Installing a Graphics Card in the $5 Windows 98 PC..... Maybe

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Today's video is a 20 minute graphics card installation extravaganza!

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[dani.munoz.a]

“Everything that could go wrong, did go wrong.”

[OliveIsTyping]

Who Would’ve thought that a $5 windows 98 pc would have brought so much entertainment

[christoffer]

11:40 when the FAT floppy error ocurred, it changed your floppy disk size from 1.4 to 2.3 MB. You must've discovered a DOS-bug.

[HughMiller]

Can we appreciate that Michael didn't throw the computer out the window with all the issues he had to fix?

[heyitsyeabutidkklol]

in 7:29 - 18:00 Michael tried to re-flash the GPU’s BIOS, and after looking at the footage, I found the reason it failed.
When he was using the Nvidia BIOS editor tool, (NiBiTor, seen at 16:09) I saw that the card model selected was the *AGP* variant of the FX 5200, and looking back at 5:55, I saw in the label that it read, “...FX5200 *PCI* 128MB” so the BIOS file was expecting the AGP variant, but got the PCI variant instead.

[seraph]

A wise man once said “when in doubt dump the bios.”

[GumSkyloard]

Thumbnail - "Everything went wrong"
Oh, this gon' be good. VERY good.

[jdatlas]

I'll be honest, I almost forgot this existed. Quite happy to see it back!

[Jake]

Wouldn't be a Michael MJD video without at least 7 things going wrong.

[eartheternal]

I used to work on arcade games and from the line artifacts onscreen I can tell you that this card was toast from the start.

Thanks for the always entertaining videos!

[titanderp]

I can't help but feel that in a few months this PC will be called, "The Ultimate $5 PC".

[MrKillswitch]

Just a word of caution is that the power supplies for these machines are known to fail and I had to learn the hardway. By the way these low end office toasters do pretty well with a 3DFX card like a voodoo 2 even though it is pretty expensive these days.

[kxppy]

DankPods fans are still humming this background music

[ashisharky]

That background music is engraved in my head. I SWEAR TO GOD ITS THE SAME THING DANKPODS USES FOR HIS HEADPHONE COMPARISONS.

[JZX]

Now the spooky music is going to play on my head whenever I face dumb glitches lmao thank you

[markio]

I just came from a DankPods video and this one has the same music it's fascinating

[Eyetrauma]

Maybe you tried this, but generally when you reflash a video bios the recommendation is to do a cold boot afterward (presumably because the card remains active across reboots).

If it truly is bricked you can probably desolder the flash and reprogram it, this was something we commonly had to do back in the days when there were Mac specific PCI video cards that had a premium price just for a different BIOS revision.

[exaltedb]

Murphy’s Law but it’s disguised as a 20-minute computer video

[helmaschine]

I'm so untechnical I have nightmares about tech issues I can't even understand. These videos are nightmare fuel, but your calm voice and demeanor make it worth it

[swissbronych]

I´m happy that the Series of the 5$ Windows 98PC still exists! Keep it going MJD, Greetings from Switzerland!