The Tech Deck

The ASUS P5GZ‑MX

The family PC! This desktop has been around since I was a little kid and it was my first introduction to computers. At the time in the wonderful years of the 2000s and 2010s, it ran XP (until I removed the drive in later years).

Specifications

It has 1GB of RAM which was a bit large for XP at the time, smells horribly of cigarettes as my dad WAS a smoker, two CD‑ROM drives that are jammed, and a 465GB hard disk. I attempted to upgrade the RAM but got the wrong type of RAM as it uses DDR2 SDRAM and not DDR3 or whatever it was that I had purchased. As for the form factor of the motherboard the PC uses, it is a microATX. The PC also has a Pentium CPU which I believe is a Core 2 Duo (the same as my iMac, heh). The maximum RAM the PC can have is 2GB... there is not much to say about this PC.

The PC originally ran Windows XP with service pack 1 but was upgraded to XP with service pack 3.

Pictures and Videos
Inside of the XP machine.
The inside of the computer itself. You may be able to tell it is a bit dusty... needs a cleaning.

PC booting up with BIOS and stuff... Watch on YouTube

Loading the desktop. There are no speakers so you can’t hear the startup sound. Watch on YouTube

Windows Messenger .NET messenger service.
Good ol Windows Messenger with the .NET messenger service — feels like a long time ago, right?
Flash in the system settings.
Still has Flash installed despite it being long dead now.
WinRAR asking for money.
WinRAR asking for money — imagine people actually paying for that when 7‑Zip was free!
Minesweeper
Some Minesweeper — always sucked at this.
Solitaire
Solitaire! Pressing Alt + Shift + 2 during play would give you an instant win!
Windows Movie Maker edit.
Can’t forget Windows Movie Maker too.
Notes

The monitor I am using is old so that’s why it is dirty :P