in the interest of fair judging. The model we rescued was pitched to Intel by the manufacturer as part of an Intel design innovation award thing, hence the funky look and colors. And yes, they were absolutely yellow, not beige. It was the end of the 90s, man. As far as I can recall, Daewoo did win an award for their design (in... 2000?) and... there were some other, uglier boxes we didn't rescue. It was the cusp of a very brief 'mini PC/server' phase - some may remember HP's tiny cube server, for instance, that came soon after. Intel was, I think, looking to drive interest in a market that was sort of stagnating while waiting on the Pentium 4 (which was the division I worked in: PMD).

[@wishusknight3009]

VRAM cache ratio is a feature of the Intel 810 chipset. It has a separate 4mb option to give it a boost in 3d performance and act as a Zbuffer and frame buffer to give the integrated 3d a bit more ram bandwidth. the 1mb reservation is just for dos compatability, it will dynamically use system ram when in windows with the supported driver to support modes that require more ram. The reason it goes upto 2x is because the 1x speed is based off the original AGP spec of 66 mhz. So 2x would indicate it is running 133mhz effective. I am unsure how much bandwidth the cache actually has, if memory serves it is 1.08GB/s to match the cpu FSB, it also sort of kind of served as a type of L3 victim cache for regular applications as the system ram on the 810 chipset will always only ever run at 100mhz. An artificial limitation to keep it away from the higher end 815 and 820 chipsets of the time. With the 4mb buffer being a stop gap. In the real world it only boosted performance of applications and 3d by about 10 or 15 percent at most... So it was a lot of fluff. And use DRIVERPACKS.NET... best site ever for old machines.

[@ncc74656m]

I would absolutely mod that to be a real blender, while retaining its computer functionality (although you'd probably need to replace the internals).

[@thedungeondelver]

Me: "The Amiga Walker was the ugliest computer case of all time." Qrium: "Hold my blender pitcher."

[@souljastation5463]

This is not nearly as ugly

[@dhpbear2]

Wow, you're right! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_Walker

[@azyfloof]

31:45 "Who wants to play this with no digital sound?" So it's Twitch ready, by sounds of it 👀

[@Renville80]

Once the purple side panels were off, I could see another pair of flanges towards the front bottom that I’ll bet were the needed screws to release the front / top panel from the chassis. Oh, and I never liked that particular series of Maxtor drive. We had a non trivial number of failures of that style of drive when I worked in IT at a nonprofit.

[@TheClembo]

Oh boy did you take me back through the years. I went through all the issues you had, driving me mad, but watching again is fun. The days they tried to dress up a pc by designing the case to look futuristic but kept the inside as cheap as possible. Profit based economics of the 90's yes? Great video though and thanks for the memories.

[@MikeStavola]

I almost got one of these for my mom around 2002. It was always a creamy color. I couldn't justify spending like $100 on a used one, so I gave her some off-brand all-in-one system with a touchscreen for around the same price.

[@pauldreher5622]

Since you asked. Yes, I did have one of these back in the early 2000's. Bought it for my dad for basic email and internet tasks. At the time it worked pretty good. As you noted though, it wasn't very upgrade friendly. It wouldn't even take 512 MB of RAM.... Finally upgraded to something better a few years later. Nice compact size though.

[@Unix2816]

@LGR do an oddware review on this !

[@luke_fabis]

I got to see one of these at like a computer vendor meetup back in the 90s. I remember it being much more pyramidal than this, but this is indeed the device. If I'm not mistaken, this is based on a computer concept by Intel, kind of as a response to the iMac but not completely. The idea was to make a device that's compact, easy to use, and goes all-in on USB. The model units by Intel were that distinct Intel blue, instead of yellow and purple. Daewoo was the only company with the balls to bring it to market as far as I can tell, but it was also sold as a white box machine for smaller vendors. I believe Computer Shopper magazine reported on the Intel concept back in the mid-late 90s, but I can't remember the name of that initiative for the life of me. Mind you, I was a 90s kid. There's a lot I'm probably misremembering.

[@awnordma]

Way back I had a laptop with a similar mini PCI modem/LAN card. I was able to swap in a wireless card, other types of card exist too. Searching I found a few mpeg4 encoders, a video card (Volari Z9s), and a serial card. Adding legacy ports via USB adapters is probably the better option.

[@BlackEpyon]

"Welcome to Adrian's Digital..." turns slowly to look suspiciously at the blender "...Kitchen."

[@Cherijo78]

I think you're right in that in the era with all the cost cutting that was done to it these did become commodity no interest PCs. However, I find them interesting now precisely because of that. This particular era at the turn of the millennium was very interesting when they tried to market these as "Legacy Free". There were lots of no name weird parts and drivers running around. Lots of them used non-standard IRQs, which is what I see was going on with the sound card using IRQ9 instead of the standard IRQ5 (I didn't see you test that when you were doing the settings for the DOS games and that may have been part of your problem). It introduced all sorts of things that made them incompatible with previous PCs. It was a changeover era where we were leaving floppies behind leaving all of the legacy things behind and just starting to embark in the new era of plug and play. This is the reality of most modern PCs. We are still in that commodity PC era where unless you build your own, or order a special customized one for gaming, the vast majority of PCs that are sold today are commodities. They don't do lots of fancy gaming or anything. They just do productivity and/or some very light gaming. I find it fascinating the way the PC market split along these lines and it started right around here.

[@dbozan99]

Fun fact: Intel's i810 chipset was the first to include their now-ubiquitous onboard intel graphics. Their previous attempts at video were actually AGP/PCI cards, the i740 and 752.

[@hollgo626]

This machine is so weirdly 90s style, I love it 😁

[@battoisoutto6657]

OMG A QRIUM!! I had one as a child, and since it looked like a face and I had no way of pronuncing its name and being a child I used to call it Geek. I've been trying to find another one after losing the original one with no luck. Its so nostalgic to see one.

[@ericpykonen]

It's a blast knowing you're in Portland too! Keep up the great work! I just found the channel and know I'll be driving my family crazy watching your videos :-D

[@bryondillon1302]

A little tip when working with old computers... You should burn a copy of your original installation media and use that to install the OS, instead of inserting your original media. I have had instances where the disc would get all scraped up and ruined in an old drive, because the drive was not holding the disc in the correct position.

[@robbieaussievic]

.... Well done Mate, a nice blend of diagnostics without adding agitation into the mix.

[@MagnaRyuuDesigns]

It's from 98/99. And I am certain it hasn't yellowed. All the info I have found shows it being sold as a yellow color with the purple accents, which would go a long with the fact it's "sibling" system from Daewooo the 663X which is a purple pyramid shaped computer. It would have come with a Qrium branded grey keyboard and mouse, that looked much like a Mac keyboard where the mouse would plug into the keyboard.

[@RetroTechChris]

Unknown Devices is the BEST!! Nothing like a good driver chase to get everything working, I live for that!

[@redace001]

I have a lil' cube PC in my junk pile, I'm inspired to pull it out now! Thanks Adrian!😅

[@farrell1701]

Believe it or not, no, that high note is actually normal in Canyon - I remember it being just as annoying back then as well. A little after you stopped it in the video, that note finally cuts off. I don't think it's a flaw in the MIDI or the FM synth that Windows and the AC 97 is doing , it's just a rather bad sound for one of the string instruments. There's some songs that just sound good in FM synth, and some that just don't. The funny thing is when you look at that PC, its pedigree still lives on today in various brands such as Apple, Qube, Shuttle, HP's mini series, etc. Most of us enthusiasts will look at that thing with dismay at its lack of "function-proofing", but at the same time, PCs like that were the equivalent of a netbook or Chromebook - there's enough there to get someone online with basic functionality, takes up less space and doesn't look like "Everyone's white/beige computer" did at the time, and that kind of user base wouldn't have really cared much about the 3 inch cheap mono speaker inside. Same with a student needing a PC to do word processing or research on, without breaking the bank.

[@ToTheGAMES]

Not gonna lie, you had me in the first half!

[@Kumimono]

According to some pictures from that era, that is actually the color as intended. Very forward thinking by Daewoo, no worries about yellowing. :) Would make a nice sleeper PC, perhaps, mini-ITX or such. Or, DOS gaming, as appropriate. Compact little thing.

[@troyquigg4411]

Around the time of this PC, Intel was pushing the "non beige box" design. I think this led into the creation of the ITX motherboard size. The machine you have was probably meant to be used in the kitchen for web browsing and recipe lookup and such.

[@StrangelyIronic]

Quirky design (matching the mid-late 90's) but the design in how the pieces connect with solid tabs and captive screws is still pretty solid. Much prefer that than the snappy tabs some manufacturers use that, well, snap and break over time making it rattle or fall apart.

[@Somelucky]

Internet browsing. That’s really all it would have been used for. It’s amazing that the common phone/tablet has entirely replaced this device.

[@Steve_R]

Welcome to Adrian's Digital Kitchen. Lets see what we can cook up today. First, we'll bake some chips in a toaster oven. Then throw some files in the blender and see if we can boot up some lunch. As always, great video. Take care.

[@darkstatehk]

That screw you found inside was probably from the old HDD where it hooked to the chassis. Likely vibrated apart over time. as you mentioned you couldn't tighten it.

[@marccaselle8108]

I miss windows 95 and Windows 98 and computer stores. This was a fun video. Keep up the good work.

[@barovelli]

In the days of VIA ITX board mods, people were putting the boards in all kinds of unusual cases. I do remember a Toaster PC. It would fit right in..

[@cbullar4205]

I had one of these years ago, and i can asure you the problems with the sound is that you have not set it up correctly, i never had issues with duke nukem, its all ever used to play and the sound works in sound blaster mode just fine when configured correctly. Also its easy to find drivers for this machine you just need to go into the regedit and in there you can find the vendor and device id's to install the correct drivers. Been a few years since i last did that but if i remember correctly it is listed under local machine\enum (often \pci)

[@sonyericssoner]

I remember from back of the day, that it was recomended 500Mhz+ CPU for DVD playback.

[@MrChrisRP]

Ya. It was popular to have addon cards that worked in tandem with the video adapter (onboard or card) you already had that JUST did the codec acceleration. i.e. MPEG-2, MPEG-1 sometimes other codecs too. It would make the machines unable to play the files now able to do so well.

[@luther99flame]

Really liked this video, fun and learning. Back in that era I was only interested in playing games and not the ins and outs of hardware software side. As for the machine, I thinks it's concept was way ahead of its time. Although this one was made on a budget, the was a time recently where pc's were made in small form factors and small cases both commercially and in the diy scene. Cool.

[@albi2k88]

For older PC there is program called Snappy Driver Installer which is quite good at searching and downloading drivers (Phil from Phil's computer lab uses that in past). I'm not sure is it support Win98 drivers, at least works with Windows XP. For offline use there is standalone version with 15GB of driver predownloaded.

[@0311Mushroom]

At 11:24 at the bottom-right I can see the modem-network card, the same as would be found in a laptop. Pull that, and you should be able to use the info on it to find that last driver.

[@mooseblaster]

I think this is the original colour, and not yellowed - purple and yellow is a pretty bold colour scheme! www.infohq.com/Computer/CompGraphics/intelconcept/daewoo_qrium_663n.jpg

[@adventureoflinkmk2]

I'd have to agree, that yellow and purple are pulled off nicely

[@adriansdigitalbasement]

Heh. I’m honestly not sure what they were thinking. I find it very off putting!

[@rastislavzima]

Retrobrighting will reveal the truth. ;-)

[@Bond101_Studios]

Doom on a blender. Never thought once I would see this day come in my life.

[@Stjaernljus]

These 'legacy-free' PCs were made to surf the web and not much else, they were not really intended to replace regular PCs but for people who never had a PC.

[@adriansdigitalbasement]

That is a perfect summary!

[@ultrametric9317]

Adrian, you can find combo bluetooth/wireless cards with a mini-PCI form factor for pennies. That would really make this computer useful. I'm guessing the board can support 1 GB of DDR laptop RAM.

[@obfuscated3090]

Neat machine! PIII came out in February 1999 so it's likely early 2000s. It was a great era for enthusiasts building PCs but the mass of prebuilts were cheap crap (which got many PCs in the hands of non-gaming customers). It was an era of weird cases and that one is rather tame.

[@thereallantesh]

This was a fascinating look at a PC that is completely worthless today. I really enjoyed this video though. The fun with equipment like this is in the restoration, not the actual use of it. You should do a follow up including retrobrighting the case, processor upgrade, adding more ram, replacing the back fan etc. I'd even love to see if you could figure out a way to somehow upgrade the graphics, although that does seem impossible. I think it would be really fun though to see what the ultimate performance extreme is that you could take this little box to.

[@Okurka.]

The first result on Google search shows that the original color is yellow.

[@PaeTian]

I do love the case design😍 Want to see something like that today. In my opion the end of 90s, beginning 2000 has some of the most unique and beautiful case design for computer and laptops till today. -tian

[@Cory_]

It's so funny that this extremely proprietary small form factor computer from the '90s from a weird company you've never heard of is still more upgradable than a lot of modern machines.

[@AureliusR]

I'm fairly sure the name is pronounced like the element Curium. They were probably trying to be cool and mix "curiosity" with at the time "exxxtreme" naming schemes. So Qrium was born.

[@safirahmed]

The small computer was possibly just an entry level machine used for MS Office, email and web browsing on the internet.

[@z80dad61]

I'll be honest of all the #DOSCember videos, this was the one I was looking forward too the most. I had a friend in the late 90's who bought one of these "bare bones" / Appliance PC's just to take apart. first PC i'd ever seen without PS/2 it was very similar. Great video :)

[@BastetFurry]

That machine was never intended to run games, it was an Internet terminal, an office machine and maybe used for connecting to some remote desktop. This was a working machine that was supposed to look fancy on the front desk.

[@IanSlothieRolfe]

I seem to recall in the late 90's several manufacturers tried riding the "eMac Wave" and produce PCs with "funky" colours that you might be able to persuade the Mrs to put in the living room, or for trendy types to surf the new-fangled WWW on. I really like the design of this case, I've never seen this one before, I guess Daewoo didn't make a big splash with this computer. I think the SB problem is probably the BLASTER string settings being wrong, I recall battling with Windows 98 getting sound cards to work on the string of random PCs my family members picked up cheap from the classifieds :D

[@matthewsmithau]

Very sneaky Adrian!! Only a retro user would think those yellow panels need retrobriting!!

[@prozacgodretro]

I love how you can switch to full screen instantly, and my modern i7 pc with 6 cores and a 6gb graphics card can't... because I run a "browser operating system" on top of my operating system. It takes half a second and then slowly redraws everything, fully responding to it a litte under a second.

[@WindedDragonn]

Assuming it's the same as modern pc's, the CPU ratio means you can overclock your blender!

[@eDoc2020]

Almost, all the supported CPUs have a locked multiplier, they just ignore the set value. All overclocking will be through increasing the FSB.

[@ph2869]

This reminds me of the original Compaq iPaq, which also came with Win 98 or 2000 and is small and creatively shaped. Remember all the talk back then of 'internet appliances'?