If you can remember where you bought the computer that could help. Maybe it was a private OEM build ?? Many motherboards back then (and still) you could have full screen logo or not (BIOS setting ;p )

Nope -- I got it from my dad, unfortunately. So I couldn't tell you its provenance if I wantred to, which I do.

Could it have been a Compaq ? HP bought them out in 2002 but kept using the brand for a while.

Maybe something similar in appearance to an SR2170NX ?

EDIT: Or a Compaq DX2000 ?

Unfortunately, no. Good suggestions, but I 100% remember the mesh grill front on the case, running my fingers down it and feeling the texture of the holes. I don't think it was a Compaq either, I pretty vividly remember a blue logo on boot.

Blue logo is actually large "Dell" in blue. Started doing that in Pentium through PIII days. Well, mine is slot 1 PIII based on Intel SE440BX board.

If from work, he probably had bought in a server used as PC as they have round holes. HP and Compaq does not.

https://www.ebay.ca/itm/133846792754?hash=ite … ABk9SR9Sdm92PYQ

or

https://www.ebay.ca/itm/334628188060?hash=ite … ABk9SR-7N092PYQ

This?

https://www.ebay.ca/itm/185577294528?hash=ite … ABk9SR86dm92PYQ

I've got a Slot 1 BX from them that has it too, an Optiplex GX1.

As far as any of those, nope. The case was nearly spot-on to the Z583, with the thin silver mesh and black reliefs. The side panel was branded, I think, though I can't be sure. If I could pin the date on the Z583 down before 2008, I'd even feel like it probably just was the case and the differences I remember just fallible human memory.

Wouldn't be from work either way, he retired in 1997.

Intel also had a very blue Logo, which means it could have been a Intel Board in any OEM that used an Intel board.
Not to be condescending but have seen may new topics here over the years where one is "looking for the computer that I had.." as a teenager, child, college, etc with very little other info and always think: WTF mid life crisis chasing the unknown ;p
If you think finding that old computer/case/whatever is going to somehow make you fell better it will not happen 😀 Sometimes being reminded of how piss-poor that computer was compared to what you have been using is a big let down... just sayin...

Funny enough I just started pulling apart a similar PC I rescued from work as I liked the case, so thanks for finding that out for me!

Mine has the XP OEM sticker on the back and Uni-Something on the front, I'll try getting pictures tonight.
Internally thought I know its got
Asus P5K Rev 1.02G motherboard and Palit Radeon HD 2400 Pro 256MB GPU.
Mine was used in a industrial printers for colour matching based in London... UK, so really doubt it's the same company but never know I guess.

But I suspect in your case your after some generic motherboard brand like Asus, Gigabyte, etc that happened to have a blue logo at the time, unless your really unlucky and whoever built the PC flashed their own logo onto into BIOS

Horun wrote on 2022-11-16, 04:00:

If you think finding that old computer/case/whatever is going to somehow make you fell better it will not happen 😀 Sometimes being reminded of how piss-poor that computer was compared to what you have been using is a big let down... just sayin...

I donno, even though I had better 486's or other PC's my childhood 486/66 was still one of my most used retro rigs until the dallas chip died and now sits on the ever-growing "to fix" list.
Difference might be it's the actual PC though with real sentimental attachment (which is why it never got thrown out) and not a clone.

However my childhood P2 is a bit harder to decide though. P2 400, GF2 MX, onboard SB64 PCI.
Where as the 486 covers dos really well, the P2 is far outclassed by other builds but if I upgrade then it's not the PC from my teens? luckily its other side of the world in my parents garage so that's a problem for another day 😀

Get a different case and different hardware but still get a P4 instead to relive your vintage computing experience?

Cheers,

As promised photo of my PC but with such a generic name it's pretty hard to find much info on the company without investing more time then I'm prepared into it