First post, by Intel486dx33
Here is my refurbished HP Vectra VL/5 200
This computer was a wreck when I received it.
It's a relic of a time when HP dominated Silicon Valley.
If ever there was a game player these HP Vectra's where one.
I cleaned it up and rebuilt it with max ram, dual graphics and added a Fast SCSI, DVD drive.
The HP Vectra was a line of business-oriented personal computers manufactured by Hewlett-Packard.
It was introduced in October 1985 as HP's first IBM compatible PC.
This was HP's flagship corporate class workstation computer in the 1990's
HP's IBM standard PC.
With the Intel 486 CPU based HP Vectra computers and HP Netservers, HP was able to setup a World wide MS-Windows Network using Windows NT 351. This is a time when the internet was just getting started and they where still laying the data cables across the continents and oceans.
In the 1990's HP had campuses all across Silicon Valley and was a major player in the computer industry.
With it’s workstations, Servers, and Network devices. HP was a one stop Enterprise ready solution.
With the HP Vectra, HP 9000, servers, switches and network printers. Instruments and medical equipment. HP was to BIG for it’s own bridges.
HP purchased many companies including Digital and Compaq computers.
HP ended up splitting the company into several divisions.
Eventually closing most of it’s campuses in Silcon Valley.
Today, Apple has built it’s NEW space ship campus on top of the old HP campus in Cupertino. Apple appears to be taking over where HP left off as Silicon Valley's major computer company.
Can the HP Vectra play games?
This guy says it can.
Youtube Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs7NTxOI5v4
Manual:
https://www.manualslib.com/manual/276821/Hp-V … ?page=34#manual
Specs.
Assembled in: USA
Manufacture date - 1997
Motherboard - HP, Intel Socket 7
Chipset - TXC chip (82439HX) , PIIX3 chip (82371SB) , Super I/O chip (37C932) .
CPU - Pentium MMX 200mhz.
RAM - max ram 64mb. ( EDO )
Hard-drive - IDE 3.2GB Quantum Fireball ST.
CDROM - IDE DVD ( I will replace with original CDROM later ).
Network - HP Ethernet 10/100 BaseT Network Board It is based on the AMD PCnet-PCI-II 79C971 network processor chip.
SCSI - Fast SCSI 10mbs. ( PCI )
Modem - Intel 56k ( PCI )
Expansion slots - 2-ISA , 3-PCI
PSU - SFF , Wattage 100
Floppy drive - 1.44
Audio
Sound Blaster 16 ( ISA )
Audio Controller
The Creative Labs CT2970 SoundBlaster 16 audio interface, supplied on
some models in an ISA slot, can be summarized as follows:
• line-out (stereo) jack: 20 Hz to 20 kHz frequency response, 83 dB signal
to noise ratio, 0.2% total harmonic distortion
• headphones jack: 2 W PMPO per channel, 32 Ω load
• speaker connector: 0.2% total harmonic distortion
• line-in (stereo) jack: 15 kΩ, 0 V to 2 V peak-to-peak
• CD audio-in connector: 15 kΩ, 0 V to 2 V peak-to-peak
• microphone input: 600 Ω, dynamic, 30 mV to 200 mV peak-to-peak
• MIDI /joystick interface connector: MPU-401 UART compatible
• 8-bit and 16-bit stereo sampling: 5 kHz to 44.1 kHz
• Creative OPL3 synthesizer: 20 polyphonic voices
• typical electrical current: +5 V (250 mA), +12 V (250 mA), -12 V (50 mA)
Graphics ( Onboard ).
S3 Trio64V2/DX
Make: S3
Codename:86C775
Bus:PCI
Memory Size:1MB, 2MB
Max Memory Size:4MB
Memory Type:EDO
Year:1996
Announce Date:Monday, 03 June 1996
Card Type:VGA
Family:Trio
Outputs:15 pin D‐sub
Video Acceleration:MPEG-1 (VCD)
Core:64bit
Memory Clock (MHz):60
Memory Bus Width:64bit
Memory Bandwidth (MB/s):480
Max Memory Clock (MHz):65
Min Memory Clock (MHz):50
Ramdac (MHz):170
Graphics ( PCI )
Matrox MGA Millenium-2 PCI
Matrox MGA Millennium Graphics Controller Board
All models of the HP Vectra XA 5/xxx PC and a few models of the
HP Vectra VL 5/xxx Series 5 PC are supplied with a Matrox MGA
Millennium PCI graphics controller on a board fitted in a PCI accessory slot.
The on-board MGA-2064W processor communicates with the Pentium
processor along the PCI bus. The controller can be characterized as follows:
• 100% hardware- and BIOS-compatible with IBM® VGA display standard
• 64-bit video memory access
• Hardware acceleration of graphical user interface (GUI) operations
• Support for up to 8 MB Window RAM (WRAM) at 50 ns
• Integrated 24-bit, 220 MHz RAMDAC
• Pixel clock maximum frequency of 135 MHz
• Green power saving features
• Standard and Enhanced Video Graphics Array (VGA) modes
• Acceleration for 3D, playback, MPEG (when an optional upgrade module
from Matrox is fitted), continuous interpolation on X, replication on Y
• DDC 2B compliant.
Supported Operating Systems:
Windows-311
Windows-95
Windows-98se
Windows-NT
Windows-2000
IBM-OS2
Photos taken with my 2017 iPad.