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.

Fun Facts:
Yeah, Back in 1990’s HP use to give their managers Ford Taurus to drive.
Their parking lot was full of Ford Taurus.
And they had a Starbucks inside their Facilities.
Their work environment was very Fast paced but professional.
They were the Role model Corporation to immulate in Silicon Valley.
And they were the BIG power house in Silicon Valley.
They worked to Achieve the Best possible Products, Solutions, and Services.
Always striving to be the Best and they expected this from their employees.
A real class act work environment. (. The HP way )

Apple demolished the old HP Headquarters and Built the Apple computers Headquarters on that land.
Apple is the BIG Powerhouse in Silicon Valley today.

Intel486dx33 wrote on 2022-01-22, 09:40:

How many computers had an Arena named after them ? In the 1990’s HP was the largest computer company in California and World. Th […]
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How many computers had an Arena named after them ?
In the 1990’s HP was the largest computer company in California and World. They had facilities all over California.
The HP Pavilion had to be the most popular computer in California family homes and possibly the entire USA.
Just about everyone I know had an HP Pavilion computer at sometime in their home.
This was the traditional American family home computer in USA back in 1990’s
Just about every computer store in California was selling the HP Pavilion.
The HP Multimedia computer loaded with I/O for multimedia devices.
( scanners, printers, cameras, TV cards, video cards, USB ports, DVD, CD Burners ( Light scribe ) compact flash cards , etc )
The HP Pavilion was created to support all these devices.
I just love the HP Multimedia keyboards.

But how is it for gaming ?
Let’s get into the Arena with the HP Pavilion and find out.

Specs:
Motherboard - HP
CPU - Intel Pentium III @ 933mhz.
Memory - 256mb.
Hard-drive - 80gb IDE Seagate. ( 7200rpm ) ( Not the original drive )
Video Card - Voodoo 3 2000 ( PCI add on )
Sound Card - Onboard ?
Network card - 10/100
OS - Windows ME/2000

Ahem... COMPAQ

Authentic HP Quality CD-R’s
Works great for Burning games and Music.