I found the same computer on my neighbours curb, it was beaten up on purpose to make sure "all personal information" was ruined. I took it home and discovered the hard drive, operating system and files was in perfect condition :)
3:46 who the hell is giving you shit for using a CRT monitor?? We're not talking about using an 8 track player instead of a CD player. It's a different picture and nostalgia is a factor that should never be overlooked.
I had a Compaq SR5710F. Which was bought in 2009. It came with a Compaq Monitor and at the store I bought it at, they gave me a free HP W2207. I upgraded and loved that PC, I donated it to goodwill in October 2014. Since I built a new computer.
I used to repair these machines. Wow has time flown. These usually had Asus branded motherboards in them. Sometimes even Foxcon. Seeing this however is interesting.
Damn man it takes my computer 15 seconds to cold boot and 12 seconds for my wife's computer too. We both use Corair SSD's Force models, and I use an AMD 8350 she uses a mid ranged i5.
Wow look at those beautiful Firewire 400 ports. When I got my 3rd gen ipod in 2003 I had to shell out a lot of money at the time for a Firewire card because I didn't have USB 2.0 yet.
The knock-out slots on the back are used for some special expansion cards. I have an hp from the same time period, and it has a wireless card in one of the knock-out bays. My hp also has the same power supply. It also has the molex to sata adapters.
I HAVE A Compaq that looks exactly like this one, but its a Presario SR5710F, original specs were Athlon X2 X4450e Dual Core 2.3 GhZ, Win Vista DDR2 ram. I installed Windows 7 at some point, but the mobo died in 2018. This year I got a new mobo and CPU that has 2.6 Ghz, and installed Linux Mint 20.3. Now it runs safely in todays modern web.
I've got that same (or very similar) motherboard that I pulled from a slightly older Compaq Walmart special, loaded with 4GB of RAM and a 1.8GHz ULV C2D, in my file server. Mine had a slightly chunkier heatsink though, since it was originally equipped with a 2.8GHz P4. It's been surprisingly reliable.
I had an SR5210NX growing up, it was branded under the Presario line with the new Compaq logo, same case, but without the floppy drive and card reader.
Those knock outs on the back are for optional media recorder. They would put the plugs for video and remote control in there. Also sometimes for a wifi internal adapter.
I got an earlier version from Best Buy on clearance back then. It had the card reader and USB, but also had a Firewire on the front. It had an AMD Athlon 64, but crappy onboard video. I doubled the RAM, put in a good PCIe graphics card, and it was a really nice machine.
My grandparents have a similar Compaq to this one, except it has an AMD processor in it. It was bought brand new in 2008 and they're still using it today, although it's still running Vista.
I would happily use this computer most of the time (I say most and not all because my new computer is too good to replace really). But I love Windows XP!!
Poor Compaq, When I was in highschool I had one of those Presario 5000 series and I ordered the green case/speaker covers for it. I also have a Presario CQ56 notebook, which i think is basically just a rebadged HP.
The first computer my family ever had was a brand new Compaq Presario 4505. It wasn't special but it'll always hold a special place in my heart as it's where I learned about MS Paint, AOL 3.0 to 4.0, Doom (shareware edition) and early mp3 files. 1997 was fun lol.
Enjoyed this video very much! I appreciate your software choices, I use Cyberfox as my main browser on modern PCs and K-Melon/Palemoon on older systems. Cheers :)
great video, have one of these exactly the same in the UK that shipped with a 160GB hdd and Vista home premium, just got it out today to re install windows and hopefully sell
This is a pretty solid machine, I have one about to go out into the field as a Linux media center PC, I did similar upgrades like you did with the SSD being dual 500Gb instead of a single 250Gb. This thing needs to hold alot of music files. Also I didn't put in a floppy drive because in its intended environment a floppy drive would be useless. We did a custom paint job on the case where the front bezel is white and on the sides we had white airbrushing of Atlas Sound and MTX Audio put on.
The Califone Kidskey keyboard is just for testing computers on my workbench, and it actually has a nicer typing feel than the keyboard this Compaq came with when it was new.
I recently picked up a working HP P6000 series model of some description from my local thrift store for $15. A score to say the least. The case design is almost identical to this Compaq, including a power supply utilizing Molex to SATA power adapters
Cool that you played a video from as he's now known English Bob 😀. He has done many videos on Puppy Linux and other distros. He loves Windows XP as well as seen in the video you played by him 😀. Windows XP was around so long that it just got better and better 😀. Thanks for uploading your videos 😀. Fun watching on a rainy day like today 😀.
Nice system and nice video. Appreciate your work and you have a similar viewpoint to me but I would have installed Windows 7 on this machine. Keep up the great vids
For an everyday Linux user as myself I can agree that Windows Xp is a pretty good operating system. Everything is in a convenient place, there's some nice Anti-virus software like AVG, and when I ever had a problem, there was nothing I couldn't fix with a little Google search here and there.
I run into that sometimes with computers. One computer i have has SATA connectors on the power supply but not on the board, and the second had SATA connectors in the board but not the power supply. And while i would just swap them around they weren't from the same company.
Haha I still have this exact same PC, have it since around 2008. It already came with a C2D E8400 and XP Professional. Still a solid performer after all those years, although the motherboard could do with a couple more RAM slots.
Nothing better then good ol' Winamp! I've been using it for as long as I can remember, it's a shame Yahoo bought it and killed it! It's been in the "More To Come" state for some time...be nice to see it return, albeit, it still works on Win98~Win7...so it's still good! Nice computer....and I agree, XPP is still an awesome OS, I run it on one of my vintage HP's for my vintage cameras, that and a Win98SE HP box....
I have one of these cheapo Compaqs... It was originally my Mom's before she upgraded to a Mac Mini. I replaced everything but the motherboard and CPU. The Bestec PSU failed in it long ago. One thing with mine is that it had those molex to Sata adapters like in yours except the original hard drive actually had a Molex connector on it! The original drive was also a Deathstar, Which failed of course. The CPU was also an AMD Athlon 64 instead of a Pentium. But once I replaced all the cheap parts and Installed Ubuntu server it made a great web and file server.
Nice, that's not a bad deal. My Dell Inspiron 530 has gone through a similar transformation, from a 1.4 GHz Celeron to a 3.16 GHz Core 2 Duo (a 5x increase in CPU power), and from 512 MB of RAM to 8 GB of OCZ gaming RAM that the motherboard shouldn't even support, but apparently does. After that, a 256 MB video card, and the 160W power supply is pretty much maxed out!
+themaritimeman I, too, own a Dell Inspiron 530, and have been interested in pursuing a RAM upgrade. Online reports are a mixed bag, with some saying the BIOS can only support a maximum of 4GB, with others making mention of successfully installing (and utilizing) a total of 8GB of ram! It seems the maximum amount of RAM supported is largely dependent on the BIOS version. Would you happen to know the BIOS version your Inspiron is presently using?
I've been running BIOS version 1.0.15. I just upgraded to the latest version, 1.0.18, and everything is still working fine. I'm running 8 GB of OCZ Fatal1ty PC2-8500 RAM. It's 2.0V gaming RAM, which can sometimes be unstable in regular computers, but I've run every kind of stress test, and it performs beautifully. I can't guarantee that all 2 GB DDR2 modules will work, but at least some do.
+XtrAMassivE Yep the only things I've seen them do is put a banner on their website saying they are working on it, and they have only put out a Chrome extension that defaults to radionomy BS instead of Shoutcast, but at least they are keeping the Shoutcast website up, and working.
I'm watching a video about a machine I have just a metre away from me (minus the Walmart edition thing) piled next to some others, and care little or nothing about, and often forget I even own, and I'm enjoying it. It's a weird experience somehow.
I also used to organise my start menu into folders, but got lazy when Windows 7 and later added the quick search, that and spotlight have spoilt me! These and similar computers where actually alright machines. Upgradable and useful despite the base lower-spec components. That Compaq with the full-fat Core2 and SSD flies! The bargain basement desktops of today are a joke though, not much more than a cheap laptop in a tower case, upgrade what you have or build your own, ha!
Nice machine, I would put a proper PCI-e video card in there and you got yourself a really nice machine. I was freecycled one of these last year and the thing had bad caps all over the board so it went to the recycling for proper disposal.
+vwestlife agreed, but you will see a significant difference. you can get a pci-e card for low cost though and get some help with video work. just my opinion.
5:48 it kinda seems like that has largely happened with just about all browsers these days, just about all browsers have used chrome or the chromium code as it's base these days, and appears to have copy/pasted the appearance of it a bit too. I liked when the tabs were on the bottom, below the bookmarks, not above the url box. Firefox used to have a setting that allowed you to switch back to that old style before they pulled that setting and put the tabs above by default.
+the mre nerd He says that he had a Compaq machine with Windows 98 and was a excellent machine with all letters (Meaning that was extremely well made at the time) :3
You used to be able to use CapDVHS to get transport streams out of cable boxes through the firewire port. I think most cablecos lock this down now though.
My first computer was the Commanderdor 64, then I had couple Compaq 1990s laptops, now I got 2005 Toshiba and a 2012 Toshiba tablet and not lest 2014 iPad mini
+Vincent Richnomd LOL, the Commodore, that brings back memories.I had a few of them at one point. But really, my first computer was called a Timex Sinclair. It was a 15 kilobyte unit. It was around 1978 or so. Then later on I got an apple 2E.
I had the SR7xxx series of this system that came with a ECS Iris8 Motherboard. I flashed it to the stock ECS bios so I could replace the Athlon X2 dual core with the Phenom 9450E quad core and do a mild overclock I picked up for it along with a 500watt psu to power my old ATi Radeon HD 6950(flashed to 6970) and I gave it to my friend for a nice little gaming pc. Oh it came with a 500 gig samsung HDD and I managed to find 2x 4gig sticks of DDR2 800mhz that worked with its amd memory controller for 8 gigs ram.
Sebas Eu www.ebay.com/itm/XIEDE-8GB-2x4GB-DDR2-800Mhz-PC2-6400-240-Pin-Desktop-Memory-RAM-AMD-Chips-Set-/182041924657?hash=item2a628b5431:g:DdIAAOSwDuJW13-Y
Sebas Eu The 4 gig sticks only work with AMD chips or Intel Server chips from the era just fyi. As far as I know they wont work with the q6600 intel quad core or anything like that but a l5420 xeon will run with 4gig dims.
The 2 extra knock-outs are for add on devices. On some HP's I've seen wireless cards installed there with a internal usb header, or a add-on printer port that plugs directly into the motherboard's serial header. It is an odd place but I guess it gives you the flexibility of having up to 6 devices without having a larger case. Btw I like crt's for what they are, I don't mind seeing them in your video's. ;)
I found a Compaq in the trash at my apartment... it had 10lbs or dust inside my guess is that who ever had it thought it was broken because it would most likely freeze. It has a micro atx mother board with a power port just like on a laptop and in a full size case...... I am going to put it in a old NES case. Is okay the NES does not work any more it has PPE and ram chip faults...
