Very interesting restoration process of a classic HP slim PC. Since I grew up with Windows XP on HP Pavilion PCs, I find this video very fascinating due to many things an HP Thin Client PC could handle. Excellent work!
@@RetroTechChris You're welcome, and thanks! I had lots of fun watching this informative video since HP Thin Client PCs from over the years are very versatile. Keep up the excellent work!
Probably so! You can definitely install Windows 98 Second Edition! Here's the T5700's "close cousin," the procedure should work the same: th-cam.com/video/8YNCkgMyH6k/w-d-xo.html
I tried installing 95B on my version and IIRC I could not get the audio drivers to work. Or maybe I was trying 98SE. Either way the rest of it worked and I'm sure with a different driver the audio would work just fine.
@@RetroTechChris ok so i did some digging and found that some taiwanese guy had already done it and it did fine (albeit the model was a t5710 with a 1.2ghz efficeon)
Agreed! Using my favorite BootIt Bare Metal boot manager, this would probably work just fine. I have a full setup procedure (another video!) for 3.11, so setup would be a cinch to restore it!
@@eDoc2020 I don't think they even make the IDE DOMs in sizes that large. I've only seen 16 and 32gb, and those were prohibitively expensive. 8gb should be plenty for a dual boot system 4gb would even probably be OK.
@@dennisp.2147 I don't know if they do either. I connected a cable to the DOM header and attached a regular IDE hard drive. This can be cheaper than a dedicated DOM. If you want it to remain silent you can use IDE to SATA adapters with an SSD.
@@eDoc2020 a 4gb DOM is going for about $9 with free shipping on eBay right now and a 8Gb for about $20. Either is more than sufficient for a DOS or Windows 9X-2K/XP install. That might be slightly more than a trash-picked/recycled IDE drive, but it's worth it, to me at least, to keep the machine closed up and neat. Otherwise it's messy; hanging open with wires, converters and adapters dangling out. At that point you might as well be using a mining rig open frame with a standard AT motherboard. The DOM is what was intended to fit. Although, there is an adapter from HP that allows you to use the PCI slot in these that does have space to mount a laptop sized hard drive. Unfortunately they're unobtanium. I've got a 4GB in mine, replacing a very tiny 128MB DOM. With two 2GB partitions, one with DOS/Win 3.11 and another for data it's got plenty of space, and I can network it. FTR, you can overcome the 128GB barrier with various drive overlays.
Very interesting restoration process of a classic HP slim PC. Since I grew up with Windows XP on HP Pavilion PCs, I find this video very fascinating due to many things an HP Thin Client PC could handle. Excellent work!
Thank you!! Very glad you enjoyed the video. Yea, these are pretty capable little systems, and great retro systems too. Thanks for watching!
@@RetroTechChris You're welcome, and thanks! I had lots of fun watching this informative video since HP Thin Client PCs from over the years are very versatile. Keep up the excellent work!
@@CEO100able thank you, I sincerely appreciate that! Your kind comment means a lot. Retro forever!!
@@RetroTechChris You're welcome! Yeah, long live classic computers and hardware! Although I use Windows 10 regularly, I'm a retro PC kind of guy.
just what i needed... nice job... i really like this particular thin client
Thank you! Yea, it's my favorite thin client so far.
Always handy to have an XP machine available. They don't much more handy than that little fellow!
That's a great point! Thanks for watching.
Would be interesting to see how that ATI Rage XL performs in 3D. Specifically would be neat to see how Unreal Tournament or 3D Mark runs
Very true. Sounds like a follow-up video is in order!
It's amazing how much the prices of these skyrocketed. I saw videos about getting them for $15, now they are going upwards for $150.
Yea, same. That has been the retro trend sadly.
i always be interested in thin client, i would to setup my home linux server to have a remite desktop… quite cool for “mainframe like” uses
Absolutely!! These provide a nice "remote desktop" experience into a more powerful system!
Excellent work and video! Do you think you can install Windows 95 instead? Just an idea
Probably so! You can definitely install Windows 98 Second Edition! Here's the T5700's "close cousin," the procedure should work the same: th-cam.com/video/8YNCkgMyH6k/w-d-xo.html
I tried installing 95B on my version and IIRC I could not get the audio drivers to work. Or maybe I was trying 98SE. Either way the rest of it worked and I'm sure with a different driver the audio would work just fine.
Haha read failure on my part, I already posted the link above.
is it possible to run pure xp(not embedded) on this machine?
I thought I tried that and did a video on it, but I'm drawing a blank.
Reflecting some more, I don't think I have tried it actually! I've done WinXP embedded, Win98SE, WFW3.11, and Win2k, but no pure XP
@@RetroTechChris i think in theory it should be able to run. ive seen machines with worse specs run xp with no problem (kinda)
@@RetroTechChris ok so i did some digging and found that some taiwanese guy had already done it and it did fine (albeit the model was a t5710 with a 1.2ghz efficeon)
It would be interesting to replace the 256 mb DOM with a 4gb or larger one and see if you could get it to dual boot DOS/Win 3.11 and XP.
Agreed! Using my favorite BootIt Bare Metal boot manager, this would probably work just fine. I have a full setup procedure (another video!) for 3.11, so setup would be a cinch to restore it!
From my testing the BIOS on these can only see 128 gigabytes, not that you would need this much.
@@eDoc2020 I don't think they even make the IDE DOMs in sizes that large. I've only seen 16 and 32gb, and those were prohibitively expensive. 8gb should be plenty for a dual boot system 4gb would even probably be OK.
@@dennisp.2147 I don't know if they do either. I connected a cable to the DOM header and attached a regular IDE hard drive. This can be cheaper than a dedicated DOM. If you want it to remain silent you can use IDE to SATA adapters with an SSD.
@@eDoc2020 a 4gb DOM is going for about $9 with free shipping on eBay right now and a 8Gb for about $20. Either is more than sufficient for a DOS or Windows 9X-2K/XP install. That might be slightly more than a trash-picked/recycled IDE drive, but it's worth it, to me at least, to keep the machine closed up and neat. Otherwise it's messy; hanging open with wires, converters and adapters dangling out. At that point you might as well be using a mining rig open frame with a standard AT motherboard. The DOM is what was intended to fit. Although, there is an adapter from HP that allows you to use the PCI slot in these that does have space to mount a laptop sized hard drive. Unfortunately they're unobtanium.
I've got a 4GB in mine, replacing a very tiny 128MB DOM. With two 2GB partitions, one with DOS/Win 3.11 and another for data it's got plenty of space, and I can network it.
FTR, you can overcome the 128GB barrier with various drive overlays.