Compaq Presario 5441 First Look

Here we are again with another Compaq video ... In the 2 previous videos we met the Compaq Presario 4540

In this video we're going to take a first look at its big brother, the Compaq Presario 5441, featuring an AMD K6-2 450MHz CPU, a setup-up from the previous AMD K6 233MHz.

0:00 - Introduction
1:08 - The exterior
2:01 - The interior
2:50 - The Compaq NIC
4:00 - Getting to the motherboard
4:58 - The CPU
6:00 - The motherboard
11:56 - The PSU
12:45 - The hard drive
14:42 - Next steps....

#Compaq #win98 #Presario

[americo_san]

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I can call myself a Compaq fanboy since the late 90s. People laughed at me, talking that Compaq was sh*t, expensive, difficult to repair, and so on, but I've managed to have and still maintain a Compaq Presario 5000, bought on May 12th, 2001. It's a sluggish Celeron with WinMe and lots of Compaq software, and I've used it heavily until 2007. Now, it's about to turn 20 years with me. Boy, what a joy it was turning this PC on for the first time!

I had almost the same sensation last year. During the pandemic, I was tinkering with it when I found a Compaq Restore CD for a similar Presario (unfortunately not in my preferred language, but was great for the "first startup" sake). Thanks a lot for maintaining those Compaqs. I love them all! Cheers from São Paulo, Brazil!

[roger.monitor]

Nice to see that I stored it right, clean inside. The second HD was installed by me, came from a friend. I recognized Walther his handwriting. Keep up the good work.

[Dj.MODÆO]

On Black Friday of 1999, when I was a private in the army I bought my first computer. It was a Compaq 5460 in that same case with win98 SE and a dvd drive and a Zip drive at CompUsa for $350, a 32” Philips monitor for $100, extra RAM for $100, a better $50 sound card, and a Voodoo3 video card for $200. $850 total and I had a gaming rig worth at least $1600 that could handle anything. I had that thing for years even as I bought newer machines and although it’s long gone now, I still love and miss that damn thing to this day and thinking about it 26 years later is what brought me here

[ollyalme]

Every single video on this channel takes me back to the good old days. Actually kind of bittersweet (I'd love to be 20 again), but mostly sweet :)
Already looking forward to the next one.

[stonent]

We used to call those seagate rubber sleeves "drive speedos".

[esseferio]

That really brings up some fond memories: I started working at the Spanish Presario Customer Support in 2001 (but we were based in France). At that time, I think the 5000 towers were all the rage (although the vast majority of calls were for laptops, to be fair). Thanks for the trip down memory lane :)

[alanharkleroad]

My mom had a similar Presario with a DVD drive and a 6.4GB hard drive. That oval at the bottom was a door that you flipped up to access front panel USB ports. She got it at RadioShack.

[tundraportal]

This PC was my childhood, 15:19, that wallpaper hit me with nostalgia

[tj]

She is a beauth. Such a Nice Looking vintage computer setup. I always had a thing for k6 and k6-2 CPUs

[tweakpc]

The PSU is standard SFX, It uses the same connectors and specifications but is smaller, you can still buy it today

[ThomasP]

This is was my family's first PC. I learned so much from in it. I remember it had Windows 98.My family had that PC until 2006

[fhwolthuis]

Some models had a hatch at the front in stead of the "belly" that you mention, containing additional USB ports I believe. Great video!

[stonent]

I just picked up an HP Pavilion with a K6-2 550, and... SIS-530. It had an ASUS board but with a custom HP Bios. The board will take up to 768MB of RAM which is decent. However, no ESS Solo-1 audio. There is a spot for an audio chip on the board but it is not populated. This computer had a single PCI card that had a sound card and modem in one. One of the chips on the sound-card/modem has an ARM logo on it.

[mslaterboy]

A glass of red and a Compaq Presario--you can't go wrong!

[cdbular]

Jewel of the crown for this compaq models were the JBL speakers ... they sounded great!

[vwestlife]

The Presario 5304 is identical except it originally came with a Cyrix MII CPU instead of an AMD K6-2. It was truly a low-budget PC, costing less than US$300 (without monitor) when new!

[mhzbrain]

Nice vid, I love that case. I hate non standard power supplies, especially low wattage ones. A total pain to try and upgrade decade's later 😬

[tylermoore_]

Thanks for the video, I got an old Compaq Presario 5304 at the dump today, gonna mess around with it.

[GendoPrime]

Fun fact, you can actually flash this board with the full GA-5SMM retail bios and unlock the options you are looking for. From my testing of the same system, the recovery CD on archive.org still works with the retail bios. The only issue I have encountered with this system range is Windows NT4 and 3.51 do not like the chipset, but windows 2000, XP and even Vista work just fine on it (though they do run quite slow)

[tstahlfsu]

Pretty sure that 5441 was a RadioShack model, but we saw so many of them in repair in the early 2000's I can't exactly remember :-D