Let's upgrade my lab PC and talk about tools I use to make videos

well hello everyone and welcome back to agent residual basement 2. let's take a look at something a little bit less retro on today's video and if you don't like non-retro stuff you should probably skip this one this obviously is my workbench that i do most of my work on this anti-static mat here starting to get a little bit of wear and tear on it but that's not what i'm talking about here i'm talking about the stuff that i regularly use to make videos especially on the main channel what you see here is a national instruments virtual bench this was very kindly donated to the channel by tyler here in portland and i've had this thing for a little while and i've recently started using it you've probably noticed it on video captures on the channel on the main channel that is i kind of love this thing it's not the most capable scope or multimeter in the world but to be honest it does those things great and it does them on screen which means i can capture them very easily it's a two channel scope it's a multimeter which is these connections here it's a logic analyzer which i actually haven't used yet and then i think this one here is a bench power supply so it's got like some fixed voltages outputs i think these are switched outputs you can toggle things off and on and there's also a arbitrary function generator and i think i used that where did i use that i think i use that in a video so far so this is pretty capable it's plugged into my bench pc which i'm going to talk about in a second on top of that here is my elgato hd60s which is an hdmi capture device it's got in and out and it's usbc 3.0 super speed or whatever connection to the computer so this sends a raw 1080p image well up to that data stream that is at 60 frames per second to the pc which has to do the encoding using a video card that is capable of that behind it here i have uh what is this thing i can never remember open source scan converter hopefully that's visible in the camera this converts from analog rgb to digital hdmi i use this for like vga capture so it's got a vga connector on the side there plug that into this device here for capturing the hdmi or capturing the vga from the computer so i've used that quite a bit anytime you see vga capture it's through this thing i'm pretty pleased with the way it works too it's not perfect but i find that certain video cards capture produce an output that this can capture better than others sometimes they're stripes and stuff so i figured out exactly which isa cards seem to work the best and next to it right here is a retro tink is this like a 2x pro i think it's a 2x pro so it's got composite component input s-video input and it produces hdmi output which i then also connect to this so i have to kind of switch around i don't have a switch box i should probably get a switch box but i don't have a switch box i got to move a bunch of cables around right now and then that will do a capture and all of that is connected to this thing up here which is my lab pc so to speak it's a frankenstein machine just full of random parts that i had lying around some were donated others were things i had i kind of moved stuff around as i upgrade one pc in the house somewhere else this thing kind of gets the drags so to speak like the bottom of the barrel stuff in fact i think this case is donated the video card in here was mine but then i gave it away to someone else to use then they upgraded so i got it back and that's what's in here it's a core i7 third generation i think so it's decently capable even though it's an older cpu this is a mini atx case as you notice it's not very tall but i like it because it's got drive bays that are exposed and these days when you buy a case they might have one drive bay and that's it like one five and a quarter inch i had a zip drive in here because the older motherboard that i had in here before i put that core i7 in was an amd phenom x6 x4 or something like that and it had an ide port on the motherboard that this zip drive connected to and worked perfectly unfortunately this motherboard that's in here it does not have ide on board it does have a floppy port weirdly enough so this is actually connected to the motherboard but no ide so i had this hooked up while i had the zip drive hooked up to a sata to ide adapter converter didn't work it just i tried two different brands refused to work it just windows would see it and if i tried to use it it would just sort of freeze up the computer and it's just a regular optical drive in here i do use this occasionally to burn cds and stuff as necessary so it's nice that that's in there i i mentioned the flopping it's plugged into the motherboard and it does work in windows 10. and i gotta say it doesn't work very well windows 10 does weird stuff where it checks to see the disk in status of things so sometimes you're just using the computer all of a sudden this drive starts buzzing away accessing even there's no floppy in there doing stuff it's kind of annoying so i actually have it disabled in the system right now this case here as you notice has usb 2 and 3 ports on the front but this motherboard while has usb 3 has no header on the board to plug these connectors into so they don't actually do anything so only the usb 2s are connected and i know there's an adapter i could get to go from these to usb2 but whatever it's no big deal i just used this is an sd card reader a very cheap one and i use that for microsd reader and then there's a little dongle for my keyboard and mouse so really the reason why i am talking about this computer is i think some people have asked kind of how i do my workflow down here on the bench and this pc is integral to that workflow i do everything on here from programming eproms analyzing files reading documentation i do all the video capture from the hdmi capture device to elgato i do sound capture as well there's actually a usb dac down on the desk i didn't point it out it's plugged into the back of this as well there's a webcam here which isn't good enough for doing actual live streams but i use the audio input on this to synchronize the video that i capture on here like if i'm capturing the hdmi stuff i synchronize that sound to all the cameras you can see that i have my panasonic lumix mounted here this is a mount i can move the camera around on because i face that down at the bench as necessary or sometimes i mount the sony camera on here and i will record myself or whatever it's flexible because i have these quick disconnect things here for the cameras it's very handy i have the same just quick disconnects on all of the cameras so i can switch them out really quickly actually now that i think about it this camera actually has hdmi output so i could do live streaming with this camera as well i'd probably just need a ring light and just run an hdmi cable down to the capture device anyway with this pc unfortunately it's been starting to have issues and i know i've mentioned this on certain videos already but besides the ones i mentioned which i'll get to in just a second this has had weird problems where like it just won't boot anymore i'll turn it on and it'll count the ram or whatever it looks like it's gonna post and then just sits there it doesn't do anything so not sure what was up with that i kind of opened the cover in fact i go in here so often and i don't even keep the cover screwed on so see it's easy to open it up there and i just sort of jostled the cables and the cards that are in there and it started working so i don't know like it has worked since i haven't really had that problem anymore it's currently sleeping i do put this thing to sleep when i'm not using it so it's good that it's able to sleep and it always well it usually wakes up from sleep properly although sometimes it doesn't always wake up from sleep properly and then i have to reboot it that's very infrequent but the main issue that started happening with this bench pc which has really made me upset and also makes it where i can't use this anymore is the usb 3 ports on here don't work properly anymore so when i say they don't work properly they work like you can plug stuff into them and the computer sees them that seems to work fine but it's like the bandwidth on those usb 3 ports is insufficient like they're operating at usb 2.0 speeds but the thing is if you know windows windows 10 is what i'm running on here windows 10 will tell you when you plug a super speed device something that's full usb 3 speed into a usb 2 port it will tell you that it's you made that mistake and there will be insufficient bandwidth if it's required so if you plug in like a high speed hard drive and usb 2 port it'll say super speed device plugged in you won't get the full speed it'll pop up a little thing on the screen it's not doing that but yet the capture device which really does need the high speed interface of usb 3.0 just doesn't have enough bandwidth to capture data properly it really kind of made me crazy because capturing 480p through the elgato works works fine i think it's pretty much uncompressed data coming across that link and i guess whatever speed that port is able to work at is fast enough but anytime i try to capture 1080p 60 frames per second it just acts crazy like i'll get an image and it's running really slow like it's going at one frame per second instead of the 60 that it's set to or i'll just get no picture at all i use obs open broadcast system i think it's called everyone uses that for streaming it's great program i have to say it works really well but when it's not happy with whatever video's coming in or the driver is not happy you just get like a black screen and it was kind of making me crazy i actually thought that the elgato capture device was bad and i was pissed off at that but then i plugged it into my laptop and it worked worked perfectly same cable leave and everything so i reinstalled the drivers on here no no change i reinstall the elgato capture software which i don't normally use because i use obs i just use the driver from elgato i put their capture software back on and sure enough when i ran that and i'd capture video it'd pop up with a little like triangle warning symbol and say two frames per second you know insufficient bandwidth i forgot the exact message but it i could at least get a picture very useless one but it was showing up and it was giving me that warning but obs just did nothing so like for a long time this all worked fine i mean i had little issues here or there but no problems but then this just started happening all of a sudden and i can't figure out what's wrong i've deleted the usb 3 ports on here really you know they re-found each other or they've found each other whatever the drivers were reinstalled it's not native to the chipset on this board it's a really old motherboard even though it supports this third gen chip in here but the usb ports are like third-party ones now it's still using the microsoft drivers that are built into windows so they seem to be somewhat standard but yet the speed is just not there anymore there's also only two of them on the back so there aren't a lot of options but i've tried both of those on the back there's no hub or anything it's just plug straight in the back of this machine both ports same problem of course i've gone through the bios settings and no you know there's nothing you can do there you can just enable or disable those there's no way to speed them up or slow them down whatever this this motherboard in here has been flaky and failing i think it's made by ecs i've bought that years and years ago i think i used it with the second gen core i3 for a very long time it was like a server so it ran 24 7. and it moved into here with this core i7 when someone donated that to the channel but ultimately i need this machine to be a hundred percent and work perfectly this is the main tool i use working down the bench and when it's problematic it means i can't make videos or i can but i can't do video capture and i've really started to rely on the capturing of video to make an interesting compelling video so with all of that said about this computer that's giving me so many problems a viewer in town today tonight in fact dropped off a computer for me to replace this one let me grab it and here is the computer this machine which is a big black monolithic thing well it's not that big luckily because it can't be i'll talk about that in a second it's a dell precision t-1700 so this is not like state of the art by any means but from a performance standpoint that third gen core i7 that's in that machine is actually plenty of horsepower it's quad core with hyper threading so you get eight actual cores or you know four cores to use but eight threads to run i've never complained about the speed of that thing it's planning fast i have a couple ssds in there you know there's just no issues and though oh the video card that's in there is an amd or maybe it's an ati because it's old it's a radeon 7700 i think it is so it's pretty old it is supported by windows 10 there's some amd drivers that are installed on there but amd is no longer updating the drivers this thing from my understanding it's a xeon processor it's also quad core eight thread i think it came out in 2014 the processor i don't know when um oh this still has the plastic on the the dell badge here i don't actually know when this computer came out but i'm assuming it was like around then or maybe 2015 or 2016. so i'm thinking that that's a little bit newer than that machine up there let me just peel these stickers off here and let's take a closer look at this new machine which is going to replace the old one sorry about the noise the furnace just turned on it'll turn off in just a second so on the top here there's a service tag and it has the manufacture date 2015 may 2nd so i'd say that this is definitely newer than the old lab pc on the front of the machine there is an optical drive and there's another drive bay so that's kind of cool we have audio in and out and then there are two super speeds so these are usb 3.0 ports and then two regular speed connectors or usb ports right here on the side of the machine you can i just wiped it down which is what this is just drying off uh it's got the really easy to remove side um you just pop this off i guess let's see how this how this works okay that's a pretty easy now one thing is and we'll use the side here to help us with the size of this pc i need something that's relatively small up on the shelf there where that pc sits there is just not a lot of space so micro atx motherboards or is it sorry mini atx motherboard is absolutely a requirement i have some other cases up in the crawl space and they're full size atx cases and they just don't physically fit up there so the case that's up there now is this size so this is uh the side panel so it's a little deeper this dell than the other one not to mention i think the front here this part here this bezel sticks out further but that shouldn't be an issue so to speak let's see where the feet are yeah the front foot's around there back one is there so if this has to hang over the front of the shelf a little bit no big deal so i'm just taking a look at this for the first time myself and i really like the fact it's got two five and a quarter inch base and it seems like they do not use drive rails that's excellent i can maybe put another optical drive in here or something like that there is what looks like another three and a half inch drive bay right here for a hard drive although the cables that go to the front are sort of in the way so that's kind of hilarious it's not very easy to use when you have this thick bundle of wires right here but anyways you just i guess put a hard drive in there if you need to and screw that in down here there is another hard drive it is a sata drive of some type this does have drive rails it's held in my one screw and the second bay right under here uh unfortunately there are no drive rails there oh and there's a little piece of plastic that just broke off there is a sata cable sitting here so i guess someone was using something at some point and that drive got removed possibly for recycling or whatever now i know that this machine does not have any personal data on it i think this is a fresh copy of windows on here what i think i'm going to do is because this is an intel xeon is i'm going to take the solid state drive boot drive out of the other machine and just stick it in here and allow windows 10 to reconfigure itself because intel intel should be really easy i mean the generations aren't that far off third gen to whatever this equivalent generation is it's a little dusty in here but not too bad uh there's an msi video card in here and i think i don't see what it is i can't immediately see but i think this is like a ti 750 or something like that the the card that was in here that came with the dell already was like a four display card sort of a higher end well i don't think it was a high-end 3d card but it was designed to run four monitors because like this is a workstation so to speak you know being a xeon processor so i think the idea was this would be used with like cad type work or whatever so it had a card with four display outputs on it i think they were mini displayport so the person who donated it swapped it out with this 3d card which has hdmi which is what i use in fact i think the connection i actually have is dvi but that's good because there's a dvi d port right here also hdmi and vga so it's a pretty capable car that's excellent looking at the back it's all pretty run-of-the-mill stuff we still have ps2 and serial you know just in case you need that kind of stuff there's built-in ethernet we have two usb display port and display ports there so obviously uh this has onboard video i guess um two more super speed usb ports and then two more regular spun so four standard usb and then two super speeds vga serial and sound in and out looking at this power supply here it's interesting there's a little button and an led right here and there's no hard power switch on the back like to turn off the power completely to the machine but i looked up the spec sheet for this machine and there were two power supplies that were possible to get with it one was like a 200 something watt one and another was a 365 watt which is this and it's 80 plus gold so as generic as this power supply looks that's pretty sweet that it's an 80 plus gold power supply that means you know a little bit more efficiency looking at the motherboard it's a pretty standard dell affair i think these things are generally pretty reliable but also unremarkable you know has a large fan on the cpu so it should be relatively quiet and it looks like it's a four pin type which means it has rpm control pwm rpm control so it will only run the speed necessary to cool the cpu there's also a four pin fan here on the back for cooling the chassis i'm sure that is blowing out in fact yes looking at the fan blade profile which i know you can't see there it is that is blowing out if these are noisy i can always order some like noctua fans or whatever and replace these but i have a feeling these are probably gonna be pretty quiet this video card might be a little bit noisy these older msi cars these use up quite a bit of power although now that i look at it there isn't even a power connector on here so this can't be particularly powerful i'm pretty sure the amd card that's in there the ati has a four or six pin power connector on it so hopefully this thing has hardware mpeg encode which i absolutely need hardware mpeg4 encoding for the video capture to work properly from a ram perspective it's just too regular looking sticks there no heat spreaders or anything so it's probably ddr3 because this is an older machine so it's pretty easy to get that stuff i have i'm sure a ton of ddr3 memory that would probably work in here i'm noticing that this power supply is definitely non-standard onto the motherboard there's uh 12 volts here that's for the cpu obviously and then there are other wires coming out of the power supply down here there's 5 volts 12 volts and 3.3 that kind of goes onto the motherboard oh and then there's this connector here which is also non-standard with weird things on it and then this cable that goes on the motherboard with these wires comes off that connector and then connects up to the hard drives and various things this brown wire here i'm assuming this is uh 12 volts for a video card it's a six pin connector right there it comes down here i think from the power supply so i assume there's enough length here that it would be able to power up whatever card i had there that needed power looking around the i o on this motherboard nothing much to speak of it's got four sata ports two there two down here i see like another on-board usb port i don't see any onboard serial parallel or ide or anything like that so it's relatively legacy free except for the ps2 ports on the back which is kind of odd as i said there is a little black wire that connects to something on the front panel here in the middle and i assume that's an airflow temperature sensor it plugs in the motherboard down there i can't really see it just clipped on right here onto the front where the air would be coming in there's also really no provision to put another fan up here so hopefully this back one is is good enough and won't get too loud so anyhow that is my new bench pc hopefully this thing is fit for purpose and will work for me so i'm going to start transferring components into this thing so i can see how it works i figured before gutting the old machine i should at least talk a little bit more about what's inside of it so amd radeon r7770 that's what's actually in here it does have a connector to power it that is required there's a 120 gig ssd here there's another one mounted on the bottom of the case here is the floppy drive which has this blue ribbon cable and then of course there's an optical drive this currently has an antec 500 watt power supply it's actually 80 plus bronze so it's not a terrible one it's relatively quiet and actually this is in here because i had to take out whatever was in this thing i remember the machine would just shut off just i'd be using it and it would just shut off or maybe it would reboot i can't remember it did one other just turned itself off while it was sitting there doing nothing or it would reboot so i swapped out the power supply because the one that was in here was like a 380 watt older one and that actually completely fixed the problem you might be noticing that there's this big ribbon cable sticking out the back of the computer and what that is is this is actually a scuzzy card let's uh take this out of here it's an adaptec scuzzy cart yes this thing has a pci slot in it there it is it's a 64-bit pci card so yeah old school and if you didn't realize you can just put a regular 32-bit slot or you could plug a 64-bit card into a regular slot and it does work fine and uh the reason why i have this ribbon cable hanging off of it i removed it is because the connector on the back is this like high density low voltage differential single head single ended scuzzy connector i don't have any of those cables they're really really thick so when you plug that in the back it sticks out really far you know abandons the card and everything it also has these types of connectors on here because it's scuzzy too and whatever all the fanciness this is actually an adaptec 29 160. so it's a nice fast card but this believe it or not as old as this card is and it's it's old let's see if i can find a date all right well i can't find any dates but there is firmware sticker here that says copyright 1999. this card is over 20 years old and it still works the drivers i had to use are old drivers like they're from windows 7 maybe windows 8 but they're new enough and 64-bit that it works but to be honest i never really use this card anymore it's more of a hassle than anything else um probably better off just sticking this card or another scuzzy card into one of my older retro pcs like the pentium 3 i have or maybe i need to build up like a core 2 duo kind of error machine running windows xp put a card like this put some other old pci cards in there and use that for imaging because i just never use this card in this machine so this will not be going into that machine even though it's got a pci slot i am not reusing this card anymore so that's coming out for good really the only other thing in the bottom of this is actually as a pc speaker as you can see um it looks like i zip tied it on the bottom so that is there i you know pc speaker doesn't really do much anymore in windows it never ever ever beeps i think i really just put this here in case the machine had trouble booting and had some beep coats and i wanted to hear that stuff so that is hooked up there's also serial and parallel header that's what these ribbon cables are here because this motherboard actually has working serial and parallel i just never use it so that's pointless the floppy connectors down here as well what else is remarkable if anything about this computer really nothing it's pretty boring actually it looks like this case has holes here for water cooling if you ever wanted to water cool a little case like this it's just so small on the back plate here vga hdmi and dvi it looks like it's got one ps2 port there are two usbs two super speeds and two more usbs plus ethernet and sound i think i had the sound hooked up the front panel sound actually works on this i had that hooked up and that's the video card which does have hdmi and it has dual mini display ports actually has four outputs on it but yeah that's that's it that's the whole machine um i don't think i'm going to transfer as i said the floppy drive over and i can't even really connect it anyways because this power supply actually has bird connectors and regular molex connectors and the dell does not but this thing always annoyed me anyways i'll just go back to using usb external drive which works perfectly well so that is the old machine which is being retired all right i did a little reading up about the card in here the 750 ti this card came out around 2014 so it's certainly not new but um this ati card here this is the 7770 it's a radeon hd 770. this came out it's a gigahertz edition i remember when i bought this this came out in 2012. i replaced this card with a geforce 1060 and i still have that that's the card i'm running upstairs for gaming and rendering and stuff but like i said this went to someone else and then they got a better card and then i got this back because this is even older than that i'll definitely try to work with this ti i was looking up nvidia's website on the phone here trying to see what features it had if it had the hardware and code didn't really mention it but it says sports like g-sync and other stuff that i definitely won't use it's just a little suspect that's got the vga connector on the back not quite sure about that anyhow um i replaced the one terabyte drive which is actually just sitting up here right now with my two solid states from the other one uh and i noticed that the the three and a half inch adapter i was using actually supports two of the two and a half inch thin drives like the solid state so i have them both mounted together right here i'm not intending to keep this hard drive in here i just want to see what's on there i think the person who donated this might have copied some files on there so i will quickly take a look at that but i'll definitely probably be taking this out i don't really need a spinning hard drive i don't need storage capacity in this my network attached storage has something like 38 terabytes of space in it right now i keep buying 14 terabyte drives and adding them to it so it's got lots of space so all i need room for on this is to capture the video footage which doesn't take up that much space that goes to one of the ssds and the other ssd is for booting and plus i have a little bit of you know programs and whatever else on here but even like my google drive and everything else that's all on the network attached storage the nas has that stuff and gigabit networking is good enough oh yeah you know what i i think i'm going to install a promise ide card like a pci one and then i'm going to try to put a zip drive in here because i really want to get a zip drive working again i have the zip drive sitting over here here it is it's just a regular atapi oh but then i have the problem okay i before i do that i think i'm going to not do that tonight because this hasn't been in the computer for a while anyways because it hasn't worked i need to find a sata to molex adapter or i just need to kind of cut into the cable here and just solder one on i mean i could do that too there's 12 volts right here that's so sketchy in the other pc though i had that three and a half inch drive in that five and a quarter inch adapter i will just take that put this in there stick that in the front of this computer and i just need to worry about how to get the uh the power connected so i'll do that another time i'm not gonna do that now okay let me stop talking i'm gonna put the cover on and plug this in and let's see if it works all right the dell is just roughly placed on here the side cover is still off and i haven't connected all the connections on the back i do have the keyboard connection here the power the ethernet and the display so that's enough to get started a top tip for me is if you have a pc with a bunch of ports on the back take a picture with your phone and do a very clear photo first that way you can tell what's where when you're trying to reconnect stuff and for me specifically the super speed ports are these two right here but you know there's a bunch of usb ports and stuff i won't be using like these display ports so it's very helpful to have this handy so i really recommend that as a top tip all right so let's press the power and see what happens it's come to life and i have to say it's pretty quiet that's awesome all right the screen is coming up let's see how do we get to the bios f12 f12 quick preparing the one time boot menu i always like to go check out the bios options first oh broadcom control s this must be the maybe that dual port nick is a broadcom oh yeah it's listing it twice so i assume that that is it yeah the mac addresses are one apart from each other i think that this computer has tpm 1.2 which is actually good for me because i use bitlocker but the other machine had a consumer motherboard so i had no tpm in it which meant i had to type in a passphrase every time i booted the computer which is not a big deal it's just annoying if doing windows updates or whatever so i will be enabling bitlocker to use the tpm on this machine if everything goes well all right we have a mouse that works okay so here it is there's the service tag ownership date 5 15 2015. it looks like it was made on the 6th and it was already started to be used on the 15th there it is for anyone who's interested it's a xeon e3 1241 version 3 at 3.5 gigahertz it is recognizing my solid states i think the hp is the boot drive although i can't quite remember that's funny there's a thunderbolt option on here so enables disable the thunderbolt device support what what what port exactly would that be connected to okay i've gone through everything and i'm just going to reboot all right well it's booting off the hard drive i could tell as in the spinning rust hard drive which i don't really want that to happen so i'm going to actually kill the power come on there's no reset button i think i'm holding the power button down i'm going to disconnect that hard drive i don't want it i wanted to try to boot off my um solid state drives but i actually don't really like that there's no reset button on there i just realized that's a bit annoying you have to hold the power button down just get it to do anything all right try number two like for the second channel all right i have turned on legacy boot maybe i wasn't using uefi on the hard drive in there you know what i think that's the case because that windows 10 install was being used on like a really old motherboard with the amd something or other from like 2009 which really there's no uefi on something at all so i'm going to set the hp drive as the boot drive and let's reboot aha good sign all right it's booting what's going to happen is it going to work i assume it's all going to work and then the question is when i plug the capture device in will that work because theoretically oh there it is reconfiguring the drivers theoretically the problem may have been that there was something with windows that was screwed up i mean i really don't think that was the case but could be that nothing was actually wrong with the hardware okay we're at the desktop obviously the video driver is not working so let me just go and download the latest nvidia drivers i that would support this card at least and then i will come back to you all right everything is seemingly working well i haven't actually tried the video capture yet but the machine's booting up i have the very latest nvidia drivers like the most current ones installed on here and they fully support this particular graphics card so that's excellent i have the tpm enabled as well i configured it and then i migrated from password mode over to using a tpm the key to switching bitlocker over from a password at boot over to tpm is a command line tool called manage dash bde bit locker disk encryption sorry for the weird angle but i am going to take this opportunity now to try to remove this front panel looks like it has a broken clip no i just want to get this front thing off the drive bay okay definitely this front cover just pivots off there it is so this is what i was trying to remove and wow it was stubborn it does have a clip here but it's really stuck feels like dell designed this to come out one time and snap off in the process there we go like it had this thing here and it i had to bend it over just to get it out all right so the zip drive goes in here i mean i can't hook it up yet because i don't have the right adapter but i can at least go through the heartache to install it right ah okay i just cut myself good quality case there dell the inside edge right here so sharp and i was holding the case from moving while i screwed it in and it sliced my finger right there on the edge and it's oh it kills i kind of thought the days of cutting yourself on pc cases were over especially with machines like this the thing probably cost thousands of dollars when it was new and yet um it just cut me all right there's the zip drive installed in the case i just need to figure out how i will get the power hooked up i'll figure that out in the future and what i do is i always take these covers like because i don't want to lose them since who knows nothing will fit and i just slide them inside the computer i just leave them in the bottom yes it floats around but i'm not moving this computer and even if i did it's just a piece of plastic you'll hear it you'll open it up look inside so leave them in the bottom so they don't get lost so if i do want to take this out because it's never if it will never work i'll put the blank back in all right so the system is booted up and i have all the usb peripherals connected so i just launched virtual bench and there it is it's absolutely working if you hook up virtual bench or you run the software that is and the device itself is not powered on it gives you an error it lets you go into like a demo mode but that is sweet that is working and i did have a little bit of problems once before where sometimes the virtual bench would lose connection to the computer i think i figured out what was going on there the usb cable from this to the machine wasn't quite long enough so i had a little extension cord connected a usb extension cord but the one i was using was like the thinnest crappiest extension cord you've ever seen basically the usb cable was even thinner than this clip lead and it had of course four wires inside of it the virtual bench is powered so it doesn't need power so to speak over usb but the data signals i mean there should be some shielding and there was none so i put a really thick beefy extension cord one that had ferrite magnets or beads or whatever those are called on each end of the cord and that's what's extending it now hopefully that eliminates the problem where this would sometimes go offline especially if i power something off and on like ac electrical device you know that send a little spike through the through the air anyways okay so that's working thumbs up to that i'm gonna fire up obs and let's see if the capture device is working because that is the key so hdmi and i'm going to power on the retro tank which outputs a 1080p signal actually the tink does not output a 1080p signal let's turn it on anyways this was definitely not working okay that is a great sign i'm going to hook up a commodore 64. zip 64 on the bench let's see uh oh uh power's off power supply's off it has a power switch on it i don't always turn it off but occasionally i do because i haven't been using the 64s lately i've been working on other stuff power this on okay [Music] all right i don't know this does not look good what i need to do is connect the monitors hdmi cable wow there's just a disaster of cables here if i plug the monitor into the output of the elgato and i switch the input to hdmi it does pass through whatever the retro tank is sending out of range okay that's fine the the retro tank may be set to the wrong mode i think that's what's going on here let's see here it's got a couple dip switches on the side here no out of range okay there we go it's line doubling switch this mode here there we go that's the better mode boy i really need something better for this mess of cables okay so there it is let's power the cycle this like this this machine gets jail bars and sometimes when you power cycle the jail bars go away they're there still let's just keep turning it off and on until i get a clean jail bar free image usually it's like every other time is jailbar free there it is no jail bars very well there are some but they're almost invisible okay anyhow let's switch back to the dvi input on the monitor and let's see what we got oh it's working awesome and i can tell it's working because when it was screwed up before what would happen is you would sometimes see an image but as soon as you started typing let's make this full screen uh there we go as soon as you started typing there was so much delay like because of that data problem on the usb 3 ports that there we go look at that it's freaking working that is such a relief that is what i needed this machine to do for me and i really didn't want to reinstall windows from scratch because there's so many programs and need special drivers if i reinstall windows have to redo all that stuff again this install of windows has everything configured that i need and now we have a working 64. in fact you know what it's been a long time powering up the speakers here i have the audio here i'm going to plug it into the 64. this particular 64 has uh you know in case you don't remember has a modified or removed rf modulator so there's actually an rca jack for composite and there is a 3.5 millimeter audio jack for sound and there is no sid chip let's put a sid chip in this thing here's a little case with some sids in it i'm going to put a real one in here there's the arm sid there swin sid's there i know a viewer has also sent me the fpga sid so i do have that to test so that'll be coming up in a future video is this really a sid am i what am i doing here am i really putting a sit in here let me just put my goggles on and look very carefully 60 yes sid okay and the notch is at the top so i do not want to damage a real sid or whatever this chip was okay there it is and let's get the easy flash cartridge because that's what's sitting right there move this stuff out of the way and plug that in power it up all right we got the jail bars but whatever we're going to do an 8-bit dance party oops let's go back adrian's tools 8-bit dance party i think the speakers are way loud here here we go [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right there we go an 8-bit dance party and yes you know the whole time there's a windows mouse cursor on here because we are running in windows here like uh here's spotify okay well telling me something went wrong with spotify but yeah we are actually running the 64 through windows and what's pretty cool about the elgato actually when it's working properly like it is now there's not a lot of delay um it's pretty responsive i mean yeah you wouldn't want to play an action game through it the retro tank is very very low latency like half a frame or something like that because it's just a line doubler but the elgato capture device is not bad it's really not bad so typing and like working this way is actually completely fine so normally if i'm doing stuff that i'm needing to capture i will just go to this full screen mode but i can just um exit out of it like that and i am back here you know in the normal mode anyhow it's freaking working i am so excited so this video has been super long and i've rambled a lot it has nothing retro except for the dance party so if you did watch this far you got treated to that at least i'm really excited to have this machine thank you very much to the very generous person here in town who donated this to me you know who you are i'm sure you're watching it's awesome it totally works it's nice and quiet it fits on the bench actually looks relatively cool as well and now i just got to figure out how to get that zip drive hooked up to the power so yeah that's it this works i'm excited i'm hoping for trouble free operation so you won't hear me complaining anymore about the machine not working and i'm not able to make a video all right there we go if you thought this was interesting anyway thumbs up subscribe really helps the second channel comments down below you know all the usual stuff uh thanks to my patrons their names are scrolling up the side of the screen and i guess that's gonna be it so stay healthy stay safe and i'll see you next time bye

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Published: Wed Dec 15 2021