[bearable jazz music plays]
[computer buzzes, beeps] - Greetings, and welcome
to an LGR Bear PC thing! Yeah, this -- this is your fault. You! Just the collective
"you," the internet. It's a weird place to be,
online, especially as a person known for covering weird, old computers. And ah, you know, I end
up with this kind of thing. So this is the Bear-A-Byte PC, an IKEA teddy bear with a
Pentium III personal computer installed inside from the early 2000s. Ikea only made the bear
though, not the computer itself. This is a one-off,
a completely custom job. And the only reason that
I know about it at all is really because of y'all! In particular, "@compgeke" on Twitter put out this post in December of 2022. Not to me in particular, but just put it out there in the ether that this thing existed on Craigslist in Los Angeles, California. The exact opposite side of
the country from where I am. But it was such a bizarre thing that so many of you started
tagging me in that tweet thread, and on Reddit, and through emails, and just random messages
all over the place. It was just something that
went a tiny little bit viral, I guess. And I mean, come on, it's
a teddy bear computer. It's just bizarre, and
it's the only thing like it that exists that I've ever seen. So yeah, good on y'all for
letting me know about it, because somebody had to save it, right?
And I guess it may as well be me. But yeah, it was on the
other side of the country, so I just put it out
there that like, okay, if I'm gonna do this,
I'm gonna need some help. And thankfully, an LGR viewer
named Charles got in touch and offered to go and
meet with the seller, pay them, pick it up,
and then ship it to me, and I would reimburse
them for all of that. And yeah, before I knew
it, the thing was picked up and packed up in Charles's car, and it was on its way to
me pretty soon after that. Downright bizarre quick series of events. You know, one day you wake up, you think it's gonna be a normal day, and all of a sudden, there's a weird old
Pentium 3 teddy bear online, and everybody's like,
"LGR, you need this." And I'm, for some reason,
agreeing with them. And all of a sudden, a
stranger getting in touch with another stranger
to package it up and ship it to me, and before long, it was on my doorstep. And my goodness, does this
thing have a presence in person. Pretty much anybody
who's stopped by my house in the past however many
months it's been since I got it has simply stopped dead in
their tracks to be like, "What the heck is that?" But it really is pretty
much as it appears. It's an IKEA teddy bear, just a teddy bear that's big enough to fit this baby AT Case in there. And yeah, there's a full computer case just crammed into the
interior of this teddy bear. It's hollowed out, and the
rest of it is just a computer, but it's going to need some work, just looking around the
back of it and everything. When I first got it anyway, there were all kinds
of concerning bits of, not really corrosion, but
just kind of general nastiness that it hadn't been tested in a long time. I just bought it as is, and you know, it's from that era of
the capacitor plague. You're getting close to it, so you never know what
it's gonna be like inside. In fact, it didn't even
know exactly what components were in there. All I had were what was
on the Craigslist posting in terms of the description, and some other little bits of information from the actual guy who made it. And speaking of which, this is a creation by a Mr. Peter Isaacson, and
this is his third case mod, according to his Penfold website. He actually made this
for his wife, originally, back in the day. And it eventually ended up
going to his kid later on, where it was bolted to
a chair, also from Ikea. And yet there's a couple of
holes in the bottom of the case where that presumably took place.
[FOOTAGE MISSING] And despite the "order taken"
status on his website, this is the only Bear-A-Byte
computer that was ever made. He was prepared to make more, if somebody were to commission one, but by that point IKEA
discontinued this teddy bear and so this was the only
one that was ever made, so quite special in its
own bizarre way, indeed. It's actually also a
little bit lighter colored, I was wondering about that,
because it looks kind of like a different one than the
picture that's on his website. But that's because the fur
has actually faded over time. I don't know if it was
in the sunlight or what, but yeah, there's bits of it where you can still see darker fur underneath and stuff. But eh, it just sort of lightened up, bleached itself a bit over the decades. That being said, I did
actually receive a note through email from Mr. Isaacson himself with some more details,
so lemme just read this. Firstly, he's apparently an LGR viewer and so he got pretty
excited once he realized that it was me that bought this thing. So you never know, man [laughs] This is a very strange
audience I've cultivated and I quite enjoy it. But yeah,
he says "with that outta the way, I wanted to give some
background information and providence on this unique computer." So he says a few years after he married, his wife expressed interest
in getting her own desktop. They married in '98 and
she also liked teddy bears. And so at one point, they
were at their local IKEA and he spotted the
plushie that would become the Bear-A-Byte PC.
So yeah, he just bought it, took it home, and started
customizing the insides of it and stuck it in a Baby AT
tower case bought from the local PC Club Store. I'd never heard of there, but apparently it was a computer
retailer back in the day. The extra faux fur was
sourced from a local fabric and sewing store, so
all of this right here, it's not part of the bear, so it is actually slightly
different colors and tones. But you know, it still
looks pretty good honestly, so, good match. And the cover then gets
the fake fur attached with 777 spray adhesive
and clamped with a lot of clothes pins. Followed
by some grooming, apparently he used a
cordless beard trimmer, that's just wonderful.
[chuckles] This whole thing is so silly, I love it. He says, "now for the fun part." "I bring in the entire case
mod to a local PC guru to get the internal components installed. Talk about raised eyebrows." Yeah, I can imagine. He says the Bear-A-Byte
served his family faithfully for years, but "the inexorable
advances in technology and subsequent versions of
Windows rendered it obsolete." and he didn't know of Linux back then. So yeah, at the moment
there is no hard drive, there's no operating system at all, so that's one thing
we're gonna have to add. But really, cleaning and
getting everything tidied up was my biggest priority here,
because it didn't appear to have been cleaned out inside
maybe ever, I don't know. It was pretty caked up
with grime and nastiness, so let's get right to that. [warm fuzzy jazz music]
[general bear disassembly noises] All right, well...
There we go! [chuckling] So odd seeing fur in the
front panel like that and well, we just got uh,
a very empty bear here. That's a little disturbing, just a tunnel straight
through a bear corpse. Well, first thing I'm
noticing here is this bending, almost like a slight crushing
warp to the entire chassis, just barely. "Bearly." You know what? Anyway uh,
yeah, this was mentioned by Mr. Isaacson, the front of
this was not attached anymore. It looks like a piece of
the plastic came undone from the front of it. But I think yeah, when the
actual bear itself is attached, it sort of holds that in place. We have one of these long slot
holder things that came off too but that doesn't
look broken so it should just snap back on. Yeah, pretty much. It's just the actual
chassis is bending, so yeah, all kinds of things are outta shape. But you know, whatever, it's
got a bear attached to it. I'd probably be a little outta shape too. Just noticing the power supply there. Deer Computer Company, that's
a new one on me, a DR230C. I don't notice anything
about wattage on there, but I'm assuming 230 watts. At least with this furry case on front, it's kind of like a natural blanket
for it to slide around on. Have an LG CD-RW drive here, March 2002 manufacture date.
It is IDE. In fact, I think
everything in here's, yeah, it's all IDE. So yeah, that right there,
generic sort of DVD-ROM. We got a Zip 250 drive,
three and a half inch, presumably high density floppy. And these painted buttons,
yeah, this was a thing that the builder was keen on doing. A red power button, I very much agree with
the sentiment there. I miss old computers
having that nice, big, red switch especially. But you know, nice, clicky,
hard AT on-off button is nice too. Green for turbo
speed, gold reset. Got a key lock there,
presumably no key. I certainly haven't noticed a key in here. Oh, here's one of those little stems, yeah, I think from the front panel where that just sort of popped off
there where it was bending. Looks like it tried to be glued
or epoxied back into place. But anyway, yeah, I don't see
a key necessarily in here, but that looks like one that probably just locks you outta the BIOS
or the startup or something. You can just unhook that from
the motherboard, if needed. [chuckles] It's so trippy
looking at this furry case, man. It's like Chewbacca mated
with a Circuit City store. [Chewbacca roaring]
Oh heck yeah, this is one of those motherboard trays that it just comes out of the side here and so you don't have to,
nyeeeh! I always like seeing these. Again though with the bending, wow, it totally bent out of
place and tore this screw off of there. I guess that was just like the pressure of the bear suit [laughing]. The pressure of the bear suit, it's like the title for a memoir of a theme park mascot actor. All sorts of stuff plugged in. Let's just get all that out of there. Wow, there's like no ports
except for an AT keyboard port, actually integrated onto the motherboard. Why do these IDE cables
have clips on them? Interesting. Hey, look at that, I don't know if I've
ever seen that before, not on these old style ones. I had some from like the
mid 2000s that had those but those were very like
round, transparent ones. All right, well lots of SIS chip sets. Yeah, this appears to be
a PC chips motherboard, the M748LMRT revision 3.5. So right off the bat
here we have a Pentium 3 as the CPU. It was one of those slot one versions, you could put it either here or here, depending on the slot or socket really. So a PGA 370 here or a slot one here. That places this closer to 1999, 2000, in terms of when these parts come from. Just check out all of these headers, so many little headers. Again, there's no real integrated ports, except for this right here. A five-pin AT keyboard connector
is integrated for the IO and everything else is broken out into those little breakout
cables and PCI slot deals. Pretty standard really for it's
a baby AT form factor here. So I have actually done a build
that is kind of similar-ish but that was using hardware
from a couple years prior. It's definitely a baby AT case. So got a 16-bit ISA here, one PCI slot. Thank goodness it is a
CR 2032 for the battery. Again, lots of SIS chip sets. And what is this? C3DX, HSP56, seems to be integrated audio. Oh yeah, yeah, there's
totally audio and game port over here as well as
yeah, modems, ethernets. Yeah, I didn't even look
at the IO in detail earlier but check it out, these are all breakout and PCI brackets that just connect to the
headers on the motherboard. So we've got serial and parallel there, A 15-pin VGA, looks like
ethernet, game port, sound output, dial-up modem of some kind, USB 1.1, and PS2 mouse and keyboard, in addition to the five-pin
keyboard right there. So actually no, that's
PS2 mouse and infrared. Only five-pin AT for the keyboard. Turbo's not even plugged
in but I don't even know if it would have much use
on a system this speed. All the rest of the front
panel stuff seems to be, I'm gonna take a note
of where all that goes. A couple of IDEs here. Oh yeah, we just, I just
noticed the 20 pin plus 12 pin, two different styles of power. Yeah, I just, I really
like this era of boards 'cause it's right in
between the older like AT and then moving on to ATX. That's just neat. And thankfully all the capacitors
are looking pretty good too in terms of shape and lack of leakage. Of course, that doesn't
mean anything necessarily, but hopefully, they'll still be okay, at least for some testing. And we have RAM, what
have we got going on here? All right, some mismatched
sticks of PC 100 SD-RAM here, 64 megs and 256 megs on
this module, so we got 320. A CD-ROM audio head, well,
let's get that outta there. But yeah, this is fascinating, a little more interesting
than I thought it would be. So hey that's a nice, nice surprise. Hope it works. I'm definitely gonna
get it all cleaned up. Replace that battery and go
ahead and get that outta there. Yeah, I'm assuming that's
probably never been replaced. CR 2032. Yeah, get this all cleaned
up and we'll do a quick test. And of course, test the power supply too. Who knows, maybe Deer
Computer power is really good, runs like a deer and it's still
going after all this time. I don't know, we'll see. Let's clean this crap up. Right, we've got some
serious cleaning to do so let's sink our claws into it. The disassembly began rather
easily with the motherboard only having a couple of screws
and the rest held in place with slide out plastic posts. And the front of the case
was barely holding on, as there was only a single
plastic bracket intact on the fuzzy front panel,
keeping it on with one screw. And the rear ports, front drive devices, and the power supply
are all very accessible and easy to unscrew with this case design. It's just all out in the open. With that, I took the core chassis outside and gave it a quick dusting
with the air compressor and provided each surface
a much-needed scrubbing and wipe down to roll back the
years of caked on nastiness. And other than some slight metal corrosion that appears to have resulted
from a spill of some kind, it cleaned up rather well. Same goes for the hairy front
panel and the bear itself, with all that thick fur
storing up, who the heck knows, I don't wanna think about it. It didn't smell bad or
feel sticky or anything, but just knowing how dusty
plushies and stuffed animals can get over the years, yeah,
a dry cleaning of sorts was very much in order. And as evidenced by all the
random little bits of debris and decades of detritus
flying off into the wind, well, this ended up
being pretty satisfying. A little surreal to watch this footage. What am I even doing with my life? But still satisfying indeed, especially with how much
happier the bear looks now. Just look at that face. I also gave the power supply
and processor assembly a gentle dusting while I was out there, really just to get the largest
dust bunnies out of the way before taking it inside. As for the motherboard and the drives, I brought them each down to the workshop and gave them all a nice
brushing, dusting, and wiping, with the nastiest parts being the area around where the processor fan used to be and the fronts and tops
of the drive bay devices. Yeah, stuff got gross. Now all those ribbon
cables and rear IO things were pretty disgusting too, but this is all par for the course. Thankfully, all normal stuff here. No smokey smells, dead
critters or dubious residues. No notable corrosion or dreadful damage, just the usual gunk and
grime that computers build up across years of service. Really the biggest thing that
stood out was the DVD-ROM, which is the only
component to have yellowed to a distracting degree, so,
hey, why not retro bright? It's not a part I care much
about if it gets messed up and it's a fantastically
sunny, warmy day out here, so some water and
peroxide in a plastic bin should lighten things
up at least a tad closer to where they should be and look similar to the other drives. I also wanted to check the Pentium 3 where it makes heat sync
contact and after sliding that apart, we get a
glimpse of that lovely chip in all of its 500 megahertz goodness. Halfway to a gigahertz, imagine that. It appears to use a really
thin, little thermal pad as opposed to paste. And I'm sure it's fine, but I gave it a tiny, unnecessary dollop of Formula 7 Compound, just
because I already had it nearby and I felt like it. And with that put back
together and snapped back onto the motherboard, I went ahead and dropped a
new CMOS battery in there and clicked the two RAM
modules back in place. And that's that, our still
furry yet significantly cleaner bear is basically ready for reassembly. I hope it feels as
refreshed and clean feeling as those unsettling Charmin mascots. They need to stop lying, no one that hairy is happy
with toilet paper alone. At this point, I whipped out a multi meter and prepared to test the power supply and while it does power
on and spin up the fan, perhaps unsurprisingly,
we've got a problem. Oh dear. Oh that's supposed to be 12 volts and that's supposed to be five. Oh. Yeah, other than the minus five volt rail, everything else was outta whack. And granted I didn't have load applied, but considering how iffy the thing sounded and smelled already and
the general grungy vibes I was getting, I was
simply happier replacing it with a new one, so that's
what I'm gonna be doing. [fan whirring] Nope. And from here the reassembly begins, without any due diligence
testing the motherboard first because screw it, I'm feeling down to
potentially waste a lot of time and keep that part a surprise, I guess. So with the board mounted
back onto the side plate and the front panel things reconnected, I went ahead and reattached
all of the rear IO breakout plates. Thankfully, an easy enough
task since they're all unique connectors and keyed
to plug in one way only. The only thing I left out is the modem, since I don't really need one. But also the cable for it is missing. So whatever, I'll take the extra space. And with things back in place, we have three brackets free now
and having mismatched blanks here would drive me nuts, so I'm gonna go ahead and
drop in three brand new ones there much better. As for the five and a quarter inch and three and a half inch drives, the only one I'm swapping
out for now is the floppy, due to the mismatched face plate. It may still function so I'll set it aside for a future project
and install this Citizen high density drive instead. The off-white face plate
isn't a perfect match but it's within the beigey
range of all the others. On that note, the DVD drive
face plate is finished retrobrighting and it's
looking way better. Not perfect, but a lot better
than the pea-stained look that we had before, I'm
quite pleased with it. And lastly, there is no hard drive, it was all removed before I got it. So I'll be dropping in this
Maxtor 120 gig IDE drive from 2005. It's an almost era-appropriate solution and plus the idea of a
teddy bear booting up with hard drive sounds amuses me. Speaking of which, it's all
hooked up and ready to test, so fingers crossed,
paws crossed, whatever. Let's see this fluffy beast,
hopefully roar back to life. [jazz music fades] All right, so I don't have
everything fully hooked up yet. I really just wanna see if
the dang thing powers on 'cause I really haven't
tested the motherboard or anything else yet. Here goes nothing. [fan whirring] Okay, got fans spinning. Hey, and we have a display
and RAM test 320 megs. We have replaced the battery so we'll have to go and do the BIOS setup. Ah, standard Amy BIOS,
simple utility 1.20E. Okay, it's the year 2000
again, how nice [snickering]. So yeah, I guess we'll just leave it to the basic settings for now. I don't actually have the
floppy drive plugged in anyway. Everything else should be, yeah, pretty well set to just
automatically detect on this kind of thing. So I guess we'll just go
ahead and set the time, not that I remember what today is. Hey Flerbnerp, what is everything
regarding date and time? - [Automated Voice] It's
Tuesday, May 23rd, 2023. It's 4:12 PM. - [Clint] Okay, thanks. Yeah, cool. Sweet. It detected all the stuff
I actually have plugged in. Novell NetWare, huh? I'm assuming due to the
integrated ethernet. That reminds me, I need
to probably disable that modem that's not installed. Maybe disable that too, I don't know. These things can always add
a lot of time to the startup. All right, lemme test the, yeah, I was afraid of that. So the optical drives are not ejecting. Actually, as I was doing the cleaning and took the face plates off
to you know, clean 'em up, I noticed that each one had belts and just iffy looking mechanisms for eject and just it looked like rubber degradation beginning to really set in, so I was curious if they would even eject. Neither of them do. So I do have another
just spare drive on hand. I think this one is good
cause I had a feeling this might happen. Yeah, the DVD driver's the one that looked the most suspect with a bad belt and yeah. Yeah, that's how it goes. Oh hey, I was getting this footage and this one wasn't ejecting, now it is. Cool. You know what, I'm just
gonna take the opportunity, just put the bear on top
of the bear computer, complete the look because
this thing is all hooked up. Internally, everything is as it will be. I mean the DVD is still
not working and the floppy and zip drive haven't been tested but everything else is hooked
up that can be hooked up. So I feel confident enough with an OS. And of course, the question is, which one are we gonna go with? You know, Windows XP, I
can imagine that maybe was on here at some point,
considering it was built in 2001-ish from what I gather,
but it was probably '98. I mean that would be the obvious choice for a Pentium 500 megahertz
in a baby AT case like this and all the other specs that it has. But it's a bear computer. Let's pick an absolute bear
of an operating system. We're gonna go with Windows Me. Yeah, seriously. Got the CD ready to go in
all its lovely shininess. And a boot disk, this will be a good test to the floppy drive. Yeah, let's do this. Oh wow, that is much
quieter with the bear on top and all that fur and foam insulation, and probably making it a bit warmer too. Anyway, I noticed this 25 here
now, I didn't see it earlier. It actually was turned around but yeah, I knew there was some
kind of a display there for the turbo but didn't
know what it would show or if it was just two digits, it is. You can customize that to any two numerals that you want, using jumpers around back. But it's not doing anything
really at the moment 'cause Turbo is not even used on here. So yeah, we've got the boot disk here, we get that going. And we've got our lovely CD. Oh come on, this is what
it was doing earlier. Eject. I think it's just getting
stuck or something. Stuck on like, yeah, I don't know. It's fine. - We have floppy and
hard disc noises coming from our woodland creature's chest. It's magnificent. [computer clicking] Hey, there we go. Okay, well I guess we
will let it format drive C and hope that's successful. I have not tested that hard drive. This is a very irresponsible build. Don't do this. 63% so far, so good. Gotta say this is my first
time formatting a bear or so you just never know. It is working [chuckling]. Bears, bears, bears, bears, bears. All right, well, promising, I'm excited. I mean, as excited as I can be for Windows Millennium Edition. Whatever, man, it's on a bear. Yeah, installation complete. And not getting any sound
or graphics drivers, not terribly surprising. I was curious what it would
come up with, you know, considering the PC chips
motherboard integrated stuff going on. But everything else seems
to be, yeah, pretty good. Ethernet, audio, of course we
got generic display drivers going there. All right, that's cool. Yeah, well, I will go ahead and see if I can track down
fitting drivers online. I hope, man, just realized we can put this into hibernation mode [laughing]. How appropriate is that
for a bear PC anyway? Whoa, what the heck? Well, apparently it makes that
sound when it's powered off. That's great, just great. All right, well all the things are working as well as they can. That sound, it's really bad. I mean it works, got the
proper drivers and everything, but ah, this is one of
the worst sound chips I think I've ever
experienced despite this kind of neat looking little audio
control panel we got going on. But yeah, this right here, okay, what we've got is this CMI 8738 thing with no legacy support. Like just none. So, you know, I've seen
versions of this chip equipped with some better stuff, but no, you pretty much just get
very simple Windows audio and game port and that's all you get. The display built-in graphics
thing is this SIS 620, let me see here, set to share
approximately 7.5 megabytes. It's set to eight megs in
the BIOS just to, you know, just take some memory for
itself from the system. But you know, it does support
direct 3D, here we go. So that is software rendering [ding] and hardware acceleration. So you know, it does
have a 3D accelerator, it's just very basic stuff. But yeah, that audio, oh my goodness, it's so impressively bad. Yeah, you do not get any
backwards-compatible emulation of Sound Blaster or anything else. It will just not detect
anything for DOS games. You do have a General MIDI
implementation on 330, so that's something, it's
actually not the worst. And just your standard
Roland-licensed GS wave table synth. [Duke3D GRABBAG theme plays] [music freezes, stuck note repeating] But that happens every
time it stops playing. In fact, it happens when a
lot of things stop playing. [goofy giggling] Usually hitting the ding
will make it go away [ding]. Yeah, but anyway, this thing is terrible, so literally any sound card
would be better than this. Well, you know, that's what it comes with and I wanted to test it
and now we have tested it. Another thing that's kind of amusing, anytime you use something
with the PC speaker, you can barely hear it. We'll put the microphone right up to it. [distant video game noises] Yeah, due to all of the bearness of it, it is completely dampened
to the point where you can barely hear it at all, despite it being, you
know, a good two-inch cone that actually sounds as it
should when it's out in the open, but now you just can't hear
anything underneath the bear. And no, there is no ad lib
emulation, FM synth attempt of any kind, so you really
don't get any Sound Blaster or ad lib kind of
capability in DOS, DOS mode, or just running here under
the Windows version prompt. It's just not there. Anyway, a working bear
computer such as it is, so let's play some bear games and yeah, why not this one here?
[whimsical tones] Good old Fatty Bear is one adventure game. Birthday Surprise.
[happy music] You're gonna be noticing
a lot of the popping just due to that sound,
that chip being terrible, the implementation, the driver, something. - Good night, Kayla. - Goodnight dad. Tomorrow's my birthday and mom and dad say they have a big surprise for me. - There's a lot of work to
do before Kayla wakes up. I wanna make her a big,
beautiful birthday cake. Oh, will she ever be surprised? - I'd better get busy too, I've got a lot of decorating to do. - [Clint] Yeah, so much
like crackling and popping in between all these sounds
and the music is just, it's trying so hard. All right, we gotta put some
eyeballs on the cabbage. [mouse clicking]
[happy music] Uh-huh, good stuff. An adventure game about a
teddy bear that comes to life in the middle of the night
when nobody's looking seemed quite appropriate to cover. - [Fatty Bear] I wonder where this goes? Here goes nothing. - [Clint] Oh crap, we're just
going down the dumb waiter. All right. - [Fatty Bear] Look out below. Hey, I found the garage door open. - [Clint] I'm just gonna
imagine our bear computer does this in the middle of the night, just going through my house, you know. Not creepy at all. And you know, this might
be pushing the definition of a bear centric game a little bit, but why not, who cares? I make the rules. MechWarrior 2: Ghost Bear's Legacy. Okay, mission computer, do a thing. - [Menu Voice] Gargoyle, Timber Wolf, Summoner, Grizzly. - [Clint] I would normally
go with Timber Wolf, but I mean it's a grizzly, we got to. - [Game Voice] All right, cadets, time to see what you have learned. - [Clint] Yes, let's go. [missiles firing] Oh, the mouse is sensitive. - [Mech Voice] Heat level critical. - [Clint] Uh-oh, probably
shouldn't be chaining everything with- - [Mech Voice] Shut
down sequence initiated. - [Clint] Oh no, no, no, no, no. Yeah, blowing all my
heat sinks immediately, you know, yeah, yeah. - [Mech Voice] Critical hit, engine. - [Clint] Welp! [laughs in 'Mech death] It's been a while! Oh no, give me a commando so I can go through training again. That was embarrassing. You know, yes, embrace cowardice. Yeah, I clearly am not prepared for that. Wow, this, yeah, every single time you do just about anything. So, eh, if there was one
thing that I would change, and will change, it is gonna be... Come on, I'm left clicking,
why is it doing that? Anyway [laughing], it's
quirky stuff going on. Yeah, I just gotta drop
like literally any, probably a PCI sound card in here and then that'll be way better than just this terrible thing
that it has going on. Yeah, I remember this kind of
thing happening all the time on computers in the
late '90s, early 2000s, so it's not exactly unique
to this or anything, but it's been a while
since I've experienced it and I'm not nostalgic for it
at all [ding], it's terrible. So yeah, definitely gonna
be replacing the sound card. Otherwise, yeah, I'm gonna
put some of the video stuff through its paces and we'll
just sort of wrap the video up here I think because, my
goodness, what a machine. The idea of sticking a PC in a teddy bear 20 something years ago, I mean you see why I
had to have it, right? And I am pleasantly
surprised that it works. And yes, the zip drive also
seems to be functioning. I mean, I haven't really
tested it too much, but stuff shows up straight away, I didn't even have to install any drivers. But anyway, yeah, that's
all for this video. I hope that you've enjoyed seeing this complete silliness get
cleaned up and restored, put back together, and
almost completely working. Just a few minor little things, LEDs that don't light up and the DVD drive and, you know, all the sound card crap. But otherwise, yeah, it's nice to have a
working machine show up and to see it hold up as well as it has, all things considered. The Ikea bear and the fur
are still firmly attached. And despite the bent chassis
and broken plastic bits, it still holds together just fine as it is without modification or further repair. Now some of you may be curious
about cooling, I was as well. And despite any modern
airflow considerations, in this case, it seems fine, idling at 35, 36 degrees
Celsius after warming up a while and gaining another five or six
degrees under heavier loads. Yeah, I don't see much heat risk here, considering how little is
going on inside the case. And this is far below the 80 degrees these 500 megahertz Pentium
3s are rated to handle and the hard drive seems fine too. And now I guess this is the LGR Bear PC. I'm fully anticipating
bringing this to a show or two in the future, so look out for
this at future appearances, I guess. And if you like this
type of video then well, you're in the right spot. This kind of nonsense is
very much my jam or honey, it would be appropriate for a bear. Anyway, I don't know, odd stuff like this is very
much what LGR is all about, so if you like this, do stick around. And, as always, thanks for watching.
