About a month ago I rescued two HP Kayak systems from a recycle bin, one is a XA (D6723T single slot-1) the other is a XAs (D5765T dual slot-1)....I finally got around to messing with one of them. Anyone that knows can figure which one went first!! The dually of course! I've never seen one of these systems before, I didn't even know they existed.
This thing was an absolute basket case. No CPU's, no RAM, no HDD's. GPU was a Matrox Millennium 2....That won't fly either....
Here we go!! It was filthy inside, so start stripping it!
Empty shell.
Keys were there atleast...
Motherboard....
Parts piling up...
Hotwashed & dried...
Now for CPU's & RAM... This is a BX Chipset, it boggles my mind why they left that one RAM slot unpopulated....which gyps the system out of 256mb RAM, maxing @ 768mb. Then onto CPU's.... Even with the latest firmware, the newest core supported is Katmai. It will not run coppermines. I have a pair of 550's on hand, the fastest would be 600.
Getting ready to go back together....shiny zinc plated heavy steel. This thing is a tank!
...and now the glory of graphics, 3DFX no less! It's a Voodoo 3500 I picked up on ebay a while back.
Now to utilize one of my NOS HP branded Pioneer SCSI slot-load DVD drives, in HP gray!! The original IDE cdrom worked, but was struggling to read....so this was a nice upgrade, and SCSI.
Added an Adaptec 131U2 and a pair of Fujitsu 10k RPM HDD's.
Getting closer!!
Air guides all reinstalled.
Super Cool POST screen!
It's so happy it smiles!
Case back together installing Win2k.
Lousy web browser....but still super cool!
...and the GL Quake test!!
I've still got some tweaking to do....but this was a fun one! It's been a while since I've done one of these.
This thing was an absolute basket case. No CPU's, no RAM, no HDD's. GPU was a Matrox Millennium 2....That won't fly either....
Here we go!! It was filthy inside, so start stripping it!
Empty shell.
Keys were there atleast...
Motherboard....
Parts piling up...
Hotwashed & dried...
Now for CPU's & RAM... This is a BX Chipset, it boggles my mind why they left that one RAM slot unpopulated....which gyps the system out of 256mb RAM, maxing @ 768mb. Then onto CPU's.... Even with the latest firmware, the newest core supported is Katmai. It will not run coppermines. I have a pair of 550's on hand, the fastest would be 600.
Getting ready to go back together....shiny zinc plated heavy steel. This thing is a tank!
...and now the glory of graphics, 3DFX no less! It's a Voodoo 3500 I picked up on ebay a while back.
Now to utilize one of my NOS HP branded Pioneer SCSI slot-load DVD drives, in HP gray!! The original IDE cdrom worked, but was struggling to read....so this was a nice upgrade, and SCSI.
Added an Adaptec 131U2 and a pair of Fujitsu 10k RPM HDD's.
Getting closer!!
Air guides all reinstalled.
Super Cool POST screen!
It's so happy it smiles!
Case back together installing Win2k.
Lousy web browser....but still super cool!
...and the GL Quake test!!
I've still got some tweaking to do....but this was a fun one! It's been a while since I've done one of these.
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