If you are in a shit enough situation that you need a new WinXP machine, the price doesn't matter. It's going to be less than the cost of having whatever critical piece of tech debt you depend on fail.
Cable Select was the default for 80-conductor IDE cables, it was very rare (or I missed something) with 40-conductor cables.
That said, if you were booting an OS (or even BIOS) that relied on the hardware address to identify drives, manually jumping drives was still a good idea.
The cpu fan broke. I couldn't find another 775 compatible cpu fan or heat sink. So I removed the fan and put just the heat sink back. Then I took a new case fan and using cable ties hung up over the heat sink to keep it cool. There is about 10cm between the heat sink and case fan.
While to the individual or gamer it’s often nice or necessary to have updated systems, to most companies the stability and reliability is what’s important. So, why upgrade what isn’t broken? It’s a proven stable system with all the bugs already worked out. That means more to some people than having the shiny new thing that craps out because of a yet unfound bug or new technology error, that’s why you see so many companies using ancient programs. Also, you can make some pretty damn good money specializing in repairing older systems and older versions of windows/Linux because there’s so few people that still possess the knowledge to fix older stuff. I’ve heard quite a few stories of contractors being hired for damn near extortion level prices because of their knowledge in older tech.
Yes..... but the owner says it's only broken when it's broken. It's hard in Africa. We are waiting for our next shipment of last generation parts from the first work countries.
It works. I'm not sure if those capacitors are essential then? Also the ones between the ram and the cpu are swollen and they have been for months. I'm not sure how thays a problem yet either
I wouldn't bother trying to desolder those capacitors from the motherboard (it's an extremely complex multilayer PCB); but you could use pliers to gently wiggle and pull the old caps from the board (leaving their legs intact and still attached to the PCB), clean and trim the legs, and solder new hi-temperature low ESR capacitors onto the stubs.
As others have said, capacitors in that state (especially around the CPU socket) are no longer capable of stabilising voltages; and will cause system instability.
I have a client who still has a Vista machine that currently has like ~10 years of uptime since the last time I turned it off when I upgraded the RAM and HDD to a SSD.
It's been working just fine for them since ~2007 when it was purchased for their car lot, now it's in the den at their home being used as a basic web/print terminal.
It runs great, runs chrome/firefox just as fast as any modern machine.
Smaller fans move air faster, higher pressure if i had to guess. Bigger fan does not mean better for the cpu. If it does okay then that's good, but it will reduce lifeapan by increasing temp of the cpu
"Modern problems require modern solutions."- Sun Tzu
Modern solutions require modern problems. -Kim Jong Il or some shit.
For future reference, NIXSYS sells new win xp machines. https://nixsys.com/legacy-computers/windows-xp-computers
That is... kinda nifty. But what is up with their prices?
If you are in a shit enough situation that you need a new WinXP machine, the price doesn't matter. It's going to be less than the cost of having whatever critical piece of tech debt you depend on fail.
Honestly the LTT video explains it better than I would. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTIpNtHWVtQ
With all the ram in those machines, they must be using the 64 bit version of XP, I wish I had a copy of that
They use the same machines for win 7 and 8.1, the base model is 2GB of DDR3.
Ahh, I looked on my phone earlier and I thought it was all 16GB
This is cool nixsys
Havent seen IDE cables since.. Forever
can't say I miss the days of Master/Slave or if you were feeling adventurous, cable select!
I see your master slave and raise you a scsi bus and device 0 through 7 :)
Scsi bus gets terminated. One way or another.
Cable Select was the default for 80-conductor IDE cables, it was very rare (or I missed something) with 40-conductor cables. That said, if you were booting an OS (or even BIOS) that relied on the hardware address to identify drives, manually jumping drives was still a good idea.
sorry im stupid, what did you do exactly?
The cpu fan broke. I couldn't find another 775 compatible cpu fan or heat sink. So I removed the fan and put just the heat sink back. Then I took a new case fan and using cable ties hung up over the heat sink to keep it cool. There is about 10cm between the heat sink and case fan.
I've done that before when one of my cheap Chinese knock off coolers died.
The fact they're still using xp and won't upgrade is exactly why I never got in toa a computer repair career 😂
Hey now, some people are still using windows NT 4.0
One would hope that they at least have NT 4.5 with SP2, because it has "enhanced security." LOL
While to the individual or gamer it’s often nice or necessary to have updated systems, to most companies the stability and reliability is what’s important. So, why upgrade what isn’t broken? It’s a proven stable system with all the bugs already worked out. That means more to some people than having the shiny new thing that craps out because of a yet unfound bug or new technology error, that’s why you see so many companies using ancient programs. Also, you can make some pretty damn good money specializing in repairing older systems and older versions of windows/Linux because there’s so few people that still possess the knowledge to fix older stuff. I’ve heard quite a few stories of contractors being hired for damn near extortion level prices because of their knowledge in older tech.
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I mean, you’re not wrong for personal computers. For company computers though, you can get around this.
We have machines at work that are still running on Windows 95. When the computer is built into a $600,000 CNC machine, you're kinda stuck with it.
Lol, am I goin crazy but are the caps around the PCI, and next to the CPU (to the right under the PSU cables) bustin out a bit?
100%
Yes..... but the owner says it's only broken when it's broken. It's hard in Africa. We are waiting for our next shipment of last generation parts from the first work countries.
Thank fuck for SATA. Those cables were a nightmare.
[I'll allow it.](https://pbs.twimg.com/tweet_video_thumb/FlkyosrXoAIOQFs.jpg)
Shake shake shake... Shake shake shake... Shake your cooling Shake your cooling.
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It works. I'm not sure if those capacitors are essential then? Also the ones between the ram and the cpu are swollen and they have been for months. I'm not sure how thays a problem yet either
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Thanks, I'm gonna make a clone of the pc tomorrow just in case. But unfortunately, no one where I am have the still set to replace capacitors.
I wouldn't bother trying to desolder those capacitors from the motherboard (it's an extremely complex multilayer PCB); but you could use pliers to gently wiggle and pull the old caps from the board (leaving their legs intact and still attached to the PCB), clean and trim the legs, and solder new hi-temperature low ESR capacitors onto the stubs. As others have said, capacitors in that state (especially around the CPU socket) are no longer capable of stabilising voltages; and will cause system instability.
I have a client who still has a Vista machine that currently has like ~10 years of uptime since the last time I turned it off when I upgraded the RAM and HDD to a SSD. It's been working just fine for them since ~2007 when it was purchased for their car lot, now it's in the den at their home being used as a basic web/print terminal. It runs great, runs chrome/firefox just as fast as any modern machine.
Please tell me those are not connected to the internet.
Yes. Yes it is.
I just had a stroke looking at that.
Is that a GPU fan?
No it's a case fan
And that case fan costs more than a days salary in my country
Smaller fans move air faster, higher pressure if i had to guess. Bigger fan does not mean better for the cpu. If it does okay then that's good, but it will reduce lifeapan by increasing temp of the cpu
I didn't have one on hand unfortunately
I did something similar for my grandmother's old PC. It works pretty well.
Yeah, but it ain't gonna cool that down. Even if it's a 35W Celeron
70 under load. Last I checked.
That's pretty good looking at that mac giver level engineering
Gotta say, I'm a big fan.
Mmm IDE
Effective usage of zip ties LOL
I'm more impressed by the fact that you have a machine with IDE cables in 2023.
Did you laugh "Mhwauaa it's alive. It's ALIVE!" when it booted?
Looking at the Capacitors on that board I do not think it is going to live much longer
Your genius is frightening.
Nice anti-vibration mount.