Compaq Presario 5000 5WV232

"Nibby" (nibby68)
05/09/2018 at 20:30 • Filed to: None

Been trying to land one of these for a while. Finally found one at a reasonable price. Restored it.

AMD Duron 700MHz (ordered a 1.1GHz upgrade)
512MB RAM
16MB NVIDIA Riva TNT2 M64 AGP video card (upgrading this to an ATI Radeon 9600)
3.5" floppy drive
5.25" 40X CD-ROM drive
20GB 5400RPM HD (upgrading this)
Intel PRO/100M PCI ethernet card
Turtle Beach Montego II AU8830 A3D PCI sound card
56K PCI modem
PS/2 ports
2xUSB ports rear
2xUSB ports front
Serial port
Parallel port

the rear

side with the original sticker on it

other side

this was FILTHY when I got it... air compressors FTW

gross, so many dust bunnies

all cleaned up

dem guts

addon cards

NVIDIA Riva TNT2 M64 16MB AGP video card

Intel PRO/100M PCI ethernet card
VIA USB 2.0 card (not gonna use this)

Other side of the network card

Turtle Beach Montego II A3D card... dat AU8830

back of the sound card

Seagate ST320423A

First order of business was to update the BIOS to allow support for AMD Thunderbird processors

BIOS screen

Windows 98 desktop

Specs

Some programs

and more

The front has a disc holder.

Retrobrighted the front blank plates but otherwise everything was cleaned with a magic eraser, isopropyl alcohol, and some old rags + shirts. It’s gonna eventually be a 98SE + 2000 dual boot rig for late 90s/early 2000s games. Plan is to bump it up to 1.1GHz 512MB RAM 40GB 7200RPM HD ATI RADEON 9600SE and it’ll be all set.

DISCUSSION (40)

Wacko > Nibby
05/09/2018 at 20:45

I honestly have to ask, why?

Can’t you just use a VM on a recent computer and install the older OSs ?

Again you have no idea how much of these I repaired then eventually scraped them. I sold/fixed computers from the late 90s to 2010 when I started work where I am now. I am my companies entire IT department.

Nibby > Wacko
05/09/2018 at 20:47

moreso for running older programs and A3D stuff

oh and why not? I flip them and actually profit off of it and have been doing it for years now.

also any chance you get anything like this or older still?

Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > Nibby
05/09/2018 at 20:48

It’s not just a PC, but an INTERNET PC!

Autophile412 - what's the world got in store? > Nibby
05/09/2018 at 20:49

I used to have that computer. It was my college computer and when it shit the bed I took it out to the range and pumped it full of russian steel.

Nibby > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
05/09/2018 at 20:51

aww ye

it’s a bit limited by RAM, processor, and OS but i can FTP + IRC from it and browse basic sites. imgur actually works though

Nibby > Autophile412 - what's the world got in store?
05/09/2018 at 20:51

you should’ve saved it for me

Goggles Pizzano > Nibby
05/09/2018 at 20:52

why not?

Wacko > Nibby
05/09/2018 at 20:58

Not really, the oldest in my park is a c2duo 3.0 that I have xp on for old programs

E90M3 > Nibby
05/09/2018 at 20:59

*opens oppo*

*sees vintage PC*

Just Nibby things.

Nibby > E90M3
05/09/2018 at 21:00

Kinja'd!!!

we just need to put an old PC in one of your E90s and post that then oppo will explode

lone_liberal > Nibby
05/09/2018 at 21:00

Man, at the place I used to work I put quite a few of those in the dumpster. At the place I’m at now the oldest ones I have laying around are HP Elite 8200s and Dell Latitude E5420s. I actually use an 8200 because the IT guy is the last to get upgraded.

Nibby > Wacko
05/09/2018 at 21:00

E8400? nice

E90M3 > Nibby
05/09/2018 at 21:03

You’re right, oppo would explode.

MM54 > Nibby
05/09/2018 at 21:13

The unpopulated footprints on that video card which are slightly overlapped with the populated IC are really bothering me.

Nibby > MM54
05/09/2018 at 21:17

OCD INTENSIFIES

Nibby > E90M3
05/09/2018 at 21:17

let’s make this happen

Kinja'd!!!

Nibby > lone_liberal
05/09/2018 at 21:18

hey those are still quite formidable with an SSD and 8GB or more RAM

That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms > Nibby
05/09/2018 at 21:21

I had one of those, with a Radeon 9800 Pro and later an X800 in it.

Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > Nibby
05/09/2018 at 21:28

I lol’d at imgur

fintail > Nibby
05/09/2018 at 21:28

You should run it on Windows ME

Nibby > That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms
05/09/2018 at 21:29

ballin’

do you remember what processor you had?

Nibby > fintail
05/09/2018 at 21:29

i might

lone_liberal > Nibby
05/09/2018 at 21:34

I’ve scavenged up 16GB of RAM and it has an i7 (second gen) but the best I’ve come up with for a hard drive is a 7200 rpm HDD. Where it fails is doing things like running virtual machines and it doesn’t have that fancy USB 3. I’m actually authorized to buy myself a new one tomorrow so we’ll see what I come up with.

That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms > Nibby
05/09/2018 at 21:38

Something north of 1ghz. This is circa what...2002? I think I was a junior in high school when I had it.

fintail > Nibby
05/09/2018 at 21:44

Then time it for average time to crash/blue screen etc.

Nibby > lone_liberal
05/09/2018 at 21:44

let me know what you get

Nibby > That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms
05/09/2018 at 21:44

probably 2001-2002

Nibby > fintail
05/09/2018 at 21:47

98SE has BSOD’d a lot on me so far

but when i get the new HD i might just start from scratch and do Me + 2000 dual boot

lone_liberal > Nibby
05/09/2018 at 21:55

Right now a Dell Precision 3000 with 32GB of RAM, an i7 7700 and an M.2 SSD boot drive is the leading candidate, but I have to make sure there aren’t any better deals out there.

Nibby > lone_liberal
05/09/2018 at 22:00

sex

That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms > Nibby
05/09/2018 at 22:09

That fits, I graduated in 2003. One of the better computers I ever had.

Boxer_4 > Nibby
05/09/2018 at 22:21

A friend of mine had a P4 version as his primary computer from 2001-2011 or so. We now have 3, I think, an AMD, a PIII and a P4.

Kinja'd!!!

I’m often on the lookout for any of the color kits - that smoke color was the most popular, and the default color scheme. These computers also had a keyboard and speakers with color accents on them, and they could be changed out like the front panel on the tower.

Nibby > Boxer_4
05/09/2018 at 22:27

yeah they had those speakers that attached to the CRT monitors it came with...

I do have some generic PS2 compaq keyboard but i like my 2nd model M more :P

Boxer_4 > Nibby
05/09/2018 at 22:42

I forgot about the CRT ( I think we have one of those, too... ); my friend had an LCD as an upgrade when his family bought the PC back in 2001, a MAG Innovision, possibly 15", I believe that’s still around, too.

The only remarkable thing about the keyboard was the switchable plastic piece.

Kinja'd!!!

Well, except for the version that had a built-in credit card reader. I managed to find one of those at one point, and got it for my friend for Christmas a few years ago.

Junkrat aka Rick Sanchez: Fury Road Edition > Nibby
05/09/2018 at 22:59

I had a Slot A Athlon when ME came out, and it would only run at core speed (33MHz). The board ran 98SE, 2000, and Linux just fine, but not ME.

Nom De Plume > lone_liberal
05/09/2018 at 23:01

As an IT guy you no doubt are aware of the fact these second processors are immune to SPECTRE and the like. Might be worth keeping the old girl around in the corner just in case.

I use an 8200 which is getting replaced very soon too. Thinking of keeping it in the family with the Elitedesk 800 G3 TWR.

Nibby > Junkrat aka Rick Sanchez: Fury Road Edition
05/09/2018 at 23:02

what a weird issue o_o

fintail > Nibby
05/09/2018 at 23:16

You could do a reliability compare and contrast.

lone_liberal > Nom De Plume
05/09/2018 at 23:47

Oh absolutely, I always keep some older machines stashed away that I can get up and running quickly if the need arises. They also come in handy when they pull the old, “Oh hey this new person is starting today and they need access to everything and a computer” bullshit.

DutchieDC2R > Nibby
05/10/2018 at 04:13

I have an old Llyama monitor, 19inch or something. If you were closer, it’d been yours...