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  • [easygoing lounge music] [floppy drive noises]

  • [computer plopping down]

  • Greetings and welcome to an LGR restoration thing!

  • And today, we've got a late '90s almost-classic.

  • This is a Gateway Essential 450 from 1999.

  • It's a Pentium III-based PC built to run Windows 98, and beyond that, I'm not yet 100% certain

  • about its specs or if everything inside works, but finding out and fixing it up is what we're

  • about to do.

  • Right, so this Gateway, does it work?

  • Eh, hopefully?

  • First a little backstory, because while I do know that it at least powered on the first

  • time I checked, that was years ago, 2014 I believe.

  • And it's just kinda sat in storage 'til I got a chance to work on it, which is today.

  • What happened was it was one of those situations where I was picking up another retro computer,

  • actually something much older, and I happened to notice this thing sitting over in the corner,

  • being unused.

  • I was interested and so we just turned it on, and it powered on just fine, booted up

  • into Windows and I'm like, hey do you wanna get rid of this thing, too?

  • She's just like, yeah you can have it, so here it is.

  • [Clint grunts] It's, uh...

  • Yeah look at it, it's still got the quality seal right there, so I'm assuming

  • that means it hasn't been, well, I don't know, that doesn't look like a thing that I've seen

  • on my other Gateway computers, so I'm assuming maybe it's been upgraded by a third party

  • and they just put this little sticker on here, I don't know.

  • And around back though, it looks pretty typical, like they maybe have switched out a graphics

  • card or sound card in here, 'cause this looks, I don't know, I really, I just don't know,

  • so that's one thing we're gonna be finding out in this video is what's been done to this,

  • if anything.

  • You know, how it's configured, what's going on inside.

  • But yeah, it is the Essential 450, and that was part of Gateway's main lineup of computers

  • they had in 1998, '99, like the year 2000.

  • But according to this printout of the ad here, it looks like the 450 was a higher end version

  • of the Essential series, so yeah.

  • This may be the specs that this has, but, you know, from looking it up, there were a

  • bunch of different variants of the 450, so who knows exactly what's inside there.

  • But as you can see, I mean, they have some pretty nice kind of options for someone that

  • wants to play Windows 98 games and such on here, you know, AGP Graphics and Sound Blaster

  • and, you know, other things that you might want, it's just one of those cool Pentium

  • III systems and that's why I wanted to pick it up and see what I could do with it.

  • And you can see there was also some nice upgrades available, you know, Gravis GamePad and a

  • Zip drive, Boston Acoustics 3-Piece Speaker System, DVD-ROM.

  • Yeah anyway, yeah, let's just take a look and see what's actually inside here and get

  • it restored and working again.

  • [Clint grunts] It sure is heavy.

  • It's got some nice rubber feet on the bottom that prevents it from sliding around, so I

  • might actually put down like a towel or something, 'cause yeah, all right, let's open it up.

  • And yeah, it actually looks like it comes with, yeah, thumb screws from the factory,

  • which is not the most common thing on just your standard consumer desktops of the time

  • period.

  • At least I don't have very many that do that.

  • It's really just like servers, you know, higher-end IBM machines that had, oh yeah, forgot about

  • the seal.

  • Let's see what we can do without breaking the seal, can we.

  • Yeah whatever.

  • All right.

  • Ooh, that is kinda nasty.

  • Hmm.

  • Well nice mixture of cobwebs and dust and grime.

  • We'll have to do a bit of a cleaning on this, for sure.

  • There's an ISA slot down there, that's kinda cool.

  • And we got five PCI slots, one AGP slot.

  • That looks like a Voodoo, yeah it is, holy crap!

  • That's a Voodoo 3.

  • This is not what I expected to see in here.

  • I mean, Gateway did have an OEM situation going on with the Voodoo 3, they called it

  • like the 3000 G, is the other ones that I have.

  • Got the Sound Blaster card here.

  • That looks like a, yeah, CT5803.

  • I think that's a 128.

  • And then we have a modem here which, who cares [laughs], probably take that out, I don't

  • know.

  • Actually, this might be going to someone else, another YouTuber who I won't name, but his

  • name is brutalmoose, and he might not actually need that and may prefer to have Ethernet,

  • I don't know.

  • Maybe I just won't mess with it and leave it at the end, but yeah, and here is the processor.

  • It's a Pentium III of some kind, I don't know exactly the denomination or whatever, speed.

  • And then there's this cooling system that Gateway did at the time, and a few other companies.

  • And it all goes through the power supply, which always just seemed like a bad idea to

  • me.

  • And considering how many of these power supplies I've replaced on various Gateways over the

  • years, and on IBM, like NetVistas that used a very similar system, you know, maybe it

  • wasn't the best idea.

  • But whatever, that's what they did.

  • And yeah, there's a hard disk, let's see what kinda size that is.

  • Well, the capacity's covered up, but it does say November 17th, 1999.

  • And we got some RAM there.

  • I think these came with 64 megs for the most part.

  • You know what, let's just go ahead and turn it on.

  • 'Cause other than being dirty, it looks okay.

  • I'm not seeing like bulging caps or anything weird, leaky garbage or anything.

  • And like I said, when I first picked this up years ago, it turned on then.

  • So let's just see what happens when we get it powered on.

  • Schwew, ho ho, that thing is so gross, look at all this.

  • Mm-kay, let's just turn it on, see what happens.

  • [motor whirring] [laughs] Yeah, there's the Voodoo 3 1000 G. Let's see what we got here

  • in the system setup.

  • All right so that is a 450 megahertz Pentium III, as the model number insinuated.

  • And that's what I figured, but you never know.

  • And honestly, everything looks pretty standard.

  • In fact, the time and date are even correct, so I guess the battery in there is still fine.

  • Might replace that anyway, but yeah, good times, good times.

  • So far so good, nothing exploding.

  • It does smell like, oof, not good [laughs].

  • What is this?

  • Gateway GoBack.

  • There we go, got Windows 98 going.

  • Yeah, that old cobwebs and dust smell is only growing more increased as the fans do their

  • thing and everything warms up.

  • All right, actually a pretty quick boot, all things considered.

  • At least to this point.

  • And yeah, there we go, I mean, ooh, yep, yeah.

  • So desktop management wasn't exactly a priority for the lady who had this in the past.

  • But that's okay, she's like in her 70s.

  • So right, well this is Windows 98 with a lot of crap going on.

  • What all is it even loading?

  • Oh my word.

  • That poor hard drive just wants to die.

  • And it's just sitting here, nothing is happening really.

  • What is JAWS, I've never heard of this.

  • A screen reading software.

  • Well that makes sense.

  • Yeah, like I said, older lady, she was very nice.

  • But you know, she's getting older, didn't need her computers anymore.

  • And so yeah, let's see what is actually on this thing.

  • This is what I'm mostly curious about right here.

  • Okay so we do have 64 megs of RAM.

  • Looks like it did have a Zip drive at some point, but no longer does.

  • Yeah, all pretty expected stuff here.

  • Let's see what we got.

  • Oh my [laughs].

  • Wow.

  • Mm-hmm, Microsoft IntelliPoint drivers, shortcuts to shortcuts to shortcuts, just classic.

  • Spybot S&D, another classic.

  • Gain Publishing, who knows what installed that.

  • RealPlayer, Rand McNally Trip Maker 1996, there used to be some sort of Hoyle, I don't

  • know, card game, something another, probably.

  • This Gateway GoBack thing, I'm assuming that's like a system restore deal.

  • I've never actually had that installed on any of the Gateways I've had from this era,

  • but there it is.

  • 'Kay, hard disk space, it's a 10 gig drive, okay, so that's a little more than I expected.

  • I think, so a lot of them are configured with 6.4.

  • Yeah, it's just standard configuration stuff on here.

  • Honestly you could probably clean up this installation and have it be pretty good.

  • But I really just want to restore this to factory original condition.

  • All right so, I know that one thing that Gateway did is they have the restore CDs and thankfully,

  • I do have that.

  • I mean, I could just go with like classic Windows 98 fresh install straight from Microsoft,

  • but I think I wanna use the restoration discs.

  • All right, so we'll need some software.

  • And thankfully, Gateway provided these software storage binders for all their systems back

  • in the day.

  • Very handy to keep all your restoration stuff in one spot.

  • Yeah they did supply these very handy system restore CDs back then.

  • I don't know if this is the exact one that went with this exact computer or not.

  • I've got, there's like a ton of these.

  • I just pulled this one out of storage.

  • I think this is actually the same one.

  • It'll definitely work anyway.

  • So we're going to be starting with just the Windows 98 Second Edition CD installation,

  • and then the restore disc here.

  • Should have all the software and drivers and stuff that we'll need otherwise.

  • So yeah, let's get to it.

  • First up, I really just, I mean, we gotta clean this.

  • This is, it's horrendous.

  • It's really bad [laughs].

  • Like just this Voodoo card alone, this is, well I haven't seen this kind of dust accumulation

  • since doing work for like various IT things.

  • [Clint laughing] I'm trying to keep this in tact, 'cause it's kind of impressive.

  • Look at that.

  • I think it's safe to say this has not been cleaned or opened since 1999 or thereabouts.

  • This is really [coughs], all right, I need a mask and we're gonna take this outside.

  • All right just gonna blow everything out using a compressor on a vacuum here.

  • No sucky, only blowy.

  • [compressor humming] [peaceful lounge music] Well thank goodness I had a mask on for that,

  • that was terrible [laughs].

  • Little sticker came off here.

  • NS-TECH, I don't know if that's an original Gateway sticker or not.

  • All right I'm gonna take it back inside now and get all the individual components cleaned

  • a little more.

  • Well I don't know about you, but I already feel a lot better about working on this thing.

  • However, now it's time to get to the cleaning of all the other things.

  • Let's get started.

  • Mostly just a bunch of your normal kinda grossness where it was used the most.

  • Still though, even after a brief bit of wiping, you can already see we're getting some gunk.

  • Just going over the outside of it quickly with this sort of water vinegar mix.

  • And definitely seeing a few stubborn spots already.

  • [airplane buzzing] Why are there airplanes every two seconds?

  • [cat meowing] And there are a lot of sharp edges on this case, which means pretty typical

  • for the time but that's one reason I like to wear gloves like these.

  • I would have a few cuts already.

  • Like seriously, all those little, yeah, nope.

  • And I'm not gonna take the entire thing apart, 'cause honestly, I just don't care that much.

  • This is not, you know, some rare, valuable, worthy of museum kind of piece.

  • But I am gonna take those cards out because even though they were blown off, I mean here,

  • just, take a look at all that crap coming off of there, with just the littlest of wipes.

  • Yeah they need it.

  • [airplane humming] Oh come on airplanes, go away, what are you doing?

  • That's like the fifth flyby.

  • [Clint sighs] [airplane whirring] And just going over them with a bit of alcohol.

  • Is it just me or does that look like it's got a little bit of heat damage?

  • Well we will run it through its paces once we get it all reinstalled and such.

  • [laughs] You can see down there in the bottom, it's still pretty gross.

  • [laughs] Oh yeah, mm.

  • Ooh, yeah those would have been cuts.

  • Thank you gloves.

  • Yeah the more I think about it, the more I don't wanna keep this hard drive.

  • I think I might replace this with like an SD card solution, or something like that.

  • So we'll go ahead and take that thing out of here.

  • [Clint laughs] Ah, there's another screw.

  • Don't you hate it when you think you're done screwing and it's just like, oh, once more.

  • And you're like, but I'm tired.

  • There we go.

  • [metal clanging] Well.

  • Oh man, I've seen much worse, but it's certainly the worst I've had to deal with in a long

  • time.

  • You know what, I might just leave this in here, just as kind of a back up of sorts,

  • and then I'm going to install, oh my goodness, is it that airplane again?

  • [airplane humming] [Clint sighs] It is.

  • Seriously, this guy just get his pilot's license or like?

  • Come on man.

  • You're like right above the house.

  • Fly somewhere else.

  • Anyway, as I was going to say, just gonna use one of these SD card, SD to I to IDE [blows

  • raspberry], SD to IDE adapters.

  • It's got a power thing there to, you know, you can use the 4 pin from either floppy disk

  • or the original hard drive.

  • Got a 32 gig Class 10, you know, it's quick enough for this kind of usage, and it tends

  • to work pretty well.

  • This is what I use in my main Windows 98 Capture PC for awhile now, and it's doing great.

  • Do I have anywhere to mount it, though?

  • Not exactly, but we'll just sort of pop it in there.

  • [laughs] It's not a big deal, it'll be fine.

  • While we're in here, though, we'll go ahead and take a look at that RAM.

  • Haven't seen one of these in awhile.

  • This is a stick of Hyundai RAM, PC100.

  • Classic, used to have a, I believe it's a Compaq that had some Hyundai RAM like that.

  • 64 whole megs, amazing.

  • We'll put that right back in there.

  • I could upgrade the RAM, but I don't see a need to.

  • I mean, it's a 450 megahertz Pentium III.

  • If I was to upgrade CPU, maybe, but just gonna leave it as is.

  • And yeah, just gotta go over some of these little corner spots with a brush, here.

  • Just to get the last bits of stupid crap.

  • Okay, guess I should take care of that battery.

  • All right, hope there's nothing weird with the BIOS, that it like doesn't know what to

  • do.

  • Sometimes you run into that and you'll replace the battery, and then it freaks out, and,

  • I don't know, I think this is an advanced enough BIOS, it'll be fine.

  • [relaxing lounge music] [airplane humming] Oh my word, there he comes again.

  • I swear, this is like the 10th time.

  • I've cut out so many of the planes, and yet they keep coming.

  • I hate you, sir.

  • I really do.

  • And I like airplanes, man.

  • It's just, why you gotta fly so low?

  • Over my house, in particular?

  • As much as I enjoy working on '90s computers, I hate this part of it.

  • About one of the unsung advancements in computing, just case design, ergonomics.

  • Literally everything about the process internally is better now.

  • Old cases with their weird bleh and the stupid caddies and trays and stuff, they can all

  • go straight to, okay.

  • This is coming along nicely.

  • In fact, I'm hoping this is like the easiest restoration, restoration, just cleaning up

  • and fixing up that I've ever done.

  • And that's really the whole idea, I'm just kind of doing this because I can.

  • Ooh I missed a spot.

  • Yeah this is oddly cathartic, just, you know, kind of like a Lego kit.

  • You're just sort of putting it all together, you know exactly how it works and how it's

  • supposed to look and stuff, and just getting it all clean and nice and pretty and functional.

  • Yeah that's it really.

  • Okay so as far as this thing goes, I don't believe, yeah there's no jumpers on here,

  • so plug in the IDE cable and then, yeah, we'll just use this 4 pin little extra power, and

  • that should be pretty much it for that.

  • I don't know what I'm gonna do with that yet, but we'll set it there for now.

  • You got a CD analog audio right here on the sound card.

  • Yeah screw it, we'll put the modem back in there, too.

  • And last but definitely not least, our Voodoo 3 1000 G that hopefully is fine.

  • [chuckles] Oh and in case you're wondering why I don't have like this mounted in our

  • front or back drive bay, I don't have one of those on hand right now.

  • But even the ones that I do have, they're all really weird in terms of their placement.

  • If you saw my Windows 98 Capture PC build, the bracket is too far over that way, it ends

  • up bunching up against things in the motherboard, where this is mounted, so you have to kind

  • of make a custom mount, and like I said, I just don't have one of those on hand, and

  • just kinda sucks and whatever.

  • It'll be fine in here for now, I just wanna get it up and running.

  • And there's our airplane friend again, I swear.

  • I swears.

  • Let's go ahead and get the front of this cleaned up, just a little bit more, 'cause it's still

  • kinda grimy.

  • [airplane humming] Maybe that guy's doing like tours or something.

  • I mean this is a weird day to do it.

  • It's like a Monday evening.

  • And it's raining.

  • I really don't know what that guy's doing.

  • [peaceful lounge music] Like all things considered, this is coming together nice and clean.

  • Haven't even had to break out the Magic Eraser yet, there's like one spot over here I probably

  • will, but other than that, I mean, this is, I mean it's one reason I picked it up all

  • those years ago, I was just like, yeah this looks like it has potential.

  • Yeah there's like these few spots that I think might be good for a multi eraser.

  • [chuckles] Super extra strength multi eraser.

  • Yeah that's like the one main scuff right there.

  • It's kind of in the plastic.

  • And this is plastic except for, nope, it's all plastic, the whole case.

  • Externally anyway.

  • Like obviously inside, there's a metal cage, but you know, late '90s cheapness.

  • Get the butt wiped off here while I'm looking at it.

  • It's good enough.

  • What little bit is left are like little bits of gouging.

  • But you know, that's how it goes.

  • I've noticed this has been sitting pretty lopsided this whole time, and I think that's

  • because, yeah these feet melted and moved.

  • Like there's one here, one here, not one here, and only one in the bottom, sort of, off to

  • the left.

  • So in the interest of completeness, we gonna fix that.

  • Come off there.

  • Nobody likes you.

  • And I've got just the thing here.

  • I like using these little furniture pads.

  • I mean, sometimes it makes sense to go with rubber or something, but these look like they're

  • about the right size.

  • And, you know, considering how annoying it was to just slide around.

  • I think that's a nice fit.

  • There we go [laughs].

  • Wee!

  • I like it.

  • Okay, now let me give it one more wipe to get some of that residue off of there.

  • And we'll get Windows 98 set up, hopefully, and yeah.

  • Power.

  • Very quiet without that hard disk.

  • And we've got a boot.

  • So let's see what it thinks of our SD hard disk alternative.

  • And there we go.

  • It detected that just fine which, awesome.

  • I've been really impressed with these SD adapters that are out there.

  • I mean, they're pretty brain-dead.

  • You know, well you have to, whatever, foolproof, that's the word I'm looking for.

  • You don't have to do much and they just kinda work.

  • We're gonna boot it from this disk then.

  • See what happens.

  • All right, got the CD detected, sweet.

  • [laid-back lounge music] And I forgot, I'm on an SSK keyboard.

  • Let's switch.

  • All right, so it does actually have it on there already.

  • Yes that means I don't have to do crap.

  • All right well, seems to be reading disks okay.

  • It's still probably gonna be a good idea to just clean out the inside of that thing, anyway.

  • Noticed it had one of those like foam edges around the disk front itself, and sometimes

  • those particles get in there and do weird crap, and honestly, it just needs a little

  • bit of cleaning anyway, so I'll do that later.

  • We'll see if we can get Windows going.

  • ScanDisk, you scan that SD card with nothing on it, see what you find.

  • All right, Windows 98 Setup.

  • Go with custom, because that's the way I roll.

  • Ooh and we're restarting.

  • That's always a good sign.

  • Yay!

  • Well this is not gonna be my machine so, actually does he use Pascal case?

  • We'll go with yes.

  • Product Key.

  • Here we go.

  • Sweet.

  • And yeah well, so far so good.

  • I think this might end up being pretty simple.

  • After this we'll just kind of run the restore CD for the Gateway applications and drivers

  • and all that crap, I think, and that should be about it.

  • Then we'll try some games.

  • Wow, that was a quick boot.

  • [laughs] It restarted and got right back to this in no time at all.

  • So we've got a very base Windows 98 installation here with no drivers.

  • [laughs] Gotta love those 16 color graphics.

  • So yeah, it's all good though, pretty much, so that's good stuff.

  • Cool.

  • Well let's go ahead and get that restore CD going, and yeah.

  • Ooh, look at all this stuff.

  • So instead of Clippy, we have a cow boxy, I suppose [laughs].

  • I'm here to help you out.

  • Nar-nah-nar.

  • Right so we got, yeah, hardware and software and all sorts of cool, I mean, we're pretty

  • much just gonna do all the stuff, but let's go ahead and do the software for now.

  • Like I'm gonna replace some of these drivers with like better ones, anyway, so whatever,

  • I guess.

  • But we'll just install it by default first and see how it goes.

  • Yay graphics.

  • So we have 800x600 16 bit.

  • Good, good, good.

  • Yeah well, I'll just let it do the rest of its thing here, and I'll come back whenever

  • it's got all these drivers and software things out of the way.

  • [Windows 98 startup sound] Installation of drivers and software completed, although I

  • did opt not to install a lot of the software side of things, just a bunch of bloat and

  • crap that I don't think anyone's gonna ever use.

  • But it did go ahead and apply this Gateway background.

  • The system information, all this kind of support stuff is there and looking proper, all the

  • drivers are good.

  • Oh yeah, and there was also a bit of an interesting thing where it chose to swap around the logo,

  • startup animation for Windows 98.

  • Anyway, I'm pretty happy with how this has turned out.

  • ["Windows 98 passport.mid"] I've always quite liked the built-in WAV Table, MIDI capabilities

  • of the 128 D here.

  • Although there are some different options, so for instance.

  • ["Duke Nukem 3D grabbag.mid"] That's just the normal, like default 2 megabyte WAV set.

  • But if we swap this around from 2 meg to 4 meg.

  • ["Duke Nukem 3D grabbag.mid"] Sounds quite a bit different.

  • And then you can go to this 8 meg general MIDI.

  • ["Duke Nukem 3D grabbag.mid"] Those are pretty similar but quite different from this one.

  • ["Duke Nukem 3D grabbag.mid"] Honestly, for a lot of DOS games, I prefer the 2 meg one,

  • but you know, it's up to your preference and what you're trying to make happen on here.

  • But either way, it's got some options for WAV Table.

  • [laughs] On the other hand, things like Ad Lib FM Synthesis is really garbage on this

  • card, but that's just how it goes with these later Sound Blasters, it's just emulating

  • stuff like, for instance, listen to how bad Commander Keen Episode 4 sounds.

  • Apologies for the flicker, this'll only take a moment.

  • ["Commander Keen Episode 4 soundtrack"] It's really bad [laughs].

  • No matter what you try to play, it does not do Ad Lib emulation well whatsoever, but again,

  • that's just down to really this card and, but yeah, it does some pretty good emulation

  • of various things of MPU-401:330 as the port.

  • It's a very compatible card, it's just everything it's compatible with, or tries to emulate,

  • doesn't sound particularly good.

  • But the actual Sound Blaster sound effects, PCM and all that, combined with general MIDI,

  • I mean, it sounds pretty good, I think.

  • - [Duke Nukem] Damn, those alien bastards are gonna pay for shooting up my ride.

  • [gun firing] Cool. [gun firing] Holy cow! [explosions]

  • - [Clint] Yeah, and I have some things that I wanna try.

  • Because we've got that Voodoo 3 card in there.

  • So I've got Need for Speed: High Stakes here.

  • One of my favorites.

  • And it is from 1999 and specifically, this was the very first Need for Speed game to

  • support the Voodoo 3 by default.

  • ["Quantum Singularity" by Rom Di Prisco] [beatbox music] [engine revving] Oh yeah.

  • So I've got everything set to the highest settings.

  • It is only running on 640x40 resolution, but considering this is a 8 megabyte Voodoo 3

  • card, that should be just about right.

  • [engine revving] ["Need for Speed: High Stakes soundtrack"]

  • - [Game Announcer] Three, two, one, go! [tires squealing] [horn honking] [Clint laughs]

  • - [Clint] Oops, oops, whoops.

  • [Clint laughs]

  • - 316 to central.

  • - Nope.

  • - In mission of a white McLaren at the village.

  • - [Dispatcher] All units be advised.

  • Be on the lookout for a McLaren at the village.

  • - [Policeman] 316.

  • - [Clint] So yeah, not like amazing performance or anything, but pretty darn good and absolutely

  • playable.

  • I like to play that all day.

  • Let's try out something else.

  • How's about Quake II.

  • I could go with Quake III, but I wanna play Quake II.

  • ["Quake II soundtrack"] [gun firing] [monsters groaning] [gun firing] So that worked well.

  • Moving right along to one more game.

  • I don't know, I just feel like trying a humongous game on here, it feels appropriate.

  • So we got Putt-Putt Goes To The Moon.

  • This'll be just a teensy bit less chaotic than Quake II.

  • ["Putt-Putt Goes To The Moon soundtrack"]

  • - [Announcer] Mr. Firebird invites everyone to come down to take a tour of the Cartown

  • Fireworks Factory today.

  • - I better hurry over to the fireworks factory.

  • - [Clint] Yeah you better.

  • - Hi Mr. Firebird.

  • - Welcome, Putt-Putt.

  • Would you like to help me make a skyrocket? [machine whirring]

  • - Bright stars.

  • [machine whirring]

  • - Ha ho, the squiggly worms are my favorite.

  • - They're neat.

  • [Clint laughs]

  • - [Clint] So pretty much everything works awesomely on here, again, except for the things

  • that don't [laughs], you know.

  • Most all of these do.

  • This is kinda my standard selection of random DOS games.

  • I always like to put those on this kind of machine.

  • While I'm thinking about it, got one more thing I wanna do here.

  • Got some [grunts] extra little goodies I wanna put on the backside of this.

  • Made some copies of the software restoration stuff that goes with this computer.

  • Just going to put that in an adhesive sleeve and keep it with the computer by putting it

  • right about there.

  • I like to do this with my restorations now.

  • I've found it a good idea to keep the backup software with the computer like this.

  • And just because I feel like it, and ego stroking, [chuckles] I've got a LGR adhesive vinyl sticker

  • here, a nice little decal.

  • I was thinking about putting a case badge on the front, but it's a very rounded machine,

  • and there's not really anywhere that a case badge makes a whole lot of sense, so yeah,

  • why not put this inside, so you know for sure this is an LGR-restored product.

  • Nice.

  • I really should get my own warranty stickers made.

  • Wouldn't that be kinda cool?

  • I mean there'd be no reason for it, other than it's probably fun.

  • Well I suppose that's about it for this video, putting back together of this Gateway Essential

  • 450.

  • Nothing to complex.

  • Just a pretty dirty machine that needed a little bit of TLC to get back up and looking

  • and running as it should.

  • Honestly, I will take an easy project every so often.

  • [laughs] That's really the biggest reason that I tackled this particular machine for

  • this particular purpose.

  • As I mentioned earlier, this is going to be going to a friend of mine, Ian, who runs the

  • brutalmoose channel on YouTube.

  • Go check that out if you haven't.

  • He does some excellent work, very entertaining and bizarre stuff, and he's covered some random

  • Windows 98 things and such in the past and he was looking for another machine.

  • I'm like, yeah you know, I've got one, just needs a little work.

  • So here it is.

  • Hopefully he enjoys it and hopefully you did, as well, you who are watching, or listening,

  • or whatever you're doing with this video.

  • I don't know, man, I'm not gonna question or even think about it, it gets weird sometimes.

  • But yeah if you enjoyed this kind of thing, well this is the kind of thing that I do here

  • on LGR.

  • Not exclusively, but definitely on occasion.

  • You know, old computers and software and hardware and all that.

  • It's just my thing.

  • So if you liked this, feel free to stick around.

  • There's new videos every week.

  • And as always, thank you very much for watching.

[easygoing lounge music] [floppy drive noises]

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