The Year-Long Packard Bell Factory Restore

[@monster_king]

The god of SSDs and weed has posted a 1hr long video. Let's all enjoy this beautiful moment.

[@Delta225]

These used to be regular occurrences so we took them for granted.

[@enzito_sdf6978]

0 dislikes. as it should be.

[@Hogdriva]

He inspired me to put an SSD in my Windows 98 machine. Drauga is a hero

[@Marzsala]

Fellow protogen, no way.

[@R-E-D-A-C-T-E-D.]

@@Marzsala I’m no furry but it’s always cool seeing furrys in a comment section that is not a furry channel. Thanks for being who you guys are!

[@cs188]

This legitimately felt like I was watching a movie. The plot twists and resulting emotions were all too real. Thank you for producing this work of art!

[@CraftMine1000]

Hi cs188!

[@cominturismoengineer4012]

wasn't expecting to see you here... mmm druaga1 ytp confirmed?

[@BackroomsSlayer]

This paap beeb has twice the haah drird saas.

[@cominturismoengineer4012]

@@BackroomsSlayer that's exactly what we need in our lives

[@BackroomsSlayer]

@@cominturismoengineer4012 Yeaaeyy

[@EpicTyphlosionTV]

An hour long Druaga1 video We've truly been blessed by the weed gods

[@raven4k998]

well it took him a year to make this video so you owe him to watch the whole hour long video it's your duty and mine to watch it

[@ScienceAlliance]

What was once common is now a blessing

[@NatetheNintendofan]

Dumb me

[@cleanycloth]

The ending broke my heart :( RIP Packard Bell board, perhaps it'll join my old PB computer in computer heaven...

[@adventureoflinkmk2]

F in the chat Press F to pay respects ALSO: what if I get the case and turn it into something awesome.. like my digital DEC PC project

[@kobibenlevi5523]

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[@JohnSmith-xq1pz]

Hopefully my Pentium D'elinquent is up there somewhere still heating things up lol

[@itwednesdaymydudes8492]

It's like I lost a brother😭

[@kobibenlevi5523]

@TheThunderGuyS hey Buddy, I don't know what kind of perfect person you are but I always read comments first. And as for my comment, that was a joke. r/woooosh

[@DarkkLestat]

I miss you man and hope you're doing well. Great video as always.

[@raven4k998]

is this your happy place?

[@FATTYBONGRIPS]

@@raven4k998 this is my happy place

[@nickwallette6201]

From my memory, this looks like a completely typical experience with Packard Bell computers. I never owned one, but I was the neighborhood tech support as a kid. I can't count how many times I've had this exact conversation: "I want to buy a computer. What kind should I get?" "Doesn't matter, just don't buy a Packard Bell." ( days / weeks / months pass ) "I bought a new computer! Can you help me set it up?" "What did you get?" "A Packard Bell!" "😔 This is not going to end well."

[@raven4k998]

this floppy is cursed your camera to go out of focus when it sees it every time🤣😂🤣

[@therobster6069]

Sucks to see your childhood computer give its final swing. I've always believed the soul of a computer lived in the motherboard. May the Legend rest in piece.

[@raven4k998]

you know when 3d printers can make working chips and circuits that's when the fun will start cause then all we have to do is hack into Intel AMD and download the designs for those old 486 or Pentium chips to make our own new retro computers then the fun will start

[@oventree]

@@raven4k998 ah yes, "just" hack into 2 multibillion dollar corporation's internal servers to steal architecture design documents. that'll go well and definitely won't lead to whoever does it getting sentenced to decades in prison!

[@iwannabethedog]

“wake up babe new druaga1 upload”

[@kadette]

Wake up chief. I need you

[@NebukadV]

"We got bootable floppys for days boizzzzz!" That made my day way more than it should have :D

[@raven4k998]

banana's in pyjamas

[@NebukadV]

8:52 for everyone, who wants to re-experience it

[@MitchellWilsonII]

I loved every second. And, the tribute at the end was just heart wrenchingly beautiful!

[@raven4k998]

don't just milk it enjoy it🤣

[@immoloism]

I thought Druaga1 had left us but it turns out he had just been working on this hour long masterpiece!

[@immoloism]

@Ye Old Geezer When the king returns I shall stop all my current tasks and enjoy the greatest video of the year.

[@HiltTilt]

Hearing you have a nostalgia rush at the end was Heartwarming. Good video Thanks for sharing

[@seanc6128]

Congratulations dude. I only ever heard "welcome to packard bell navigator" because I turned off or uninstalled that stuff from my first PC as soon as I could. Also, frankly I am amazed that board still works after everything it has been through.

[@ZingOnMate]

Happy 420

[@inventorOz84]

7 months and counting... when are you coming back man?

[@filipmac5577]

I watched half of this 5 months ago. Now I found time to watch the other half of this hell.

[@TheTechnoGuy18]

8:38 That is not the BIOS that has a typo, its the little boot code thing on the floppy disk that contains that text. You can see earlier in the video that the previous floppy he had inserted didnt have the typo.

[@brandontechnerd]

Also it's a L not an I

[@thedarkdragon89]

It legit made me sad to see the original Ultimate DOS Machine break, that's the video that brought me to you, I actually teared up a little. As a computer guy, it's always sad to see such an old trooper just poof like that. I really do wonder what actually happened, I wonder if a chip failed?

[@animeloveer97]

And most likely yea chip burnt out /quit for other reasons or solder cracked disconnecting stuff that was important

[@syntaxvrc]

I've been listening to that album Everywhere at the end of time, and I'm not gonna lie, I drew a *lot* of parallels from that "in memorium" montage to the Packard Bell. The early nostalgia, the "revisited" with little hiccups, coming back from storage with progressively more glitches and hiccups, until this final glimpse of lucidity before succumbing to death. I don't know why I'm so emotionally attached to this random motherboard, but shit, I feel like I'm gonna cry for its loss now. The original "Ultimate DOS Machine" video is probably what got most of us here to begin with, so it almost feels like part of my childhood is now lost.

[@martinturner5484]

Watching this while im waiting for disk cleanup to actually complete.. 30 mins in to the video but 6 hours in to the disk cleanup. You are still winning.

[@JacobTechShit]

Ah I searched the channel for the first time in a while and I'm happy to see you're still around

[@cinquecento1985]

so I watched all your videos for the 2dn time.. where are you? Hope you are OK. please let us know.

[@safetydoge]

I miss you Ian, I we want more wacky old computer stuff again!

[@mattd5719]

Yes the computer gods have heard us, and an 1 hour video has been blessed on us.

[@raven4k998]

thumbs up cause I agree with you

[@NatetheNintendofan]

The computer Gods to me are always like no here here you're having trouble installing Minecraft mods okay will give you more trouble installing Minecraft mods and then they try to give Mia virus

[@FireStriker_]

He has returned, An Amazing video and classic Druaga1. Was well worth the wait

[@AppalachianDrone]

My first computer was a Packard Bell from this era. May God bless you.

[@NatetheNintendofan]

My first computer was a Windows XP Pentium 4 from the era 2002 and button A Gadda motherboard failure and 2014 what's I cried when I was only six cuz that's a computer that I played my favorite games on like Minecraft and Mario X and online games website Coolmath and ABCya and Kizi and zoo tycoon 2

[@wiredmind]

Happy 420, smokers

[@24LYF]

Bruh I was so Worried about you ngl, What happened to you druaga? You can still make the videos even if you run out of ideas and without you, The youtube is gonna be boring for us and Druaga, Thank You for making my Childhood Better and Cool! SO PLEASE COME BACK😭

[@raven4k998]

help him out with new ideas it's hard to think things up and he needs your help to make new videos

[@CH1CK3NNU66375]

I had this computer when i was growing up. This brought back so many memories.

[@langstonbelin]

Rip my man

[@dungeonseeker3087]

Haven't even pressed play yet, already hit like and am commenting now for that love & support. We've missed ya Ian, welcome back man

[@stanmccorkle]

Great vid. We had the same first computer. That navigation page took me way back to a time in my life I completely forgot. All the kids space stuff brought back memories that otherwise were completely gone from my mind. I’m grateful you are willing to share your talent with the world.

[@CthulhuFTW]

Amazing video, thank you for posting Druaga, actually teared up a bit for this.

[@2K-Tan]

Great to see you again Drauga! I've been inactive for awhile. Ahhh I love me an old Packard Bell. Grabbing a snack and a brew for this one!

[@Gadgetman1989]

Always love your videos guy, thanks for uploading

[@cyanidum]

Wow, what a ride this Video was. Amazing! Was worth every minute!

[@NeonCoding]

Bruh, I just came back to watch the windows 2 series for the 10th time, and i was greeted by beauty.

[@xXAce_TnTXx]

I used to call mine "Packard Hell" because i literally had an issue either every day or every week. No matter how many HDD or any other drives i had to replace, it sucked. Still a great piece of history!

[@loganiushere]

Same goes for my 98 machine Vfat error today, regsvr error tommorow, SATA port dies the day after that

[@marccaselle8108]

My friend used to call my ancient Packard bell, Packard Hell or Packed in Hell lol. The irony is they I never had a problem with Mine, it was a legend something. I know it has a pentium 75mhz, 8 megabytes of Ram, 850 megabyte hard drive and a 2x CD ROM drive, and it came preloaded with windows 3.11

[@GerdMcGurk]

Thank you for this behemoth of a video/project! It's truly a great piece of art

[@haloman30]

Other people mentioned that the old board could just need new capacitors, but I'm wondering if it might just be the onboard graphics? They've been off-color for a while (even as far back as the Windows 2 vid) so maybe see if another card gets it booting again? Or failing that, maybe ring up AkBkUkU like someone else mentioned and see if he can't fix it up possibly.

[@pentiummmx2294]

buy one of those diagnostic cards and see what codes it shows

[@EvilTurkeySlices]

I was definitely thinking graphics.

[@sadmac356]

RIP old board, you did great

[@kronos2611]

That Packard Bell case brings back fond memories, mine was identical but had a 486 DX4 inside :)

[@crylune]

I just got done playing 11 hours of a game, this is the best way to relax.

[@raven4k998]

hey phone connect to wifi

[@StephenFasciani]

Honestly. I can't imagine what losing your childhood mobo is like. I never was given the opportunity to keep mine. The only thing I have that's close to that is a spec sheet from when my dad had a boutique PC maker called Dragon Computers build the thing. I'm the kind of person to be sentimental and the fact that you were able to recreate your childhood experience must've felt amazing. like you said, "I'm home!" that's a very legitimate and validating feeling. I recently broke out some old CDs from my childhood and it's amazing to my surprise the games ran perfectly on windows 10. it felt like that same nostalgic completing feeling, "I'm home." God bless you amazing legend. And yeah booting up those old CDs, "I don't remember being able to read that, the last time I saw that." I felt that.

[@drumboy02]

that looks EXACTLY like the first PC my family had. same keyboard, mouse, OS, bloatware and everything!

[@subtledemisefox]

It was my family's computer for a very long time

[@NatetheNintendofan]

That reminds me of Windows 10 cuz Windows 10 gives you blow where

[@aminorityofone]

i love how you are still rocking the same watch

[@LastofAvari]

Druaga doesn't make his videos often, but when he does they are 1+ hour long! Sometimes ;) Glad to see you are well!

[@raven4k998]

party time woot hoot

[@animeloveer97]

I miss these videos so much duruaga your literally my favorite yt channel this shits so good when your high as fuck and I love doing the same kind of shit so this really speaks to my soul lmao

[@cocusar]

druaga1 still ok? Check 1 hour long druaga1 video? Check Perfect Sunday combination!

[@AgentOrange96]

>Bleeps out "dilk" and then proceeds to drop an f-bomb uncensored xD Also, it looks like some RAM corruption or something as in a previous shot it said "disk."

[@TheDanielHolt]

Actually, if I remember right, that text is actually stored on the disk somehow. It's written to the disk as part of the format process.

[@catsoften]

@@TheDanielHoltHas to be in the bios, how would it show that message if the disk failed. No idea why the message on the disk is necessary then though. Also 8:34 for anyone that wants

[@David_Phantom]

@@catsoften The message is store in what is typically the boot sector of the disk. the 8 bit guy did a video about boot sector games and disk messages were part of it.

[@catsoften]

@@David_Phantom Yeah but it says "or disk failure". If the disk failed how would be able to read the message. Maybe just bad wording for the message on the disk?

[@nickwallette6201]

The first 512 bytes of any PC-formatted disk contain x86 instructions. It can be as simple as an infinite loop, or it can look for an OS and start loading (like what happens when you format /s or run sys on a floppy.) That's why it's called the boot sector. :-) Depending on what you use to format the disk -- like MS-DOS format, Windows 9x, Linux, WinImage, etc... -- that message will differ. The BIOS itself _does_ have an error message that will be displayed if no bootable devices are found, but it's typically something rather terse like "MISSING OPERATING SYSTEM". As to why it said "dilk" this time.. I agree there's probably something on the motherboard that's just shot. Could be bad RAM, or bad cache, or a failing chipset. You aren't usually going to see contents of a floppy disk being read incorrectly, because there are error checking bits that exist specifically so the disk controller can tell when something went wrong while reading a sector. In the case where that happens, the BIOS services will ask the controller to try again, a couple of times. If not one single attempt comes back completely successful, then it issues an error to DOS, which can try the operation again, or present you with the "some kind of error reading drive A: (A)bort, (R)etry, (F)ail" message. This is really important, because silent errors while reading binary data off the disk could lead to wildly unpredictable behavior. So it's better to either fully succeed, or fully fail. For this reason, you're almost never ever going to see a one-byte corruption caused by the floppy drive / disk mechanism. So either the contents got corrupted in-flight on the motherboard somewhere, or someone edited the boot sector message and wrote a wrong, but completely valid sector back to the disk.

[@TomasGregovich]

Damn man, I miss your videos. Come back to the internets, please.

[@Dissoawsomeyoudheve]

OMG I love these Packard Bells. My first computer I ever used was a 406CD with Windows 95, but it indeed only had a single 5.25 bay and looked basically just like this!

[@Darric1Actual]

Everyone watches the video see HOW Druaga1 factory restores an ancient Packard Bell machine, but no one stops to ask WHY he is doing it.

[@techguy1506]

It's been a long time since you uploaded, Druaga1. How about installing an SSD on an OG Xbox?

[@animeloveer97]

i have waited long for this moment. let us rejoice smokers

[@russ8871]

Dude been watching your vids laughing my ass off. Looks like me 20 years ago, I still dabble installing strange shit on different years of hardware. Your box computers Crack me up. Good stuff.

[@GendoPrime]

Its been 84 years!

[@goqwertygo]

Dude I was doing the same thing tinkering with older computers starting around 2003 salvaging old parts from garage sale PCs and my uncle gave me a Packardbell vertical case with the motherboard flat on the base it had windows 95. I remember upgrading it to Windows 98 with an upgrade cd i had. All your videos remind me of all the times I had playing around and tinkering with the parts I had 🤣😂 My dad always nagged about the games we had slowing the new family Presario my dad got Christmas 99. The struggle was real with one computer for house of 6 so I started building my own😄I got a lot of help with my friend's dad who lived across the street had an IT Tech job. They had a whole computer lab in the basement for the family. I didn't care if my PCs I managed to salvage together didn't have dial-up internet access. I had more fun tinkering around and or playing PS1/2 N64 on my Macintosh Performa tower pc, similar to a few I've seen in your videos with a TV tuner+Svideo capture card😂 I paid $20 back in the day and now i wish i held on to it, but yea had to let go of a lot of old hardware i had. The oldest I hang onto now is 775 and or 771 mods 👌, A quicksilver/chrome Mac G4, and an HP Pavilion with Windows ME

[@goqwertygo]

That ending really hit my memories hard😰😰

[@Mayala285]

Hope your doing well

[@enzito_sdf6978]

what an emotional rollercoaster man. been watching your channel for years, you inspired me to get all this shitty old hardware too. aah so many memories man, my pentium 166 is still alive and kicking i guess, with an awful s3 card, a dell oem sb live for some reason, and that shitty pc chips onboard cmi8330. god bless.

[@tradito]

13:08 that's exactly the druaga1 i signed for.

[@marccaselle8108]

The old navigator that you were showing was the exact same one that was on my old Packard bell from early 1995. I'm trying to recreate the Packard bell I had to varying degrees of success lol

[@scubadive25]

Thank you for the awesome video. We all missed you.

[@034G63EVO]

My first computer ( and the only OEM computer ive had since, build my own ever since then ) Was a PB legend 10CD. A few days ago I found a really nice example of a 10CD and bought it on the spot. I will be going through this tomorrow night lol Great footage :)

[@georgerockwell-z3c]

you are my favorite youtuber, please dont stop smokin

[@joeshmoe000]

Love your work, so professionally non-professional.

[@facilis]

He fixed it !!!1! On a serious note, this is definetly on my top5 of Druaga's videos. 👊

[@ebennett3655]

that narrator voice is the half-life transit system voice!!!

[@LAUGHINGMANWILL]

"THE XSERVE'S BLAZIN IT TOO!!!" Just randomly popped into my head while watching

[@Pastashock]

The king of smoke has returned. 👑🥦

[@ScottEversonAndroid]

Wow, I honestly sympathized with your pain and frustration. This is exactly like my ADHD ass trying to install Windows on an old system. It takes days, I'm all over the place, and usually, I give up for a week only to try again. I, too, swear the whole time.

[@markusTegelane]

8:37 that message is not from the BIOS, it's from the floppy disk

[@SoulcatcherLucario]

this is such a classic druaga video and i love it

[@nicholashoi3155]

Damn the lighting has been improved.

[@conux]

Copying the virtual machine image to your compact flash card was really brilliant! And sorry for your old friend :(

[@FeelingShred]

41:21 casually drops a package with ORIGINAL PRESERVED MOTHERBOARD OH MY FUCKING GOD IS THIS GUY KIDDING OR SOME SHIT 🤣🤣🤣

[@ThePoolboy789]

this is still my favorite youtube channel

[@MartinPaoloni]

MEGARACE! That was my first CD-ROM game. Loved it. The controls are A, Z, comma, period and space bar. :-) Super intuitive... For the developers!

[@GoldenTrumpet24]

I hope someone recreates the navigator room for windows mixed reality. That would be awesome. Also, RIP motherboard. Probably not the case, but it could just be something as simple as bad capacitors. Maybe Akbkuku could fix it?

[@adventureoflinkmk2]

Or Ben Heck... Or Adrian with his digital basement

[@Ccoolty]

@@adventureoflinkmk2 but isn't Akbkuku his bro?

[@adventureoflinkmk2]

@@Ccoolty I dunno I never heard of this

[@JSGPresents]

o7 To a great PC board and a great 1 hour vid.

[@madmax2069]

I was renting to own a Packard bell years ago that's pretty similar, mine I think was the 814CD. Just seeing a similar case brings back a lot of memories.

[@MediocreTCG]

Did you finally pay it off?

[@madmax2069]

@@MediocreTCG no, but it wasn't due to not being able to pay, But the attitude of the employees, I told them to stick it.

[@zJericho101z]

Gratz on reclaiming a piece of your childhood!

[@itwednesdaymydudes8492]

Omg a 1hr vid from the man himself

[@tdl3]

Hi druaga, smoker here, I miss you a lot, hope you are doing well :D

[@marx4538]

this video is utterly blessed

[@AiOinc1]

These are a classic case design for sure

[@Gany1701]

I almost missed this :( good to see a new video from Druaga1 though

[@qwertykeyboard5901]

18:20 That. That is an impressive fuckup. I don’t think even I could top that.

[@BobM925]

My first was a 386 Acer. I’d like to find another. Its SB pro sound card got me hooked on midi for life

[@whilhelm9511]

kaiser here, the dude that helped you make that IRC channel, hope you're doing well, we miss you ;D

[@bishn97]

Nice an hour-long Druaga video, time to grab some food and watch

[@BrunodeSouzaLino]

Ironically, the reference of the Packard Bell I remember is from the cash register Win95 SSD video, where you suggest a video of doing a full restoration on the Packard Bell when using either its mouse or keyboard.

[@i_lost_my_bagel]

I think it's in the windows 2 part 1 video actually

[@noelshrum4400]

Our first PC was a Packard Bell 486sx2/50Mhz based computer. The restore CD has software meant for many different computer on it. Turns out if you study the directory layout on that CD, you can just copy over quite a bit of software meant for most expensive PCs. "Free" software from PB!

[@Leahi84]

A Packard Bell Legend 486 with Windows 3.11 was my first home computer. Such good/bad memories from that one. I did love one of the games it came with 3D Dinosaur Adventure, and the kidspace portion of Packard Bell Navigator. Hope you do a tour video showing off all the software that came with it.

[@TH700R4]

I have a Packard Bell 204CD(basically the same case) with a 486 that I need to restore, but what you went through there is my worst fear. Also surprised your board boots with a bad cmos battery, thought those were one of those deals where if the battery is dead it resets the cmos every time it starts... oh well, cool to see it running!

[@KimTheCreator]

This is some damn good content

[@doggoli]

I still have hopes of the Packard Bell motherboard seeing the light of day again... Although the chances are slim I don't feel like it could've died just like that :(

[@theRealreyeM]

The Packard Bell motherboard joins Club 27. RIP. 😢

[@pentiuman]

At 1:14 you show the label of my 1st PC, the Packard Bell, Model Legend 406CD - w/ a mindblowing Intel Pentium 75 Mhz., 850 mb hard drive, 8 mb of EDO ram, a 14.4 Fax/(dial-up)Modem, 4x CDROM, 14-inch CRT monitor w/ attached speakers and 1 mb video. Running Windows 95 and some of the earliest versions of Internet Explorer, Packard Bell saturated the hard drive w/ tons of glitchy software for hours of reliable system running and family fun! Retail cost at Best Buy in Aug. 1995 was $1,450! Fun Fact: As far as I know, they only made one slower Pentium CPU than this one, a 60 Mhz.