May 10, 2012 at 11:10Old Man Compaq Armada 7730MT
For a long time I have been lying idle with an old Compaq Armada 7730MT laptop. Once upon a time there was Windows 98 on it and it was possible to play starcraft, but at some point the hard ordered to live long and it was abandoned in a closet. Now, in connection with the planned relocation, old things, once long ago abandoned in a closet, began to be thrown out, among which this rarity was found. Naturally, it was a pity to throw it away, but there was simply nowhere to use it. And so the idea was born to bring it into working condition (since he did not need anything other than replacing the hard) and it was decided to give it in good hands.
Perhaps one of you, or your acquaintances, collects almost museum exhibits or owns a collection of old equipment, like the museum of video cards in Kharkov - please unsubscribe in PM.The laptop went to Ivano-Frankivsk to fellow monohrom , who owns an interesting museum . Thanks everyone!
Under the cut 19 photos of the laptop and some more technical information.
In the process of searching for the specifications of this laptop in order to determine which linux distribution can be installed on it, an advertisement was found for the sale of its more powerful brother of the same model, dated 2006, where the seller requested more than 4 thousand rubles. Whether it is a lot or a little at that time is up to you to judge.
Actually, the required characteristics: Pentium MMX 166MHz 32MB 2GB 12in SVGA TFT ( more detailed )
As I mentioned above, the HDD was replaced. In place of the old 2 gigabyte disk was another, still live 1.4 gigabyte disk manufactured by IBM, taken from a similar but, unfortunately, completely dead Compaq Armada 4131T laptop. It was noticed that on the cable connecting the hard and the basket is the production date - 1996, which indirectly indicates the date of the appearance of this miracle.
In fairness, I note that on board this drive as much as 96KB of cache and strangely enough, but the drive of that time supports SMART and here are its indicators:
Also, an attempt was made to restore at least some kind of dead battery capacity, but it, unfortunately, was unsuccessful.
The igamity user suggests that you can replace the CD-ROM with a second battery to increase battery life.
Some more information from the system itself:
cat / proc / cpuinfo:
cat / proc / meminfo:
lspci: more verbose output (lspci -vv)
And then there are photos of the laptop itself with comments.
Appearance:
On the front panel on the left there are 4 LED indicators, on the right is a CD-ROM, between them there is a compartment for HDD:
Left side. There is only a cooling system grill and a battery compartment:
Yes, the laptop has extendable legs, for more comfortable operation:
A set of ports - COM, LPT, dock connector, VGA, PS / 2, IrDA, power, headphone, microphone, and line jacks entrance. There is also a stub on the RJ-11/45, but it’s empty:
The right side. 2 PCMCIA sockets, in one of them a modem and 2 more sockets of an unidentified type:
Actually sockets, closer:
Matte! screen:
German keyboard + stickers of Ukrainian layout, as well as a tensometric joystick :
We are loading. BIOS is missing. 32MB of RAM:
went DSL loading:
booted, all tip-top:
Component modularity, that’s good: the
bottom of the laptop, 2 memory compartments, a 16MB memory bar (16MB soldered on the motherboard):
CD-ROM, 97 production year:
1.4 G HDD IBM-DMCA-21440:
Dead battery. Even now, far from all vendors make a button for testing battery capacity:
USRobotics bonus modem 14.4 / 28.8k:
Compared to Acer 1830TZ:
Under the cut 19 photos of the laptop and some more technical information.
In the process of searching for the specifications of this laptop in order to determine which linux distribution can be installed on it, an advertisement was found for the sale of its more powerful brother of the same model, dated 2006, where the seller requested more than 4 thousand rubles. Whether it is a lot or a little at that time is up to you to judge.
Actually, the required characteristics: Pentium MMX 166MHz 32MB 2GB 12in SVGA TFT ( more detailed )
As I mentioned above, the HDD was replaced. In place of the old 2 gigabyte disk was another, still live 1.4 gigabyte disk manufactured by IBM, taken from a similar but, unfortunately, completely dead Compaq Armada 4131T laptop. It was noticed that on the cable connecting the hard and the basket is the production date - 1996, which indirectly indicates the date of the appearance of this miracle.
In fairness, I note that on board this drive as much as 96KB of cache and strangely enough, but the drive of that time supports SMART and here are its indicators:
[ IBM-DMCA-21440 (C58C52G1723) ]
ID Описание атрибута Порог Значение Наихудшее Данные Статус
01 Raw Read Error Rate 20 100 86 2 OK
02 Throughput Performance 50 100 100 0 OK
03 Spinup Time 20 114 82 1 OK
04 Start/Stop Count 84 100 100 5324 OK
05 Realloc Sector Count 6 34 1 346 OK
07 Seek Error Rate 20 100 66 1 OK
08 Seek Time Performance 20 100 100 0 OK
09 Power-On Time Count 20 100 100 3423 OK
0A Spinup Retry Count 60 90 86 50 OK
0C Power Cycle Count 84 100 100 1884 OK
DC Disk Shift 1 89 1 75300867 OK
Also, an attempt was made to restore at least some kind of dead battery capacity, but it, unfortunately, was unsuccessful.
The igamity user suggests that you can replace the CD-ROM with a second battery to increase battery life.
Some more information from the system itself:
cat / proc / cpuinfo:
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 5
model : 4
model name : Pentium MMX
stepping : 4
cpu MHz : 166.590
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : yes
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 mmx
bogomips : 332.59cat / proc / meminfo:
total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 30273536 29208576 1064960 0 782336 12976128
Swap: 0 0 0
MemTotal: 29564 kB
MemFree: 1040 kB
MemShared: 0 kB
Buffers: 764 kB
Cached: 12672 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
Active: 8612 kB
Inactive: 4848 kB
HighTotal: 0 kB
HighFree: 0 kB
LowTotal: 29564 kB
LowFree: 1040 kB
SwapTotal: 0 kB
SwapFree: 0 kBlspci: more verbose output (lspci -vv)
00:0c.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1131 (rev 01)
00:0c.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1131 (rev 01)
00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86cM65 [Aurora64V+] (rev 43)
00:0e.0 ISA bridge: Compaq Computer Corporation MIS-L (rev 04)
00:0e.1 IDE interface: Compaq Computer Corporation Triflex Dual EIDE Controller (rev 03)And then there are photos of the laptop itself with comments.
Appearance:
On the front panel on the left there are 4 LED indicators, on the right is a CD-ROM, between them there is a compartment for HDD:
Left side. There is only a cooling system grill and a battery compartment:
Yes, the laptop has extendable legs, for more comfortable operation:
A set of ports - COM, LPT, dock connector, VGA, PS / 2, IrDA, power, headphone, microphone, and line jacks entrance. There is also a stub on the RJ-11/45, but it’s empty:
The right side. 2 PCMCIA sockets, in one of them a modem and 2 more sockets of an unidentified type:
Actually sockets, closer:
Matte! screen:
German keyboard + stickers of Ukrainian layout, as well as a tensometric joystick :
We are loading. BIOS is missing. 32MB of RAM:
went DSL loading:
booted, all tip-top:
Component modularity, that’s good: the
bottom of the laptop, 2 memory compartments, a 16MB memory bar (16MB soldered on the motherboard):
CD-ROM, 97 production year:
1.4 G HDD IBM-DMCA-21440:
Dead battery. Even now, far from all vendors make a button for testing battery capacity:
USRobotics bonus modem 14.4 / 28.8k:
Compared to Acer 1830TZ: