Well, it still works.
The life style back in 1980 thru 90’s in Silicon Valley was “Vrum”
“Go fast and faster”.

So this “Need for Speed” game best exemplifies the “persona” of Silicon Valley workers.
( Fast cars, sports cars, hot rods, and exotic cars ) and the Big Wide open highways in California before year 2000 road traffic.

I am using the original hardware except for the original hard-drive.

This HP Pavilion works fine.

Intel486dx33 wrote on 2022-01-25, 19:25:

This HP Pavilion works fine.

HP Pavilion does not want to post ?
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Doornkaat wrote on 2022-01-25, 20:23:

Intel486dx33 wrote on 2022-01-25, 19:25:

This HP Pavilion works fine.

HP Pavilion does not want to post ?
???

Yeah, I replaced the coin battery and re-seat the memory modules and that fixed the problem. This computer was sitting in my Garage for over a year. It had the original coin battery from year 2000 so I replaced it. And the memory modules must have some how stopped making contact so simply reseating them fixed the problem.
I received this advice from google search on “HP pavilion 4-beep error code”.

Nice HP Pavilion! Love Need for Speed running on it. I'm also happy to see that you only needed a new coin battery and memory modules re-seating.

HP Pavilions were the main PCs at my home. My father's main desktop PC was, during my childhood, an HP Pavilion with Windows XP. It wasn't an original HP Pavilion at all, since many of its components came from other PCs, but its case was the same.

Another HP Pavilion PC is still used, but now as a secondary PC by my father. It is model a6655it, but I think it has got some replaced parts. It had Vista years ago but we all hated that OS, so it was upgraded to Windows 7.

Even if these are newer models than your 7850, I agree that HP Pavilions, in general, are "multimedial", with many useful features.