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Re: Back with my Deskpro 4000.... Help please?

Posted on 2010-02-15, 22:43

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Hello all. I finally got around to booting the PC in Memtest86+. It ran for about half an hour to test 128MB of RAM. The result of the tests was 100% succeeded. Then I also tried to boot in Parted Magic. I got to the screen where you get a list of boot options. I tried default settings and got a …

Re: Back with my Deskpro 4000.... Help please?

Posted on 2010-02-11, 23:43

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Some of these non standard desktop systems DO NOT work without the riser board. Thank you!! I put the riser board back in, connected the IDE cables the way I thought was correct, powered on, and the PC went on to load windows 2000. Then it suddenly rebooted. I powered it down, got the 133mhz cpu …

Re: Back with my Deskpro 4000.... Help please?

Posted on 2010-02-08, 23:40

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I thought you mean power connectors of hdd/cd/dvd. Actually, I did mean those. Those and the IDE cables. Check again the area and connect all the power cables. I tried connecting them about 20 times. I'm afraid that another try won't do because I only know some basic stuff. I tried to find some …

Re: Back with my Deskpro 4000.... Help please?

Posted on 2010-02-08, 22:19

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Sorry I haven't been active the last few days; I've been busy on my bachelor thesis. Do you get a BIOS post screen? If not, sounds like Power Supply issues to me. No, I'm not getting one. In certain setups of the IDE and power cables, the PC will make some noises when I turn it on, but it's not …

Re: Back with my Deskpro 4000.... Help please?

Posted on 2010-02-05, 19:06

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ATA HDD have jumpers for master/slave; try to set HDD I had the HD set as master; yesterday I tried Cable select, but that hasn't been any help. For FDD you must be certain you inserted the data cable the correct way I have because it's one of those floppy cables where one of the pin holes on …

Back with my Deskpro 4000.... Help please?

Posted on 2010-02-04, 18:20

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Hello all. I was a regular visitor of this forum several months ago. Basically, I was looking for some parts with which I could upgrade my old computer (a Compaq Deskpro 4000). Eventually, I managed to find what I needed (evergreen spectra 400 CPU upgrade, Voodoo 12MB, hardware DVD decoder, extra …

Re: New Riser Board for my Deskpro

Posted on 2009-09-17, 23:44

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I've been looking for hours on google, ebay and websites of various hardware resellers, and still I haven't been able to find a riser board with 5 PCI slots, dual-sided, three slots on one and two on the other sided. The closest I came is this dual-sided 4-PCI slot one . I've googled for more than a …

Re: Compaq Deskpro 4000: The return

Posted on 2009-09-17, 14:04

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I bought a 233 mhz MMX that should arrive next week at the latest. Maybe I'll try it... Then again, a seller on ebay offers a spectra 400 for $3.99... I know that's very cheap -- other people sell them for like $40 -- so I distrusted him at first (maybe the thing is broken...). He tried to help me …

Re: New Riser Board for my Deskpro

Posted on 2009-09-17, 12:36

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h-a-l-9000 wrote: Are you sure the mainboard/riser card connector are made to handle 5 PCI slots? As for PCI it needs extra signals that are not shared between them. I don't know. Is there a way to check that?

New Riser Board for my Deskpro

Posted on 2009-09-17, 12:17

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In the last post in my previous thread I said I was looking for an Evergreen Spectra 400 cpu upgrade kit. I made this new thread because I'll need a new riser board for extra PCI slots. If the evergreen upgrade succeeds, I will place a second voodoo 2 card in my deskpro (connected via SLI). Now, my …

Re: Compaq Deskpro 4000: The return

Posted on 2009-09-16, 11:12

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MMX processors use a split rail voltage so a P200 MMX would have 3.3V external voltage and 2.8V for the core.... your motherboard needs to support split rail voltages. Can I find out whether it supports split rail voltages? unless of course it is not the 5133 model and someone just put a 133mhz CPU …

Re: Compaq Deskpro 4000: The return

Posted on 2009-09-15, 21:21

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You will not need a new PSU or CPU fan if you are upgrading your CPU and if your model came with a 133mhz CPU as standard then i doubt the motherboard will support the voltages required for an MMX CPU.... I am pretty sure it will work fine with a 200mhz non MMX CPU. Hope this helps? I understand. …

Re: Compaq Deskpro 4000: The return

Posted on 2009-09-15, 09:50

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My old Deskpro 4000 (P200 MMX model) would only accept upto 128mb RAM. :( Strange that the Deskpro 4000/6000 manual should claim up to 384MB RAM is supported when in at least two cases only a third of that number is recognised. No wonder Compaq went bankrupt lol. I would not run a Voodoo 2 card …

Re: Compaq Deskpro 4000: The return

Posted on 2009-09-14, 21:48

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it should look like this: ps: the slider doesnt change resolution if you just move that slider and not the one underneath as well you havnt changed anything thats why apply is greyed out the top slider selects resolution and the bottom one selects the refresh rate to use at that resolution ps: the …

Re: Compaq Deskpro 4000: The return

Posted on 2009-09-13, 22:07

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On the voodoo 2 behaviour, kiwi already answered you in the thread you linked. The Voodoo2 will only be triggered in applications that invoke the glide graphics library. So desktop resolution will not and cannot be affected by a Voodoo 2 - it's purely for accelerating certain types of 3d graphics. …

Compaq Deskpro 4000: The return

Posted on 2009-09-13, 00:36

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Greetings, it's me again here with my retarded Compaq box I wanted to give a hardware upgrade. As I said in this thread , I planned to insert the following: 8 RAM modules, 32MB each a Hollywood Plus (hardware decoder) a Voodoo 2 PCI card with 12MB RAM Now it may come as no surprise, but the upgrade …

Re: Voodoo Banshee + SB16 problem!

Posted on 2009-09-03, 23:50

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I know Compaq 4000 motherboards with dimm slots work with MMX cpu's but i am not sure about yours? OK :) Well, if I were to replace the cpu with a better one, I'd prefer one having MMX technology.... If you tell me how to, I can try to find out the details about my motherboard you need to know so …

Re: Voodoo Banshee + SB16 problem!

Posted on 2009-09-03, 15:38

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It just occured to me that you may be better off using a Voodoo 1 based card with your 133mhz CPU - unless you will be upgrading the CPU? Well, I'm not entirely sure yet, as several of such cpu's are still quite expensive on ebay (while sellers who offer one at a lower price are a bit vague as to …

Re: Voodoo Banshee + SB16 problem!

Posted on 2009-09-02, 22:38

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Thats strange... all the Compaq Deskpro 4000's i have worked with don't use 72-pin simms? Even my old one only used dimms and it had a 200w PSU manufactured by Seasonic (or it may have been 250W?) Well, it took me a few days to get myself to verify which specific kind of RAM is installed in this …

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