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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Chapters: 00:00 Intro 01:09 Fault Explanation & Demo 03:04 The Cause & Fix 05:12 Teardown 05:34 More Potential Spanners In The Works 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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