Unboxing Windows XP Desktop Computer After 16 Years - Will it boot?
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- Опубликовано: 9 сен 2024
- Join me in RUclips's most amateurish unboxing, as I explore what's inside a sealed box left untouched since 2005. Everything was shot on my phone and images were filmed on a 1994 CRT so expect awkward audio, random jump cuts and blurry footage. I have no idea if anyone will watch this but if you do and if you have some ideas for this machine put them below! Also ask below if you have any questions.
This Medion Titanium MD8386 came from eBay where I picked it up for £80 + postage. It was sealed and opening it revealed an intact throwback to the mid 2000s when Pentium 4s were the latest and greatest. This model was criticised online for its reliability and the Prescott family of Pentium 4s weren't to everyone's liking but this is one sturdy (and heavy!) desktop with impressive specs for its time. I reapplied thermal compound but otherwise it's unmodified.
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Windows XP and Windows 7 were so perfect for their respective times. I remember going crazy when I rigged up my family's living room desktop to play Starcraft. Great time capsule you've shared with the world, Alex!
I somehow never warmed to Windows 7. Stuck with XP all the way up until 2018 when it became virtually impossible to use because of browser incompatibility. Been using 10 ever since with no regrets and probably will be for some time to come (as 11 is also not calling my name).
@@Pundit2k Well... I mean, it's not like you can continue using Win10 for ages.
Windows 10 will lose its support in 2025 and I suppose that Hardware and Software will stop being supported very quickly.
Also, if you think about it, Windows 10 is just a mix out of Windows 7, a Desktop OS, and Windows 8, a Tablet OS.
@@Pundit2kwin7 pro was a very decent OS and to decide to stick to XP is a rather unlogical and also dangerous and not so clever to be honest.
YES - there were very bad OS releases from MS, where it was totally understandable to stick to other options (the infamous Windows ME Edition is one of those cases I personally recall). To stick to WinXP compared to Win7 is a little .... lets call it "not so well informed"
StarCraft 2 player with an old laptop and a null modem cable
@@Pundit2k I stuck to Windows 2000 for as long as I could and was lucky enough to have a brand new high end system when Vista was released. I ended up being one of the few that got a good experience out of it before the third service pack.
The aldi medion computers in that era had a stunning price/performance ratio. I remeber running this system back in the day. It was far superior then any other prebuild systems for that price, i even waited for hours in line for the aldi to open so populair these systems where.
It's an absolutely fantastic computer for its age and it doesn't look old even now
Rather decent quality too using good branded hardware.
Had 2 versions of the laptop cousins 11 inch screens with a dvd drive and tv via a slot.
I had one of these (i still have the graphics card somewhere)
you are absolutely delusional; these systems, and medion in general, were of horrible quality. i have worked with thousands of systems and no product range will ever, BY FAR, come close to the amount of faults that were in these systems. likely medion just bought hardware that didnt pass quality checks which is why they were so cheap.
As strange as it may seem to us now, this PC system was a real gem at the time. I longed for something like this. I had a much weaker system that started hard, and all those already integrated components were just a dream for me.🤭
Windows XP was the most complete and elegant Windows ever!
Same to windows 7
Lol no windows 2000 was better. XP became a liability due to the amount of malware in 2004
@@damiendye6623 it got update patches and services packs to fix, and it was for work and home users, windows 2000 was used only for work users and windows xp made easier to use
XP was a Fisher Price edition of Windows, aesthetics wise.
@@z00h I always had it in "Classic" view to run faster lol
that old setup song wont ever get old
The silica gel is quite normal in oem pc's , it's there to reduce moisture. That way, components won't corrode or get moldy if there is too much humidity during shipping.
Yep, most probably thats why it booted after these years!
Takes me back to 2005 - 2008 during my elementary school days. I am really grateful to find a video like this especially when you're unboxing and configuring a computer from the Windows XP era. Plus the Ambient Windows XP intro song gives me chills.
Such a good purchase. This PC needs to be taken care of, it's beautiful! I wonder how many unopened PCs like these are left now.
What is the appeal of a 20 year old PC? it is like a modern one except way slower. I kinda understand collecting really old computer stuff as a hobby, like 80s or early 90s. that is really a different experience.
@@Blackadder75 After moving on to modern parts only, I had the same question. But then I got some old consoles and PCs again and just really enjoyed the physical hardware for some reason. Objectively, it's an inferior machine, but just being aware that this is 100% the original feeling of computing of that specific era gives it a special emotion, even if you never owned that specific hardware before in your life. The look, the weight, the way the hardware feels in your hands, and even the response time, it all contributes to that feeling. It's emotional.
I do computers since the C64, and win XP is my favourite OS but I don't have any emotion for a pentium 4. Now a nice 486 with original soundblaster, that is my jam.
@@Blackadder75 I gotta admit old soundcards are more special than CPUs, but those old CPUs allow the entire PCs to run, and you can also just see how games would run back in that time period. Retro speakers and peripherals, retro consoles, ESPECIALLY handhelds, are much more understandable why someone would prefer collecting those. Just feels different in your hands.
@@iambarnabas_ actually only a very small percentage of humans ever gets high on drugs, but if you include alcohol, yeah you are right
Fascinating, a really nice desktop. The good old days of Microsoft where a brand new pc would only connect to the update server & not a hundred other services.
Parents bought that machine almost 20 years ago and also brought me a brand new copy of NfS HP 2.
I was blown away by the graphics and spent countless hours playing that game.
This gave me huge nostalgia, thanks!
Throwing me back in my teenager years 🤩 what a gem this video is 😁
First time I've heard the XP installation music on real hardware. It was pretty much impossible to have audio during the setup normally because you wouldn't have the audio drivers, so the only way was pretty much with OEM installs like this
Indeed, that's the nice thing about OEM Windows, the drivers just worked!
Yeah that was definitely the case for some builds. The builds that didn't have that issue was XP generic sound drivers on certain systems. Most generally Intel based boards was supported, as MS and Intel were bed buddies... Lol. Build a AMD based system and it was a toss up, just never knew until boot time, and those generally had other drivers missing too. Of course never was there a totally missing graphics driver, generic drivers took care of that problem every time... the one thing MS had no choice but to get right.
I remember these machines, they where such great value. The lines at the store before opening were enormous and you had to get really early if you wanted one
And yet this one remained unused for so long, makes no sense
I had the exactly same one , got it for my 18 Birthday , and i am 37 now 😂 I loved it.And made so many things with it! And I used the TV tuner a lot. And the cd burner 😅 Great to see it again! It didn't start at first.Because you pushed the button to soft.It needed to be pushed harder 😂😂 Thanks for bringing me back these memory's!!!
This brings back memories! I had the updated version of this Medion (Aldi) tower PC with Windows Vista and (I think) an Intel Pentium D processor. It was a huge step up for me as a kid in 2006 as I was finally able to play more modern PC games... the only downside was Vista!
Reminds me of buying my first own pc back in 2005,you had no clue what was inside and the retailer didnt know anything either.
I got a identical looking desktop in 2004, but with different specs for £400 in Aldi it was the MD8083 - it had a Pentium 4 3GHz and a 128MB ATI 9800 XXL (under clocked 9800XT) for the price it was amazing.
18 Years ago I was about to put together a media PC and had priced up the various parts. Walked into to Aldi in the UK and the had a similar model MT MD506 for sale at a really cheap price compared to what I was looking to spend. I think they had just discontinued them. They had the display model only left so I got even more money off. I still use the PC for general work but for many years it was our Media PC connected to a 46" Screen in the lounge via a HDMI Cable. I used an IR repeater so that the PC could sit in my home office. The fan was just too noisy to have in the lounge but it worked great and still does.
These hardware is supported in Windows 9x systems as well.
I always found it funny that Medions make their own model numbers.
It was *very* difficult for me to migrate to XP from W2000 pro. But eventually I had to. XP was then, and is still my favourite OS 😁
XP and 2000 were both so solid, shame they're too insecure to keep using (unless you make the computer standalone)
@@zarach11 I keep a 2000 rig on standby myself and I currently still use 7 with 11 on dualboot. But I daily 7. 2000 was such a light weight and well rounded os that never once crashed for me over the years. NEVER! XP was okay, but was vastly insecure since it was launched. 2000 was primary OS on my laptop till 2013 but my desktop has had 7 since 2011. I now dualboot 7 and 11 on a Core i9 10850K and they both run like a dream!
I owned one of these. Drove to belguim to get one because they where sold out in NL. Worked perfect almost eight years. Great machine.
Omg that tutorial music brings back so many memories. I miss XP so much it was the best OS ever made.
I had that exact model, you brought back memories. The feature I loved most surprisingly was the TV card.
It's still impressive now and actually works really well!
That case is super cool though; at least for the front IO panel’s aesthetic and slide-down feature.
Wish case manufacturers still included fun little bits like that in cases these days.
It would have been almost futuristic back in 2004!
@@zarach11 But Can It Run Crysis?
@@massimobernardo- if settings are low enough! But would it run it well? Not so sure
I bought a very similar system by Cisnet in '04 at Staples in the US, and it still sees use today. P4 3.2, USB ports, card readers, DVDR and yet it still has a real parallel port, 2 RS232 ports and a 3.5 floppy drive. It was $600 US and that included a nice 17" CRT monitor. Last year I added a 5.25 floppy drive that's switchable between 1.2 and 360K and a high end (for the time) graphics card with HDMI.
I have it dual boot with a choice of XP or DOS 5.0. Very useful for transferring software between modern and early 80s vintage or using legacy hardware.
They're such well-connected systems, very good for backwards compatibility
I liked the look of these Medion PCs, at the time I was working in the industry and building systems regularly. These seemed like great value for the spec, though I preferred AMD systems back then. If I kept all of the systems I built for myself instead of selling on to upgrade, I’d have hardware for some great RUclips content.
I have had this machine! Great computer. Medion offered all-in-one machines. I used to assemble computers before myself, but it wasn't worth it anymore when these great offers came out. I have had several. For one I have been waiting for the Aldi to open, because the offers were limited and as they became popular, they were sold out within an hour.
Got up 04:00, sat at the shop from 04:30 till 08:00 or so before they opened.
Especially confused now why this one had sat for so long if they were so popular
OMG, this has to smell so spectacular after all these years. I love the smell of trapped tinning, capacitors, resistors, etc.
It was definitely strong! Almost chlorine-like
I was 11 years old when this PC came out, that start up music brings back memories. It was only a few years later I got my first Windows Vista laptop 😅
That video has thrown me back to my childhood years when I used this fascinating OS
I remember when my father, brother and I would get excited at the thought of an upgrade to two sticks of RAM at 128Mb each for a whopping total of 512Mb RAM ✌😎😂
512mb ram was overkill for the average users on XP at the time that even played the odd occasional game. But dedicated gamers from that era had 2gb/4gb but even then that was over kill for games as no game would even touch that amount of ram. There was a small user base of xp era that used the 64bit version of windows xp and had installed 8gb if ram but this was very rare and having 8gb at the time of xp was a ridiculous insane amount of ram lol. No game, no program would even come close to 4gb never mind 8gb.
I remember these computers quite well, we had issues with customers using this PC, because they forgot to install the correct nic driver, causing the realtek nics all used the same default mac address instead of the correct one, causing the DHCP platform hand out the lease again to another customer. We ended up blocking the mac address on the DHCP platform and contacting the customers involved to fix the issue.
That's fascinating to know. Thanks! It has had some troublesome drivers with networks
I think HP had a similar problem too.
oh my god I had this as a kid!! I distinctly remember going to get it from aldi with my dad. I was an aldi PC peasant. Jesus christ. Thanks for the memories.
That welcome sound and the office assistatn ... oh nostalgic
I had this exact PC from ALDI back in the day, it was a bit of a bargain. I even had the matching Medion 19 inch monitor.
Intel Pentium 4 + Windows XP: a match made in heaven 😂❤
19:44 BIG nostalgia moment 😭🤧 back when Windows was truly AMAZING unlike now... 😢
I love these type videos. I bought my first pc in 1993 it was a packard bell with a pentium 2 and a 14400 modem. And windows 3.1
These types of Desktop were very common around my family/friends in like 2002-2005.
Heck some of them had these in usage up until 2014 lol
This case alone just brings back so many memories lol
That's a solid out of the box tower without even watching the video. The numbers are proper.
My family had a Medion XL machine that looked exactly like this with the Pentium 4 but ours was 3GHZ and didn't have the Scart Socket etc on the back of it. Just a Composite input on the front of it (underneath the Cover which slides down).
I love the additional inputs/outputs that came on this one, never seen a desktop come with those as standard before
@@zarach11 No Medions in my Kingsport, TN Aldi! I cry!
That computer must have been expensive in 2005, I think around $3000
Alexander said it was £750 back in 2005 so about $1,350
Medion pc’s and actually all medion products were sold at the ALDI (european supermarket) back in the day. Nowadays they’ve also reached bigger electronic stores.
Around EUR 999 in Germany I guess, at least a similar one in November 2005. I started my apprenticeship in August 2005 and earned my first own money and wanted a medion pc so bad! I saved the money and wanted to buy a similar one before christmas 2005 but there was a long queue in front of Aldi and it was sold out in two minutes and I wasn't successful 😤🤐
It was around £750 then to buy
In the US around 2005 you could get cheap eMachines for $500ish. Mine came with an AMD 3400+ CPU, 1GB RAM, onboard Nvidia GeForce 6100 and a 200GB hard drive, card reader, DVD writer, Windows Media Center
I can remember these in the window of ALDI in stoke-on-trent around 2005, they seemed pretty decent computers, i know the medion blank cd-r discs were good because ive still got some still mint from 2004
I had piles of those CDs too, forgot about them!
Feels like Howard Carter opening Tutankhamun's Tomb, 'I see wonderful things':)
Felt like playing this as XP booted!
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I always wonder how this is still sealed, people buy it and never opened, or leftovers from business, who knows.
But still great find brand new 16 year old PC, and its great quality it seems
It's so strange, especially for a computer which was so expensive at the time. It's not a bad PC - the hard drive is a little dodgy it seems (maybe from the damp) and one of the fans is a little noisy (maybe the lubricant dried up) but it's a really nice computer otherwise. I thought it deserved its own video even if no-one really watches it, because how often does someone get the chance to unbox an old PC like that?
Probably a complete leftover from a retailer tbh.
man that was our family’s first computer! mother saved her ass off for this! memories
Wow bro, you have did a very good job again
what a great PC! as a US person, i woulda loved a PC like on here back in 2005 and man oh man, i woulda cloned tha HDD from 8gb to at least 1TB if i had it rn
I never had any doubt of it booting. The only thing to worry about was capacitor plague.
my friend had a pc like this it was a q6600 with tv tuner he gave it to me but i resold it. but was a nice desktop. it had vista on then win 7.
I do wonder how this would run Win 10 but I'm sure the answer is "not well", I really love the TV tuner in it, somehow it works better than those Hauppauge ones that were everywhere (maybe Hauppauge made it though, who knows?)
@@zarach11 you could put 4gig in if it works 1 gig per slot.
@@EastAngliaUK it's more the P4 melting itself that if be concerned about!
Thanks for the great video!
Really brought the memories!
Incredible fun!
For the time that was a pretty top spec machine 👍
Oh man! The memories! My dad bought one around 2004 I think, from Aldi in the Netherlands. It was a Medion 8383XL machine, with an Nvidia 6610XL, a custom card made for that system! (based from an existing one, of course). Hours and hours of playing the Sims 2, Rollercoaster Tycoon 3, NFS Underground and many more.... Unfortunately the glue on the fan of the 6610XL GPU failed, resulting in it just dangling around in the case and everything overheating and glitching haha. Such a magical system, but that 6610XL combined with a Pentium 4 Prescott 3.4 gHz was a NIGHTMARE when it came down to thermals haha!
Absolutely - the only negative I've read from other users was the reliability and performance of that GPU but it enables all those extra ports on the desktop
Nostalgia 😢😢. 2009/10.. I remember those days of using windows xp
Love the intro music, never had a OEM PC so I never heard that during XP installations
Best thing I saw today. Thank you for not skipping the setup screen.
I wanted to capture it all even if there's some really shoddy camera work there!
@@zarach11 loved that you opened Microsoft word. I made my project report using the same version of Word. Watching it now took me back in time.
I worked for this company when this came out - Medion were a german manufacturer. Used to provide telephone support and hardware repairs at the UK office in Swindon, Wiltshire
Must have been an interesting place to work! Used to be quite a few manufacturers based in the UK (Dell, IBM but also Tiny/Time/Evesham)
That's a pretty loaded system for 2005 - some great connectivity - be fun to see how it games - Great vide - keep up the good work - you will surely grow far (pun intended)
Thank you for this nostalgia. It reminds me of being a teenager lol
I was a pc technician and picked up one of these as custom builds had a hard time keeping up with the price to performance, even insisted family to look at this this system saving me a build.
I had THIS ECAXT pc from aldi, it was sold for a really solid price, people qued up at 6am already infront of aldi to get one.
Interesting how they installed windows xp home edition instead of media center edition.
Doesn't make much sense to me, maybe licensing was cheaper? I really don't know!
Never a doubt about it booting. We have machines that still use XP, even 95. In use 24/7/320 days (we do have shutdowns for maintenance). We even have 2 CNC machines that don't even use Windows or Dos. About 1985 vintage. Of course, none of them connect to that evil of the internet. Just turn on and use. The only problem over time, apart from MB problems, is the battery for the BIOS. But even then, they seem to go on and on. Bit like the Voyager spacecrafts.
My dad bought one of these in 2007, still remember playing GTA Vice City on it and other good games 😊 i was 12 years old in 2007 good ol times ❤
This is my first desktop pc. Happy memories. Failed my a levels playing football manager & bladerunner and started my music production journey with Reason
I used to love unpacking all the CD and disks that came with a pc, installing too
I still have one of these, excellent PC for it's time, still usable now with a solid state drive
Seeing the Aldi promo printed on that box brought back so many memories. Aldi Süd was expanding in the US in 2005-2006, and the new stores sold these Medion PCs as part of their grand opening promotion. I bought one in March 2006 for $400 and it lasted about five years, which was impressive for a budget priced PC.
RUclips with the fantastic 6 AM early morning recommendations ❤
In 2004 i was 5 Years old...i used to had windows XP on my first Computer. Your Video gave me plenty of nostalgia xD
the s-video/composite and cinch ports were so great back then. a friend of mine had a camcorder with mini dv cassettes and this was the only way to get the recorded material to a pc.
Who needed 2005 a Mouse-Tuturial. I know this from the early 90th, when I began with computers 😀
Omg, the nostalgia... is real ❤
This PC at the time in Aldi, was £549.99. Which was expensive as it had no monitor, so for Aldi was expensive.
That exact computer was my Christmas present in 2005. It was the best thing I ever got.
I've not heard of that brand, I don't think we had them here in the US. I've never seen a computer come with so many features and accessories, impressive
You do. via Aldi. Also it's a subsidiary of Lenovo.
@@marflitts No. I don't know what Aldi is like in the UK, but here in the US, they don't sell electronics of any sort.
@@thegamereviewandreallifech1910 Uhm, no they don't. I've lived in the US all my life, never seen computers at any Aldi
@@thegamereviewandreallifech1910 I've never seen any electronics at any of the dozens of Aldi's I've been in, only food. Do you live in the US?
@@justsumguy2u trolls live everywhere
omg this case brought back memories, i liked it very much back in the day. buddy of mine got this with xp and pentium4 but dunno it it was exactly this build. thanks for filming it nice video, no need to apologize for anything😀🤙
Interesting video, quite unusual to see,. For many buyers this could be the first computer they've had with a graphical interface, that's why there's a tutorial. The turn off after first ever turn on is normal, the bios has to set hardware resource interrupts, then start with the new assignments. The silica gel is no mystery, it was put in during factory packing to try to keep the system dry, that's normal. And capacitors only bulge during use, due to overheating. You can get updates form windowsupdatesrestored. The camera looks fine, but please, less handholding the camera and more fixed shots with the computer and boxes on a desk next time! Even the shot of the monitor is handheld, that is not professional. Tripods or stands are available very cheaply. For any type of camera.
I did point out in the video that I'm not a proper RUclipsr, I've got no intention of doing regular videos so no need for professional camera equipment, I just wanted to capture this rather unique experience of turning on something which was left boxed for so long. There were issues in the early 2000s with poor quality capacitors which were often defective.
I was being completely honest, as I always am, and I did say I enjoyed the content, so I appreciate you taking the time to share it.
Thank you for the unofficial update site recommendation! I've been looking for something like this to get retro games working.
i loved this version of windows so much back in the day..
These were great systems back then! Fully loaded with good brand goodies for a decent price with a great and robust build quality. Still use mine nowadays as a headless Debian NAS with 7TB for Backup purposes
I have this pc modified bios by friend to take more memory and new graphics card not used now
Is the BIOS image available anywhere online?
Fabulous video!! Loved every minute, brought back memories too. Thanks
Medion were also sold in Asda in the day. These glory days before Microsoft Accounts and ads, which made me switch to Linux 3 years ago (2020). Happy Days!
Try playing something on that computer🖥
Wow I missed quite a few comments! I've tried a few games, the main problem is graphics memory but it's good for early 2000s games
I don’t recall the XP setup having a mouse tutorial. Was that only in certain versions? I always associated that kind of thing more with the 95 era.
Could be an OEM customisation?
I bought one. One of the best computers i ever owned.
wow who kept this sealed all this time 😮
My parent's still have some PC's from 2003-2007 in the basement that all still work. Pretty cool stuff.
My grandma still uses her old pc with windows 95. I used to play pinball on it when I was a kid.
She could modernise to something like this!
I had a earlier version of this from Aldi, at the time and for a long while after it was faster than anything else on the market for the price £499 I think, I did upgrade the hard drive and the DVD player to a DVD burner after a year or so but this machine lasted at least 10 years with 0 issues. Medion equipment is brilliant
I always loved the Windows XP intro jingle.. beautiful..
Always begged my mum for one of these but couldn't afford it when I was a kid.
awesome video I'm happy to see one open 16yrs later haha
would love to see you do some gaming and see if the tuner still works :)
The tuner works absolutely perfectly, it works with UK Freeview TV
That's a cool machine! Even though I'm from the U.S., that machine is so cool!
Wow, I enjoyed this video. Thanks RUclips algorithm! I'm not familiar with the computer brand but they made some good PCs.
remember seeing these on sale at aldi, wish i could get my hands on one! great video m8
Those stats are satisfiying!
I had this exact one - just bought mine in Denmark - great machine at the time
I remember seeing this for sale. Medion machines were awsome value.
Getting a new PC 20+ years ago just had a feeling to it.
I've had duracells from circa 2017 and they did pop and leaked some acid. Impressed by how those batteries from '06 still didnt pop
Duracell in my experience are the absolute worst for leaking (well, and the Polaroid branded batteries)
@@zarach11 the only reason I had them was because when I was younger my kindergarten hosted an event with little boxes that encouraged kids to collect batteries. A few of those were Duracell. Still impressed with how those ones in the video did not pop
In the early 2000s Aldi PCs were very popular. High performance and low prices. I'm from Austria and people have stromed the Aldi stores back then. They were already waiting outside the store to be the first.
Well this brings back memories.
Medion was huge back then for computers, especially here in Germany (its a german corporation).
Great video. Thanks for the flashbacks.
P4@3.2GhZ with a GeForce 8800gtx and 3gb RAM.
And hard drives that were constantly full to the brim.
I miss this time.