Building a 486 DOS PC! The LGR Woodgrain 486

Celebrating SEVEN contiguous years of LGR by building the "Woodgrain 486!" The idea here is to build a PC piece by piece that would fit in around 1994, using spare parts and simulated wood.

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● Specs of the finished Woodgrain 486:
66MHz AMD Am486DX2-66 CPU
16MB 72-pin SIMM RAM (2x8MB)
425MB WD Caviar 2420 HDD
1MB Diamond Speedstar Pro VLB video card
Creative Sound Blaster AWE32 sound card
AOpen VI15G Socket 3 Motherboard
NE2000-compatible networking card
HDD/FDD VLB controller card
1.44MB Sony 3.5" diskette drive
1.2MB Chinon 5.25" floppy drive
4x Generic IDE CD-ROM drive
Woodgrain-clad generic AT tower with green turbo LED display

[Yepi]

51:37 ''Look at that, its almost playable''
This is the insight that Ubisoft developers have after finishing a game.

[marsdeimos]

Calling tech support in 1994:
"Who is General Failure and why is he reading my drive A:?"

[JESSEQUEST]

Clint-- I can't stop going back to about 49 minutes in the video and hearing you talk about this Sim City 2000 story and hearing your genuine reaction to seeing it like you saw it all those years ago at a friends' house. SUCH good content! Thanks for this warm, authentic moment!

[ChairmanMeow]

Basically my entire childhood revolved around how good I could get Simcity 2000 to run. I sympathize, Clint.

[Zhedox]

1 hour of PC Bulding....

Clint, you're spoiling me

[gee.g.]

Oh those sweet, innocent times when cable management and rgb lighting were just nullified by beautiful beige.

[QuantumBraced]

This is my favorite LGR video, I've probably watched it 5 times already. I would love to see more retro builds like this from different eras (386, Pentium II, AthlonXP... etc), I think people would find them fascinating. My first/childhood PC was a 486 DX 33MHz, 8MB SDRAM, 200MB HDD, ATi Mach 32 1MB VRAM, so this build really hits home for me.

[Violant]

it's so nice to see him happy by finally beeing able to install simcity after all these years

[gardiner_bryant]

Clint, I've been following your channel for at least six years. Your channel inspired me to start my own niche gaming channel. Your pure, unfiltered enthusiasm is infectious and refreshing. Thanks so much for doing what you do. You're one of my favorite YouTube creators, hands down, and I love your work!

[_Acala]

I like how this has a nicer BIOS interface than most windows 7, 8, and some 10 computers I've seen

[eelomaa]

Sometimes I watch this again to calm my anxiety. Thank you Clint.

[spenceduggs]

Your builds are genuinely some of the most comforting & enjoyable content on this side of the internet. Even 4 years later, this is a fave to return to from time to time :)

[scottlarson]

This brought back so many bad memories, so many wasted weekends of plugging boards in, swapping boards around, yanking boards out, fiddling with memory sticks (the creaking sound when you put them in gave me shivers), things working then suddenly locking up (it felt like getting slapped in the face), and hardware details that everyone has long forgotten like sharing IRQs. If I got 75% of stuff working in the first weekend, it was enough success that I would be able to sleep. Subsequent evenings and weekends were getting that last 25% working, which often meant breaking things that had been working. *UGH*

[mortmortmort]

Sometimes I think, "I want to build an old pc." Then I watch this video and remember figuring out jumpers and I'm just like "nope."

I've enjoyed watching this way too much. I'm such a nerd.
You definitely built one of the dream PCs I wish I had back then with the AWE 32 Soundblaster card and the Vesa compatible video card.

Later my grandfather, who used to work for a credit union, had a Compaq Presario PC to work from home provided by the company. It was one of the first Pentiums at 100MHz and it had a sound blaster 32 card and a Vesa graphics card and a 33.6 kB modem. It had 2 partitions, one had IMB OS/2 Warp and the other had Dos Win 3.11. The Dos partition was for personal use and he let me play with it and it was amazing. A friend and I used to build our own Duke 3D maps, send them to each other using QuickLink II for Dos and then played multiplayer games on our custom built levels. What a time that was.

Kids these days can't appreciate the high tech instant response stuff they have today with internet and all that.

[JovinRepairs]

I'm working on a 486 build myself. Your channel popped up in my feed and now has me reliving my childhood lol. Dealing with many of the same issues of N.O.S. parts not working after years of sitting around...and playing Jumanji USPS Edition. Finding parts is fun but I recently wandered into the local mom and pop computer store and found out they are clearing out old stuff. Walked out with 1 complete HP Athlon XP system for free, new 3.5" floppy drive, 3 new Turtle Beach PCI sound cards, 1 Cirrus Logic 2mb ISA video card, about 6 various AGP video cards, everything from generic 8mb to an ATI rage pro 128, 2 Nvidia cards, Gigabyte 256mb card and a few others, Win xp home, Win xp pro, win xp pro 64 bit, and Sierra 3d pinball. Cost me $5 for all of it. He has 2 other machines he is prepping for me and I saw he has 2 sealed MS DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11 combo packs on the shelf that I'm going to try to pick up.

[tempk]

"extra pin that's off to the side there, being alone and sad"

story of my life.

[likeahouseonfire]

My favorite thing is seeing your PASSION and delight while building this box! I'm glad I didn't get into PC building until after ISA cards, though my first 2 machines had 3 1/2 floppies!

[ericparent]

This might be the best video on YouTube! Brings me back to my DX4/100, which also had an AWE32 :) with a double-spin cd connected to it, and my 4-button gamepad running of its game port! 9-pin serial mouse, AT keyboard, etc... ahh... memories! I remember how blown away I was when upgrading to it from my 386 SX-16! Then again, I remember how blown away I was when upgrading to the 386 from my 8086 XT! I was amazed how the 386 had a backup battery for the RTC! No more having to enter the time and date every bootup, like I did for the XT lol! Anyway, AWESOME vid, and AWESOME PC! Entertaining, funny, and so nostalgic! Like I said, may be the best vid on the Tube! Cheers!

[jamesarmstrong]

I watched this 486 episode for the 7th time. I can do it until the 100th time.