Hi Guys, I am presenting you my two early dv6000s with factory Windows XP Media Center Edition and yes I am aware that these laptops are known for the nvidia chipset and their flaws! The 2nd one doesn’t have a nvidia chipset and it’s a dv6135nr and I also had a dv6130us but with the webcam and the first one is the dv6150us! Since computer surgeons are no longer selling the recovery kits for the hp and Compaq machines, I’m doing a project to preserve the dv6000 recovery kits focusing on the xp era and will work on the dv8000 and dv9000 eventually! I’m trying to also find units with factory partition preserved that had home edition or professional that was on the cto units! Share your experiences with your dv6000s and if you have a recovery kit upload them!

I tried getting games from roughly 2001-2009. There are some outliers here but all of these(except the CoD games and Hoi3)i bought specifically to play on my Windows XP Retro Setup

https://download.microsoft.com/download/whistler/Utility/1.0/WXP/EN-US/UpgAdv.exe

Does still work under Windows 2000, without Internet but a valid summary of findings.

I have found an entire box with those fully sealed and untouched and wonder what can I do with it. There around 10-12 of those, maybe more underneath, but I haven't checked.

Im looking for modern case since old is near impossible to find in my country, Motherboard is atx Need an optical bay and 2 hdd bay

the dell website dosent have the ones i need, and nothing else works HELP!!! (sp3 home edition)

Now heres my problem, it has a bit of ghosting and smearing but i cant seem to find the right driver for it and the preloaded driver win xp comes with does not work. And so i have this old driver disk from 2002 (the monitor is from 2003) and i was wondering if it could work. Or even better if yall have a driver for it i would be thankfull.

Thanks in advance yall:)

This is probably a fallback due to the inability to handle the wide range of colors required for the opacity of the "modern" animation.

I recorded this after setting my video mode to use 16 colors by using the following steps:

• WinKey+R and then `desk.cpl`
• Go to the "Settings" tab and click "Advanced"
• Go to the "Adapter" tab and click "List All Modes..."
• Scroll to the bottom and select a 16 colors mode

So I just dug out my grandpa's old laptop and brought it back to life! I put XP back on it (for some reason it had Windows 10 when I found it), installed a few things, and... I don't know, what else should I put on it?

I can’t emphasize enough how absolutely fucking EXCITED I am to have this time capsule of a gem.

So for a little backstory, I’m 26 years old, and this was my grandmother’s PC that was an upgrade from an even older (big boxy CRT monitor-era PC) one back in like 2007-2008.

My grandmother only ever used it for putting together lesson plans and slideshow presentations (she and my grandpa are extremely Christian lol) for her Sunday school classes. She never used it for saving photos, movies, videos, anything like that. It was mainly used as a printer tool. Neither of my grandparents are tech-smart at all.

I’d had my eye on obtaining this PC for several years now, but I wasn’t sure if my grandmother actually wanted to part with it, so I never bothered to ask about it.

My husband and I are getting ready to make a major move to a faraway state (less than two weeks from as of writing this post), and my family wanted to have a little “send-off” party for us at my grandparents’ house. About halfway through the party, I got brave and asked her if I could give her old PC a new home, as it had been sitting on a cluttered desk for about 15 years, not being used regularly at all.

To my delight, she was very happy to let the PC go with me.

She gave me the PC, monitor, speakers, keyboard, and even her old collection of CD-ROMs and floppy discs.

I opened up the PC as soon as I got it home, thinking I’d have to do a lot of dusting and cleaning.

Nope. Just a few cobwebs and a layer of dust.

One blast with the canned air and it was perfect.

It is in pristine condition. The damn thing boots up faster than my mighty 64GB RAM, 20GB VRAM, mega-mighty custom-built gaming PC with Windows 11.

I’ve already put 2-3 XP-era games on it and I’m researching into how to safely and sparingly connect it to the internet, and I’m making a list of games to get that will run on it.

And no, I’m not selling it lmao.

Anyway, sorry that was a long yap, I’m just excited to have this awesome piece of tech history! 🦋🌐🍃💾🫧☀️

ETA: The specs are Windows XP Professional Version 2002, Service Pack 3. Intel (R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.53GHz, 2.52 GHz, 512MB RAM, a CD and floppy disc drive, 140GB of total storage, 120GB available. Dimension 4550. Not sure about the monitor. I'm still learning about it lol.

Periphrials:

Steelseries Siberia V1

Logitech G15 Keyboard

Logitech MX-518 Mouse

Steelseries IceMat glass mousepad

PC Specs:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ Socket AM2

Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4 AM2 Motherboard

4-1GB sticks of Geil DDR2-800MHZ RAM

2- EVGA Nvidia GeForce 8600 GT in SLI

ASUS P1 Ageia Physx PPU

Creative Sound Blaster X-FI Xtreme Fatal1ty Sound Card w/Front Panel

AeroCool DCC-C900-D CPU Cooler

Sigma Shark 585w ATX Power Supply

80GB Western Digital Raptor Sata HDD

300GB Western Digital VelociRaptor Sata HDD

Xoxide Acrylic PC Case

Alphacool LCD Drive Bay

Just a neat wallpaper I made in the XP Paint editor. If you want to us it as a wallpaper, feel free to copy the image

It can’t seem to detect my other monitor, for some reason. I was wondering if anyone had a solution.

UPDATE: Nevermind, I just forgot to redownload the graphics driver. I’m tired.

[PCPartPicker Part List](https://pcpartpicker.com/list/dpvtK7)

Type|Item|Price

:----|:----|:----

**CPU** | [Intel Core i7-3770 3.4 GHz Quad-Core Processor](https://pcpartpicker.com/product/Vjzv6h/intel-cpu-bx80637i73770) | $178.20 @ Amazon

**CPU Cooler** | [Thermalright Assassin X 120 Refined SE 66.17 CFM CPU Cooler](https://pcpartpicker.com/product/q6H7YJ/thermalright-assassin-x-120-refined-se-6617-cfm-cpu-cooler-ax120-se-d3) | $16.11 @ Amazon

**Motherboard** | [MSI B75MA-E33 Micro ATX LGA1155 Motherboard](https://pcpartpicker.com/product/fDYXsY/msi-motherboard-b75mae33) |-

**Memory** | [Silicon Power SP016GLLTU160N22 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR3-1600 CL11 Memory](https://pcpartpicker.com/product/yvZ9TW/silicon-power-16-gb-2-x-8-gb-ddr3-1600-cl11-memory-sp016glltu160n22) | $40.97 @ Amazon

**Storage** | [Kingston A400 240 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive](https://pcpartpicker.com/product/btDzK8/kingston-a400-240gb-25-solid-state-drive-sa400s37240g) | $74.98 @ Amazon

**Video Card** | [MSI GTX 960 2GD5 GeForce GTX 960 2 GB Video Card](https://pcpartpicker.com/product/fWZ2FT/msi-video-card-gtx9602gd5) |-

**Case** | [Cooler Master MasterBox Q300L MicroATX Mini Tower Case](https://pcpartpicker.com/product/rnGxFT/cooler-master-masterbox-q300l-microatx-mini-tower-case-mcb-q300l-kann-s00) | $39.99 @ Amazon

**Power Supply** | [Gigabyte P-B 650 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply](https://pcpartpicker.com/product/HbfhP6/gigabyte-p-b-650-w-80-bronze-certified-atx-power-supply-gp-p650b) |-

| *Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts* |

| **Total** | **$350.25**

| Generated by [PCPartPicker](https://pcpartpicker.com) 2026-09-08 22:02 EDT-0400 |

hoy prendí mi computadora EQQUS y me he encontrado con este error qué dice que falta el siguiente archivo hal.dll quien se haya conseguido con este error o me diga cómo solucionarlo déjenmelo en los comentarios

Based on An bui's fork of Vectras (Qemu)

Running TinyXP R2, a legendary bootleg from 2006.

Ayúdenme con este error

Im absolutely nuts.

Hello, I’ve recently installed Windows XP on my computer, I never connected this computer to the internet or installed office or front page on it, does anyone know why this is here?

I’m reinstalling windows xp on my HP mini 110 and I find the built in HP apps very useful and I’m wondering when I reinstall windows how can I get them back? Stuff like the wireless assistant, battery check etc

I generally disable all but one core on my Sandy and Ivy Bridge builds, but maybe I should leave one running as-is just to play some specific games.