 There were mice in here and look what they did to this check up my hard drive here Just got all kinds of fluid This may be the dirtiest thing I've ever worked on What do you think bird is? Looks pretty gross doesn't it? All right, so as you know, we've got the new CRT, which is the big Sony GDM And one of the things I was really interested in working more while I was testing that monitor is using Kind of an original era from the same era as the Monitor a PC from that era and this is a good example of one This is from 2003 the problem here is this this computer I've I put it in storage probably a decade ago and Other than just pulling it out to randomly test a VGA monitor. I've not really done anything with it so it has been sitting and I'll show you this. It's the grossest thing. I've probably ever worked on there's Mouse droppings in it. There's Dust and dirt all over look. This is a power supply. It's it's so loud. It's like a rocket and That makes sense is there's just an enormous buildup of dust and dirt Inside the actual power supply and that I'm really surprised this thing didn't have some kind of serious issue where it just had a failure thankfully it did not this needs to be cleaned up and Really working correctly and not fail for me to properly test the monitor that I want to That's what we're gonna be working on is restoring this It's gonna be mostly cleaning and then we do have some recapping to do on this motherboard again It's a gateway 2003 computer It has a Pentium 4 2.4 gigahertz processor inside of it. It does have a Graphics card, which I will show you some to in this video because it's part of it a sound card And then the power supply we've got a couple external hard drives a CD drive and in a three by five Flower hard disk drive in it but this thing needs to be completely disassembled and clean and then Put back together and we could start testing it on the new monitor So let's just jump in we're gonna start tearing this thing down and I mean again. Well guys Definitely don't wait like this. This could go at any moment Okay, here's our CPU cooler It's just filthy and this is when they used to put the Power supplies up top. So this is also dirty But I really want to zoom in right here at this capacitor next to these MOSFETs and this one They're actually swollen on the top pretty severely So those are Well, it's difficult to see from here, but they're definitely Really Rounded on the top and expanded So that's one issue for sure that's a high heat area next to that So that needs to be checked out a Lot of dirt build up, but you'll notice As I warned you There's the RAM As I warned you There were rare mice in Here and look what they did to this and This is really old but disgusting nonetheless They got inside this tower and use it as the bathroom, but check out my hard drive here Just got all kinds of fluid losing I'm so surprised it's still even worked, but I Already removed the graphics card and checked it out It's actually a decent little graphics card for this time period. This one's a TI Radeon And the Radeon 9600 256 megabyte DDR Card It's at a maximum clock speed of 400 megahertz and max is out of DirectX 9 So it's not going to play modern games. We've got DVI And VGA right there Okay four sticks of 256 megabytes brand here Not quite sure on the speed here 845 Holy crap, just look at this shield on the power supply. Look at the power supply No wonder it's so loud. So maybe the dirtiest thing I've ever worked on Fan that was mounted to the heat sink for the CPU here. It's been removed. Obviously the power supply on these older PCs goes up here in the tower. It's a bad design, but that's where it was. So it's pulled down here PCI Express This empty graphics cards out. So it's a sound card and I'll probably just disconnect my power cables and pull this power supply out and work on it first Here we have the power supply stripped down cleaned around the fan. Let's check this out Let's go get this in the sunlight. Just look at that build up in there. I'm just present of those capacitors failed So on this power supply Actually going to try this CRC QC or QD electronic cleaner since there's no lubricated parts should be a nice Spray off and let it dry especially since we have a couple days Let's let this dry and see how it looks after All right, everybody here it is The cleaner did a fantastic job Took a lot of it But it evaporates rather quickly. It's supposed to be safe for this stuff. I'm sure it is It's much much much cleaner now. This is for my CD drive up top That connects over into this white slot on the motherboard And then you've got right next to that black slot which Connects into The master hard drive here, and now the motherboard is pretty well free For us to try to get out I can already see we've got some security bolts in here Which thankfully I've got a kit they can get these out quite a few here and Normally I'd tear this down further, but a lot of this seems to be held together with plastic rivets I'm afraid if I take apart a rip at it'll crack and break the plastic since I've got a few Days to wait for those parts and let this all dry the only thing left in here are extension cables to USB ports and then the power button assembly and And that's pretty much it everything else has been removed So we're gonna get in here and just hose this sucker out and then I'm gonna use some different cleaners But I just don't want to get too close Personally to any of that just look at all that manure. Well Time to get rid of it. We've got a big improvement here and I've hosed it off. I used some car wash stuff and now I'm just gonna let it air dry out here the rest of the afternoon I've got other pieces set out in the yard and we're gonna let the Sun just do what it can to Evaporate a lot of this extra water Let's go over and take a look at the circuit boards because there's something I want to show you on the motherboard Well, Brutus is in here. He's getting himself clean Got it there Brutus Boy, I'm looking at all the hardware here that I've serviced to this point in the back We've got the hard drive and the two media drives Over here. I've got my serviced power supply and Then here is our graphics card And then here is our sound Blaster auto G SB 1394 Sound card It's also been cleaned and then here is our motherboard. I've already repopulated our RAM CPU which again is an Intel Pentium 4 2.4 gigahertz processor and The real issue on this board. I mean, it looks spotless and brand new except for two things That's these capacitors right here that I showed you earlier Inside the board. I'll show you some pictures of them close up But if you if you can get in there and look at them closely Maybe hard to see here, but they're not flat anymore. They're caught or they're Cone shaped a little bit like an ice cream cone So they have to be replaced So I need to replace these two. I do not have these caps in stock. They're 6.3 volt 3300 micro farads, so I have to order these That's why we're gonna have time for our shell to fully dry. Well, last thing I'll show you is the cooler Which we will have to reinstall but it's a pretty simple cooler with just a fan on top and 12 volt fan and then a Aluminum block here. No copper core or anything. We'll have to apply some new thermal paste So we'll do that after we replace these capacitors Thanks again for watching today everybody. Please make sure you subscribe to the channel so you can catch the next exciting installment of our PC restoration We will be Reassembling the computer after we recap the motherboard and Also install some new hardware with some new fans and some other modifications that I'm sure you'll enjoy and then finally we'll get to test that PC with our amazing Sony gdm CRT and That episode should be out in a couple of weeks But please if you enjoyed this one leave me a like and your feedback is always appreciated I will see you guys next time with some more retro content