MAIL UNBOXING - HP VECTRA VL400

Рет қаралды 903

Ай бұрын

Hello! How are you doing?
I'm doing great now with this video testing this computer sent to me.
Join me in this retro journey remembering again this kind of systems and period of time.
It is awesome to have this machines and use them, also learning while doing this stuff.
Whatever we can restore and recover it's better than to be dumped on a landfill or burned. Very few recycle correctly around the world and we keep buying devices non stop! So I like to do something about it while I can.
Big thanks again to ‪@philscomputerlab‬ and his software tools you should know him by now, super recommended.
Hope you enjoy the video and if you want you can leave a like and subscribe.
Thanks for watching.
Cheers!
#restoredwards

Пікірлер: 22

@retroboby007 16 күн бұрын

Nice video and interesting computer. That pci slot with the small extension is something I never saw. But the chipset drivers are not installed or dont work, I think. All 3 Nvidia card show Bus: PCI. If the chipset drivers were working, it should say: Bus: AGP. That is causing the crashes and the glitches. Cool machine capable of many retro games you have there.

@restoredwards 15 күн бұрын

Hey man thank you! I will check drivers for sure

@itstheweirdguy Ай бұрын

I used to work at a credit union and we had some of these. 1ghz. We had some newer dells with 2.4 P4's, they were faster, BARELY. I miss the Vectra's. After HP bought compaq, they took those on as their business computer, and those to this day derive from the compaq design not the HP designs! I remember the HP/Compaq 6300's..then it was all HP ProDesk/EliteDesk, those derive from compaq design. It was a funny few years to say you had an HP Compaq

@restoredwards Ай бұрын

Indeed! Those were the days, thanks for your comment!

@komodromos11235 Ай бұрын

Don’t know much about electronics but I’ve heard the word alignment when it comes to heads. Are there any pots that can be adjusted ?

@restoredwards Ай бұрын

Hey man thanks! It should have some calibration as you say, I will not give up and in the next video we might have some luck. Cheers!

@michaelwood9866 Ай бұрын

i have an xfx version of it.

@mikecawood Ай бұрын

Pity it's a micro ATX motherboard not a full ATX.

@restoredwards Ай бұрын

Yes, I like it it's a good one. Maybe I can find the expansion board for the ISA slots, I saw in other videos in some models of Vectra it was included.

@danthompsett2894 Ай бұрын

for a sec there i thought the agp port was broke till the Vanta card played the 3dmarkk 99 without artifacting, sorry dude but you must have a lot of faulty agp cards laying around.

@restoredwards Ай бұрын

I don't think so. The artefacts are because of compatibility or drivers or other reason but if you see in my other video in the other PC they are working fine: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/etqnaNur0cW8YoU.htmlsi=VsA-RGWmN1WGyo5P&t=907 Also, no artefacts in windows games like Half Life or Quake. This AGP cards are not very good whatsoever, if I would build a system I would go for something else.

@danthompsett2894 Ай бұрын

@restoredwards I did have a cross over board which I recently sold that was pentium 4 that had both agp and pci-e on it I got £46 for it which I feel is a good price obviously Americans would disagree and wait for a billion years to sell it for like £120-£250, I'm shocked and appalled at the prices Americans ask for Retro motherboards.

@restoredwards Ай бұрын

@@danthompsett2894 Sure, in each country handle different economies and if the retro community is big the cash flow will be bigger I suppose.

@restoredwards Ай бұрын

@@danthompsett2894 Niche motherboar that one, never saw AGP PCIE in same motherboard.

@danthompsett2894 Ай бұрын

@@restoredwards unfortunately they all come from the USA least on Ebay.

@michaelwood9866 Ай бұрын

fx5200 is the worst geforce card ever made.

@restoredwards Ай бұрын

For this system it fits quite nice, what other AGP card would you recommend?

@michaelwood9866 Ай бұрын

@@restoredwards i would say ati 9550 which has 256mb of vram.