Compaq Presario 2240 Multimedia PC from 1998!!
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- While I was away I came across this complete Compaq Presario 2240 Multimedia Desktop PC from 1998 - I just had to get it. Let's go over the beauty of this system, check out the components and see if it still works after 26 Years!
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The patchy yellowing is more likely due to UV damage from being near a window with plenty of sunlight. My guess is the rear was facing a window and the sides only receiving sunlight 50% of the time. The yellowing on the front edges is probably due to seasonal angle of the sun and oils from hands touching it to adjust it against the angle of the sun at each end of the day.
Just my theory anyway 🙂
Haha good theory!
Hope everything is going well with the family. Family is first, always. You wouldnt have a reason to persue your UA-cam career if not for your family and close friends. God bless you and yours.
Thank you so much, this means a lot!! I am back!
The system is saying it has 32MB RAM because there is 16MB onboard the motherboard. Spec sheet claims the max RAM is 48MB when a 32MB stick is installed instead of the 16MB stick.
Great point, I never even thought about that! I was going to look I to it when I go to restore the system. Thanks for calling this out!
I was wondering what happened to you, welcome back! $1,200 was actually a pretty sweet deal for that combo back then. The speakers sound quite nice, and I noticed that comp is running Win98 first edition---that's somewhat rare, most people upgraded to SE. As for what to do with it, well, you probably know my answer already; leave it original lol
Haha I love to keep the systems as original as possible. Keeps the nostalgia with them - If I want better, I just switch to another purpose built system :)
@@TheRetroRecall Exactly--the nostalgia :)
I bought my girlfriend at the time (early 1998) a very similar Compaq. It was an alright computer. She mainly used it for college so she didn't do much heavily lifting with it. AOL was probably the most demanding application. But it was definitely a cost cutters dream. Limited even for the time.
Yes for sure and hardware was changing so quickly. Thanks for sharing!
Love that there exists, game port built in systems. Of course 2 usb 1... groundbreaking
Excellent content. Your voice isn't condescending or monotone of course not overlly animated/ very genuine
Thank you
No problem and thank you for your kind words!!
I was 7 years old when that Monitor was made :) man time just zips by.
Haha so true!
Back in 98-99 I was working on Y2k projects. One site had Compaq Deskpros. I recall them having a solenoid that locked the cases. The BIOs was software based, and existed on the hard drive in a hidden partition.
Yes, I've featured a few Compaq models that had that exact setup. Silly Imo :)
Oh man the nostalgia, I had the previous model with 486 in it I think in 95, in 96 I started working in a PC store so by the time this system came out I already upgraded to a PC I built at work, started with Pentium 133, ended with Pentium 266 MMX and double the RAM.
That's awesome!!! So many great memories.
I had that exact computer for years. I pushed it to its limit. It will actually take a 300 mhz k6/2 I had a CD burner and I want to say 96mb of ram running windows Me. The speakers sound better than they should
Awesome, yeah I'm looking forward tot he upgrade video.
Our CB club had one like this for it's members to access the internet. exact same model. Windows 98 though was in it ... Worked really well ... Thanks for the memories hehe.
No problem!! Glad you enjoyed!
I see those creative speakers in the background, awesome!
Hahah yup. They were broken but I was able to solder a connection and it worked again!
I'm glad to hear that you Mum's doing really well, and family is always the most important and comes first. Nice to see a retro Compaq system on the channel, and that it's a complete system. As always a really good video, and always look forward to your videos.
Edit:
I would change the IDE hard drive to a IDE to CF with an 8GB CF card and 3D print a mount for it to stick out of one of the card slots so you could run different OS'es on it. For example you could have the original Win 98 on an 8GB CF card, and then have other CF cards that you could use to try out retro Linux distros like early RedHat and others from the mid to late 1990's.
Firstly, thank you so much for your kind words!! Secondly that's a great idea. I'd love to get a 3d printer for exactly this reason.
A great find. Brings me back to my days of the 8088 XT Turbo running @12 MHz. Also loved the days of DOS
Nice!!
Hope all is well! So happy to see the new video release. Always look forward to these!
Thank you, happy to be back and doing more videos!
When you listed the features from marketing material about the graphics card, it screamed trio64 to me... And then you opened the case and bingo! :D
31:20 it's k6 not k6-2.
Ah, good point oops!
Even when real life happens it's like there are magnets on you cos you still end up finding pieces of nostalgic 90's computing metal. Nice to hear you doing well! 😉
Haha so true! Appreciate it. Glad to be back.
39:39 the nostalgic windows song starts playing song name is passport
Yup!
I visited my parents this weekend and brought back a Dell XPS i7 system from 2011, I want to trick it out and present it as a retro pc/restoration video, but I feel like it’s still a little too new.
The best part is that you have the entire system, keyboard and all. It is a beautiful system, these mid/late 90s PCs are the most nostalgic for me. My first real PC was a Micron P2 450 mhz, I’d love to find that system again.
Hey, a 2011 system is already 13 years old. Nothing wrong with fixing it up over the next couple of years so it is ready to be a retro system in 5 or more years time
Thanks for sharing this! Ah the Micron systems - I've never owned one but always saw them in catalogues!
Agreed!
Lovely pc! Its great to see it complete. Nice find.
Agreed and thank you!
I had a 5BW143, beautiful PC, I miss it, it was a great PC, the second one I got from my parents in 2000.
Do you still have your 2000 pc?
I wish I could find old laptops from the mid 90s that have a USB port and a 9 pin serial port
They exist, just need to hunt online, however they are becoming much harder to find.
I had Compaq Presario 4128 bought in 96. it had the JBL speakers mounted at the side of the monitor. Specs were Pentium 133 Mhz, 16mb RAM, 1.2 Quantum Big Foot, 8x CD Rom.
Great PC for its time.
Nice memory! I found this line pretty cool looking for sure.
I remember the Presario commercials from that time really well, it was pronounced pre-sah-rio. My first PC was a Presario 4640, wish I still had it.
Haha my darned Canadian accent!
5:44 I got lucky with my PS2 Compaq keyboard. I used to work as IT for a very large insurance company and one day we were purging old hardware and I found a new in box PS2 Compaq keyboard. I use it for my secondary system plugged in a KVM switch. I ended up buying the matching mouse off of e-bay.
16:12 Telephone lines carry 50 volts DC on the ring burst. Pro Tip don't strip telephone wires with your teeth unless the wire is unhooked from the Dmark. 50 volts DC is a pretty good jolt especially getting it in the mouth, it does more than tingle like a 9 volt battery.
Hahaha good safety talk! :)
Phone lines always have -48VDC on them, the path is open when on hook. The ringdown voltage is 100v, and it will absolutely make one uncomfortable when it hits you. The old phone system was common battery, meaning power was provided by the central office, that way a basic telephone doesn't have a power supply. In the central office we had lots of tools that were -48 powered, because there was access to that power just about everywhere, and it reduced the chance of 60hz hum from AC power getting transmitted into the lines.
Thabks for sharing this!
My first computer.
Nice!!
Good to see you again! Welcome back 👍👏
Thank you!!!! It's great to be back!
That's much cooler than my new laptop. I bought today at staples .
Give the laptop 20 years and it will really cool!!! :)
Love the content! I would love to see an ibm intelistation!
I have a couple of IBM desktop and notebook pc videos on the channel - go check them out!
so glad to have you have you back man, I was wondering what was going on. I'm sorry for not reaching out to you due to my own personal stuff going on.
That said you found one hell of a great computer from the era and overall? The main thing I would add to this is maybe an ATI RAGE pci card and some more ram.
Yes, I posted a couple of community posts - had to attend to my Mother but she is doing much better! I hope that you are doing ok and that you are able to get everything sorted out.
It was a great find for sure, not too often do you see them in tact like this anymore.
you sure know how to score awesome finds. This is a beautiful machine, all compaq everything. I just love it.z
It was a fun find for sure!!!
Oh that Windows 98 startup sound.....whenever i power up my Xbox Series X it always reminds me of 98 (the new gen xbox uses 98's logon sound but it's remixed a little). I found a similar Compaq computer a few weeks ago too. It was sitting inside an abandoned building we had to clear out,still had the factory seal on it with the original configuration. After 24 years i got to be the first person to open it and give it some maintenance. He's an old grandpa computer but he still runs :)
Now that's exciting!!! Finding a NOS system 24 years later - wow! Jealous.
wasn't aware you were away, hope everything is going well... when I was young I was kindof a snob about these machines cause I built my own and although some were somewhat upgradeable, almost all had integrated graphics and audio that were inferior to what I would piece together myself, I would never suggest these systems to anyone, however in 1999 I started selling them at my local office depot and it was a toss-up between HP or Compaq for what I would suggest to customers...
the yellowing almost looks like smoker tar to me, but it does say a church name as the owner so maybe not....
For sure. I was like you - I always custom built these systems that always seemed to be better than their oem counterparts. But man, today seeing them complete brings back so many memories!
I had this machine back in the day for my Junior year of Highschool. I got it in March of 1998. Same model number, but mine had an S3 Virge in it instead of a S3 trio. I have looked everywhere for my specific model and I cannot find any information on it. I remember we purchased it on sale from Office Depot for 799.99 with the monitor. 16MB of RAM, 2.1GB hard drive. My CD-rom drive I think was a 24x. I purchased the exact same model you have there on eBay a couple years ago. Love playing with it from time to time, but it's still strange that mine back in the day was exactly the same except for the integrated video.
Hardware back then was such a race and I often refer to it as the wild west of computing. Not a lot made sense as manufacturers were doing everything they could to get these systems out as quickly and cheaply as they could.
This kinda' computers bring me so much memories. Our computer lab' at school had a few of these back in the day.
Awesome! I never really used these ones before, so. It was a fun experience!
@@TheRetroRecall I don't doubt it! Back in my high school days, we managed to recover a few of the discarded desktops we had on the older lab and we ended up creating a "rec room" in one of the rooms of the older building. Unfortunatly, it didn't last long after a teacher snitched me and the kids that visited our secret club and we had to torn everthing down
That's a shame, as it would have been fun!
That unyellowed on the back of the monitor seems like something kept that that part in the shadow. Like something was put on top with cables draping over the back. Or some kind of desk with shelved above the monitor with stuff hanging from the back.
Oooh nice an AMD K6.
Though a nice vibrating speaker next to a sensitive harddisk is not the best thing for it.
Hahah I did think that about the hard disk and don't forget about the magnet in the speaker lol!
My elementary school had two of these (the deskpro variant) in the library. They were the only windows PCs in the school and the only two computers that could get online.
Come to think of it, that was around 1996, so it must have been older than this one
Nice!! I was never that lucky.
Yes, but very close.
I hope you and your family are doing fine. Our prayers are with you and your family. 🙏Your family and your health are always number one priorities. ♥
To me Compaq is the symbol of 90s computing. Just about everyone I knew had a Compaq in the 90s.
I also hated when monitors used a built in video and and/or power cable. I had a CRT flat screen, 17 inch HP monitor which worked fine until it’s built in VGA cable got damaged from moving so I had no choice but to scrap it at the time.
Thank you so much for your kind words. Mom is doing much better :). Agreed - having everything built in was just a pain.
@@TheRetroRecall Good to hear she feeling better. ❤More built in components means more stuff that can go wrong. Another reason why I prefer desktop boxes over AIO systems. ☺
Haha I think the same way!
@@TheRetroRecall I tend to avoid AIO systems unless if it is a Lenovo or iMac.
Where I live at thrift stores, they are never old 90s computers anywhere. All I find are monitors and mice and keyboards and that's it.
Yes, it is getting quite hard to find anything these days.
To me those lines look like cables lie there for years in a sunny room. Maybe it was in a rack or something with cables running behind it, shading the sun?
Yeah possibly. They just seem really perfect haha.
Awesome video as always! Keep it up👍🏼👍🏼
Thank you, glad you enjoyed!
Awesome retro PC video!😊
Thank you!! Glad you enjoyed!
Nice video thanks. I was wondering what is the name/brand of that blue power strip?
I am not sure, I'll have to go look but I got it at Costco in the hardware department. It is quite handy!
good 2 see you back pal
Thank you!!! It's great to be back!
It baffles me that only one of the speakers has a cabinet behind it, feels like missed potential.
Definitely a weird and interesting little system with the air duct and such. Very cost-reduced.
Agreed, I was surprised as well and to your point, a missed opportunity.
34:55 Didn't you spot any memory chips on the motherboard? That would line up with the 48 MB of max memory expansion indicated on the flyer (16 Mb integrated + a 32 Mb memory module in the single memory slot available). Which, by the way, it seems a bit too little for a machine of that era. I would have expected 128, or 64 at the barest minimum. The 32 Mb that it came with as standard feels quite typical for the era, though.
Haha I didn't - because well.. I didn't lol. Good call out though, it makes total sense. I need to go back and look.
I'm jelly I have a Presario m2200 (basically the same but black) I WISH I have the matching monitor let alone the keyboard & mouse.
Yes was quite a lucky find and becoming more difficult every day to find decent hardware.
You did a good job on the video! This video also reminds me that I have an old Dell Dimension Desktop from 98 or 99. I think it ran Windows 98 and I believe it had a pretty old Intel Celeron CPU. Unsure about anything else tho😂 if you ever wanted to see it or show it on the channel I would be glad to somehow get it to you, but I’d have to find it first..
I believe I also have the OG Dell monitor too. A bulky CRT one.
That would be fun!
Yeah, that's the issue with CRTs, they are bulky and do not ship well.
@@TheRetroRecall Yeah that thing is very bulky and heavy😭
@TheRandomRepairGuy yes - but they are so nice when they work well.
Those lines on the back are obviously cable shadows and I'd say the blotchy yellowing is due to curtains, a sheet or being inside a clear garbage bag.
Well, I only mention it as the lines are perfectly outlined. Usually cables tend to be wavy.
Nice! :)
Thanks for the video
You are welcome, I'm glad you enjoyed!
cant go wrong with ESFM this is a nice dos w9x machine. voodoo 1 or 2 in the pci slot and you have some 3d support.
i cant quite tell but is the cap closest to edge and by the yellow coil bulging at the top?
I double checked and it looked good? I mean I would have to take it out and use a meter to read it properly.
@@TheRetroRecall nah if the cap looks flat i wouldnt mess with it. The camera angle wasnt very good and it could have been a reflection/illusion.
I've often fooled myself as well with hat reflection.
id be temped to swap CPU to a intel or get rod of the cooling hood and fit a CPU fan directly since AMD used to run extremely hot back in day
Yes for sure. I'd like to keep it original so a better cooling solution would probably be best.
i wonder what it would be like if AMD made a x86 8-core in the late 90s for windows ME/98SE.
Interesting. I never used AMD much back then as they tended to be underpowered and overheated compared to the intel CPUs.
@@TheRetroRecall i was an intel guy in the old days. Never heard of amd at all in the 90s or the 00s because all the PCs I ever owned was either p3, p4, celeron, core 2 quad or duo or haswell i5. After my i5 popped i discovered fx8350 for my first pc build just before ryzen 1st gen existed. Back then i could not find an affordable intel 8core in the mid 10s. But my experience is flipped when people say amd gets hot and pops. Every intel i have had for a year or less pops. But nowadays every amd i use pops now. So i dont really care what anyones thermal nightmares are with amd. Its 50v50 for me. But still... If only fx was an earlier project for the 90s that could have been an oversight... Im thankful for AMD fx for my first 8 core experience. The cpu lasted like 6 years until it popped for me. Thats the longest I've ever had a pc without dying on me. I've had 2 ryzens and they both popped under a year... That reminds me i still have my old dell dimension 4700 pcie p4 mb still stripped from the chassis some time ago. I miss win98se too much.
One Question, how do you get all these computers and crt monitors as e-waste? Like how do you do this? and do you get them for free or do you pay?
It really depends. They come from all different sources and I am fortunate to have a lot of connections in those areas that help. :) I get them through donations, and some through buying them. The ones I buy I usually indicate that in the video :)
Family always comes first. Hope all is well with them.
Also, they sure don't make cool-looking computers like that anymore. Nowadays it's all boring black and silver boxes. I noticed the computer has the first edition of Windows 98. You should update it to Windows 98 SE and give it Plus! 98 for a touch of class. 😊
Thank you, mom is doing much better now! Agreed, I love computers back then compared to today. I always got excited looking at all of the exciting new hardware coming out. I don't get that same feeling today. I love your suggestion!
Imagine how annoyed people were if they bought this Presario in 1997 and found out that they can't have a SoundBlaster Live that came out in 1998 and a decent Voodoo or decent networking at the same time with their system. That's I think where some started to really dislike OEMs for user unfriendly decisions.
For sure. I mean tech was changing so quickly back then that if you waited a week there was always something newer. Much more exciting back then :)
@@TheRetroRecall sure, but only one PCI slot in such a machine is a real limitation, considering how many cards there were.
True.
That's a sexy looking computer if ever I saw one.
I completely agree - was so happy to find a complete system!
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(1) Would be interested to see if...
(2) You could load it from a plop floppy to boot from USB
(3) Then load a copy of linux maybe puppy 19.03 (32bit)... might be too heavy.
Puppy may work. I did just do a video on DSL 2024 on a p3! Check it out.
needs a rear cpu case fan
I agree, those AMDs run hot!
They don’t make them like they use to i think the older ones are better
I agree.
OH MY GOD. If you can find a 486 Compaq Presario AIO, I will literally pull my teeth and sell them to you to get my grubby little mits on one again.
Hahahha I will keep an eye out, but keep your teeth 😂 I think you need them more than me lol!
@@TheRetroRecall well a few more missing wouldn't be a big deal, not as big a deal as getting a cool retro PC!
Hahha!
probably ram onboard. you probably will need a fan for better cooling on a faster cpu...
I think you are right. As for the fan - totally.
i found a cheap Compaq p3 desktop pc with original keyboard but i can't buy it they only sell it if you travel to middle of nowhere to get it
Yeah that's been my experience, I was lucky to find this.
warframe 1999 reference
What's that?
@@TheRetroRecall video game called warframe is releasing an update this winter that has a story in 1999, this looks like the pc terminals that are in the trailer for the update
Ahhhhh
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I hate this 'we are doing awesome' thing.
Haha well, you don't have to watch? Either way, I hope you are doing awesome! :)
the white marks on the monitor may have been from the cables being on it, i can imagine maybe it was in storage or something and the cables where placed on top 🤔
Definitely possible. Just really perfect lines where I expected a cable to be slightly curved.
@@TheRetroRecall yup 😯