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Pentium 4 Medion PC… it’s dead, Jim!

Pentium 4 Medion PC… it’s dead, Jim!

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“Midnight Geek”

It’s 2005 and I just received a solid gaming computer from a rich friend…it’s made of thick steel and weighs aproximately 50 KG!

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  1. I received as " Gift " hp compaq dc5100, and yesterday i tried to clean it but it was smoker PC, the dirtiest PC i saw in my life. The nicotine is glued on like adhesive impossible to clean,
    To bad i didn't try to make video of it.
    I told myself if motherboard survive a bath cleaning i will try to save it, the pc is useless 775 socket, 3.0 GHZ HT pentium and no AGP or PCIE. But i can't just throw it away if it works.
    And just now i tested the motherboard after 1 day in soap water and 2 days of drying and it fired up…. and now cap i need to clean the smokers case.

  2. I still have like 90% of my my Medion Pentium 4 OEM rig here. Also from 2005.
    Mine came with a 2.66 GHz Prescott, 1 GB DDR2-667, a Geforce 6200 with Turbo Cache, and XP media center edition. A perfect example of mid 2000s OEM systems.

    I see a cheap VIA sound card, which naturally has horrible FM synth for absolutely garbage MIDI sound.
    At least an FSP PSU, which are decent. The problem with OEM systems is rather that they are scaled to size for the system they come in.
    The mismatched memory is a good sign that a previous owner upgraded it at some point.
    And as usual they use the cheapest graphics card, just so that they have one and can write it on the box.
    But a LGA775 board with DDR1 is worth keeping around, they aren't too common. Same if there is one with AGP.

    I'd love to see it go through some well done cable management. Even the IDE cables can be routed well. And they can be folded.
    And for systems of that vintage and older I'd keep a PS/2 keyboard at hand. They often don't boot with legacy USB by default, so you need to go into the BIOS and enable it.
    For the BIOS I'd say flash the latest non-beta version over it, just to be sure.

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