First post, by BSA Starfire
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I picked this machine up from the boot sale on Saturday for the sum of £4. At the time I had no idea what it was or if it worked, just liked the case and figured I'd build something in there. Well on getting it home and opening it up, found that apart from a missing hard drive it was all complete & working 😀
This is a pretty unusual machine. It used a Cyrix mediaGX(m) CPU, this was a quirky little chip based on the Cyrix 586 core with graphics, sound and the north bridge functions all built in. The machine has a lot of quirks for 1997, no USB or network, only expansion is via an 8-bit ISA slot. 16Mb RAM on the board, 2 72pin simm slots for a maximum of 80Mb(2 mb used for graphics, upper 384k for CPU cache), mine has 32mb. The original hard disk was a Quantum Bigfoot(5 1/4 IDE), another freak of it era.
More about the machine including it's many quirks(including it's inability to install win 98) herehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq_Presario_2200
I fitted a 20Gb seagate drive and managed to install Win2k, too a while but worked OK, sadly the only 2K drivers i found, video didn't work, and they then promptly spannered the registry! I'm still working on getting a Win95 install, the machine doesn't much like the hard disk i have and frankly is being a total git to get working with anything but 2k with no drivers.
Here's some pics:
286 20MHz,1MB RAM,Trident 8900B 1MB, Conner CFA-170A.SB 1350B
386SX 33MHz,ULSI 387,4MB Ram,OAK OTI077 1MB. Seagate ST1144A, MS WSS audio
Amstrad PC 9486i, DX/2 66, 16 MB RAM, Cirrus SVGA,Win 95,SB 16
Cyrix MII 333,128MB,SiS 6326 H0 rev,ESS 1869,Win ME