ctrl-alt-rees | Diagnosing A Weird Intermittent Fault With My MMX 233 DOS Gaming PC @ctrlaltrees | Uploaded September 2021 | Updated October 2024, 25 minutes ago.
Ever since I bought this Pentium MMX DOS gaming PC, it keeps having weird intermittent errors where it refuses to boot and I need to open it up and reseat all of the PCI cards. It's getting very frustrating!

Join me as I finally diagnose and repair this annoying fault once and for all. Is it the graphics card? The RAM? The motherboard? Or is it the previous owner...

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00:00 Intro
01:09 Fault Explanation & Demo
03:04 The Cause & Fix
05:12 Teardown
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06:42 Teardown Continued
08:19 Implementing The Fix
09:42 Rebuilding
11:00 First Test
11:49 Second Test, Explanation & Outro

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