I just grabbed an Optiplex G1 from the recycling at work before almost being scrapped, in great shape and making sure to preserve it which I know many people do not understand is why many of us collect and enjoy older systems :) Can't wait to see that system all cleaned up!
I Remember disassembling many of those old Compaq rigs back in the days at electronics recycling... Those old HDDs were so loud :) I still have couple of newer Caviar drives somewhere.
Wow. This is the same model of Compaq that my was my families first PC back in 97/98. It became my first PC when my parents bought a new PC a couple of years later. That thing was a an awesome PC.
Oh that slot riser. I had a Vectra VL once that I upgraded that on. From 3x ISA 2xPCI to 2x ISA 3xPCI to connect a graphics card, a 100MBps Ethernet card and a sound card... I loved that machine.
Back in the early 00s a friend and I walked through a high school parking lot littered with AOL CDs. We took some and used them for decoration. Good stuff.
Compaq DeskPros are amazing. I have a Deskpro EN SFF and still use it today for stuff that needs real RS232 and PS/2. It has never missed a sing beat in its life, it even has a way overspeed processor in it and is full of SATA and USB PCI cards and it gives no shits, just keeps on running day after day.
The 590 was the first Pentium machine I ever owned. I got it remarkably cheap from Ebay through a Dutch auction (first time I ever encountered one of those, too). Paid with a money order, back before Paypal was hardly even a thing. It was definitely a heavy-duty machine, but my case lid was a bit of a beast to get properly back into place, and earned itself many a swear. I overclocked the 90mhz cpu to 120mhz, which didn't seem to cause any problems, though I was afraid of reducing the lifespan so I found myself clocking it back down to normal during long periods of time where I just didn't need the speed. I think I ran that machine with a Matrox Millenium video card, possibly a Matrox Millenium II as well but that might have been a later machine. It was the first machine I had that could actually play MP3s in Windows properly, too, as funny as that might sound. Previously I could play them in full quality with mpxplay in DOS, and then in reduced quality in Windows with another simple player that I can't remember the name of. So that was a big deal at the time!
That letters folder, had a date of 2/5/10, so this computer had to have been used for something or had the files transferred off since the folder was empty. Lovely video, these old machines are awesome!
"i kinda wish i had kept some of those cds handy rather than stuffing them in the back seat of a random gentleman's car as a high school prank" priceless!
Its beautiful. I love 1990 - 2000 computers SO much. I got my first PC in 1994..a desktop.....and I love that era. I think in 1997 I was sporting a $250 850 MEG HD :P Also I still have a working 17" Sony Trinitron. I stopped using it in 2007 when I got my first LCD...I have it though...still want to build a circa 1999 PC for old DOS games..I have my whole collection still.
hi brendon. yes, started off here in the UK back in the day with AOL. like you say it was a great place to be. the design was very nice, i was new the web then, or though i have had a computer since 1982, not the same one. lol i got it separately with windows xp. it was a kind of pretty looking. in these day of google search engines, it's not the same, but there you go. stay well
That was epic. At one point they was saying you need the Internet to set up the Internet..... What is the world coming to. Great machine also a great blast from the past.
I really hope someone out there made a mirror of the old Compaq drivers before HP stopped hosting them. Finding the drivers for my Presario 5460 is almost impossible, and that's just from '99. Hopefully the Quick Restore disc I bought on eBay works...
The old harddrives had ball bearings, later the manufacturers went for fancy hydro dynamic bearings and the noise level went down. I would install MS DOS 3.3 and play Magic Carpet on it.
Nokia is not gone they went to focus on network equipment since mobile phone business didn't work for them anymore. But they are pretty much gone from the consumer market for now atleast.
I recently bought from a local thrift store an Compaq LTE 5300 Laptop that has a Pentium 133 Mhz, 80 BM of RAM and a 2 GB Hard drive as well as it coming with its docking station and it even came with a 6x speed CD Rom.
sometime in 2015, I found a new in the box 10.2GB western digital caviar IDE 3.5 inch Hard drive. I use it in my Dell Dimemsion L733r. it has similar sounds to your 2.5 GB drive just quieter. it was made April 1,1999. I paid $5 for it at a salvation army thrift store.
August 24 of this year, I went to the thrift store and just bought for 10 us dollars an HP Pavilion 7410P. I am planing to throw a a 3Dfx Voodoo 1 in it. I currently have a ATI 3D Rage Pro coming in the mail. Estimated Price Range: $899 to $3,550 US Dollars Basic Specs _____________________________ Chipset: Intel i430HX Chipset Motherboard: Intel Ruby RU430HX [Proprietary Computer Case Specific Socket 7 Motherboard] CPU Type: Has either Intel Pentium Classic [The A80502120, A80502133, A80502150, A80502166 and A80502200 were used on this series of PC. These systems seem to have mostly come originally with Pentium Classic and later offered with Pentium MMX versions.] or Intel Pentium with MMX Technology [I think the A80503166 and A80503200 were the Pentium MMX processors that came with these machines] Max Memory (Able to Take): 128 MB (4 sticks of 32 MB) EDO SIMM NON Parity but I think that they might be able to pull off 512 MB Max Hard Disk Drive Capacity Support: 8 GB AGP Slot: None Max Amount of PCI Slots: 2 Max Amount of ISA Slots: 5 Hard Drive Type: Quantum Bigfoot Onboard Graphics: S3 Virge Chipset with 2 MB of VRAM [I would recommend either the NVIDIA RIVA 128 PCI or the ATI 3D Rage Pro PCI if the 3Dfx Voodoo 1 cannot be obtained and even if you do get a 3Dfx Voodoo 1 then I still recommend either of these] Onboard Sound: Yamaha OPL3-SA [This supports Sound Blaster Pro 2.0] Modem Card: Pavilion PC Lucent Modem Ethernet LAN Card: None [You will have to add one in. I recommend an LAN card that uses the ISA Bus] _____________________________ HP Pavilion 7420 CPU Speed RAM CD Speed Hard Drive Special Feature 166MHz 32 MB 16x 2.5 GB HP Pavilion 7410P CPU Speed RAM CD Speed Hard Drive Special Feature 200MHz 24 MB 16x 2.1 GB PhotoDrive HP Pavilion 7370V CPU Speed RAM CD Speed Hard Drive Special Feature 200MHz 32 MB 16x 4.0 GB 3Dfx Voodoo 1 [Notes: The Pavilion 7420, 7370V, 7360, 7350P, 7330Z, 7320 and 7125 were the systems as far as I can tell that came with the Pentium MMX. The 3Dfx Voodoo 1 cards that were included with these systems were made by Orchid and the name that Orchid gave their Voodoo 1 cards was the Orchid Righteous 3D] HP Pavilion 7360 CPU Speed RAM CD Speed Hard Drive Special Feature 200MHz 32 MB 16x 3.8 GB HP Pavilion 7350P CPU Speed RAM CD Speed Hard Drive Special Feature 166MHz 32 MB 16x 2.5 GB PhotoDrive HP Pavilion 7330Z CPU Speed RAM CD Speed Hard Drive Special Feature 166MHz 32 MB 16x 2.5 GB Zip Drive HP Pavilion 7320 CPU Speed RAM CD Speed Hard Drive Special Feature 166MHz 16 MB 16x 2.1 GB [Notes: This computer not just came with Pentium MMX but earlier models had the Pentium Classic. The Pavilion 7320 as well as the 7420 also came with a 200 Mhz clocked Pentium MMX.] HP Pavilion 7295V CPU Speed RAM CD Speed Hard Drive Special Feature 200 MHz 32 MB 8x 3.8 GB 3Dfx Voodoo 1 HP Pavilion 7285 CPU Speed RAM CD Speed Hard Drive Special Feature 200 MHz 32 MB 8x 3.1 GB HP Pavilion 7280P CPU Speed RAM CD Speed Hard Drive Special Feature 166 MHz 16 MB 8x 2.5 GB PhotoDrive HP Pavilion 7275Z CPU Speed RAM CD Speed Hard Drive Special Feature 166 MHz 32 MB 8x 2.5 GB Zip Drive HP Pavilion 7270 CPU Speed RAM CD Speed Hard Drive Special Feature 166 MHz 16 MB 8x 2.5 GB HP Pavilion 7170 CPU Speed RAM CD Speed Hard Drive Special Feature 166 MHz 16 MB 6x 2.0 GB HP Pavilion 7145 CPU Speed RAM CD Speed Hard Drive Special Feature 150 MHz 16 MB 6x 1.62 GB HP Pavilion 7130P CPU Speed RAM CD Speed Hard Drive Special Feature 133 MHz 16 MB 6x 1.62 GB PhotoDrive HP Pavilion 7125 CPU Speed RAM CD Speed Hard Drive Special Feature 133 MHz 16 MB 6x 1.62 GB HP Pavilion 7110Z CPU Speed RAM CD Speed Hard Drive Special Feature 120 MHz 16 MB 6x 1.26 GB Zip Drive HP Pavilion 7055 CPU Speed RAM CD Speed Hard Drive Special Feature 120 MHz 16 MB 4x 1.62 GB
I have one Compaq computer, and the first time I powered it up the harddrive (WD Caviar, of course) sounded EXACTLY like it has Click of death. But, it tried to boot, so I let that do its job, after loooooong time it booted Windows 98, and for the lols I tried to run Scandisk. What do you know! Scandisk fixed the clicking noise and the harddrive started working healthly once again!
I really can't see this as being from 1997. Isn't it more likely that that was a replacement drive that had a later date code than the original machine? This seems more circa 95
I know this video is old, but I’m currently working on upgrading a Deskpro 590 that I got recently. It didn’t have any disk drive (only the floppy drive) And I can’t seem to find a proper replacement for the CD drive… any way you (or someone) can let me know what would work!!
I have a compaq deskpro 2000 minitower and its just like this but I put an ssd in mine with an sata to ide adapter. The maxtor it came with died and the wd caviar my dad had also died.
I can not for the life of me locate the softpaq used to create the diagnostics disk for installing the F10 setup utility on my Armada 1700. HPs site only has the setup floppy but not the floppy that creates the partition for it to install to.
I don't know if you ever found the drivers but they are actually still available from HP. support.hp.com/us-en/drivers/selfservice/closure/compaq-deskpro-xl-desktop-pc-series/96275/model/97091 I picked up this same exact system recently but its in near mint condition. Hard drive was a Quantum and failing. Came with Windows NT 4.0 on it. Had a 3Comm Earthlink III ISA Ethernet card and only had a floppy drive drive but had 64MB ram.
Years ago (90's) I had a Compaq Presario repaired under warranty. It came back with a Quantum Bigfoot 5.25 drive. Like this one here: th-cam.com/video/3PY4U6lEYDY/w-d-xo.html
+Alexander Addison I watched a Vwestlife video a couple days ago (I believe it was of a Compaq computer too, ironically) and I remember him stating that some company in Argentina bought the rights to the Compaq name.
I think you mean coincidentally. Might find some grammar nazis on here ;) I think that's where I heard it, too. Looked it up to confirm and it is pretty much over for old Compaq.
PLEASE HELP - I need the restore CD for this machine because the BIOS was stored on the hard drive and my hard drive has crashed. Please contact me and send me a copy of it!
Thanks for responding. For anyone else who needs to restore an old Compaq, I found you can get the BIOS back onto the hard drive by using the Wayback Machine at archive.org and traveling back to a time when Compaq's website still had support for whatever system you're working on. The drivers for this system are available.
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Can't beat a cold winter night, warm baked beans, and watching Brandon faff about with old hardware :D
I just grabbed an Optiplex G1 from the recycling at work before almost being scrapped, in great shape and making sure to preserve it which I know many people do not understand is why many of us collect and enjoy older systems :) Can't wait to see that system all cleaned up!
I Remember disassembling many of those old Compaq rigs back in the days at electronics recycling... Those old HDDs were so loud :) I still have couple of newer Caviar drives somewhere.
"A Machine From 1997 Isn't a Valuable Antique" Tell the people on eBay that....
Wow. This is the same model of Compaq that my was my families first PC back in 97/98. It became my first PC when my parents bought a new PC a couple of years later. That thing was a an awesome PC.
Oh that slot riser. I had a Vectra VL once that I upgraded that on. From 3x ISA 2xPCI to 2x ISA 3xPCI to connect a graphics card, a 100MBps Ethernet card and a sound card... I loved that machine.
Kudos to the anonymous AOL support tech. He truly did his best to help.
Back in the early 00s a friend and I walked through a high school parking lot littered with AOL CDs. We took some and used them for decoration. Good stuff.
I like the harmonics of those old hard drives. My quantum is musical like a Lamborghini V10.
+AshtonColeman He thought that was loud he should hear my 10,000 rpm Velociraptor :) Vrrrrriiiippppzzzzzz
That AOL rep--this face, and voice, of AMERICA online!
Compaq DeskPros are amazing. I have a Deskpro EN SFF and still use it today for stuff that needs real RS232 and PS/2. It has never missed a sing beat in its life, it even has a way overspeed processor in it and is full of SATA and USB PCI cards and it gives no shits, just keeps on running day after day.
I have been watching you for years. But you sir just got me LOL so hard my sides hurt with that call to AOL.
The 590 was the first Pentium machine I ever owned. I got it remarkably cheap from Ebay through a Dutch auction (first time I ever encountered one of those, too). Paid with a money order, back before Paypal was hardly even a thing. It was definitely a heavy-duty machine, but my case lid was a bit of a beast to get properly back into place, and earned itself many a swear.
I overclocked the 90mhz cpu to 120mhz, which didn't seem to cause any problems, though I was afraid of reducing the lifespan so I found myself clocking it back down to normal during long periods of time where I just didn't need the speed. I think I ran that machine with a Matrox Millenium video card, possibly a Matrox Millenium II as well but that might have been a later machine.
It was the first machine I had that could actually play MP3s in Windows properly, too, as funny as that might sound. Previously I could play them in full quality with mpxplay in DOS, and then in reduced quality in Windows with another simple player that I can't remember the name of. So that was a big deal at the time!
That letters folder, had a date of 2/5/10, so this computer had to have been used for something or had the files transferred off since the folder was empty.
Lovely video, these old machines are awesome!
"i kinda wish i had kept some of those cds handy rather than stuffing them in the back seat of a random gentleman's car as a high school prank"
priceless!
I can't decide whether I'm glad or disappointed they didn't spell it "Desqpro".
Its beautiful. I love 1990 - 2000 computers SO much. I got my first PC in 1994..a desktop.....and I love that era. I think in 1997 I was sporting a $250 850 MEG HD :P
Also I still have a working 17" Sony Trinitron. I stopped using it in 2007 when I got my first LCD...I have it though...still want to build a circa 1999 PC for old DOS games..I have my whole collection still.
hi brendon. yes, started off here in the UK back in the day with AOL. like you say it was a great place to be. the design was very nice, i was new the web then, or though i have had a computer since 1982, not the same one. lol i got it separately with windows xp. it was a kind of pretty looking. in these day of google search engines, it's not the same, but there you go. stay well
Uxwbill would approve this.
That was epic. At one point they was saying you need the Internet to set up the Internet..... What is the world coming to. Great machine also a great blast from the past.
I can't believe you actually called AOL. That was so funny. I didn't even think their phone number still existed.
That AOL call almost deserved it's own video!!
My Power Mac G3 233 Desktop (Gossamer) circa 1997 came with a 4GB WD Caviar.
OMG..that call to AOL was funny as hell. by the its not real people...they are GHOSTS of former employees! LOL
I really hope someone out there made a mirror of the old Compaq drivers before HP stopped hosting them. Finding the drivers for my Presario 5460 is almost impossible, and that's just from '99. Hopefully the Quick Restore disc I bought on eBay works...
The old harddrives had ball bearings, later the manufacturers went for fancy hydro dynamic bearings and the noise level went down.
I would install MS DOS 3.3 and play Magic Carpet on it.
i remember calling up windows reactivation back in the day and getting conected to the indian call center
Nokia is not gone they went to focus on network equipment since mobile phone business didn't work for them anymore. But they are pretty much gone from the consumer market for now atleast.
oh, I always thought that AC meant alternate current, I didn't know that It meant air condishiner thank you Bishop :D
My fiancee Katelyn grew up with a Deskpro 66M... we've been trying to find one for years ;)
Lol, that AOL call.
"You want to get the internet service, but you don't have the internet so I can't help you"
*Slow clap*
ahh.. the days of "Daughter" Boards... man what a pain they were sometimes! I thought Quantum Fireball 5.25" were the loudest!
I recently bought from a local thrift store an Compaq LTE 5300 Laptop that has a Pentium 133 Mhz, 80 BM of RAM and a 2 GB Hard drive as well as it coming with its docking station and it even came with a 6x speed CD Rom.
That's actually worth something; very good find!
DAMN! Today's my lucky day... New Druaga1 video AND a new BBISHOPPCM video? I must've died and gone to computer heaven...
+youdud44 Dude right?
+youdud44 Yeah, really.
Haha you actually called AOL :D
It was hilarious , specially when he said "I never used the Internet before " XD
sometime in 2015, I found a new in the box 10.2GB western digital caviar IDE 3.5 inch Hard drive. I use it in my Dell Dimemsion L733r. it has similar sounds to your 2.5 GB drive just quieter. it was made April 1,1999. I paid $5 for it at a salvation army thrift store.
I found drivers on Helpjet. They seem clean to me. But then again I don't take my old Compaqs online.
amazing AOL call
Hey, Nodevice.com has many of the old compaq drivers, i found drivers for my 1998 Compaq Deskpro 2000 personal computer
I put "Kolibri OS"on the same 590 Compaq. Created as a rocket flies .
AOL call was great!!!!
Lol that HDD sound reminds me of my first computer, it to was Gateway Win98 computer
the moment you got that aol guy on the phone, i couldn't stop thinking about indian tech support scammers!
I saw 1 of these with windows XP installed! The one I saw had a 66 MHz processor in it with xp.
August 24 of this year, I went to the thrift store and just bought for 10 us dollars an HP Pavilion 7410P. I am planing to throw a a 3Dfx Voodoo 1 in it. I currently have a ATI 3D Rage Pro coming in the mail.
Estimated Price Range: $899 to $3,550 US Dollars
Basic Specs
_____________________________
Chipset: Intel i430HX Chipset
Motherboard: Intel Ruby RU430HX [Proprietary Computer Case Specific Socket 7 Motherboard]
CPU Type: Has either Intel Pentium Classic [The A80502120, A80502133, A80502150, A80502166 and A80502200 were used on this series of PC. These systems seem to have mostly come originally with Pentium Classic and later offered with Pentium MMX versions.] or Intel Pentium with MMX Technology [I think the A80503166 and A80503200 were the Pentium MMX processors that came with these machines]
Max Memory (Able to Take): 128 MB (4 sticks of 32 MB) EDO SIMM NON Parity but I think that they might be able to pull off 512 MB
Max Hard Disk Drive Capacity Support: 8 GB
AGP Slot: None
Max Amount of PCI Slots: 2
Max Amount of ISA Slots: 5
Hard Drive Type: Quantum Bigfoot
Onboard Graphics: S3 Virge Chipset with 2 MB of VRAM [I would recommend either the NVIDIA RIVA 128 PCI or the ATI 3D Rage Pro PCI if the 3Dfx Voodoo 1 cannot be obtained and even if you do get a 3Dfx Voodoo 1 then I still recommend either of these]
Onboard Sound: Yamaha OPL3-SA [This supports Sound Blaster Pro 2.0]
Modem Card: Pavilion PC Lucent Modem
Ethernet LAN Card: None [You will have to add one in. I recommend an LAN card that uses the ISA Bus]
_____________________________
HP Pavilion 7420
CPU Speed RAM CD Speed Hard Drive Special Feature
166MHz 32 MB 16x 2.5 GB
HP Pavilion 7410P
CPU Speed RAM CD Speed Hard Drive Special Feature
200MHz 24 MB 16x 2.1 GB PhotoDrive
HP Pavilion 7370V
CPU Speed RAM CD Speed Hard Drive Special Feature
200MHz 32 MB 16x 4.0 GB 3Dfx Voodoo 1
[Notes: The Pavilion 7420, 7370V, 7360, 7350P, 7330Z, 7320 and 7125 were the systems as far as I can tell that came with the Pentium MMX. The 3Dfx Voodoo 1 cards that were included with these systems were made by Orchid and the name that Orchid gave their Voodoo 1 cards was the Orchid Righteous 3D]
HP Pavilion 7360
CPU Speed RAM CD Speed Hard Drive Special Feature
200MHz 32 MB 16x 3.8 GB
HP Pavilion 7350P
CPU Speed RAM CD Speed Hard Drive Special Feature
166MHz 32 MB 16x 2.5 GB PhotoDrive
HP Pavilion 7330Z
CPU Speed RAM CD Speed Hard Drive Special Feature
166MHz 32 MB 16x 2.5 GB Zip Drive
HP Pavilion 7320
CPU Speed RAM CD Speed Hard Drive Special Feature
166MHz 16 MB 16x 2.1 GB
[Notes: This computer not just came with Pentium MMX but earlier models had the Pentium Classic. The Pavilion 7320 as well as the 7420 also came with a 200 Mhz clocked Pentium MMX.]
HP Pavilion 7295V
CPU Speed RAM CD Speed Hard Drive Special Feature
200 MHz 32 MB 8x 3.8 GB 3Dfx Voodoo 1
HP Pavilion 7285
CPU Speed RAM CD Speed Hard Drive Special Feature
200 MHz 32 MB 8x 3.1 GB
HP Pavilion 7280P
CPU Speed RAM CD Speed Hard Drive Special Feature
166 MHz 16 MB 8x 2.5 GB PhotoDrive
HP Pavilion 7275Z
CPU Speed RAM CD Speed Hard Drive Special Feature
166 MHz 32 MB 8x 2.5 GB Zip Drive
HP Pavilion 7270
CPU Speed RAM CD Speed Hard Drive Special Feature
166 MHz 16 MB 8x 2.5 GB
HP Pavilion 7170
CPU Speed RAM CD Speed Hard Drive Special Feature
166 MHz 16 MB 6x 2.0 GB
HP Pavilion 7145
CPU Speed RAM CD Speed Hard Drive Special Feature
150 MHz 16 MB 6x 1.62 GB
HP Pavilion 7130P
CPU Speed RAM CD Speed Hard Drive Special Feature
133 MHz 16 MB 6x 1.62 GB PhotoDrive
HP Pavilion 7125
CPU Speed RAM CD Speed Hard Drive Special Feature
133 MHz 16 MB 6x 1.62 GB
HP Pavilion 7110Z
CPU Speed RAM CD Speed Hard Drive Special Feature
120 MHz 16 MB 6x 1.26 GB Zip Drive
HP Pavilion 7055
CPU Speed RAM CD Speed Hard Drive Special Feature
120 MHz 16 MB 4x 1.62 GB
I have one Compaq computer, and the first time I powered it up the harddrive (WD Caviar, of course) sounded EXACTLY like it has Click of death. But, it tried to boot, so I let that do its job, after loooooong time it booted Windows 98, and for the lols I tried to run Scandisk. What do you know! Scandisk fixed the clicking noise and the harddrive started working healthly once again!
I laughed way too hard at you reading the writing on the back of the case...
Funny you mention P1s not running hot...I found a generic baby AT whitebox with a fan-cooled Pentium 75 in it!
Overclocked, perhaps?
i own a deskpro too sadly the front of it is destroyed (the plastic was old and break off) but its a great pentium 3 machine
I really can't see this as being from 1997. Isn't it more likely that that was a replacement drive that had a later date code than the original machine? This seems more circa 95
I think you can create the bios install disks from the bios.
My HP Compaq DC5800 Microtower has the same screws as that machine
a soundblaster 16 or awe64 will be your best bet for a isa sound card.
I know this video is old, but I’m currently working on upgrading a Deskpro 590 that I got recently.
It didn’t have any disk drive (only the floppy drive)
And I can’t seem to find a proper replacement for the CD drive… any way you (or someone) can let me know what would work!!
I have a compaq deskpro 2000 minitower and its just like this but I put an ssd in mine with an sata to ide adapter. The maxtor it came with died and the wd caviar my dad had also died.
I can not for the life of me locate the softpaq used to create the diagnostics disk for installing the F10 setup utility on my Armada 1700. HPs site only has the setup floppy but not the floppy that creates the partition for it to install to.
I don't know if you ever found the drivers but they are actually still available from HP.
support.hp.com/us-en/drivers/selfservice/closure/compaq-deskpro-xl-desktop-pc-series/96275/model/97091
I picked up this same exact system recently but its in near mint condition. Hard drive was a Quantum and failing. Came with Windows NT 4.0 on it. Had a 3Comm Earthlink III ISA Ethernet card and only had a floppy drive drive but had 64MB ram.
Oh jeez, My 2012 HP/Compaq 6200 Pro Minitower has those EXACT same screws..... Torque/Flathead
AND... has the same error codes.
"But Sir, I have no friends."
I requested a AOL cd a few months ago and never got it :(
31:30 omg wow!
Hi, I'm looking for a mid 90's to early 2000's gaming laptop can you or you guys recommend anything? great video's keep'em coming :)
What's that black thing on the chassis, near the CPU heatsink?
wow the phone number is live
Years ago (90's) I had a Compaq Presario repaired under warranty. It came back with a Quantum Bigfoot 5.25 drive. Like this one here: th-cam.com/video/3PY4U6lEYDY/w-d-xo.html
Pretty sure Compaq is no longer even HP's low-end -- they no longer operate in the US.
+Alexander Addison I watched a Vwestlife video a couple days ago (I believe it was of a Compaq computer too, ironically) and I remember him stating that some company in Argentina bought the rights to the Compaq name.
I think you mean coincidentally. Might find some grammar nazis on here ;)
I think that's where I heard it, too. Looked it up to confirm and it is pretty much over for old Compaq.
I feel like the AOL guy was really trying. I think you took it a bit to far.
Somehow it looks like Prolinea series to me
11:49
mmmmmmm
i hope you were joking when reading the text behind pc.
PLEASE HELP - I need the restore CD for this machine because the BIOS was stored on the hard drive and my hard drive has crashed. Please contact me and send me a copy of it!
I can't help you, sorry.
Thanks for responding. For anyone else who needs to restore an old Compaq, I found you can get the BIOS back onto the hard drive by using the Wayback Machine at archive.org and traveling back to a time when Compaq's website still had support for whatever system you're working on. The drivers for this system are available.
bogus basin?
Aol still does dialup? Huh..
Thought they killed that off in 2012 or 2014.
aol is still up, here in italy there are a lot of providers still operating
I have a mailing address, I just don't have any friends ©
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Driversguide.com for old drivers .