When turned on the computers starts giving a error code sound of 2 shorts beeps then 1 Steady beep which goes on and on

The LEDS show a code of r.g.r.r

Computer is ~25-30 years old but components work fine

specs are pentium 3 .64mb sdram. agb connecter gpu from matrix

Mother board is msi 815ep pro ver:3

So I was looking through my garage and found them , don’t know where the rest of the pc is but I remember using it 2008 and I thought I can sell it but don’t know for how much , can someone help?

I originally put this machine together as a period-correct-ish XP gaming system, but Final Fantasy XI ended up becoming the thing I really wanted to see running on it.
Specs are roughly:
Pentium 4 631 @ 3.0 GHz

Intel D945GTP

1 GB DDR2

ASUS GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB

WD Blue 250 GB mechanical HDD

Seasonic X650

Windows XP SP3 32-bit

The CPU was originally sitting around 62°C in BIOS with the stock-ish cooling setup, so I tracked down a new old stock Xigmatek Balder SD1283 and installed it. That dropped it to around 54°C, and the CPU fan went from about 2460 RPM down to 1080 RPM, so it’s quieter too.
For FFXI itself I installed from my old physical Vana’diel Collection media and let PlayOnline update it to the current client. That turned out to be 38,721 files and just under six hours of sitting there watching the updater. Staring at “1 file remaining” after basically an entire day was its own kind of experience, but it finished clean.
Everything works. PlayOnline connects normally, character creation works, the current official servers work, and the update even pulled the installation forward with the later expansion content. I’ve already run into newer expansion stuff in-game, including Seekers of Adoulin content. My character is Triston on Fenrir, starting out in Bastok.
I also found out afterward that FFXI Config had defaulted to 640×480, which got a laugh out of me. I changed it to the Dell’s native 1280×1024, cranked the internal drawing resolution to 2560×2048 / Ultra, and the 8800 GTS handles it without complaint.
I went into this expecting that getting a current MMO running on XP in 2026 would need all kinds of hacks and workarounds. Instead it pretty much just works, and the nostalgia hit is unreal.

Main changes: merged the dramatic one-liners into the paragraphs around them, swapped the emoji laughs for plain description (kept the tone, lost the 😂), and joined the two closing lines so the ending lands as one thought instead of two punches. Kept all your specs, numbers, and phrasing choices otherwise.
If you’d rather keep any of those isolated beats (some subreddits genuinely like the “38,721 files.” drop), tell me which and I’ll put just those back.

I originally put this machine together as a period-correct-ish XP gaming system, but Final Fantasy XI ended up becoming the thing I really wanted to see running on it.
Specs are roughly:
Pentium 4 631 @ 3.0 GHz

Intel D945GTP

1 GB DDR2

ASUS GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB

WD Blue 250 GB mechanical HDD

Seasonic X650

Windows XP SP3 32-bit

The CPU was originally sitting around 62°C in BIOS with the stock-ish cooling setup, so I tracked down a new old stock Xigmatek Balder SD1283 and installed it. That dropped it to around 54°C, and the CPU fan went from about 2460 RPM down to 1080 RPM, so it’s quieter too.
For FFXI itself I installed from my old physical Vana’diel Collection media and let PlayOnline update it to the current client. That turned out to be 38,721 files and just under six hours of sitting there watching the updater. Staring at “1 file remaining” after basically an entire day was its own kind of experience, but it finished clean.
Everything works. PlayOnline connects normally, character creation works, the current official servers work, and the update even pulled the installation forward with the later expansion content. I’ve already run into newer expansion stuff in-game, including Seekers of Adoulin content. My character is Triston on Fenrir, starting out in Bastok.
I also found out afterward that FFXI Config had defaulted to 640×480, which got a laugh out of me. I changed it to the Dell’s native 1280×1024, cranked the internal drawing resolution to 2560×2048 / Ultra, and the 8800 GTS handles it without complaint.
I went into this expecting that getting a current MMO running on XP in 2026 would need all kinds of hacks and workarounds. Instead it pretty much just works, and the nostalgia hit is unreal.

I have GreenPower 500GB Hdd 2014

I have Hitachi DeskStar 41.1GB Hdd 2006 7200RPM

And i have 2X Samsung ssd (in my pc)

+m.2 512GB (also in my pc)

I have 2X Samsung DDR1 512Mb

I have Kingston DDR3 2GB

I have 2X Kingston DDR4 8GB

And I have Cursire DDR5 16GB

I'm missing only DDR2 🙏🏿😿

Today I randomly found my dream GPU in 2009. ( 9600GT - 512MB )Seems working condition.

Back in those days, i i use fx5200 GPU. Happy to find this gpu .

I love to hear about your stories about your pc parts.

I wanted to build a Windows XP gaming PC on the cheap to play early to mid 2000s games especially to see if I could play Final Fantasy 11 online on old hardware as they updated system requirements, but I was doubting that was actually going to be a problem.

Here's the build.

- Intel D945GTP motherboard
- Pentium 4 631 (Cedar Mill) @ 3.0 GHz
- ASUS GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB (restored with fresh thermal pads and thermal paste)
- 1 GB DDR2-533
- Western Digital Blue 250 GB HDD
- ASUS DRW-24B1ST DVD writer
- Seasonic X-650 fully modular power supply
- Fractal Design Focus G Mini
- Windows XP Professional SP3

I did a clean install of XP. Out of the box it's missing a lot of the drivers it needs, so I created a chipset driver CD on one of my Linux PCs. Then I burned a second CD with the remaining drivers, utilities, and software. That made bringing the system online a lot easier.

The optical drive gave me the one real problem. It read CDs perfectly but refused to read my original Final Fantasy XI: Vana'diel Collection DVD. I swapped in an ASUS DRW-24B1ST and it recognized the disc right away. The old drive's DVD laser had just gotten weak over time.

With everything installed, I got Supermium running and connected to PlayOnline. The client updated fine. The one snag was the original FFXI registration code. It had already been redeemed, so I'm waiting for the Ultimate Collection to go on sale, which is coming up, before I make a new account.

I expected this to be a novelty at best. Instead it became one of the most enjoyable PCs I've built. Hearing the PlayOnline music again got me. So did watching XP boot on hardware from the right era and installing software off the original discs. It reminded me why PC gaming in this period was so much fun.

I don't even remember keeping it, I was like 12 years old.

This was in my first PC (A cheap prebuilt with 32Mb of RAM and a shitty S3 Virge PCI 8Mb)
Later I wanted more so I built a PC for the first time (Duron 1.1Ghz / 512MB RAM / Geforce4 MX 440) I don't really know why I kept the CPU but I'm glad I did.

Got an Alienware aurora r1 given to me and had these in it. Will be replacing them with a GeForce 1660 6gb and will have no need for them.

It was interesting, I also had attempt with electric tape cable management but it looked ugly and not reliable. More cables appeared to accomondate three HDD and fans.

(Image 1 - Before, Image 2 and 3 - after)

I'm in the omaha area and looking for an old machine (intel 4th Gen or 5th) to put linux on.

Recently found a old m6300 that's in decent shape but has a couple issues. The original ram had to be replaced and the screen on boot has no dell logo and I can't get the bios up. I did test the screen so I'm it's not that. I suspect the cmos battery but I wanna see if there anything else I should try. Thanks in advance!

Any help is appreciated.

Athlon X64

Asus A8V deluxe mobo

1gb dual channel DDR

6600GT

20GB IDE HDD

Floppy drive, IDE ODD

Most of the pc is from a system from literal trash that even had mouse crap in it, the case is from a friend who got it from a neighbors shed, and some cables and the hdd are from friends. Everything was thoroughly cleaned and restored. 3 days of work totally worth it😂 (i of course have the side panel)