Great Vid Geek :D I just got myself a Medion PC too. 478 platform. Put in a 3.2 Pentium, 2GB ram dual channel and a Radeon X1950 Pro AGP. Runs games like a butter :3 very nostalgic experience
I still have like 90% of my my Medion Pentium 4 OEM rig here. Also from 2005. Mine came with a 2.66 GHz Prescott, 1 GB DDR2-667, a Geforce 6200 with Turbo Cache, and XP media center edition. A perfect example of mid 2000s OEM systems. I see a cheap VIA sound card, which naturally has horrible FM synth for absolutely garbage MIDI sound. At least an FSP PSU, which are decent. The problem with OEM systems is rather that they are scaled to size for the system they come in. The mismatched memory is a good sign that a previous owner upgraded it at some point. And as usual they use the cheapest graphics card, just so that they have one and can write it on the box. But a LGA775 board with DDR1 is worth keeping around, they aren't too common. Same if there is one with AGP. I'd love to see it go through some well done cable management. Even the IDE cables can be routed well. And they can be folded. And for systems of that vintage and older I'd keep a PS/2 keyboard at hand. They often don't boot with legacy USB by default, so you need to go into the BIOS and enable it. For the BIOS I'd say flash the latest non-beta version over it, just to be sure.
I Loved the Weird cases of the 2000's For a While everyone tried to make Translucent stuff to Mimic the ReBranded Apple, and then P4 Switched Everything To Black & Chrome/Silver LOL
Worth looking into. 2005 is already after the peak of the capacitor plague, but it's a nearly 20 year old OEM system, so them cheaping out a bit + age will do something. The 6800 GS probably draws a bit more power than the HD 3450, and power supplies in OEM systems are usually very tightly specced. So it might be at it's end. Replacing it's caps will probably improve things, FSP is a fine manufacturer. They are one of the few who actually build the units themselves. (Seasonic is another one) Most companies let them manufacture and put their sticker on it. I have a 350W FSP here that has shown to be phenomenal. 336W on the 12V rails, which is 96%, and should be enough to power even a ca 2005 highend system. I've ran a 8800 GT and an overclocked Pentium 4 on it with no trouble.
I received as " Gift " hp compaq dc5100, and yesterday i tried to clean it but it was smoker PC, the dirtiest PC i saw in my life. The nicotine is glued on like adhesive impossible to clean, To bad i didn't try to make video of it. I told myself if motherboard survive a bath cleaning i will try to save it, the pc is useless 775 socket, 3.0 GHZ HT pentium and no AGP or PCIE. But i can't just throw it away if it works. And just now i tested the motherboard after 1 day in soap water and 2 days of drying and it fired up.... and now cap i need to clean the smokers case.
@@MidnightGeek99 Yeah, the plastic got so brittle that fan snapped like a twig, salvaged some components for parts bin. This was hard case of chain smoker for sure....
Great Vid Geek :D I just got myself a Medion PC too. 478 platform. Put in a 3.2 Pentium, 2GB ram dual channel and a Radeon X1950 Pro AGP. Runs games like a butter :3 very nostalgic experience
Ooo, nice! The Radeon X1950 Pro is such an amazing card, and the fact that there are a lot of AGP versions out there makes it even cooler.
Why did you removed the old FSP power supply? These are really high quality, they rarely fail.
I still have it, I removed it to test with another PSU.
What speakers are those? Also I don’t. Know much about old desktop speakers lol
Teac Powermax 300
hd3450 can crossfire with hd2400 hd3200\hd3100 intigrated graphics. totally worthless but eh it does ..that..
This I did not know, and it's funny, lol.
Wow do you have a pc business or were those part bins all your personal stash?? So organized, I’d be in heaven with all that stuff!
Nope, just my personal stash.
I saw bad caps on the motherboard. Even if it boots those can cause heavy instability problems and random errors
To be honest I did not look at the capacitors :)) 10x for the tip!
I still have like 90% of my my Medion Pentium 4 OEM rig here. Also from 2005.
Mine came with a 2.66 GHz Prescott, 1 GB DDR2-667, a Geforce 6200 with Turbo Cache, and XP media center edition. A perfect example of mid 2000s OEM systems.
I see a cheap VIA sound card, which naturally has horrible FM synth for absolutely garbage MIDI sound.
At least an FSP PSU, which are decent. The problem with OEM systems is rather that they are scaled to size for the system they come in.
The mismatched memory is a good sign that a previous owner upgraded it at some point.
And as usual they use the cheapest graphics card, just so that they have one and can write it on the box.
But a LGA775 board with DDR1 is worth keeping around, they aren't too common. Same if there is one with AGP.
I'd love to see it go through some well done cable management. Even the IDE cables can be routed well. And they can be folded.
And for systems of that vintage and older I'd keep a PS/2 keyboard at hand. They often don't boot with legacy USB by default, so you need to go into the BIOS and enable it.
For the BIOS I'd say flash the latest non-beta version over it, just to be sure.
I never had a medion pc, but here it is :)
I hate turbo cache video cards!
2:00 A good old GoodRAM stick. ;)
GoodRAM is good RAM :)
@@MidnightGeek99 Not only good but it can be also PRO ;)
I had the same problem with the bios,it was the motherboard...
Yeah...it demands a new motherboard!
I Loved the Weird cases of the 2000's For a While everyone tried to make Translucent stuff to Mimic the ReBranded Apple, and then P4 Switched Everything To Black & Chrome/Silver LOL
Yes, there were a lot of cases with personality, and each brand had their style, it was amazing.
Sounds like an unreliable power supply or bulging caps
Worth looking into. 2005 is already after the peak of the capacitor plague, but it's a nearly 20 year old OEM system, so them cheaping out a bit + age will do something.
The 6800 GS probably draws a bit more power than the HD 3450, and power supplies in OEM systems are usually very tightly specced. So it might be at it's end. Replacing it's caps will probably improve things, FSP is a fine manufacturer. They are one of the few who actually build the units themselves. (Seasonic is another one) Most companies let them manufacture and put their sticker on it.
I have a 350W FSP here that has shown to be phenomenal. 336W on the 12V rails, which is 96%, and should be enough to power even a ca 2005 highend system. I've ran a 8800 GT and an overclocked Pentium 4 on it with no trouble.
Yes, maybe I will jsut keep the case and use another motherboard.
Before you go any further, you should check the warranty 😂
I did, it expired...20 years ago :(
Yeap.
It WOULD fit a sleeper build,but not the real hardware.
You are exactly right :)
had older medion northwood p4, it shat itself of some usage it is loud as fuck and processor is glued
and shitty msi mobo as well
Yeah, we don't like MSI in here!
First!
:O
I received as " Gift " hp compaq dc5100, and yesterday i tried to clean it but it was smoker PC, the dirtiest PC i saw in my life. The nicotine is glued on like adhesive impossible to clean,
To bad i didn't try to make video of it.
I told myself if motherboard survive a bath cleaning i will try to save it, the pc is useless 775 socket, 3.0 GHZ HT pentium and no AGP or PCIE. But i can't just throw it away if it works.
And just now i tested the motherboard after 1 day in soap water and 2 days of drying and it fired up.... and now cap i need to clean the smokers case.
Components that smell as cigarettes are another level of bad smell!
@@MidnightGeek99
Yeah, the plastic got so brittle that fan snapped like a twig, salvaged some components for parts bin.
This was hard case of chain smoker for sure....