Post by Admin on Jan 13, 2023 15:13:56 GMT 10
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About two years ago, this machine was found discarded on the road side, just one block from my house. Almost everything had been stripped from it except the motherboard, which appeared to be in quite good condition. I was returning from my daily walking exercises and, after a quick examination of the unwanted hardware, could not resist carrying it home with me.
As it happened, there was an old ATX power supply in my storage, and together with a 1 GB DDR RAM module borrowed from the Dell Inspiron 530, this computer was ready for a test. It sure took me a bit of effort, and finally after executing a CMOS Ram reset on the motherboard I was able to bring it back to life. This machine turned out to be a HP-Compaq-dx2400 , with an Intel Core2 Quad Q6600 2.4 GHz CPU.
To make it fully functional, over the following weeks I gradually added some more components, bought from eBay, which included:
- 2x 2GB DDR2 RAM modules (for $20)
- 1 C-Media CMI8730 PCI audio card (for $15) , (the audio chip on the motherboard did not work)
- 1 SATA DVD R/W drive ($5)
- 1x NVIDIA GeForce-210 512 MB graphic card (spare taken from the Dell 780 computer)
- 1x Samsung 830 mSATA SSD (128 GB) , spare taken from a dead Dell XPS13 laptop.
- 1x USB Wifi dongle (RTL8192eu, for $10)
For operating system I tried installing Windows XP-Pro from a genuine HP DVD disk in my software collection. It worked fine, and to my surprise, the OS became activated by default,(probably due to the fact that the motherboard was an OEM item).
Windows XP-pro runs quite well on this machine, producing a very snappy performance. (Quite impressive in fact, for a piece of hardware that has been thrown away).
screen shot of the XP-Pro OS :
About two years ago, this machine was found discarded on the road side, just one block from my house. Almost everything had been stripped from it except the motherboard, which appeared to be in quite good condition. I was returning from my daily walking exercises and, after a quick examination of the unwanted hardware, could not resist carrying it home with me.
As it happened, there was an old ATX power supply in my storage, and together with a 1 GB DDR RAM module borrowed from the Dell Inspiron 530, this computer was ready for a test. It sure took me a bit of effort, and finally after executing a CMOS Ram reset on the motherboard I was able to bring it back to life. This machine turned out to be a HP-Compaq-dx2400 , with an Intel Core2 Quad Q6600 2.4 GHz CPU.
To make it fully functional, over the following weeks I gradually added some more components, bought from eBay, which included:
- 2x 2GB DDR2 RAM modules (for $20)
- 1 C-Media CMI8730 PCI audio card (for $15) , (the audio chip on the motherboard did not work)
- 1 SATA DVD R/W drive ($5)
- 1x NVIDIA GeForce-210 512 MB graphic card (spare taken from the Dell 780 computer)
- 1x Samsung 830 mSATA SSD (128 GB) , spare taken from a dead Dell XPS13 laptop.
- 1x USB Wifi dongle (RTL8192eu, for $10)
For operating system I tried installing Windows XP-Pro from a genuine HP DVD disk in my software collection. It worked fine, and to my surprise, the OS became activated by default,(probably due to the fact that the motherboard was an OEM item).
Windows XP-pro runs quite well on this machine, producing a very snappy performance. (Quite impressive in fact, for a piece of hardware that has been thrown away).
screen shot of the XP-Pro OS :
