First post, by soviet conscript
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recently aquired and restored a compaq deskpro en, the really small form factor. I thought it would make a decent win98 machine and light DOS machine for a situation where little space was avaliable. all it really needed was RAM and a floppy drive which I had laying around, that and a reinstall of Win98SE and relevent drivers
866mhz Pentium III
512MB RAM
15GB hdd
1.44mb floppy drive
50x CD-ROM drive
The on board video is via the Intel 815E chipset which i read is somewhere about the power of a TNT 1. The on board audio is also OK, Its nothing spectacular and I cant seem to find specifics on it. The internal speaker is actually not to horrible either if you don't have space to use external speakers. I can get sound detected fine in Windows games and after some playing around I can get sound and music working fine in later DOS games like Duke3d. I set music to sound canvas or general midi and it sounds....OK. older DOS games like wolf 3d I get sound effects but no music.
I have 3 PCI slots via a riser that I was considering using to upgrade the machine. I don't really want to put to much money into this thing so it will probably just be whatever I come across super cheap at Goodwill or thrifting this weekend. can anyone confirm the power of the graphics on the Intel 815E? my best free PCI card I have right now is an ati rage II+DVD and a Diamond stealth card based on the rendition Verite 2100 but I'm guessing that may be a slight step down from the on board. As for sound I do have a spare Monster 300mx Vortex based card but when I installed it I got a message about not being in a primary PCI slot so I couldn't use sound in DOS or the gameport. I assumed this was because of the riser setup.