Compaq SR5433WM upgraded "Wal-Mart Special" PC
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- A diamond in the rough from Compaq's twilight years as a computer brand. Transformed from its lowly Wal-Mart budget PC beginnings with a faster CPU, more RAM, a lightning-fast SSD, and a better operating system.
Video contains music by Julian Croot ("80s Inspired Retro Synth Track"): picturedmedia.c...
That spider was just trying to get on the web...
Wow, you're still reading comments all these years later. That's impressive!
I found the same computer on my neighbours curb, it was beaten up on purpose to make sure "all personal information" was ruined. I took it home and discovered the hard drive, operating system and files was in perfect condition :)
*slow clap*
LOL
3:46 who the hell is giving you shit for using a CRT monitor?? We're not talking about using an 8 track player instead of a CD player. It's a different picture and nostalgia is a factor that should never be overlooked.
The hardest thing about running XP on newer machines is finding the drivers-a lot of trial and error goes on.XP was great-still run it in vm.
I got XP running on a machine I built with a Xeon E5440 (Q3HE, which is an engineering sample). It's impressively usable.
9:52 Druaga1 reincarnated as a spider
CompuTech no....that was Boris The Spider.
0:37. Nostalgia just punched me in the face right there. Those were the exact same stickers on my dad's former Toshiba Satellite A205-S5825.
i have no idea why i watch this and i cant stop
Ahaaaaa, I always suspected that Apple Inc's founder used Windows as his daily driver !!!🤔
Thanks for varifying that my man
As an Argentinean who recently bought a Compaq notebook (less than a week ago) I thought Compaq was dead and you pretty much left it clear to me now !
Its not dead, its hp for horespower ( i know its helwet packard)
I love the random break in the middle of the video of a spider running on the SSD box.
I really love watching your videos man, keep them coming!
@5:23 Registered to Steve Jobs, Apple Computer, Inc.?!?!😆🤣😂
Keep up a good work, I watched almost all your videos. from finds, to audi and so on :)
Very calm and enjoyable voice you have.
I HAVE A Compaq that looks exactly like this one, but its a Presario SR5710F, original specs were Athlon X2 X4450e Dual Core 2.3 GhZ, Win Vista DDR2 ram.
I installed Windows 7 at some point, but the mobo died in 2018. This year I got a new mobo and CPU that has 2.6 Ghz, and installed Linux Mint 20.3. Now it runs safely in todays modern web.
Registered to: Steve Jobs
Apple Inc. Windows XP: FUUUUUUCCCCCKKKKKKK
Wow look at those beautiful Firewire 400 ports. When I got my 3rd gen ipod in 2003 I had to shell out a lot of money at the time for a Firewire card because I didn't have USB 2.0 yet.
What's wrong with crt, I love them!
The feel when this thing has a better CPU then your main gaming computer
Damn man it takes my computer 15 seconds to cold boot and 12 seconds for my wife's computer too. We both use Corair SSD's Force models, and I use an AMD 8350 she uses a mid ranged i5.
What OS?
I had a Compaq SR5710F. Which was bought in 2009. It came with a Compaq Monitor and at the store I bought it at, they gave me a free HP W2207. I upgraded and loved that PC, I donated it to goodwill in October 2014. Since I built a new computer.
Some people do cold starts on vehicles, but here on the vwestlife channel, we do cold starts of computers!
That spider is shopping for an SSD, i think.
Probably a rich spider
4:36 well that solve the floppy drive mystery on my machine..
oh youre still using a crt
I feel like this is a joke coming from when he mocks people saying "oh you're still using a crt" and he says it's not a crt
@@partitionhlep it is
@@partitionhlep oh I see, sherlock
Spider friend. :)
So you register every windows computer you have to Steve Jobs? That's hilarious.
Thank you very much for all the wonderful videos you have uploaded. How many computers do you have? Where do you find the space to keep them all?
10:08 That spider dropped by to say hi.
Why would you need so many browsers?
The first computer my family ever had was a brand new Compaq Presario 4505. It wasn't special but it'll always hold a special place in my heart as it's where I learned about MS Paint, AOL 3.0 to 4.0, Doom (shareware edition) and early mp3 files. 1997 was fun lol.
im from argentina and I didnt know they we were the only ones still making compaqs, i feel special
5:48 it kinda seems like that has largely happened with just about all browsers these days, just about all browsers have used chrome or the chromium code as it's base these days, and appears to have copy/pasted the appearance of it a bit too. I liked when the tabs were on the bottom, below the bookmarks, not above the url box. Firefox used to have a setting that allowed you to switch back to that old style before they pulled that setting and put the tabs above by default.
9:53 That spider is in the market for an SSD.
It's a SSS Solid State Spider
Anthony Mondz Super Speed Spider
Could be a rich spider trying to buy vwestlifes computers
The knock-out slots on the back are used for some special expansion cards. I have an hp from the same time period, and it has a wireless card in one of the knock-out bays. My hp also has the same power supply. It also has the molex to sata adapters.
Gold almighty, this is getting people's panties in a knot more than the Linux videos!
+themaritimeman It's very surprising.
An SSD in an old computer?! Who do you think you are, Druaga1!?! :P
atleast it isnt a windows 98 era pc XD
+Spriteclad Hey Smokers ............ :)
Love Druaga1
Well druaga installed an ssd in a windows 95 pc.
Cool that you played a video from as he's now known English Bob 😀. He has done many videos on Puppy Linux and other distros. He loves Windows XP as well as seen in the video you played by him 😀. Windows XP was around so long that it just got better and better 😀. Thanks for uploading your videos 😀. Fun watching on a rainy day like today 😀.
Those knock outs on the back are for optional media recorder. They would put the plugs for video and remote control in there. Also sometimes for a wifi internal adapter.
I've got that same (or very similar) motherboard that I pulled from a slightly older Compaq Walmart special, loaded with 4GB of RAM and a 1.8GHz ULV C2D, in my file server. Mine had a slightly chunkier heatsink though, since it was originally equipped with a 2.8GHz P4. It's been surprisingly reliable.
Great looking monitor and love the upgrades nice videos!
I had an SR5210NX growing up, it was branded under the Presario line with the new Compaq logo, same case, but without the floppy drive and card reader.
I love that type of bios it is easier to work with
I liked the spider’s interlude in this one
I used to repair these machines. Wow has time flown. These usually had Asus branded motherboards in them. Sometimes even Foxcon.
Seeing this however is interesting.
9:50 - time to burn down the house...
i like how you put 'registered to steve jobs of apple incorporated'
+xan page-brown Not to mention, his voice does somewhat sound like Steve Jobs xD
yeah it does actually. haha
be careful with the psu, the best tec psus used in these pcu are motherboard killers because they cheaped out on the capacitors on the 5v standby
Poor Compaq, When I was in highschool I had one of those Presario 5000 series and I ordered the
green case/speaker covers for it. I also have a Presario CQ56 notebook, which i think is basically
just a rebadged HP.
Yep, the Presario CQ56 is basically a rebadged HP G56.
+sci3ntologist I have a presario cq56 and i still use it as my main laptop after upgrading it
My grandparents have a similar Compaq to this one, except it has an AMD processor in it. It was bought brand new in 2008 and they're still using it today, although it's still running Vista.
I got an earlier version from Best Buy on clearance back then. It had the card reader and USB, but also had a Firewire on the front. It had an AMD Athlon 64, but crappy onboard video. I doubled the RAM, put in a good PCIe graphics card, and it was a really nice machine.
I'm watching a video about a machine I have just a metre away from me (minus the Walmart edition thing) piled next to some others, and care little or nothing about, and often forget I even own, and I'm enjoying it. It's a weird experience somehow.
I hope you eradicated that nasty spider running around. The hair stood up on my arms when I saw that!
5:33 Registered to: Steve Jobs
Apple Computer, Inc.
LOL
I would happily use this computer most of the time (I say most and not all because my new computer is too good to replace really). But I love Windows XP!!
"Registered to Steve Jobs..." is it bad that that made me giggle?
I dumpsterdived This exact pc, but with an AMD chip.
Then it was not this EXACT PC like... at all. Just same case and little else.
5:28 I knew windows xp was so good even steve jobs used it. Kidding
This is a pretty solid machine, I have one about to go out into the field as a Linux media center PC, I did similar upgrades like you did with the SSD being dual 500Gb instead of a single 250Gb. This thing needs to hold alot of music files. Also I didn't put in a floppy drive because in its intended environment a floppy drive would be useless.
We did a custom paint job on the case where the front bezel is white and on the sides we had white airbrushing of Atlas Sound and MTX Audio put on.
I've got one of those! It's basically brand new even after all of these years because Vista was such a disaster. I started tinkering around with it and even crossflashed the BIOS to the MSI version (which led to the power control logic not working properly -- it was impossible to turn the system off)...and then I just parked it. It's probably in something of a shambles, I did wipe the hard drive.
A 360GB hard drive...I wonder if that was a special bid item for HP, to offset the loss of some space for recovery tools? (By the way, HP still uses the Compaq name on some business line PCs, which are actually branded as both.)
Just a random question out of curiosity -- as you seem to use Adobe Audition quite regularly -- has it got a major area of functionality that Audacity lacks or implements poorly?
+uxwbill I've actually never used Audacity, other than installing it on the HP Pavilion laptop I showed recently. I use Adobe Audition 1.5 because it's a renamed and slightly updated version of Cool Edit Pro, which I began using way back in the '90s, before Audacity even existed. (I even have a Windows 3.1 version of Cool Edit.)
+vwestlife i remember using CEP
Windows ME was the worst. 98, 98SE and XP all ran very well if you maintained it. My ME crashed daily with blue screens. Anyone show me a good ME installation that ran?!?!
Spider intermission
Folks who just do email, some word processing and maybe a little Facebook can get by with surprisingly basic
gear. My folks used Win98se on a PII 300 white box pc with 128 gigs ram even after others were moving to XP.
They still even used dial-up internet until recently..
do you mean 128 megabytes lol
Wow how lucky are you to have found Steve Jobs' computer!
Registered to:
Steve Jobs
Apple Computer, Inc.
lol :D
The SSD is worth more than the PC
Except the ssd is part of the pc
Lol, it says at 5:22 registered to Steve Jobs at Apple Computer, Inc.
Good job vwestlife, I'm an Apple fan too.
That's a reference to a scandal.
Wait there's a spider and you didn't kill him
Lol! @ 5:03 "Registered to Steve Jobs"
That made my day.
Those knock-out plugs are used for things like wi-fi antennas and audio amps, and i recently got a very similar one to that at the recycling center
I just... I can't even. Now you just need a PCI-e graphics card, and you're good to go!
I'd love to see this beast run Windows 7 or 10.
great video, have one of these exactly the same in the UK that shipped with a 160GB hdd and Vista home premium, just got it out today to re install windows and hopefully sell
Have you done anything to add TRIM support for your SSD under XP? I've never put XP on an SSD myself but as far as I know it doesn't natively support TRIM so your performance might degrade over time.
Samsung provides software to enable TRIM in XP.
I like computers.
+Wabbit me toooooo
Me too 😄
Me to
Me too
The zune theme was my fave when I used WinXP!
Enjoyed this video very much! I appreciate your software choices, I use Cyberfox as my main browser on modern PCs and K-Melon/Palemoon on older systems. Cheers :)
"Ooh you're still using a CRT?!" lol... well to be fair, it does kind of look like a CRT from head on. Will this be one of your main computers now? I have never seen XP boot up that quickly! that's awesome. One of the reasons why people think XP is so slow (aside from years of filling the computer with junkware and viruses) is because it tends to be running on old, slower systems, perhaps with hardware that's on its last legs. My laptop with Win 8.1 does boot almost that quickly... but that's because I removed most of the bloatware that Acer decided to clog up the computer with. I wonder if you'll get comments from people telling you to install you-know-what? Or have they all unsubscribed after your recent series of demonstrations? :-). Soon, we'll be setting up our old desktop in the spare room, and it's an older professional grade Dell tower with XP... I think I'll be putting Service Pack 4 on it for now, and using one of those browsers you showed off. Who knows if a new OS would even run well on it, but I'd have to look up the specs to see.
+talldude123 Yea, other than video sites like UA-cam, most webpages seem to be designed more for 4:3, since most of the time you'll just get a narrow column in the middle with a sea of blank space on the sides.
+wilkes85 It does look a bit like a CRT, but even on this video, my eyes can't be fooled.
+wilkes85 yeah. I got a 19" 4:3 monitor from a charity shop for a tenner. Looks great, so much more space. Had DVI on it too, bargain
registered to steve jobs
I have a similar setup with a core 2 duo e8600 unlocked 4gb of ram and a reason graphics card. Great gaming pc in 2009. It's now a server
runs windows 7 great
It looks like you cleared all the bugs.
For an everyday Linux user as myself I can agree that Windows Xp is a pretty good operating system. Everything is in a convenient place, there's some nice Anti-virus software like AVG, and when I ever had a problem, there was nothing I couldn't fix with a little Google search here and there.
ON THE WORKBENCH TONIGHT! ;)
I'd never make fun of anyone for using a CRT, especially for a XP oriented machine or earlier. That keyboard on the other hand.......
The Califone Kidskey keyboard is just for testing computers on my workbench, and it actually has a nicer typing feel than the keyboard this Compaq came with when it was new.
RIP Pentium as a flagship Intel processor
What do you think of the Royale Noir theme?
It's OK but has the bug where the Start button turns green when you click on it. Overall the Zune theme is quite similar but not as dark.
I run into that sometimes with computers. One computer i have has SATA connectors on the power supply but not on the board, and the second had SATA connectors in the board but not the power supply. And while i would just swap them around they weren't from the same company.
I think that computer came with a new friend lol.
So no video card, a core 2 duo, 4GB memory, a floppy drive, AND AN SSD!!!!?????
I recently picked up a working HP P6000 series model of some description from my local thrift store for $15. A score to say the least.
The case design is almost identical to this Compaq, including a power supply utilizing Molex to SATA power adapters
Love that spider bit :D
I believe those knockout blanks at the bottom are for a wireless antenna socket, I've seen similar Compaq PCs equipped with mini PCI wireless cards.
That looks EXACTLY like the computer I used to make Season 1 of Funny Signs with . , .
I have that ssd, best purchase ever
+proce09 I have the same SSD too and after I installed on my PC, my PC felt like a brand new computer. A much faster computer.
+MegaBojan1993 so worth it
Your English accent is coming along nicely!
I have one of these cheapo Compaqs... It was originally my Mom's before she upgraded to a Mac Mini. I replaced everything but the motherboard and CPU. The Bestec PSU failed in it long ago. One thing with mine is that it had those molex to Sata adapters like in yours except the original hard drive actually had a Molex connector on it! The original drive was also a Deathstar, Which failed of course. The CPU was also an AMD Athlon 64 instead of a Pentium. But once I replaced all the cheap parts and Installed Ubuntu server it made a great web and file server.
You used to be able to use CapDVHS to get transport streams out of cable boxes through the firewire port. I think most cablecos lock this down now though.
I have the exact same motherboard, the MS-7525, except that its a HP a6645d system, and it came with Windows Vista Home Basic. I also upgraded it with an SSD but keeping the PDC CPU, and have Windows 10 on it.
I am guessing your Compaq is manufactured around 2008, since that's when Compaq and HP are together.
My parents still have that...
3:34 I'm from Argentina, and yes Compaq is still here in Argentina
Love your videos :D
5:33
Registered to Steve Jobs?
+SCK The Kai-Ken Good catch.