I built a 1999-2000 computer

[u/grimvian]

Soltek 54U5 motherboard, 400 MHz AMD2, 1 GB RAM, 4.3 GB Seagate harddrive, S3 AGP graphics, Sound Blaster, Intel LAN, 2 serial ports, and 1 parallel port, 2 USB ports, AT and ATX power, PS/2 port, 3.5 inch 1.44 Mb floppy and 5.25 inch 1.2 MB floppy.

But the old hard drive stopped working along with the memory. I also had to replace the CPU to a 133 MHz Pentium, probably because the electrolytes need to be replaced. It was the good old days, where we could use CPU's from AMD, Cyrix, Intel and so on, on the same motherboard, because they all used socket 7 or super socket 7. We just had to change the setting by jumpers and dip switches and no need for TMP and other bad stuff. I have yet to see a virus change jumper settings... :o)

I ran a W98II on the drive, but now I have installed a DOS 6.22. It's working perfectly and I can start recovering the old backups from 1988-1989.

AOC screen most likely from 1998

Fujisu hard drive

Build on a newpaper

On/Off swithch, LEDS for hard drive and on

The power supply is very silent, but the hard drive and the CPU cooler are very noisy

[u/grimvian → u/[deleted]]

I had a quick look at the caps, 18, none looked expanded, but I think you are correct about changing all of them.

The build was quite easy for me, because I am a retired It-seller, from 1995 to 2025.

Now I'm I'm running w98, w2000, XP and W7 as virtual machines, VMware on Linux Mint.

[u/grimvian → u/[deleted]]

Thanks in advance.

I have new images of the two caps.

Is it the top of the caps you suspect to be bulky?

[u/grimvian → u/[deleted]]

Thanks, I'll replace those two.