Old Compaq issues... plz 2 b halpink

[Logistics]

Compaq Presario 7465

AMD K6 3D 533MHz
256MB RAM
onboard video and sound
Netgear FA311 NIC
Floppy
CDRW drive
17GB WD HD

So the first thing I do is hook everything up. It won't power on! I open it up and wondering if the power switch is broken, I begin jumping leads with my needle-nose' to find out. No go! So I put that Antec PP-303X I just recapped on it and it fires right up! I can't find anything wrong with the original power supply. It looks perfect. It's just a little ol' Mitac X-145C. (of course I did take everything out to the garage and blow it out with my compressor, including the PSU which was filled with fur... not literal fur you taffer ^_^)

So first of all, what's a good replacement for this system without going overboard? My local place is frys.com and I don't know the brands in their 200W+ category, but they have the Antec Basiq 350 in their 300W+ category. Oh and I can use an ATX12V PSU in place of a normal ATX, correct? Just don't use the +12V connector? A suggestion for a PSU from Frys would be appreciated. It's just an office computer for e-mail, web browsing and MS Office.

I did a fresh install of XP and everything worked without any help. But just because, I installed the latest available drivers for this board from VIA as well as the latest drivers for the ESS 1989 IC for sound. Everything is just fine, EXCEPT that if I'm playing a WAV (that's what I use for listening, freshly ripped WAV's) and I go to a web page, if I drag the vertical slider up and down to browse the page, it slows down the audio slightly and starts to distort and jack up. (this happened before I updated the drivers, too) Is this just because it's a lowly ol' 533 with 256MB RAM trying to run XP or is the audio IC a serious piece of junk? At first I thought this was because the Network card was sharing the same IRQ as the audio hardware so I switched the slot and now NOTHING is sharing an IRQ, but the problem remains. (oh yeah, I installed with no ACPI) Do I need to turn down/off hardware accelleration for the audio hardware?

Whassamatta wit dis ting, eh?

[stevo1210]

Re: Old Compaq issues... plz 2 b halpink

So first of all, what's a good replacement for this system without going overboard? My local place is frys.com and I don't know the brands in their 200W+ category, but they have the Antec Basiq 350 in their 300W+ category. Oh and I can use an ATX12V PSU in place of a normal ATX, correct? Just don't use the +12V connector? A suggestion for a PSU from Frys would be appreciated. It's just an office computer for e-mail, web browsing and MS Office.

You can use a P4 ATX 2.0 PSU with the 12V CPU power connector in that system with no issues.... I've done it in the past with one of my systems here

The Antec Basiq 350W is a good PSU and also good value for money.
My uncle who lives in the USA, bought one a few months ago at Frys for $39USD to replace his Bestec E-machines one.
It has a good quality build and is quite heavy which probably means that it has good heatsinks and components inside. I've heard from a few people that it's made by FSP. I don't know what caps the Antec Basiq uses.... maybe Teapo caps??

[Per Hansson]

Re: Old Compaq issues... plz 2 b halpink

Yea, the Antec Basiq would be good value for the money

Just remember that usually those older systems power the CPU from +5v, not +12v
But an old AMD K6-2 uses very little power so there are no issues with that IMHO

Here are some nekkid pix: https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showthread.php?t=4002

About the sound issue; try getting some drives for the video card also (didn't see that mentioned in your post atleast)
The issue can also be that the mouse hoggs the PCI interrupt IRQ's when you scroll down, not many ways to fix that I know of, switch to PS/2 or USB and see if it works better, but video card drivers would be my first bet

You can also cut down on the visual quality off the stuff in XP, it's under system properties somewhere...

[Junk Parts]

Re: Old Compaq issues... plz 2 b halpink

I agree with it being a driver/setup issue. I have an old 5630 compaq here with a 350mhz cpu, 256 megs of ram, 40 gig maxtor hard drive,and one DVD burner. It has XP on it. If I remember right I had an issue like that with it. My cure was changing the settings on the DVD drive, and hard drive to "Use DMA if availible." I remember what it was! If I moved the mouse while it was playing a DVD movie the system would hard lock. Changing that DMA setting fixed it for me. As cheap as the price give that a try.

[Logistics]

Re: Old Compaq issues... plz 2 b halpink

Sure enough, it was that Video Driver. I thought it was included in the VIA 4-in-1 package! Anyway, when I went to update driver, it didn't want to use the KPLE? over what it had so I had to add it manually. It wasn't windows signed I guess, but it took care of the problem! Thanks a bunch, guys! Dance with Kirby, now! (>^_^)> <(^_^)> <(^_^<)