I worked for Dell in the manufacturing plant in Tennessee when these were built. This was the first computer I bought. And I was able to get the system as it went down the production line, and built it myself. Good memories. Hated Windows Me though. Mine was the P3 933Mhz, 256MB Ram, 20GB HDD, CR Burner, and I had the Sound Blaster sound card upgrade.
Okay, someone. Anyone. Please. For my entire life I’ve heard what sounds like an old man grunt in the startup sound at exactly 1:03. Can ANYONE tell me what that noise is.
Maybe not so clear but I remember how I play on Asus t101h (atomx8350 4gb ram 128 emmc Intel hd) on far cry primal and mad max. Yes it was slow (7-10-14fps) but demos from alphabeta games from 2021 for ex monomyth give only 2-5 fps... so mad max and far cry 5 give 7-10 mad max -14fps...so after monomyth they are playable... but it was more interest to start on celeron n2840 flat out4.. it was really funny...
Win2000 was the best OS ever. I was a kid back then. I remember I got tired of frequent BSOD, switched from Win98 to Win2000, and put a lot effort into playing unsupported Win95/98 games on it.
@marshgrey350 the kernel is the real OS and select what is compatible and what’s is not and the extended kernel improve the kernel to get more compatible with new applications
Good old days. Everything was so simple. Except for: installation without a crash (especially MSI boards), setup and app installation (modems, devices). :D If you passed those, you could be in for bad RAM. :) Or be good for a month. :) This looks like a top shape PC. 👍
When I was high school kid, I had Windows NT 4.0 SP6, then upgraded to XP in 2001. My PC which I got around 1998, was a Celeron 333 MHz with 64MB ram and a 4.3gb hard drive, later upgraded to 128GB of memory. I've tried.once the win2000,.but it was slower than the NT or the XP on the same machine
You had internet connection? There was a critical bug that I try to explain if I remember... There was a service in Windows 2K (terminal service I remember) that was active by default, but it was used by a famous virus to infect the PC. I remember formatting the PC with Win2K, it was speedy and perfect. As soon as I started the connection (one of the first ADSL connection with dial-up modem), after a few minutes the PC was sluggish and almost unusable. It was back then that I learned about services, and how to manage them. After formatting and before connecting, the bugfix was simply disabling the guilty service.
@@lylluzzos That fix was the first I had to install after the virus was spread. It popped up around 2002-2003. I had a router too (a 386 with Linux & 56k modem, later Pentium with ADSL) to share the internet with my brothers. Behind the router, PC's were safe from this virus (Blaster worm as I remember).
