No POST on Sundays - Old HP, no picture high fan speed  

The 4GB+2GB would run in dual channel flex mode on DDR3, so the 2GB of the 4GB would be dual channel with the 2GB stick and the remaining 2GB would run single channel - Intel did a good job with its controllers.

"I don't want all of the dust to go into my coffee so I'm going to quickly just take this out back and shoot it." 😛🤣 Fair. 😂

When it comes to business PCs, be aware that there can be expensive - sometimes bespoke - software installed, the cost of which can be significant and which can be version-specific so the PC cannot be upgraded to later versions of Windows. Upgrading the RAM to 16 GB or 32 GB and the HDD to a SSD might have been a viable business proposition despite the cost.

Win 7 was an excellent operating system and did everything I wanted to do without complaint. I updated to Win 10 only when I absolutely had to, but learned to love it, basically because it allowed me to work in much the same way as on Win 7. I shall be forced to udate to Win 11 in October 2025, which is a shame as it in turn will force me to change the way I interact with it - no more toolbars. At the age of 71, I have become set in my ways...

Had one of these (or similar 3rd gen running W10) and slapped a 1050ti sff, wifi-card, SSD and 16GB of ram and gave it to my sister. My nephew has been using it for some years now, and last month i serviced it so that my other nephew or niece can enjoy it for years to come.

I like these old desktops, to give them a second life. I'm using a W7 64bit desktop in my garage for music and old BMW diagnostics and coding. And on 8GB of RAM and an SSD it's surprisingly fast. Thanks for sharing Graham, Regards Nico.

Simple video but it made my day better. I needed this.

I too am self employed working with the public. By a wide margin dealing with stubborn yet ill informed customers is as difficult as it gets. I used to try and demonstrate why my advice is sound but as the years roll by I just do what the customer asks then it's a 100% not my problem when things inevitably go wrong. I take no pleasure in it but at least I'm not being accused of doing the wrong thing and the long and short of it is, the responsibility is no longer mine. Another great video, thanks Graham.

Nice methodical troubleshooting technique.

Sometimes it is worth upgrading old kit. Did a 2nd gen i7 with W7 on it last week. The customer had Adobe CS5 and an old MS Office installed. Both those suites don't require expensive subscriptions and still work fine. Upgraded to SSD and W11. £5 for a new Windows 11 Pro licence. Works surprising well! I like these sort of jobs meself.

ha ha, the title drew me in. I really wanted it to be a PC that didn't post on Sundays. That would be a real head scratcher for trouble shooting.

Seven(7) is the best windows ever. More respect for vintage computing would suit you way better!

To be fair windows 7 is probably still better than 11 🤣

"I'm going to quickly just take this out back and shoot it." is so real

old is gold sir

I miss the dust blow outs, but I can see that being a PITA to shoot. ;)

Great video. Dispite your misgivings I think its nice to see these older systems not being tossed. Maybe the person just does basic internet browsing or something and doesn't need a newer system. That being said that system would easily support windows 10 and they could probably upgrade to it for free.

I know a local guy selling these old HP PC's for like 20 quid a pop, with i3 3220, 4GB of ram and a 500GB HDD. Repair is not worth the hassle financially since you can always transplant your CPU, SSD and RAM and such.

Windows 7 is fine as long as it's OFFLINE !

I actually got a load of these kind of Dells from work. All DOA. Every one was fixed simply by reseating the CPU. So each one was then removed and cleaned again just to be safe. For a basic use PC these older DDR3 based systems are still fine. I even use a few to run game servers for friends. All were 5th-6th gen intel based systems

I love a good ol' no post sunday, even if it was posted on a sunday.

Quite a number of PC cases had a small speaker in the front for the system beeps,this was usually the case of when the motherboard installed did not have the little piezo speaker on the board.also the bios especially in the older versions (award etc ) that speaker could be turned off.

Gets hammer, sees hp, hp gone ..

Looks like a corporate HP, maybe an 8300 SFF? I liked those, durable and easy to work on.

I remember a few years ago there was software to make W10 look like W7, must admit I too like W7, hated W10 for a while but got used to it, still not keen on W11. I once had an old PC and put 'piggy back' Ram in it and it ran great. 'Piggy Back' ram is ram sticks with a slot on the top that you can use laptop mudules slotted in, basicly addapers really but they work.

Holy shit, I've got this PC and this exact same problem!

I still have a pc 386 with win 3.1 that gets used weekly... best part is i have soldred cables onto the board and use it for diagnostics and testing of a variety of hardware etc most of the cards i use are ones ive made. I also have a spare, though thats about 6 hours of soldering away from being ready for use.

Great auto generated subtitles today - LED labelled Orcs! :)

Here I am still using XP, with absolutely no complaints.🤣 It does everything I need it to. No internet, no wifi, no hdmi. It works just fine to view and print out pages from my CD workshop manuals, which is all I ever need to use a PC for.🤣👍

love your video's, man! 😎

I test marginal RAM using any random version of Linux which has a memtest program on the boot menu. When I get a number of bad dimms I go through them and swap out the bad RAM chips to revive them. Old RAM is still useful for retro PCs or designated special PCs used for vending and kiosks or industrial applications.

The power button light will blink and tell you what's wrong with old Dell computers.

Windows 7 is still my favourite version. Obviously can't use it now properly.

This is a common fault with these old trash cans. I had a case where you'd reseat the RAM sticks it would work fine, then after it's been off for a while it would have the same issue and you'd have to reseat the RAM again. Tried changing the RAM and the CPU, updating the BIOS but the issue remained. Just kept the components and trashed it.

That's an old hard disk (12 years). Surprised that's still running.

Going back a while I had a friend of a friend who always bugged me when he had PC issues. He had a Pentium 2 or something and wouldn't let me upgrade him, I eventually bought him an old office box Pentium 4 machine (life changing upgrade) for like £30 and said this is your pc now. And confiscated his old system.

some of my personal no posts where down to dead memory or graphics card 1 hdd failure 1 bad dvd player , and one with blown caps, that I replaced and it live 6 more years until I built a new pc.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="890">14:50</a> We have finally found the mythical PC 2!

I have an old laptop with an Intel Core i5 2450M, it runs Windows 11 Pro. this is my main computer. I am looking to see if I can buy an eighth generation Intel core. But with only 1 salary, it is not that easy to get enough money to buy a decent computer. So not everyone is able to buy a decent computer.

Step one: coffee! Good call! Must apologize as I have been watching quite a few of these lately, and completely forgot to "like".

I built all of my computers from scratch.The latest one runs ddr5 and windows 11. I have 3 others running windows 10 on ddr3 and 1 media computer running windows 7 and 1 old athlon on ddr2 with XP which isn't used. Also 3 laptops with windows 10. They all have their individual uses and work perfectly well. Anything that fails I could replace anyway so there is still a place for ddr3 memory in my world. Why do you not have an analyser card that you can plug into an ISA slot? It would save you time with post faults.

Used to refurbish these old elitedesks, bulletproof hardware and just enough performance for daily tasks

Quick question bro I have a 2019 macbook pro i bought used i produce music so one day i went to turn it on and i couldnt get in there telling me its company lock was wondering if theres anyway i could get my files from it?

I'm still thoroughly surprised to see people still putting windoze on older machines...or any machine for that matter.

at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="530">8:50</a>, is the smok out at the UPS?

that old kodak battery... the question is, does it run linux Mint :D

Windws 7!, and Microsoft think people are going to upgrade to windows 11.

I would like to see a quick check on RAM with multi-meter or power-supply, if you could find some quick faults.

i think Hewlett Packard was implying that HP means Horrible Product i have 2 i know why one is slow but my new one screwed up windows while it was updating and i had to reinstall it

I'm still on XP with a Q6600. Oh and without any firewall or antivirus for the past 15 years.

I blame Royal Mail for No POST Sunday's Grrrrr

Surprisingly I have a similar old HP that exhibits this exact symptom, I'll try swapping the RAM to see if that might help!

I still think Win7 looks 100x better than Windows 8+. The world really isn't flat, you know...😊

windows 7 is beautiful.

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It's not recommended to toutch those sensetive gold plated connecters.

my wife i was using windows 7 but i upgraded to windows 10 she dosent notice any diffrence at all nice job i always know windows 7 wont boot and video out when the memory is up the creek like what you had there good job to

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="739">12:19</a> ooh I thought maybe you'd pop the RAM under the microscope! But I guess it wouldn't be worth it. Just a failed nand chip or something.

Being honest i'd take windows 98 Se anyday over most of the Windows operating systems since

I value good reputation from fixing old stuff than saying buy new pc.

I preferred Windows 7 to 10. Not interested in companies trying to force customers into AI with operating systems.

I'm still on win7 here. I don't download software or games I use this PC for my engineering work.... if it ain't broke don't fix it....

I disagree with the idea of scraping a pc "if" the user doesnt need anything more powerful, There are many tons of E-waste due to Microsoft not allowing updates on their older OS's. Also some cannot afford new hardware, so they bandaid there stuff as much as posable.

I've always liked 4th gen

Ahh a classic.

YES! A desktop repair. No offense intended to laptop repair videos, but I find those to be boring and usually don't watch them. On another note I have heard quite a few comments about Dell computers booting on application of AC power. I currently own five Dell computers of both the desktop and laptop variety with one of them being new in 2011 and none of them have ever booted upon application of AC power. Interesting stuff.

seems odd to work on such an old computer, when in 1 year it will be obsolete, no Win' 11 support.

Cheap sata ssd, linux, and its usable again. But a person running Win7 from HDD, they wont use linux, would they?!😄

My PC is about 7 or 8 years old, still works perfectly (upgraded ram and graphics) for me it's just a tool, I rarely play games... don't be a snob about old machines! 😁

I hate flat design. W7 still looks great. But only a fool would use it today attached to the internet.

You must be joking . That all belongs in the trash

kudos to you actually telling customers it’s not worth it

I respectfully disagree about Win7. It looks beautiful and it runs fine. Windows 8 was a _huge_ misstep on Microsoft's part -- to be fair, it was really more a case of, they were looking into the wrong crystal ball, kind of like how the Pentium 4 microarchitecture wound up being the awful beastie _it_ was -- and Win10 was basically Microsoft's "There I Fixed It" edition of 8, with a huff and a harrumph, because they couldn't bring themselves to pull a John McCain and go on national TV and admit to the world that they, erm, buggered the big one ;3 with Win8. A pity -- Win10 would've been _decent_ if it'd been Win7 Part Two. Instead we got Win8 You Got What You Wanted, So There, and it sucked eggs. As for Windows 11, everything I heard about the beta basically screamed, "Hey, remember when Microsoft got sued by the US government back in the 1990s? That was fun, let's do it again!", and everything I've heard about it since has been canned cricket noises. My mother runs Win7 on her computer. It's fine. I'm building a gaming desktop and it honestly ticks me off no end that Steam is invariably going to insist on a Win10 install. At least I know how to make it look as much like Win7 as is reasonably possible. The whole Settings App thing, and really Apps in general -- instead of, you know, good old-fashioned _programs_ -- kind of ruins it for me, every bit as much as the Flat Design look. It really hurts usability, the level of obfuscation there -- and that's not something Microsoft products have _ever_ needed more of, is obfuscation. Also, someone at some point did a comparison between the interface AOL used in the mid-1990s, and the Metro Interface aka Flat Design in Win8 and Win10, and the fact that the two are nearly _identical_ says everything it possibly could. Flat Design is crap.

That repair probably cost him more than that old beaters worth. Graham you tried to explain to the customer, but “You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink”

no its no post monday now

I hated Windows 7. Even over Windows XP. Windows 7 is why I switched my main driver over to Linux. Endless problems with 7, especially when it decided it didn't like your network for some reason or another. Couldn't get Windows 10 on computers fast enough. Had someone bring in a Windows 8 tablet for me to 'upgrade' the other day. Oh how we laughed.

windows 7 ?? wowww

That Intel Core-i5-2500 needs to be retired. My oldest happens to be an HP All-In-One Intel Core-i5-4570T, upgraded to 16GB RAM, SATA SSD & Wifi 5 card. It works better than expected on Windows 11. The internal speakers have very good sound quality. Display is 1920x1080.

I know what you are saying about they should upgrade to a new computer but its probably owned by an older person who doesn't like change and its like an old pair of slippers to them.

🤣🤣🤣

i will fix it with my right boot...why wasting time when the whole thing costs no more than a 40 usd🤷

Is the customer a cave man? 🙂 Djeez Windows 7 so old... Trash it already lol I can understand they have no money to buy something new but even second hand you can find something more modern than this for a low price. Cool fix

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="223">3:43</a> bruh hdd i will gave the 2 sticks of ram a pass but why the hdd there i mean you could put a 200 gigs of ssd