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LGR - Building a Dual Pentium Pro NT Tower (Patreon)

Published:

2024-06-10 19:12:24

Imported:

2024-06

Content

https://youtu.be/P_so2nUob1Y

Back again with another retro computer build! And this one is a bit outside of my usual consumer level wheelhouse in terms of hardware and software. Which is exciting and energizing stuff! Annnd also more time-consuming with some surprising hurdles to overcome, because of course.

Mistakes were made, lessons were learned, ideas are brewing for future updates and fixes and tests... but yeah, lemme know your thoughts! For sure there are things I missed or overlooked. Even after roughly two weeks of working on this thing I still have a fair number of kinks to work out and little fiddly bits to address.

ALSO! I am about to fly over to Dallas, Texas for Vintage Computer Festival Southwest. Specifically I'll be there all day on the 14th and 15th, probably not very long on the 16th though since my flight home is that day. But yeah, I am stoked to attend a new show and I hope to see some of you there!

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Building a 1996 Dual Pentium Pro NT Workstation PC!

Assembling a mid 90s Windows NT workstation computer! Specifically NT 4.0 with two Intel Pentium Pro 200MHz processors, maxed-out RAM, and a Matrox MGA Millennium video card. All in an awesome metal case on wheels. Testing, dusting, building, troubleshooting, games, CAD rendering and more! Most of which I've never done so let's dive in and make some mistakes. ● Become an LGR YouTube member to see videos early and more! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLx053rWZxCiYWsBETgdKrQ/join ● LGR elsewhere online: https://www.patreon.com/LazyGameReviews https://www.twitter.com/LazyGameReviews https://www.facebook.com/LazyGameReviews ● Background music licensed from: https://www.epidemicsound.com 00:00 what we're making 02:01 the motherboard 06:58 the tower case 11:38 a talking BIOS 12:20 testing the Socket 8 14:16 cleaning the mobo 15:53 upgrading cooling 17:49 swapping casters 20:48 cleaning the case 21:51 standoffs, cables 22:46 Matrox Millennium 23:42 power supply issues 25:02 Quantum Bigfoot HDD 26:15 choosing an OS 27:40 installing NT 4.0 30:50 first NT impressions 32:38 3D Pinball Space Cadet 33:15 NT driver complaints 34:36 MIDI playback 35:38 Photoshop 5.5 36:43 AutoCAD R14 38:23 MS-DOS "support" 39:35 the Duke 3D test 40:21 Quake II and OpenGL 41:46 Age of Empires 42:43 Matrox MGA stuff 43:53 Asymetrix 3D F/X 45:05 ray tracing 46:23 Tandberg SLR50 tape drive 48:37 intake fans, 5.25" infrared 51:11 freezing on boot 51:59 in summary, I'm frazzled #LGR #retro #computer #building