I have the even larger version of this system which is convertible between a tower and desktop case depending on which directlon you put in the drive cage. Mine came with a 400 MHz Pentium II and I upgraded it to a 600 MHz Pentium III. I had it running 24/7 for several years and it was always very reliable.
The Compaq Deskpro EN range was very odd indeed! I remember them coming out and we ordered some PII/266 desktops which came in the same case as this one. I bought a slightly later PII/450 desktop (same case) with 9.1Gb SCSI option. There was a tower and SFF version at this point. The next generation came with the i815 chipset and grey areas on the bezels, I had a similar Deskpro EX PIII/866. The final tower variant shared the same convertible case as the Deskpro EP.
i wonder what unisound would do with the ESS chip. In duke3d its using the awe32 midi synth, maybe its speed related? But i think it was being used in doom and that sounded ok. strange. I think Descent also has a direct awe32 driver maybe give it a try?
Windows 98SE was upgraded to Windows XP. It did not covert the drive to NTFS so the old Windows 98SE still could boot. Good Video. I worked with these for years. The Deskpro EN built solid but odd for the versions
In a previous video I was having issues installing 98se, some viewers claimed it was because the hard drive was in NTFS format so I was just making the point I had formatted the drive prior to FAT32 so that couldn't of been the issue.
have one. a PIII, the model with the drive side by side, no one on top the other. I I had to give it a good cleaning and some restoration, because it even had cockroaches inside, 20 years without use
So maybe to help you with this. NTFS did not start with Windows 2000. That is al the way back to the first NT version(NT 3.1 or 3.5). And indeed MS-DOS and by extension the Windows 9x line don't understand it at all. So a reformat is necessary. And i do highly recommend doing that either way. Unless some things like multi booting come onto the scene. But that is a different , sometimes complicated, kettle of fish. MS-DOS fdisk as found on the Windows 98 (SE) install cd or boot disk can delete NTFS partitions and will recognize the partition ID as such. Though it might also say it is a HPFS partition. You might also want to have a look at Partition magic. It's install CD is also bootable and will let you partition and format the disk with a nice GUI to boot. Plus some other advanced functionalities. The confusion about the bootable CD is that the OEM versions of Windows 98 (SE) are indeed bootable. The retail copies where not and needed a boot diskette.
25:08 C:\>windows? heh, you just had to type; C:\>cd windows C:\>WINDOWS\win The PATH environment variable was wrong or not set, easy to check by typing "PATH". I always set my Windows 98SE install like that, to boot straight to DOS 7.1 and if I need Windows I just type "win". Cheers.
Having had to support ATI Rage 128 and 3D cards back in the day, I definitely didn't care for them. Drivers were garbage and there were 20 different drivers for any given model of card, and you pretty much had to just try them all until one worked without blue screening the PC.
I have the even larger version of this system which is convertible between a tower and desktop case depending on which directlon you put in the drive cage. Mine came with a 400 MHz Pentium II and I upgraded it to a 600 MHz Pentium III. I had it running 24/7 for several years and it was always very reliable.
The Compaq Deskpro EN range was very odd indeed! I remember them coming out and we ordered some PII/266 desktops which came in the same case as this one. I bought a slightly later PII/450 desktop (same case) with 9.1Gb SCSI option. There was a tower and SFF version at this point. The next generation came with the i815 chipset and grey areas on the bezels, I had a similar Deskpro EX PIII/866. The final tower variant shared the same convertible case as the Deskpro EP.
What a gorgeous machine.
Horizontal slot 1 is just magnificent.
Another great acquisition bro
Great Compaq PC. 32:00 nice CRT capture - no flickering.
the horizontal cpu probably prevents airflow being restricted around the vrm
i wonder what unisound would do with the ESS chip.
In duke3d its using the awe32 midi synth, maybe its speed related? But i think it was being used in doom and that sounded ok. strange.
I think Descent also has a direct awe32 driver maybe give it a try?
Hi my compaq deskpro en give me no video output and beep 3 time and 2 short time what it can be?
I think that's memory issue. Try reseating the RAM or try diffrent RAM sticks.
I think that Rage pro is missing some transparency modes, so no driver update can resolve those glitches. Yeah, Rage 128 is better match for PII.
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Parabéns e obrigado!
Obrigado por assistir!
Windows 98SE was upgraded to Windows XP. It did not covert the drive to NTFS so the old Windows 98SE still could boot. Good Video. I worked with these for years. The Deskpro EN built solid but odd for the versions
In a previous video I was having issues installing 98se, some viewers claimed it was because the hard drive was in NTFS format so I was just making the point I had formatted the drive prior to FAT32 so that couldn't of been the issue.
have one. a PIII, the model with the drive side by side, no one on top the other. I I had to give it a good cleaning and some restoration, because it even had cockroaches inside, 20 years without use
So maybe to help you with this.
NTFS did not start with Windows 2000. That is al the way back to the first NT version(NT 3.1 or 3.5). And indeed MS-DOS and by extension the Windows 9x line don't understand it at all. So a reformat is necessary. And i do highly recommend doing that either way. Unless some things like multi booting come onto the scene. But that is a different , sometimes complicated, kettle of fish.
MS-DOS fdisk as found on the Windows 98 (SE) install cd or boot disk can delete NTFS partitions and will recognize the partition ID as such. Though it might also say it is a HPFS partition.
You might also want to have a look at Partition magic. It's install CD is also bootable and will let you partition and format the disk with a nice GUI to boot. Plus some other advanced functionalities.
The confusion about the bootable CD is that the OEM versions of Windows 98 (SE) are indeed bootable. The retail copies where not and needed a boot diskette.
Got one of them with P2 400, sadly no original PSU.
25:08 C:\>windows? heh, you just had to type;
C:\>cd windows
C:\>WINDOWS\win
The PATH environment variable was wrong or not set, easy to check by typing "PATH".
I always set my Windows 98SE install like that, to boot straight to DOS 7.1 and if I need Windows I just type "win".
Cheers.
SOME OF THEM CASE`S CAN BE USED AS TOWER OR DESK TOP
ATI cards were infamous for being glitchy in games
I GOT 1 OF THEM BUT ITS WAS A P2 400 I PUT IT IN THE GARDEN BACK IN 2007 STILL THERE BUT VERY RUST Y NOW
pics or it didn't happen
Its kind of amazing how stuff like that can still be restored.
i used to have a pc like that years ago till the bugs shorted out the PSU
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END maybe D stands for diesel🤪
Having had to support ATI Rage 128 and 3D cards back in the day, I definitely didn't care for them. Drivers were garbage and there were 20 different drivers for any given model of card, and you pretty much had to just try them all until one worked without blue screening the PC.