COMPAQ Proliant 800 2x Intel Pentium PRO 200 MHz review - RETRO Hardware

[@sffitx]

Jesus Christ. The old owner must probably said to himself "Let's install every software my eyes lay upon"

[@PixelPipes]

"Which programs should we install?" Owner: "Yes."

[@RETROHardware]

Yep it is "insane" :-) I can’t do anything ... I need to upgrade RAM 4x512MB to stop swapping HDD and maybe than will be +/- usefull for next action.

[@tweakz_tech]

Owner in 2010: but it has 2 cores, this system must be good!

[@CoolFire666]

By god, that poor machine! Give it a break already

[@sffitx]

@@RETROHardware Put a SSD in it, that's what druaga1 would probably do lol.

[@thegeforce6625]

Love the sounds of those old hard drives.

[@u263a3]

Definitely do not miss these sounds

[@thegeforce6625]

@@u263a3 I miss them in a nostalgic sense, but listening to them all the time drives me nuts.

[@gerrycrisostomo6571]

It sounds like an electric drill or a blender.

[@ArenClegg]

that's how you knew the hdd was good. :p If it was clicking you knew you were in trouble.

[@justinh.2398]

Bonus points for unlocking the hidden encrypted porn stash.

[@dolphhandcreme]

The ISDN-Card is an AVM B1. An active ISDN-Card with an integrated RISC processor. Not that the "immense" bandwidth of ISDN should be any problem for this kind of server. ;-)

[@dolphhandcreme]

@Jeroen not everywhere. US&A f.e. has 56k, that's why the K56/X2-modems also have this speed, it was developed and advertised as "equivalent to digital phonelines" there.

[@SJLtalentpicks]

@Jeroen Actually 128 kbps if bonded. That was very common in Finland, for example.

[@SJLtalentpicks]

@Jeroen Yes and no. That bonding means utilizing two basic B-channels (bearer channels) of one ISDN connection, logically bonded. A setup like that is called Basic Rate Interface (BRI), and with it there is also a 16 kbps D-channel for the definition and other out-of-band messages of the connection. There's even more flexibility in ISDN technology: you can have dozens of B-channels bonded the same way, and achieve effective transmission speeds of around 2 Mbps, for example. "Euro-ISDN will makes use of this additional bandwidth by assigning thirty B-channels to each PRI instead of the North American standard of 23." More information can be read from Macmillan Computer Publishing cmd.inp.nsk.su/old/cmd2/manuals/networking/perfomance/ch13/ch13.htm (specially starting from section header "ISDN Terminology").

[@dolphhandcreme]

@Jeroen I think you misunderstood me. The ISDN service in northern america had 56k instead of 64k (EU). On both variants you had 2 B-channels and could phone during dataconnections (or could have 2 simultaneous calls). 56k ISDN (Northern America) has nothing to do with k56flex/X2/K56, just the same bandwidth. 56k analog modems have 56k because the digital lines in america have 56k themselves, so they could advertise it as "as fast as isdn" there.

[@sebastianmolina3178]

Every time I see your content, my heart becomes a roller coaster, I really enjoy every minute of what you do with your hardware. Amazing vid Bro!

[@gerrycrisostomo6571]

I bet there's a lot of hidden dark secrets in the hard disk...

[@BGTech1]

Those pentium pros are getting more and more difficult to find because so many people destroy them to get the gold.

[@BlackEpyon]

Or people just throwing it into e-waste.

[@Pidalin]

@@BlackEpyon I destroyed plenty of Pentiums, 486 and such CPUs around 2005 just for fun, we were using it as targets for airguns and other crazy things, who could know that people will pay for that 20 years later. 😀

[@BlackEpyon]

@@Pidalin That's around when I got rid of most of my childhood collection (we were doing some heavy spring cleaning). I had 4 XT-class systems (5150, 5160, and a couple IBM compatibles), a Mac Plus with cold solder joints (which I NOW know how to fix), and a bunch of assorted 386, 486, and Pentium boards. Still kicking myself for that. Fortunately, I did keep a bunch of assorted parts, and my two Tandys, one of which (Tandy 1000 HX) was my very first computer, and still works.

[@Pidalin]

@@BlackEpyon I had plenty of 100% working HW from like mid 90s and I destroyed most of it, or I just threw it to dust bin, now it's hard to find something in good condition, I was fool back in the day. I regret throwing off mainly my collection of Slot 1 CPUs and motherboards, find CPU to slot 1 is not that hard, but find motherboard with slot 1 which is not some shit from office PC (with no AGP slot) is not that easy now. My first computer which was really mine had some PII 400 MHz in slot 1 and I definitely want to build it again one day. Now I have much more rare retro HW like PIII Tualatine, but when you have something you have childhood memories connected with, it's more fun.

[@BlackEpyon]

@@Pidalin I've got a PII-266 motherboard I'm going to be reassembling. The Slot-1 era wasn't my favourite, but that motherboard was a huge step up for me in my teens.

[@wskinnyodden]

Nice, this is in fact the one Pentium model I never had the pleasure of assembling back in the day, it was like I went straight from Pentium MMX to Pentium 2 as if the Pentium Pro never existed, which was definitely not the case.

[@terraincognita2221]

The PRO was kind of outside of the mainstream of development.

[@gordonfreeman320]

Another awesome video. I always love seeing your Pentium Pro videos! I started a collection of Pentium Pro processors recently because of your channel!

[@PixelPipes]

Holy cow. I think that's enough icons.

[@TheJonathanc82]

I remember wanting a dual pentium pro system so much back in the day.

[@abx42]

Holy crap and I thought I was bad with desktop icons

[@9393zach]

God those old eServers in the background make me moisttttttt too. I love your channel you always have the coolest stuff

[@dennisp.2147]

Those spot-welded CMOS batteries can be unsoldered and replaced with a standard CR2032 coin-cell holder. The pads/thruholes are almost always present. Jesus! There's software from 2009 on that thing! I can't imagine using a PC that old in 2009. It must have been mind-numbingly slow!

[@xys007]

Those batteries not only can be replaced, they should ! They leak and damage motherboard. It is only a matter of time.

[@EstebanFrederik]

everything old software and hardware I love.

[@ko83na]

how much stuff do you want in your autostart? yes!

[@Biaanca5036]

I remember trashpicking a proliant server as a little kid, NEVER getting it to work, immediately throwing it out four days later, and then being curious about the proliant server ever since. I would really loove to see a working one of those big wide fat ones with all of those spinning discs up front xD

[@abx42]

That is beautiful hardware is it more plentiful over there where you're at because the region I'm in in the United States findings hardware from this error is near to impossible

[@SouthPlanObservation]

😊 nice workstation. I can't beleave someone has used this up to 2008. Crazy.

[@ALN2006]

nice, server hardware, and those labels on hdds "dobry" :D. Regards from Poland :)

[@alat_ka]

Hahaha i saw dobri label too :) In Serbian means the same

[@jeff15]

Fantastic sexy hardware you have there. That plexwriter was one of the best cdrw money can buy at the time. I remember, good old memories. Awesome video.

[@PicaDelphon]

Nice little mini Compaq server setup...

[@Jman0951]

Hi, is the CMOS battery soldered on to that riser card? Do you have to have replace the battery and holder together, or can you just swap out the battery?

[@spidermann5000]

Working with that thing untill at least 2008 ... wow!

[@maricelbarbero8385]

I ask for help I am missing the partition of the bio of the compaq proliant 800 computer are the drivers that are installed on the floppy to enter the bio and restore may have the drivres can be greetings

[@davielee0]

I had one of those about 15 years ago. Very handy when we had visitors as we didn't have many chairs!

[@dcikaruga]

I had the same SCSI controller, 8GB Seagte's and Plextor SCSI drives, 32X CD-ROM and a 8X CD-Wrtier, thanks for bringing back those memories.

[@SpookyBytes]

I always get fascinated by the hardware that you bring here! fantastic! :D

[@kibawolf2501]

Any idea what sort of use that system had in is working life? I was thinking some sort of storage server with the networking and SCSI devices but with the user account being the way it was im not so sure. I have also never seen a SCSI card with German encoded on the firmware, but still very cool to read through.

[@robd1365]

If the single 10k SCSI drive is loud, you should hear the racket that one of those other cabinets would make when running, especially when initializing, one drive at a time spinning up.

[@woldemunster9244]

Imagine the loud bang if the drives would initialize simultaneously. :D

[@woldemunster9244]

You`ve propably heard that, nevermind. :DDDD

[@RETROHardware]

Photo gallery for this video: facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=retrohw&set=a.976743142736978

[@GamingWorkshop2021]

ПРИВЕТ ЧУВАКИ !!!!!!!

[@Mini-z1994]

Do you have any HIS ICE Q HD 4000 series graphics cards ? Those coolers were uv reactive for a short time. www.hisdigital.com/un/product2-414.shtml A build with one of these in a case where the gpu is vertical mounted could be neat with some uv lighting.

[@rynz_2893]

it looks so nice and clean. completely full of hardware! these days there is like 2 pcb's and the rest is all cooling hardware. those seem way more interesting to take a part and setup

[@tothjozsef1]

Will you run some game on this machine, or upgrade it later better vga or faster hard drive?

[@cuttingedgeretro9164]

Plexwriter drive, I really like these! ultra high quality professional plextor drives, read correction, reliability. Plextor drive is definately an upgrade to this Proliant PC as well as Windows XP. Plextor burners have been in sale after year 2000. Old Compaq PC are heavy duty, I've seen one Deskpro EN been still used in printing company in 2020 and running some software for production line. Computer case was yellow from sun rays and that view gives me automatically smile on the face. SCSI hadware that's for sure widely use in workstation/serwer computer towers for reliability, accuracy and error correction. Matrox Millennium is a professional graphics card targeted business presentations and AutoCAD designs, (also a good companion for 3Dfx Voodoo I and II because of it's great 2D image quality and DOS support). Now you can build some Quake levels with QuArK game level editor like Sandy Petersen and American McGee did in 1995 :-) And also Notepad++ for some coding purposes and lots of other cool software. This PC might been used as a server with remote wieving for 5 users. Thanks for upload, nice system tho

[@pedromacarona]

Versão em Português: Amei o Gabinete branco mano que delicia de ver vou compra um só pra coloca umas peças tops kkk PC Rat. amo seu conteudo vc faz um otimo trabalho sempre um abraço. English version: I loved the white cabinet bro who delights to see I'll buy one just to put some pieces tops kkk PC Rat. love your content u do a great job always a hug.

[@mauroroberto83]

Que bom achar um BR que curte essas coisas por aqui.

[@wourn9647]

What model is the two Proliants on the left? It is very similar to the 1500, but its not the same. What is it?

[@RETROHardware]

it is HDD storage case only

[@wourn9647]

@@RETROHardware Well I love the look of the chassi. Gonna see if I find one for sale

[@Inject0r]

That’s one sexy beast!! 😍😍 So you’re going to put NT4.0 on there? It would definitely work nicely!

[@ville_syrjala]

EDO is asynchronous DRAM, SDR is synchronous DRAM. It can't be both. The silk screen says EDO so I guess that's what it is. Though I didn't even realize asynchronous DRAM was ever available as DIMMs.

[@homelessEh]

google earth must run some sweet lol.. .1 fpd.. frame per day?

[@woldemunster9244]

But KZbin won`t play at all.

[@talvisota327]

@@woldemunster9244 maybe it did back in 2008 or so. i remember i could still play youtube videos on a 500 mhz pentium 3 in 2010... nowadays you need at least a core 2 duo to have a smooth video playback.

[@warrax111]

11:53- why did you turn it with screwedriver?

[@RETROHardware]

Because it is server double button - protect before easy turn off.

[@mccrh7737]

Now that's a thing of beauty :) Could make a crazy storage server still, with SCSI to SD adapters, Epic

[@fdl7290]

Ypu should build retro computer museum mate, so kids nowadays would be able to know the early computer technologies

[@joerig96]

As Indonesian, Never know that Compaq had it assemble in Indonesia

[@mawardiramli]

Only sold in US and Europe maybe?

[@joaoc_PT]

Ahhh Tuneup Utilities, i remember using that to customize windows... And O&O defrag. Uh and mirc, neotrace, trillian... Oh what a blast from the past! Good times...

[@joaoc_PT]

Thats probably running a defrag in background.

[@adriansell7644]

What are the two modules being inserted either side of the CPUs?

[@RETROHardware]

VRM modules for CPUs

[@MrLukealbanese]

@@RETROHardware how things have changed!!

[@HuntersMoon78]

Holy crap, that's a lot of icons!

[@JonWhitton]

Foxconn SCSI cable, before they started making iPhones!

[@mikes3872]

Compaq (years before HP acquisition) was really on top of their game when it came to PC building, especially in workstation arena.... Good'ole days.

[@EXMachina.]

The amount of E-waste to make these old systems run is quite fascinating for some reason, nowadays just 5 pieces is needed to make the system boot PSU, Mobo , CPU , RAM and HDD/SDD.

[@backmaskingklocucha1262]

19:38 ahh now I know why old computers displayed "now it's safe to turn off the computer"

[@LellePrinter82]

I have four Pentium Pro 200mhz cpu’s laying around. But no dual cpu-system. I have an old PC with a single socket 8 200mhz cpu with 128mb of Edo ram. Would’ve loved to play around with a Proliant 800. But socket 8 systems is quite hard to find, especially with a decent price.

[@herauthon]

one fumed cap and a compaq LAN with rom-socket which with proper software can be used to write to eeproms {?} RFC

[@rafaelfelipegandarainostro1380]

WOW The Dude for MikroTik installed.

[@felipedimas3551]

"9.1 WiDe UlTrA" Love these 90's-00's markings on the products of that era xD

[@alecjahn]

Gosh, and some of the build dates for that software... on a dual 200mhz Pentium Pro? Someone got some mileage out of that thing.

[@Eyetrauma]

Would love to have known what conversation happened that led to installing XP on a machine with PPros in it. I remember going from 2k to XP with my P3 and feeling like it was too sluggish to bear. Beautiful system deserving period appropriate software though.

[@kingcrimson234]

This needs Win Server 2000 or even NT 4 Server.

[@caturdaynite7217]

I have clients whose desktops look that, so it's not an unfamiliar sight to me. I, however, choose to put things in folders and keep the desktop clean. Looks like they loaded all the software they could think of.

[@pezcore2142]

poor thing :( glad you got it back to life.. that desktop was triggering as crap! hope youve cleaned it up ;)

[@Qagenonline]

Ahoj máš tyhle ramky? www.tsbohemia.cz/transcend-axeram-4gb-kit-2x-2gb-1066mhz-cl5_d70986.html Hledám je už roky a nejsou už nikde k sehnání. Mám jen 2x2GB ťehle transcend ramek. A potřeboval bych jeste jeden kit 😄

[@homelessEh]

16:14 Ahh the sound of bits and bytes churning along i miss when you could hear your Data lol. all these ssd you never know WTF its doing being all quiet and shady in the case.

[@qlimaxbass5022]

Awwww those classic noises of old PCs with xp :)))) You should install a SSD in this rig :D

[@retrogameroom9019]

What are the two other towers

[@RETROHardware]

HDDs storages

[@retrogameroom9019]

@@RETROHardware word

[@jasmijndekkers]

Compaq make better systems then HP (its my meaning). Nice hardware to enjoy. I love your content as well. Greetings from Steven from the Netherlands

[@euclideszoto997]

My very favorite platform also. Only problem is that compaq used those soldered batteries. Hated those.

[@АлександрЧирков-ш1щ]

Приветствую тебя) Помню ты выкладывал видео такого же жанра с pentium pro) Ты пытался задействовать в системе 2 камень но безрезультатно) Жду видео когда ты сделаешь чистую установку Windows NT) Да, меня все мучает вопрос как тебя зовут) Ты делаешь классный контент) респект)

[@smartdrw]

некоторые просто звали его Чувак...

[@pubglite-nf8lg]

I have the same monitor(DELL E1913) as the blogger

[@herauthon]

Ever tried NetBSD ?

[@herauthon]

SCSI 50, 4.3Gb 7200tpm ?

[@myhorseisamazing5883]

why do u torture this hardware with winxp? 98 t4 would be nice

[@homelessEh]

EVEN the hard drives sound angry in german 18:00

[@mehmetselim880]

How to find old hardware

[@dolphhandcreme]

Luck, luck, good contacts and possible some dumpster diving. One day is was walking in praha and found some U160 scsi controller and K7-boards in the streets.

[@RETROHardware]

Interesting. When I was in Prague last time ... I found nothing on the streets. Maybe because I was looking for girls before HW :-)

[@dolphhandcreme]

@@RETROHardware had my wife and my child with me. Bad time to look for other girls! ;-)

Luck

[@mehmetselim880]

@@dolphhandcreme what is that dumpster diving

[@Wasmachineman]

Love those old ProLiants!

[@swigityswoogity2191]

Pentium Pro and dual socket builds are the best

[@homelessEh]

1:20 i notice one of the drives is the DOOM drive.

[@florin604]

Back to when Intel's CPUs were really good.

[@jovanbabovic5941]

Oh man, a year ago my school had a bunch of these old machines; intel pentium pro, amd k6, generally pcs from 1995, but i only took a couple keyboards and an intel cooler from the pentium pro. It was the intel pentium pro 133mhz. Pure pity i didn't grab the cpus, i was too afraid of someone seeing me, but whatever. The little cooler will always remind me of all those computers i could get the use of.

[@dolphhandcreme]

There has never been a Pentium Pro with 133MHz. Must have been a regular Pentium 133.

[@jovanbabovic5941]

@@dolphhandcreme might be. The only way i could identify is it raining what it said on the cooler: 109x4412h603

[@warrax111]

schools usually didnt have money for pentium pro. they rather take 2-3 cheaper cpus for that money, so students have more computers. schools wouldn't use advantage of pentium pro anyway. it was business PC.

[@dolphhandcreme]

@@jovanbabovic5941 This fan is for a regular pentium (square ceramic package).

[@kokodin5895]

if anyone could get you 2 powerleap socket 370 adapters for that thing i would be very impressed

[@BollingHolt]

Good grief!!!! That desktop and quick launch bar! LOL

[@stas_da_killer]

So much software! How is that even possible?!

[@muchatczew]

Great stuff greetings from Poland

[@ShumanGore]

There is a PC in your software :p

[@今夜が山田-s3q]

ペンティアムプロが使われたＰＣは破壊されＣＰＵから金を抽出されるのが残念です

[@Complextro93kg]

Any gaming?

[@dranesbuu101]

Agent 47 be like when he sees this :how did I missed agent 1 and 2 's files I should ve destroyed them after their death

[@alexanerwalls3757]

ooh its got the extra SGRAM, somebody's fancy

[@BlackEpyon]

Windows XP on a Pentium Pro? Somebody was ambitious.

[@SteliosSioulas]

You need some more icons on your desktop.

[@gumbi79]

that desktop lol

[@maynardcrow6447]

Lol. I really didn't expect to windows XP to pop up. I was expecting 98

[@CoMmAnDrX]

I lost a working Proliant 2500 in a fire recently.

[@lucasmunoz9995]

Looks like agent1 has downloaded some software from softonic

[@umbrella12]

Jesus Christ, those sounds of that computer reminds me of my old one back in 1999, that HDD sounds like its gonna explode xD

[@sniglom]

This is a machine that deserves something other than Windows.

[@pvc988]

Still in service in 2011? WTF?

[@qwerty9jds17]

I love HDD sound

[@seraphinax6449]

That Windows XP install should be saved, at least as a backup. It's the machine's history.

[@ethanspaziani5269]

Hello hello there I am a fan of retro Hardware myself I and the proud owner of one of two known working Intel Larrabee prototypes I would be more than happy to let you take a look at it if you are interested perhaps with your technical know-how you will be able to put it to the test to see what it can do I do not possess that kind of knowledge so I'd be happy to let you borrow the card please get in touch if you are interested also for other cooling solution which would solve normal overclocking problems I would suggest you use dry water and an aquarium chiller for cooling off your electronics it's used in servers and high-end applications it's expensive but extremely effective as you don't have to worry about condensation

[@janmarek2077]

16 MB RAM to je hodně málo pro Windows XP, to já měl problém i se 128 MB RAM

[@J4ckCr0w]

Pentium Pro FTW!

[@joebruno2675]

I thought Windows XP required 233mhz? How is it running on 200mhz?

[@virtualtools_3021]

It runs on 8mhz look it up

[@virtualtools_3021]

Slowness world record

[@Renegade666]

also this machine has dual Pentium Pros so thats 400mhz

[@hardcorehardware361]

Honestly I have more fun with these old systems than new hardware, new stuff is just to expesnive now days minus the Ryzen chips and boards. GPU prices are just insane.

[@wsketchy]

Ehh. Anything below a 1660 is usually sub £200, and that's fine by me

[@hardcorehardware361]

@@wsketchy Yea for you its fine because you buy low end cards what about other people?